Production
The album was recorded on two tapes made by Ween from January to October 1990, at the Pod on Van Sant Road in Solebury Township, Pennsylvania. (The album, in fact, was named after this apartment that Dean and Gene shared at the time.) The tapes were titled the Bilboa tape and the Big Timmy Wasserman tape. Both tapes contain not only demo versions of songs on the album, but many outtakes not used on any album or tracks used on future albums.
All of the songs have a murky, sludgy quality to them (possibly due to being recorded on a Tascam four-track cassette recorder), and many of the vocals are manipulated in strange ways. The lyrics are also quite druggy and bizarre; a contributing factor may have been drug use, as the album notes claim that the band used Scotchgard as a recreational drug, although they have later confirmed that this was a running joke. Another contributing factor may have been the fact that Dean and Gene both came down with cases of mononucleosis during the recording of the album.
The Pod has since been remastered and reissued by Elektra Records after the relative success of such Ween albums as Pure Guava (1992) and Chocolate and Cheese (1994); as mentioned above, the album was previously issued by Shimmy Disc.
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