The Caesar Demos
| The Caesar Demos | |
|---|---|
| Semi-official compilation by | |
| Released | August 11, 2011 |
| Recorded | c. 2000–2001 |
| Length | 100:42 |
| Label | Self-released |
The Caesar Demos is an album by Ween, released semi-officially online for free by Dean Ween via Facebook in 2011.
Description and History[edit | edit source]
The album, which lasts over 100 minutes, is a compilation of demos and outtakes, mostly from the sessions for Quebec (with a small number of White Pepper outtakes and demos).
The demos were recorded to 16-track tape, and had been recorded at various locations that included the beach house, Gene Ween's garage, and Dean Ween's spare bedroom.
Despite Caesar's popularity with fans and generally agreed-on high musical quality, it was also somewhat infamous in Ween history for a time, as its release was at least partially connected to Ween's 2012 breakup (they later reunited in 2016); Gener was initially reported to have been very upset at the album's release[1], but this turned out to be a hoax by Ween.net Forum users, and Gener's actual reaction was far more positive.
Track Listing[edit | edit source]
Quotes[edit | edit source]
- Dean Ween's original Facebook post:
well what can i say about this here, lemme see. the first thing that comes to mind is that all the while we were doing this we still had claude coleman on drums, he eventually got into a major car wreck and wasn't around when it finally came time to make the "real" record. instead the drum duties fell on me, josh freese, and sim cain for a couple of tunes. almost all of this was recorded at our beach house in holgate, nj onto 16 track tape. a tiny bit of it was recorded in the garage behind aaron's house in pt. pleasant, pa. some of it was recorded in the spare bedroom of my house in new hope. most of the tunes are just me and aaron, with the two of us playing everything, with me on drums. the songs with claude, dave, and glenn are pretty obvious. on just a few tunes we took what you hear here and cleaned them up and had andrew weiss mix them for the record after some overdubs. dave sings on "it's gonna be a long night", this was days before he had surgery to remove polyps in his throat and his voice was really rough so we figured he was the guy for the job. This isn't even all of the tunes that we ended up choosing from, just the ones i happened to burn to cd before we drove home from the beach every week. hope you dig it for what it is.