Old Ass Ween News(234 total)

As bass player Dave Dreiwitz has noted himself, today marks the 20 year anniversary of his invitation into Ween. Dreiwitz reflects, "It was twenty years ago today Deaner called me up to play"...

MADRID - Spanish police have arrested two men for allegedly transporting large quantities of cocaine inside fake bananas...

The Aragon Ballroom in Chicago hosted a St. Patrick's Day Ween concert on Friday night. The second of two Windy City shows featured a fitting opener, a few acoustic tunes and some rarities thrown in as well...

Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo brought Ween to Chicago last night for their first of two consecutive performances at the Aragon Ballroom. The biggest surprise of the evening was the band's first live rendition of "King Billy"...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Thursday, April 20th in Charlottesville, VA
Friday, April 21st in Asheville, NC...

"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."...

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...

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...

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...

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...