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“What Deaner Was Talkin' About” refers to Dean Ween and his numerous panic attacks during his early 20s. He would frequently have troubles concerning his anxiety (before he even knew what it was called) and Gene would have to talk it out with him to calm him down.
According to Dean, Gene must have felt a similar panic attack one day, prompting him to write this song as an empathetic exercise:
“Aaron (‘Gene Ween’ Freeman) wrote that song about me, it’s one of the many songs with our names in the title, ‘Leave Deaner Alone,’ ‘I Saw Gener Cryin’ in His Sleep,’ ‘Gener’s Gone,’ etc. But anyway, that song is about anxiety, before I even knew that the shitty feeling had a name to it.
I used to have massive panic attacks in my early 20s, especially in the morning, or late at night when I would have trouble sleeping, unreasonable fears about life, ridiculous, wild, horrible fantasy trips that ended in catastrophe. It’s an awful thing if you’ve lived with it and can relate. Aaron and I lived together back then and I would talk to him about it and he was very good at chilling me out.
Eventually, everyone experiences it at some point, usually before traveling, or before having to publicly speak, whatever. Acute anxiety is a bitch though, it means you live in a constant state of panic, ‘fight or flight’ syndrome they call it too. Anyway, I guess Aaron got a good dose of it himself one day and wrote that song. I was able to overcome it in time by doing the work, a lot of reading, therapy, all that shit. It’s been many years now since I’ve felt that way, except in tiny doses, during times that would rattle anyone’s cage. Now I can spot it, see it for what it really is, and just let it pass. Let it pass man.“ – Dean Ween
“What Deaner Was Talkin' About“ is the second most successful track from their 1994 album, Chocolate and Cheese.
It is split with "What Deaner Was Talking About". Like I Saw Gener Cryin' In His Sleep, this track is about Anxiety and Insomnia caused by it.
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