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2024
Eugene, OR
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09
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Portland, OR
Pioneer Courthouse Square
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08
2024
Portland, OR
Pioneer Courthouse Square
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06
2024
Seattle, WA
Paramount Theatre
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2024
Spokane, WA
Pavilion at Riverfront
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03
2024
Bonner, MT
KettleHouse Amphitheater
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Sarah
August 8th 2024
There are few things that make me as happy as seeing Ween. The shows are full of awesome music and because I'm old they remind me of all the great times with friends at all the previous Ween shows. Anybody remember the night in Seattle when Ween played Stella Blue? I sure as fuck do. When I arrived at the Paramount with a friend of more than 20 years who I hadn't seen in more than 6 months I was so excited. Then we realized the show wasn't happening. Scroll through junk mail and find it's cancelled. Other fans join our curbside confusion. Was I pissed? Nope. I was bummed out that the guys weren't okay. Hey, Ween, if you are reading this, do what you fucking need to do to be okay! It's more important that the dudes that made all that music are good than it is for me to have a good time. Thank you for a great night. My friend and I found a spot on the hill and hung out way past my bed time. You gave us a great night!
Seattle, WA@Paramount Theatre
blaine
September 17th 2023
They rocked their weird little hearts out. Musicianship through the roof and played out on the rooftop at Pier 17. From 7:15 to 10, no break, no phoning it in. Mexican take-out was ordered and the we drifted in the night. Ween, the wife and I thank you very much!
New York City, NY@The Rooftop at Pier 17
Kenny
September 15th 2023
One of my top 5 all time shows and i have been to a ton of shows. The band made it a special evening with playing rare songs and really connecting with a less than happy crowd after standing in a heavy downpour for an hour. Ween was able to shake off the bad feeling in the crowd fast and put on a masterclass of what a profesional preformer is supposed to do to bring a crowd back to forget about anything but what is happening on the stage!!!
Newport, KY@MegaCorp Pavilion
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About Ween
Ween is a rock group formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania, United States when Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo Jr. met in a junior high school typing class. The pair became known as Gene and Dean Ween. Thousands of home recordings later, Ween collected a large underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in mainstream music circles.
Their earliest home recordings were anarchic and free-spirited, drawing on influences as far-reaching as The Beatles, Queen, Prince, Butthole Surfers, The Residents and the lo-fi punk movement. Ween was often compared in their early years to other offbeat artists such as Frank Zappa and would always eschew such comparisons.
Ween was signed to Twin/Tone Records in 1989 and released their first album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness in the following year, a 26-track smorgasbord of wild eclecticism. 1991's The Pod became a fast fan favorite, as the duo's use of drum machines, pitch-tweaked guitars & vocals and drug-laced humor became a trademark part of their sound. The Pod, according to Ween-lore, was written under the influence of Scotchgard, but this was later refuted by Gene and Dean themselves as being "the most slime-bag thing we could think of." The contraption on the album cover is not a Scotchgard inhalation device, but a bong-like device used to send marijuana directly to the brain by use of nitrous oxide, which was said to leave the user intoxicated for days, but nauseated. The cover of The Pod used the cover of the 1975 Leonard Cohen album, The Best of Leonard Cohen, but with the head of Mean Ween (sometime bassist Mark Kramer) wearing the mask, pasted onto that of Cohen.
Pure Guava, the first of a series of releases on the Elektra label, featured their highest charting single, "Push Th' Little Daisies" (1992) which gained them media & MTV attention, as the video was a highlighted target on MTV's Beavis & Butt-head. Chocolate and Cheese followed in 1994, heralding 70s pop/rock & soul sendups such as "Freedom of '76" and "Voodoo Lady". The "Freedom of '76" music video was directed by Spike Jonze. At this time, Ween began to expand their live and studio line-up, providing both a crisper production sound in the studio and an easier live setup (up until this time, Ween had been using DAT tapes to provide backings for their songs).
Ween turned to Nashville studio musicians for the recording of the authentically-spirited 12 Golden Country Greats (1996) which only contained ten tracks. There are two theories regarding the title of the album. The first is that it refers to the dozen veteran Nashville studio musicians who played on the album. The second is that the band did indeed record twelve songs during the demo sessions for the album, but upon the removal of the tracks "I Got No Darkside" and "So Long, Jerry" (the latter of which was a B-side on the "Piss Up A Rope" single) they decided not to rename it.
The nautically-themed The Mollusk followed in 1997, demonstrating Ween's satirization, deconstruction, and appreciative mastery of genres including 1960's Brit-pop, sea shanties, Broadway show tunes, and especially progressive rock. Their desire to pursue alternate forms of media led to the MP3-only release Craters of the Sac (1999), presented by Dean for online download and free trade. Elektra Records released a live compilation entitled Paintin' The Town Brown: Ween Live 1990-1998 in 1999, followed by White Pepper (2000), their pop-themed album and final studio set for Elektra. The track "Even If You Don't" was made into a music video directed by the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Shortly after White Pepper Ween started the internet radiostation WeenRadio, which was awarded 3rd best internet music site by Rolling Stone.[1]
Ween also formed their own label at this time, Chocodog Records, which oversaw the release of several self-produced live sets. The aforementioned Paintin' the Town Brown, which was compiled and mastered by the band, was meant to be the first Chocodog release. According to Dean Ween, once the album was completed, Elektra realized the sales potential of the CD and denied Ween the right to release it through Chocodog. Later, Ween released the first official Chocodog album, Live in Toronto (a live recording from the 1996 tour, in which Ween performed with Bobby Ogdin & The Shit Creek Boys). The limited-pressing CD, available exclusively through the band website, became an instant collector's item. Subsequent Chocodog releases (Live at Stubb's and All Request Live) were produced in higher volumes to meet demand. In 2005, the label released the first instalment of a rarity compilation series entitled Shinola, and announced plans to re-release the 1987 cassette tape by Gene, Synthetic Socks.
The two signed to Sanctuary Records in 2003 and released Quebec, their first studio set in 3 years. In 2004, they released Live in Chicago, a DVD and CD set that compiled tracks from three energetic live performances.
In February of 2006, they rented an old farmhouse and converted it into a working studio. After writing over 50 songs and recording rough versions through 2006, they picked through them, and, with Andrew Weiss as producer, re-recorded album versions. As of March 2007, they are recording final versions of what they have said to be about 20 songs. On May 22, 2007 they announced they will be releasing an EP entitled "The Friends EP" on June 8th. Dean Ween said the EP will be "The ultimate party record, filled with good beats and good times. Perfect for your barbecue or doing bong hits or whatever it is that you guys do." And also they announced the new album--entitled "La Cucaracha"-- was released October 23, 2007 on Rounder Records, placing them on the same label as fellow Alternative Rock duo They Might Be Giants.
Early independent releases (1986–1989):
1984 Synthetic Socks
198X Mrs. Slack
1986 The Crucial Squeegie Lip
1987 Axis: Bold As Boognish
1987 Erica Peterson's Flaming Crib Death
1988 The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD
1989 Prime 5
Studio Albums:
1990 - God Ween Satan: The Oneness
1991 - The Pod
1992 - Pure Guava
1994 - Chocolate and Cheese
1996 - 12 Golden Country Greats
1997 - The Mollusk
2000 - White Pepper
2003 - Quebec
2005 - Shinola, Vol. 1
2007 - The Friends EP
2007 - La Cucaracha
Live Albums:
1999 - Paintin' The Town Brown
2001 - Live in Toronto Canada
2002 - Live at Stubb's 7/2000
2003 - All Request Live
2004 - Live in Chicago
Current members
* Dean Ween, pseudonym for Mickey Melchiondo – lead guitar, vocals, etc.
* Gene Ween, pseudonym for Aaron Freeman – lead vocal, guitar, etc.
* dave dreiwitz – bass
* Claude Coleman Jr – drums
* Glenn McClelland – keyboards
Their earliest home recordings were anarchic and free-spirited, drawing on influences as far-reaching as The Beatles, Queen, Prince, Butthole Surfers, The Residents and the lo-fi punk movement. Ween was often compared in their early years to other offbeat artists such as Frank Zappa and would always eschew such comparisons.
Ween was signed to Twin/Tone Records in 1989 and released their first album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness in the following year, a 26-track smorgasbord of wild eclecticism. 1991's The Pod became a fast fan favorite, as the duo's use of drum machines, pitch-tweaked guitars & vocals and drug-laced humor became a trademark part of their sound. The Pod, according to Ween-lore, was written under the influence of Scotchgard, but this was later refuted by Gene and Dean themselves as being "the most slime-bag thing we could think of." The contraption on the album cover is not a Scotchgard inhalation device, but a bong-like device used to send marijuana directly to the brain by use of nitrous oxide, which was said to leave the user intoxicated for days, but nauseated. The cover of The Pod used the cover of the 1975 Leonard Cohen album, The Best of Leonard Cohen, but with the head of Mean Ween (sometime bassist Mark Kramer) wearing the mask, pasted onto that of Cohen.
Pure Guava, the first of a series of releases on the Elektra label, featured their highest charting single, "Push Th' Little Daisies" (1992) which gained them media & MTV attention, as the video was a highlighted target on MTV's Beavis & Butt-head. Chocolate and Cheese followed in 1994, heralding 70s pop/rock & soul sendups such as "Freedom of '76" and "Voodoo Lady". The "Freedom of '76" music video was directed by Spike Jonze. At this time, Ween began to expand their live and studio line-up, providing both a crisper production sound in the studio and an easier live setup (up until this time, Ween had been using DAT tapes to provide backings for their songs).
Ween turned to Nashville studio musicians for the recording of the authentically-spirited 12 Golden Country Greats (1996) which only contained ten tracks. There are two theories regarding the title of the album. The first is that it refers to the dozen veteran Nashville studio musicians who played on the album. The second is that the band did indeed record twelve songs during the demo sessions for the album, but upon the removal of the tracks "I Got No Darkside" and "So Long, Jerry" (the latter of which was a B-side on the "Piss Up A Rope" single) they decided not to rename it.
The nautically-themed The Mollusk followed in 1997, demonstrating Ween's satirization, deconstruction, and appreciative mastery of genres including 1960's Brit-pop, sea shanties, Broadway show tunes, and especially progressive rock. Their desire to pursue alternate forms of media led to the MP3-only release Craters of the Sac (1999), presented by Dean for online download and free trade. Elektra Records released a live compilation entitled Paintin' The Town Brown: Ween Live 1990-1998 in 1999, followed by White Pepper (2000), their pop-themed album and final studio set for Elektra. The track "Even If You Don't" was made into a music video directed by the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Shortly after White Pepper Ween started the internet radiostation WeenRadio, which was awarded 3rd best internet music site by Rolling Stone.[1]
Ween also formed their own label at this time, Chocodog Records, which oversaw the release of several self-produced live sets. The aforementioned Paintin' the Town Brown, which was compiled and mastered by the band, was meant to be the first Chocodog release. According to Dean Ween, once the album was completed, Elektra realized the sales potential of the CD and denied Ween the right to release it through Chocodog. Later, Ween released the first official Chocodog album, Live in Toronto (a live recording from the 1996 tour, in which Ween performed with Bobby Ogdin & The Shit Creek Boys). The limited-pressing CD, available exclusively through the band website, became an instant collector's item. Subsequent Chocodog releases (Live at Stubb's and All Request Live) were produced in higher volumes to meet demand. In 2005, the label released the first instalment of a rarity compilation series entitled Shinola, and announced plans to re-release the 1987 cassette tape by Gene, Synthetic Socks.
The two signed to Sanctuary Records in 2003 and released Quebec, their first studio set in 3 years. In 2004, they released Live in Chicago, a DVD and CD set that compiled tracks from three energetic live performances.
In February of 2006, they rented an old farmhouse and converted it into a working studio. After writing over 50 songs and recording rough versions through 2006, they picked through them, and, with Andrew Weiss as producer, re-recorded album versions. As of March 2007, they are recording final versions of what they have said to be about 20 songs. On May 22, 2007 they announced they will be releasing an EP entitled "The Friends EP" on June 8th. Dean Ween said the EP will be "The ultimate party record, filled with good beats and good times. Perfect for your barbecue or doing bong hits or whatever it is that you guys do." And also they announced the new album--entitled "La Cucaracha"-- was released October 23, 2007 on Rounder Records, placing them on the same label as fellow Alternative Rock duo They Might Be Giants.
Early independent releases (1986–1989):
1984 Synthetic Socks
198X Mrs. Slack
1986 The Crucial Squeegie Lip
1987 Axis: Bold As Boognish
1987 Erica Peterson's Flaming Crib Death
1988 The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD
1989 Prime 5
Studio Albums:
1990 - God Ween Satan: The Oneness
1991 - The Pod
1992 - Pure Guava
1994 - Chocolate and Cheese
1996 - 12 Golden Country Greats
1997 - The Mollusk
2000 - White Pepper
2003 - Quebec
2005 - Shinola, Vol. 1
2007 - The Friends EP
2007 - La Cucaracha
Live Albums:
1999 - Paintin' The Town Brown
2001 - Live in Toronto Canada
2002 - Live at Stubb's 7/2000
2003 - All Request Live
2004 - Live in Chicago
Current members
* Dean Ween, pseudonym for Mickey Melchiondo – lead guitar, vocals, etc.
* Gene Ween, pseudonym for Aaron Freeman – lead vocal, guitar, etc.
* dave dreiwitz – bass
* Claude Coleman Jr – drums
* Glenn McClelland – keyboards
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Genres:
Alternative
Band Members:
Glenn McClelland, with, Dean Ween and Gene Ween, Claude Coleman Jr., Dave Dreiwitz
Hometown:
Gun Club Estates, Florida
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The Pod Fuscus Edition
$37.98
Paintin' The Town Brown: Ween Live 19...
$47.99
At The Cat's Cradle, 1992 Milky Clear
$39.98
GODWEENSATAN: Live
$13.98
Pure Guava
$10.98
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concerts and tour dates
Past
AUG
10
2024
Eugene, OR
The Cuthbert Amphitheater
I Was There
AUG
09
2024
Portland, OR
Pioneer Courthouse Square
I Was There
AUG
08
2024
Portland, OR
Pioneer Courthouse Square
I Was There
AUG
06
2024
Seattle, WA
Paramount Theatre
I Was There
AUG
04
2024
Spokane, WA
Pavilion at Riverfront
I Was There
AUG
03
2024
Bonner, MT
KettleHouse Amphitheater
I Was There
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Fan Reviews
Sarah
August 8th 2024
There are few things that make me as happy as seeing Ween. The shows are full of awesome music and because I'm old they remind me of all the great times with friends at all the previous Ween shows. Anybody remember the night in Seattle when Ween played Stella Blue? I sure as fuck do. When I arrived at the Paramount with a friend of more than 20 years who I hadn't seen in more than 6 months I was so excited. Then we realized the show wasn't happening. Scroll through junk mail and find it's cancelled. Other fans join our curbside confusion. Was I pissed? Nope. I was bummed out that the guys weren't okay. Hey, Ween, if you are reading this, do what you fucking need to do to be okay! It's more important that the dudes that made all that music are good than it is for me to have a good time. Thank you for a great night. My friend and I found a spot on the hill and hung out way past my bed time. You gave us a great night!
Seattle, WA@Paramount Theatre
blaine
September 17th 2023
They rocked their weird little hearts out. Musicianship through the roof and played out on the rooftop at Pier 17. From 7:15 to 10, no break, no phoning it in. Mexican take-out was ordered and the we drifted in the night. Ween, the wife and I thank you very much!
New York City, NY@The Rooftop at Pier 17
Kenny
September 15th 2023
One of my top 5 all time shows and i have been to a ton of shows. The band made it a special evening with playing rare songs and really connecting with a less than happy crowd after standing in a heavy downpour for an hour. Ween was able to shake off the bad feeling in the crowd fast and put on a masterclass of what a profesional preformer is supposed to do to bring a crowd back to forget about anything but what is happening on the stage!!!
Newport, KY@MegaCorp Pavilion
View More Fan Reviews
About Ween
Ween is a rock group formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania, United States when Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo Jr. met in a junior high school typing class. The pair became known as Gene and Dean Ween. Thousands of home recordings later, Ween collected a large underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in mainstream music circles.
Their earliest home recordings were anarchic and free-spirited, drawing on influences as far-reaching as The Beatles, Queen, Prince, Butthole Surfers, The Residents and the lo-fi punk movement. Ween was often compared in their early years to other offbeat artists such as Frank Zappa and would always eschew such comparisons.
Ween was signed to Twin/Tone Records in 1989 and released their first album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness in the following year, a 26-track smorgasbord of wild eclecticism. 1991's The Pod became a fast fan favorite, as the duo's use of drum machines, pitch-tweaked guitars & vocals and drug-laced humor became a trademark part of their sound. The Pod, according to Ween-lore, was written under the influence of Scotchgard, but this was later refuted by Gene and Dean themselves as being "the most slime-bag thing we could think of." The contraption on the album cover is not a Scotchgard inhalation device, but a bong-like device used to send marijuana directly to the brain by use of nitrous oxide, which was said to leave the user intoxicated for days, but nauseated. The cover of The Pod used the cover of the 1975 Leonard Cohen album, The Best of Leonard Cohen, but with the head of Mean Ween (sometime bassist Mark Kramer) wearing the mask, pasted onto that of Cohen.
Pure Guava, the first of a series of releases on the Elektra label, featured their highest charting single, "Push Th' Little Daisies" (1992) which gained them media & MTV attention, as the video was a highlighted target on MTV's Beavis & Butt-head. Chocolate and Cheese followed in 1994, heralding 70s pop/rock & soul sendups such as "Freedom of '76" and "Voodoo Lady". The "Freedom of '76" music video was directed by Spike Jonze. At this time, Ween began to expand their live and studio line-up, providing both a crisper production sound in the studio and an easier live setup (up until this time, Ween had been using DAT tapes to provide backings for their songs).
Ween turned to Nashville studio musicians for the recording of the authentically-spirited 12 Golden Country Greats (1996) which only contained ten tracks. There are two theories regarding the title of the album. The first is that it refers to the dozen veteran Nashville studio musicians who played on the album. The second is that the band did indeed record twelve songs during the demo sessions for the album, but upon the removal of the tracks "I Got No Darkside" and "So Long, Jerry" (the latter of which was a B-side on the "Piss Up A Rope" single) they decided not to rename it.
The nautically-themed The Mollusk followed in 1997, demonstrating Ween's satirization, deconstruction, and appreciative mastery of genres including 1960's Brit-pop, sea shanties, Broadway show tunes, and especially progressive rock. Their desire to pursue alternate forms of media led to the MP3-only release Craters of the Sac (1999), presented by Dean for online download and free trade. Elektra Records released a live compilation entitled Paintin' The Town Brown: Ween Live 1990-1998 in 1999, followed by White Pepper (2000), their pop-themed album and final studio set for Elektra. The track "Even If You Don't" was made into a music video directed by the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Shortly after White Pepper Ween started the internet radiostation WeenRadio, which was awarded 3rd best internet music site by Rolling Stone.[1]
Ween also formed their own label at this time, Chocodog Records, which oversaw the release of several self-produced live sets. The aforementioned Paintin' the Town Brown, which was compiled and mastered by the band, was meant to be the first Chocodog release. According to Dean Ween, once the album was completed, Elektra realized the sales potential of the CD and denied Ween the right to release it through Chocodog. Later, Ween released the first official Chocodog album, Live in Toronto (a live recording from the 1996 tour, in which Ween performed with Bobby Ogdin & The Shit Creek Boys). The limited-pressing CD, available exclusively through the band website, became an instant collector's item. Subsequent Chocodog releases (Live at Stubb's and All Request Live) were produced in higher volumes to meet demand. In 2005, the label released the first instalment of a rarity compilation series entitled Shinola, and announced plans to re-release the 1987 cassette tape by Gene, Synthetic Socks.
The two signed to Sanctuary Records in 2003 and released Quebec, their first studio set in 3 years. In 2004, they released Live in Chicago, a DVD and CD set that compiled tracks from three energetic live performances.
In February of 2006, they rented an old farmhouse and converted it into a working studio. After writing over 50 songs and recording rough versions through 2006, they picked through them, and, with Andrew Weiss as producer, re-recorded album versions. As of March 2007, they are recording final versions of what they have said to be about 20 songs. On May 22, 2007 they announced they will be releasing an EP entitled "The Friends EP" on June 8th. Dean Ween said the EP will be "The ultimate party record, filled with good beats and good times. Perfect for your barbecue or doing bong hits or whatever it is that you guys do." And also they announced the new album--entitled "La Cucaracha"-- was released October 23, 2007 on Rounder Records, placing them on the same label as fellow Alternative Rock duo They Might Be Giants.
Early independent releases (1986–1989):
1984 Synthetic Socks
198X Mrs. Slack
1986 The Crucial Squeegie Lip
1987 Axis: Bold As Boognish
1987 Erica Peterson's Flaming Crib Death
1988 The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD
1989 Prime 5
Studio Albums:
1990 - God Ween Satan: The Oneness
1991 - The Pod
1992 - Pure Guava
1994 - Chocolate and Cheese
1996 - 12 Golden Country Greats
1997 - The Mollusk
2000 - White Pepper
2003 - Quebec
2005 - Shinola, Vol. 1
2007 - The Friends EP
2007 - La Cucaracha
Live Albums:
1999 - Paintin' The Town Brown
2001 - Live in Toronto Canada
2002 - Live at Stubb's 7/2000
2003 - All Request Live
2004 - Live in Chicago
Current members
* Dean Ween, pseudonym for Mickey Melchiondo – lead guitar, vocals, etc.
* Gene Ween, pseudonym for Aaron Freeman – lead vocal, guitar, etc.
* dave dreiwitz – bass
* Claude Coleman Jr – drums
* Glenn McClelland – keyboards
Their earliest home recordings were anarchic and free-spirited, drawing on influences as far-reaching as The Beatles, Queen, Prince, Butthole Surfers, The Residents and the lo-fi punk movement. Ween was often compared in their early years to other offbeat artists such as Frank Zappa and would always eschew such comparisons.
Ween was signed to Twin/Tone Records in 1989 and released their first album GodWeenSatan: The Oneness in the following year, a 26-track smorgasbord of wild eclecticism. 1991's The Pod became a fast fan favorite, as the duo's use of drum machines, pitch-tweaked guitars & vocals and drug-laced humor became a trademark part of their sound. The Pod, according to Ween-lore, was written under the influence of Scotchgard, but this was later refuted by Gene and Dean themselves as being "the most slime-bag thing we could think of." The contraption on the album cover is not a Scotchgard inhalation device, but a bong-like device used to send marijuana directly to the brain by use of nitrous oxide, which was said to leave the user intoxicated for days, but nauseated. The cover of The Pod used the cover of the 1975 Leonard Cohen album, The Best of Leonard Cohen, but with the head of Mean Ween (sometime bassist Mark Kramer) wearing the mask, pasted onto that of Cohen.
Pure Guava, the first of a series of releases on the Elektra label, featured their highest charting single, "Push Th' Little Daisies" (1992) which gained them media & MTV attention, as the video was a highlighted target on MTV's Beavis & Butt-head. Chocolate and Cheese followed in 1994, heralding 70s pop/rock & soul sendups such as "Freedom of '76" and "Voodoo Lady". The "Freedom of '76" music video was directed by Spike Jonze. At this time, Ween began to expand their live and studio line-up, providing both a crisper production sound in the studio and an easier live setup (up until this time, Ween had been using DAT tapes to provide backings for their songs).
Ween turned to Nashville studio musicians for the recording of the authentically-spirited 12 Golden Country Greats (1996) which only contained ten tracks. There are two theories regarding the title of the album. The first is that it refers to the dozen veteran Nashville studio musicians who played on the album. The second is that the band did indeed record twelve songs during the demo sessions for the album, but upon the removal of the tracks "I Got No Darkside" and "So Long, Jerry" (the latter of which was a B-side on the "Piss Up A Rope" single) they decided not to rename it.
The nautically-themed The Mollusk followed in 1997, demonstrating Ween's satirization, deconstruction, and appreciative mastery of genres including 1960's Brit-pop, sea shanties, Broadway show tunes, and especially progressive rock. Their desire to pursue alternate forms of media led to the MP3-only release Craters of the Sac (1999), presented by Dean for online download and free trade. Elektra Records released a live compilation entitled Paintin' The Town Brown: Ween Live 1990-1998 in 1999, followed by White Pepper (2000), their pop-themed album and final studio set for Elektra. The track "Even If You Don't" was made into a music video directed by the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Shortly after White Pepper Ween started the internet radiostation WeenRadio, which was awarded 3rd best internet music site by Rolling Stone.[1]
Ween also formed their own label at this time, Chocodog Records, which oversaw the release of several self-produced live sets. The aforementioned Paintin' the Town Brown, which was compiled and mastered by the band, was meant to be the first Chocodog release. According to Dean Ween, once the album was completed, Elektra realized the sales potential of the CD and denied Ween the right to release it through Chocodog. Later, Ween released the first official Chocodog album, Live in Toronto (a live recording from the 1996 tour, in which Ween performed with Bobby Ogdin & The Shit Creek Boys). The limited-pressing CD, available exclusively through the band website, became an instant collector's item. Subsequent Chocodog releases (Live at Stubb's and All Request Live) were produced in higher volumes to meet demand. In 2005, the label released the first instalment of a rarity compilation series entitled Shinola, and announced plans to re-release the 1987 cassette tape by Gene, Synthetic Socks.
The two signed to Sanctuary Records in 2003 and released Quebec, their first studio set in 3 years. In 2004, they released Live in Chicago, a DVD and CD set that compiled tracks from three energetic live performances.
In February of 2006, they rented an old farmhouse and converted it into a working studio. After writing over 50 songs and recording rough versions through 2006, they picked through them, and, with Andrew Weiss as producer, re-recorded album versions. As of March 2007, they are recording final versions of what they have said to be about 20 songs. On May 22, 2007 they announced they will be releasing an EP entitled "The Friends EP" on June 8th. Dean Ween said the EP will be "The ultimate party record, filled with good beats and good times. Perfect for your barbecue or doing bong hits or whatever it is that you guys do." And also they announced the new album--entitled "La Cucaracha"-- was released October 23, 2007 on Rounder Records, placing them on the same label as fellow Alternative Rock duo They Might Be Giants.
Early independent releases (1986–1989):
1984 Synthetic Socks
198X Mrs. Slack
1986 The Crucial Squeegie Lip
1987 Axis: Bold As Boognish
1987 Erica Peterson's Flaming Crib Death
1988 The Live Brain Wedgie/WAD
1989 Prime 5
Studio Albums:
1990 - God Ween Satan: The Oneness
1991 - The Pod
1992 - Pure Guava
1994 - Chocolate and Cheese
1996 - 12 Golden Country Greats
1997 - The Mollusk
2000 - White Pepper
2003 - Quebec
2005 - Shinola, Vol. 1
2007 - The Friends EP
2007 - La Cucaracha
Live Albums:
1999 - Paintin' The Town Brown
2001 - Live in Toronto Canada
2002 - Live at Stubb's 7/2000
2003 - All Request Live
2004 - Live in Chicago
Current members
* Dean Ween, pseudonym for Mickey Melchiondo – lead guitar, vocals, etc.
* Gene Ween, pseudonym for Aaron Freeman – lead vocal, guitar, etc.
* dave dreiwitz – bass
* Claude Coleman Jr – drums
* Glenn McClelland – keyboards
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Genres:
Alternative
Band Members:
Glenn McClelland, with, Dean Ween and Gene Ween, Claude Coleman Jr., Dave Dreiwitz
Hometown:
Gun Club Estates, Florida
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