 In 1994, during the recording of "Chocolate & Cheese", Gene Ween, Dean Ween and Claude Coleman Jr. of Ween collaborated with Japanese noise rock band Boredoms on a project released two years later as "Z-Rock Hawaii".Melchiondo had become a big fan of Boredoms upon seeing them live in Philadelphia in 1993, calling them "the heaviest band [he] had ever seen since the Butthole Surfers".Boredoms frontman Yamantaka Eye had previously released an album that heavily sampled Ween's "The Pod".