Reposted by Zach Schonfeld
Me to Paul Newman’s family at the funeral: may his memory be a dressing
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![And either Aaron [a.k.a. Gene Ween] or Mickey [a.k.a. Dean Ween] was in the vocal booth. They didn’t play on the record. That was one of the first funny things that happened. I said to them, “Well, if we’re gonna do this right, you’re not allowed to play on your own record.”
So that was your idea.
Yeah. And they said, “Dude! We’ve always wanted somebody to do that to us!” They’re conceptual guys. And so am I. So we really got into it: “You’re not good enough to play on your own record.” “Yeah, we’re not good enough to play on our own record!” Like they did with Willie Nelson—they didn’t let him play guitar on his early records. “This is awesome!”
One or the other would be in the vocal booth, singing. And the band will play. And within an hour and a half, we had a master take and it was time to move on and learn the next song.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:qrixzlaeyz3h4wiqjwd6z2ub/bafkreibakda5pud3zhv4hbtin33trt7zhb2yrvt63mrgpis6iq5yeuzmpy)
