Old Ass Ween News(228 total)
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Feb 20th, 2017
Five Thoughts: WEEN at Brooklyn Bowl
Source: Las Vegas Weekly
Author: Spencer Patterson
Brooklyn Bowl is a great place to see a show, but this might be what the almost-three-year-old venue does best: host multiple nights with the same band - while turning itself into home base for fans of that act...
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Ween Las Vegas Finale Includes Nearly Disastrous Wedding Proposal
Source: JamBase
Author: Scott Bernstein
Sunday night saw Ween close out a three-night stand at Brooklyn Bowl Las Vegas with a show heavy on rockers including a Motorhead cover. The evening also featured a wedding proposal that ended well after the guy proposing lost the ring for a little while...
View Setlist Read MoreJan 30th, 2017
Catching Up With Ween's Claude Coleman Jr.
Source: Modern Drummer
Author: Patrick Berkery
Times have changed, and so has his address. For the longtime member of one of America's most beloved left-of-center rock bands - reunited after several years apart - it's all for the better...
Read MoreJan 27th, 2017
Browning Out With Dean Ween
Source: Do512
As one-half of beloved cult pranksters Ween, Dean Ween (real name Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo, Jr.) has created songs that run the gamut from foul-mouthed sea shanties to Nashville-tinged country tunes mourning the loss of a pet. Name a genre of music, and Dean Ween has likely already dived headfirst into it...
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The Dean Ween Group Welcomes Scott Metzger, Mike Dillon & Carol Brooks At Brooklyn Bowl
Source: JamBase
Author: Andy Kahn
Last night Ween guitarist Mickey "Dean Ween" Melchiondo brought his The Dean Ween Group to New York for a show at Brooklyn Bowl. The evening featured a sit-in by opener, percussionist Mike Dillon as well as guest vocalist Carol Brooks and Joe Russo's Almost Dead guitarist Scott Metzger...
View Setlist Read MoreJan 17th, 2017
New Tourdates Announced!
Source: WEEN
Thursday, April 20th in Charlottesville, VA
Friday, April 21st in Asheville, NC...
Jan 11th, 2017
Spin The Black Circle: Talking Records with Dean Ween
Source: Spectrum Culture
Author: Jedd Beaudoin
"I talk a lot," says Mickey Melchiondo, the man known to much of the world as Dean Ween and to some of the globe as Mickey Moist. "That's what makes me a good interview."...
Read MoreJan 10th, 2017
Music Should Be Joyous: Mickey "Dean Ween" Melchiondo Talks Ween, Solo Band & Premieres New Dean Ween Group Song
Source: JamBase
Author: Chad Berndston
Mickey Melchiondo's been so prolific lately - so out there and seemingly ever-present - that it's tough to imagine a time when his musical fires were barely at a smolder. But that's what happened to Melchiondo - better known to countless Ween fans as Dean Ween, or Deaner - following the breakup of Ween five years ago...
Read MoreJan 10th, 2017
With The Dean Ween Group, Mickey Melchiondo Continues Creating Jarring Quilts Of Sound
Source: WBUR
Author: Jim Sullivan
Let's say you don't know Ween's music or the music made by the lead guitarist's spinoff the Dean Ween Group. Then Dean Ween is fairly certain no matter what you read here (or anywhere), you're not going to like it...
Read MoreJan 9th, 2017
Sunday night Capitol Theatre recording surfaces on archive.org!
Source: archive.org
Jan 6th, 2017
Ween to play Nelsonville Music Festival in June
Source: Nelsonville Music Festival
Dec 29th, 2016
Gene Ween, John Medeski, & More Lead Tribute To Led Zeppelin At Brooklyn Bowl
Source: Live For Live Music
Author: Kendall Deflin
Last night, a variety of artists from across the musical spectrum came together to play the music of Led Zeppelin at the Brooklyn Bowl in New York. Vocalist Gene Ween, pianist John Medeski, and guitarist/vocalist Scott Ian (of Anthrax) led the brigade through a furiously awesome tribute to the English rock band...
Read MoreNov 21st, 2016
Review: Ween - GodWeenSatan Live
Source: The MusicNerd Chronicles
Author: Jack McDougall
Where were you on September 11, 2001? I was bowling with friends in Asahikawa, Japan - way up north, a stone's throw from Russia. I had told the man at the counter my name was Gary, and that was the name up on the score-tracking screen over our lane. Gary sounds about the same as "geri," or diarrhea in Japanese...
View Setlist Read MoreOct 19th, 2016
Review: Ween pull out all of the stops for their return to SF
Source: The Bay Bridged
Author: Joshua Huver
Ween was in San Francisco this weekend for the first time since 2009, and for two nights, Friday and Saturday, October 14 and 15, they had the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium all to themselves...
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I Think I Must Be Dreaming: A Ween Tour Memoir
Source: Medium
Author: Matthew Kohut
On the road with the Shit Creek Boys in October, 1996...
Read MoreJul 28th, 2016
THAT TIME WEEN OPENED FOR FUGAZI AT CITY GARDENS
Source: Dangerous Minds
Author: Oliver Hall
If you've read "Understanding Trump" by the cognitive scientist George Lakoff, you might recognize aspects of "strict father morality" in Fugazi's code. It was funny, escaping the hierarchies of home and school to attend a Fugazi show as a teenager: You didn't know which songs they were going to play, but you could be sure they would deliver a stern talking-to about your behavior...
View Setlist Read MoreJun 18th, 2016
Les Claypool Joins The Dean Ween Group In Ohio
Source: JamBase
Author: Andy Kahn
Last night Nelson Ledges Quarry Park hosted a concert featuring openers The Dean Ween Group and The Claypool Lennon Delirium at the outdoor venue in Garrettsville, Ohio...
View Setlist Read MoreMay 6th, 2016
Dean Ween Remembers Prince: 'He Was My John Lennon'
Source: Rolling Stone
Author: Drew Fortune
The sonic DNA of Ween borrows from dozens of classic artists, but Prince's influence on the cult duo runs especially deep. "As young kids in Ween, it was attainable to imitate Prince," guitarist Mickey Melchiondo, a.k.a. Dean Ween, told Rolling Stone this week...
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