The Beastie Boys rented this house in Los Angeles while working on Paul's Boutique after their stint at the Mondrian Hotel. The G-Spot nickname came from the large gold "G" on the front of the building which presumably stood for the house's owner Marilyn Grasshoff. They would end up raiding her closet for the '70s clothes they wore in the video for "Hey Ladies."

The photo of the Beastie Boys underwater was shot by photographer Ricky Powell from Ad-Rock's underground guesthouse bedroom that featured a window into the swimming pool.

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The go-to studio for multiple tracks (and albums) for Ween, Graphic Sound Studio is a studio run by Greg and Patricia Frey in Ringoes (East Amwell), New Jersey.

"Baby Bitch" (track #7 on Chocolate and Cheese) was recorded at Graphic Sound in a frenzy. Dean and Gene were going through a prolific song-writing phase, and usual drummer Claude Coleman was on tour. Pat Frey filled in on drums for "Baby Bitch" and the song was done by the second take.

Ween's 2003 live album All Request Live for Chocodog Records was also done at Graphic Sound Studio, as well as numerous additional tracks and song portions throughout the years.

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Here's what the New Hope-Lambertville bridge over the Delaware looks like....

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New Hope, PA is the birthplace of Ween. Both Dean (Mickey Melchiondo) and Gene (Aaron Freeman) Ween grew up in it's brownish breeding ground. New Hope is a scenic river town, with the Delaware River gently separating it and Lambertville, NJ.

During the weekends, New Hope becomes a tourist destination where people ride along the river on horse carriages, mule-barge rides on the canal, ferry boats and bicycles- you name it. Somewhat idyllic, but...

(Dean Ween:) "...when you grow up in a town like that, you become fucking bitter. It's like people who live at the beach year-round, and all the summer tourists come in."

"So I was with Guy (Heller, of the Moistboyz) one day and we're walking across the bridge and we're seeing all this shit: people eating ice cream and it's so ugly. Guy's like, "Man, I just wish I had a fuckin' megaphone. I'd like to fuckin' make an announcement and say, 'AIDS!, HIV! Cancer!'...so I turned it into a song."

"The HIV Song" is #14 on Chocolate and Cheese.

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Dean Ween: "Joppa Road is a road outside of DC that we used to drive past on tour, and it looks so fucking funny on a sign."

He goes on to say, "The idea was you're cruisin' down a road, which is the name of the song, with wind blowing through your hair, and it's, like, the cruisin' vibe- sunny, cruisin', blue-sky vibe, which is what "Ventura Highway" (by the band America) is, taken to the max. It's the Ween bastardization by accident."

Joppa Road is track #11 on the 1994 Ween release, Chocolate and Cheese.

Historical tidbit: Joppa Road was originally an Indian trail and was still used as such as late as 1697.

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