Old Ass Ween News(228 total)
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Apr 28th, 2016
Dean Ween Group, Mike Dillon and More Rock The Megalomaniacs Ball
Source: Live For Live Music
Author: Rex Thomson
The Dean Ween Group whipped a packed Megalomaniacs Ball into a frothing frenzy last night, leading a four band onslaught of massive guitar riffs and what seemed like every kind of drum ever made...
View Setlist Read MoreOct 17th, 2015
Dean Ween Plays Drums For Special Dean Ween Group Encore In Denver
Source: JamBase
Author: Scott Bernstein
In 99.99% of most cases, you can consider a show over when the band leaves the stage, the house lights come up and the crew starts putting away microphones and other equipment. Last night's Dean Ween Group show falls in 0.01%...
View Setlist Read MoreOct 5th, 2015
Gene Ween @ SPACE 10/1/15
Source: The Barn Presents
Author: Alex Wood
Ween fans flocked to Evanston's SPACE on Thursday for an intimate performance from Gene Ween. Playing with an electric four-piece backing band, the singer delivered a set spanning Ween's eclectic discography in addition to songs from his most recent record, Freeman...
View Setlist Read MoreJun 17th, 2015
Q&A: Gene Ween On His Billy Joel Tribute Band And Lifelong Love Of The Piano Man
Source: Stereogum
Author: Scott Lapatine
Late last month Billy Joel played New York City's Madison Square Garden for the 63rd time. Meanwhile, across the river, Aaron Freeman played many of the same tunes to a smaller crowd at Brooklyn's most upscale bowling alley...
View Setlist Read MoreJun 17th, 2015
DEAN WEEN'S TOP 5 RECORDS TO "PARTY" WITH
Source: alanpaul.net
Author: Alan Paul
I can assure you from personal experience that are few better people to party with than Mickey Melchiondo, aka Dean Ween. Some time in a dimly remembered past, I did a Guitar World feature with him, which spotlighted his 5 Favorite CDs to do listen to on drugs. Only we couldn't say that, so we said "party with"...
Read MoreMar 21st, 2015
Dean Ween Group at Atlanta's Terminal West
Source: Consequence of Sound
Author: Wesley Hodges
Ween fans have been quite starved for something like this in recent years, as nearly a half-decade has passed since the bizarro outfit banded together for a tour in full. While Gener tours the northeast in support of his most recent eponymous Freeman record, the remainder of the original force rides again...
View Setlist Read MoreJan 19th, 2015
Aaron Freeman (aka Gene Ween) and Nik Greeley @ Ardmore Music Hall
Source: Jump Philly
Author: Brian Wilensky
Boognish smiled upon Ardmore Music Hall on Friday as Aaron Freeman, formerly known as Gene Ween, took the stage. The near-capacity crowd welcomed him back to the area with rowdy cheering at nearly every available moment...
View Setlist Read MoreDec 10th, 2014
Dean Ween Group brings the '70s back - in all its glory - at Musikfest Cafe
Source: The Morning Call
Author: John J. Moser
The 1970s was such a rich musical era that even identifying something as "'70s rock" is nebulous. Within that designation, there's classic rock, sludgy pre-punk rock, power ballad rock, metal and more. The Dean Ween Group - the outfit led by Mickey Melchiondo, half of the New Hope-based experimental rock group Ween - is similarly undefined...
View Setlist Read MoreSep 26th, 2014
Chocolate And Cheese Turns 20
Source: Stereogum
Author: Hank Shteamer
When opening the jewel case of the original Chocolate And Cheese disc, you were greeted by a sketch on the CD face: a meaty cartoon hand, overlaid on a pukey brownish-green background, flipping you the bird...
Read MoreMar 20th, 2014
Dean Ween Group Came On 'Like A Freight Train' At John And Peter's Wednesday Night
Source: New Hope Free Press
Author: Ralph Smith
New Hope favorite son Mickey Melchiondo brought his Dean Ween Group to John and Peter's in New Hope Wednesday night to warm up for their upcoming tour...
View Setlist Read MoreDec 16th, 2013
Moistboyz @ Cubby Bear 12/13/13
Source: The Barn Presents
Author: Alex Wood
Moistboyz are too metal to be punk and too punk to be metal. Between the two genres falls the blisteringly energetic rock 'n roll the band makes their own...
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Review: Moistboyz At John And Peter's In New Hope
Source: New Hope Free Press
Author: Ralph Smith
The Moistboyz stormed John and Peter's last Wednesday night and took no prisoners...
View Setlist Read MoreJun 28th, 2013
These Are The People In Your Neighborhood: Dean Ween
Source: Hog Island Press
Hog Island Press loves Ween. We still remember that Summer night in '93 when we let Nichole with an 'H' borrow our copy of Pure Guava, never to see it again. Lesson(s) learned. Fast forward two decades and New Hope native Dean Ween - aka Captain Mickey Melchiondo - has covered quite a bit of ground...
Read MoreNov 4th, 2012
Aaron Freeman at the Fox Theatre, 11/2/12
Source: Denver Westword
Author: A.H. Goldstein
Aaron Freeman's set at the Fox felt decidedly familiar. The former Ween frontman may have officially shed the musical alter ego of Gene Ween since his last appearance in Colorado, but a lot about his act has stayed pretty much the same...
View Setlist Read MoreSep 25th, 2012
Happy Birthday Dean Ween!
Source: The Stranger
Author: Derek Erdman
On this day, Michael "Mickey" Melchiondo, Jr. was born in New Hope, PA. New Hope is a lot like other small towns in eastern Pennsylvania, historic and boring...
Read MoreJan 15th, 2012
Ween: New Years Eve 2012 - Denver, CO
Source: Pop Matters
Author: Drew Fortune
Did they reach their goal of one hundred songs? No. But it didn't matter. I had witnessed the best Ween show this jaded fan has seen in over a decade of actively following the band...
View Setlist Read MoreJan 2nd, 2012
Ween at the Fillmore Auditorium, 12/31/11, Night Three, New Year's Eve
Source: Denver Westword
Author: A.H. Goldstein
Just in case anyone in the capacity crowd packed into the Fillmore Auditorium on New Year's Eve wasn't paying attention, Dean Ween sketched out the theme of the night after the first song, when the band kicked off the third and final concert of its series in Denver with the frenzied instrumental "Fiesta"...
View Setlist Read MoreDec 31st, 2011
Ween at the Fillmore Auditorium, 12/30/11, Night Two
Source: Denver Westword
Author: A.H. Goldstein
There was no ambitious declaration or plan of attack from the Ween brothers as they launched into their nearly three-hour long set on Friday night for the second show of their three-night stand at the Fillmore...
View Setlist Read MoreDec 30th, 2011
Ween at the Fillmore Auditorium, 12/29/11, Night One
Source: Denver Westword
Author: A.H. Goldstein
Early in the first show of Ween's three-night stint at the Fillmore, guitarist and frontman Dean Ween offered the crowd a simple game plan: "We're Ween. We're the band for the next few days"...
View Setlist Read MoreNov 18th, 2011
Report: Majority Of Americans Experience Profound Sense Of Dread When Asked To Name Favorite Music
Source: The Onion
PHILADELPHIA - A new study from the University of Pennsylvania revealed Wednesday that 81 percent of Americans experience muscle tension, elevated heart rate, and profuse sweating when asked what kind of music they most enjoy listening to...
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