Weed was a short-lived band project by a Brit named Ken Hensley of Uriah Heep (!). It involved three former members of the German band Virus from Bielefeld in North Rhine-Westphalia: guitarist Werner Monka, flautist and singer Bernd Hohmann, and bassist Reinhold Spiegelfeld. Studio musician and keyboardist Rainer Schnelle, along with former Rattles drummer Peet Becker, completed the line-up. This German-British partnership recorded their sole self-titled debut album in March 1971 at the Windrose-Dumont-Time Studios in Hamburg, produced by Rainer Goltermann and with Wolfgang Klaus as sound engineer. It was completed swiftly and released shortly afterwards on Philips, right between the Uriah Heep albums Salisbury and Look At Yourself.

The album presents heavy psychedelic rock with elements of progressive rock and blues rock with loads of guitar and keyboards. Ken Hensley’s unmistakable keyboard playing, his guitar work and his distinctive vocals inevitably lend the album an Uriah Heep flair. To avoid contractual disputes with his record label, he is neither pictured on the cover nor named (all songs are credited to manager Bodo Albes). The inability to promote the LP using the famous musician’s name certainly contributed to its quiet and unnoticed demise. Even the „eye-catching“ cover design could not help in this situation. It was therefore supposed to remain the collaboration's only release, a record that is now a highly sought-after collector’s item, and not just among Uriah Heep fans.