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	Gene Ween - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gene Ween is a pseudonym for Aaron Freeman, who was born on March 17, 1970 in New Hope, Pennsylvania.
		He is guitarist and vocalist for the eclectic alternative rock group Ween, alongside his longtime friend, Dean Ween.
		The two met in an eighth grade typing class in 1984, in New Hope, where they both grew up.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gene_Ween (136 words)

	Ween - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ween is a rock duo formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in a junior high school typing class.
		Ween, often compared in their early years to other offbeat artists such as Frank Zappa, and They Might Be Giants, would always eschew such comparisons.
		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 drum machines and tape playback to provide backings for their songs).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ween (1318 words)

	Flak Magazine: Ween's Quebec, 08.06.03 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It's the most publicity Ween has gotten in the last two, three years, and it has nothing to do with Ween or what the band is. Tuesday night, we're doing an all-request concert broadcast on weenradio.com and we let the fans vote online for the set list.
		Ween's early supporters were all let go in 1994, and the band made no effort to establish meaningful relationships with the new, "more hits-oriented staff." Then, not long ago, Elektra balked at advancing money for Ween to record a new album.
		Ween are style chameleons, and their producer, Andrew Weiss, is not one for understatement, yet the music almost always connects on a gut level; it is immediate.
	flakmag.com /music/ween.html (1799 words)

	WEEN in THE iZINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ween - it reminds of the old British kids children's show The Flowerpot Men which had a plant that went "Weeeed"; say "Weeeen" in a high pitched voice - despite their apparent normality are unerringly unpredictable; each record a calypso of beats wretched from any old genre.
		Ween have been under fire for "12 Country Greats", particularly from the indie press which has fired the odd savage shot.
		What Gene really wants though, most of all, is a number one hit all over the world, "to be as big as Michael Jackson".
	www.thei.aust.com /isite/ween.html (890 words)

	Ween - Interesting Motherfuckers - Acid Logic ezine
		But what Ween have done through their determined vision, intentionally or not, is create a virtual musical melting pot of multi-ethnicity and diversity that has not necessarily changed music, but will in time be noticed for its distinct unawareness of boundaries, and skilful manoeuvring against the grain.
		They spoke a little bit of childhood trauma, commented on the smell of crack that was in the air, discussed the unfortunate perception of stalking as an illegal love, and made a lot of drunk country bumpkins cry with their ability, and song slinging prowess.
		This prompted the Ween camp to start up their very own website, ween.com, in an effort to give the fans more Ween than they themselves were feeling humanly capable of providing.
	www.acidlogic.com /im_ween.htm (3957 words)

	PopMatters Music Interview \| Taste the Waste: A Conversation With Gene Ween
		Ween is an anomaly in that regard -- for instance, when they play live, they embrace their entire catalog.
		Ween started out as very much a two-man songwriting team, and it still pretty much is. But when they play live, Aaron and Mickey join forces with drummer Claude Coleman, bassist Dave Dreiwitz and keyboardist Glenn McClelland.
		To be at a Ween show these days is to become a part of a kaleidoscopic universe where the music alternates between woozy psychedelic guitar solos, devastatingly emotional vocal execution, and mayhem-inducing instrumental freak-outs.
	www.popmatters.com /music/interviews/ween-030819.shtml (1858 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gene and Dean chose instead to make it into a conceptual joke, giving the Bad Ween material a whole disc of its own, egomaniacal treatment for the egomaniacal music.
		Ween remains, in the end, too disagreeable to be a success.
		Gene and Dean Ween, at their worst, make the listener blanch and falter and think about what's going on.
	www.citypaper.com /arts/printready.asp?id=8353 (914 words)

	Ween and False Front concert review
		Ween, in particular the song with the same name as the subject of this message, were a bit lost when they played this song.
		Stripped of the studio, on stage, Ween seems almost normal and if you weren't familiar with their stuff and weren't paying attention to particular parts where tapes are used in the concert, and if you ignored the group's crazy antics on stage, you'd think they were a rather mediocre rock 'n' roll band.
		But fortunately, this wasn't the case: even though Gene Ween (Aaron Freeman) constantly complained about (losing) his voice, it was clear, even with a rasta-braided-drummer and a bassist, from the unintelligible lyrics and varying musical styles that Ween is a cut apart from most other groups.
	www.ram.org /music/reviews/ween_front.html (625 words)


		WEEN have been messing with music and minds like two demented juveniles fiddling with a Mr.
		Gene (vocals) and Dean (guitar) smirk from the stage with their band as their followers yell out requests for favorites such as the '80s metal parody "Dr. Rock" and the goofy "Big Jilm" among so many other songs from their seven studio albums.
		On the band's latest release, White Pepper, Dean and Gene demonstrate a bit of, well, maturity; much of the customary profanity is absent but their mutated musical antics, complete with twisted sense of humor and impressive musicianship, are taken to new, more produced heights.
	www.tearusapart.com /hal/ween.html (555 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: Arts :: Concert Review: Ween -- That's Entertainment
		Judging from Ween's stage setup Sunday night, you'd expect them to be a skinhead hardcore band; distributed across the stage of the Somerville Theater were a bass drum with a flipped bird painted on the front, a party bottle of Jack Daniels and a riot gear-looking bullhorn.
		Ween had their first major label with 1992's Pure Guava and have since logged a string of studio and live albums.
		Though the brothers Ween may be known for their adolescent humor and cheap laughs vulgarity, their on-stage satire was surprisingly incisive.
	www.thecrimson.com /printerfriendly.aspx?ref=98524 (643 words)

	Synthesis : Music : Ween : Bucking the System : With Nearly Two Decades Together and a Ton of Rock ‘N’ Roll ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gene and Dean Ween are currently working on their new record as completely independent artists, though that's not something that they think too much about because, even on Elektra, they never handed in demos for approval and never kowtowed to the standard operating procedures of the major label game.
		Ween's own degree of fame has come to them almost solely as a result of their dedication to making music.
		Dean Ween, at home in New Hope, Pennsylvania on a rare break from time on the road and in the studio, found some time to field a few questions about the group's current status and what it means now that Ween is independent again.
	www.synthesis.net /music/story.php?type=story&id=2023 (1947 words)

	Ween (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Gene: Yeah it is. Some of them are pretty bad but this one has some good stuff on it.
		Gene: No, its not contract, but if you want to get it played on MTV you have to do a video, so, and we dont mind.
		Gene: Its this restaurant called Mohammed's Falafel Star and that was Mohammed, he is the older guy.
	www.kuci.uci.edu /~kuci/text/interviews/ween.html (593 words)

	August 5, 1999: Too Cool For School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Of course, at the time, I'd never heard Ween and someone with Mickey's energy and ambition seemed doomed to paper routes and waiter jobs in the diminishing hardcore music scene around the edges of Philadelphia and New Jersey.
		Gene Ween will also be engaging in another Las Vegas tradition this time out: he is getting married a few hours before the show.
		Ween's purile humor requires an audience to really bloom and many of the best tracks on Paintin' the Town Brown show the band being inspired by their interactions with the audience.
	www.lasvegasweekly.com /departments/08_05_99/sound_ween.html (811 words)

	AudioRevolution.com CD Review of Ween's WHITE PEPPER
		Ween went into the studio with legendary vocal group the Jordanaires and studio musicians who have performed on many classic county songs with artists such as Willie Nelson, Lefty Frizzell, Patsy Cline and Elvis Presley.
		Ween’s first recordings were done on a Tascam four-track cassette recorder with pathetic mikes and a drum machine.
		It’s also not the best-sounding Ween record, and it’s not the best Ween record but it is still a must-have for those who have properly conditioned their musical tastes to the Ween sound.
	www.avrev.com /music/revs/ween.shtml (744 words)

	Reviews-12GCG Tour
		Dean and Gene Ween brought the Shit Creek Boys to play along with them, so there were eight musicians on the stage: three guitarists, a bassist, a drummer, a pianist, a fiddler and a steel guitarist.
		Ween played for about two and a half hours, and they played a bit of everything all night long, including a couple of new songs, and at least one cover.
		Ween kept working their way through their massive vault of material, and near the end of the show, Gener and Bobby Ogdin, the pianist, got together to do their rendition of The Piano Man, and damn it sounded like just like Billy Joel (piano and voice!).
	www.nofadz.com /vlww/review2b.htm (4280 words)

	Tucson Weekly : Music : Eatin' Raw Bacon
		It's as if the entity "Ween" was made manifest by the accumulated unmet desires of all the abject slackers who ever thought, "If only I could get paid for doing this," while noodling on guitar and cracking dick jokes.
		Ween has done pisstakes of everyone from Prince (well-known as one of their faves) to Phil Collins to Queen to the Beatles.
		Ween may be a little bitter about the itinerary, though, going from Alaska straight to the ninth circle of Hell--Southern Arizona in August.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /gbase/Music/Content?oid=oid:44362 (945 words)

	JS Online: Not like most bands
		Ween is unusual, humorous and musically talented all at the same time
		The closest analogue for its combination of lowbrow humor and musical mastery would be Tenacious D, except that Ween has a greater facility with a greater number of styles and its punch lines are more subtle.
		Dean and Gene Ween have inspired this loyalty because they're different from the mainstream.
	www.jsonline.com /onwisconsin/music/jul03/158309.asp (421 words)

	Anglo Plugging Artist - The British Music Industry's Favourite Pluggers
		Dean and Gene are living together in New Hope on a horse farm, working at a gas station and a local Mexican restaurant.
		Ween is booed off stage opening for Fugazi by a capacity crowd at City Gardens, establishing a pattern that will continue for the next couple of years.
		Ween tours as a duo for the remainder of the year, playing in America, Canada, Europe, and Australia (where “Push th' Little Daisies,” the first ever Ween “single,” actually cracks the top ten).
	www.angloplugging.co.uk /artist.cfm?do=artistID&artistID=417 (1384 words)

	Metroactive Music \| Ween
		But Ween--Dean and Gene Ween (or Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman, as their mothers like to call them)--would most likely consider that a compliment.
		Ween would no doubt argue that it's making fun of sexist and abusive men who populate country music, but the problem is, if you're female, it's no fun to listen to.
		Ween wouldn't have the nerve to write a song in which they pretended to be a white massa telling a fl man to shine their shoes, because even they--close-minded as they are--probably know that racism is always wrong and offensive, rather than funny.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.22.96/ween-9634.html (836 words)

	Cygnals: Ween: All about the high shit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		I can only assume he was talking to sidekick Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo), sharing a downtown Detroit hotel room after spending the night on the tour bus.
		Gene, known as Aaron Freeman to the police and anyone who needs his real name, is groggy, but fresh from a good healthy shit.
		But little did I know that Gene Ween would be a more challenging interview than any politician or scientist I've ever talked to.
	www.cygnals.com /zine/issue9/ween.html (493 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In fact, Gene (Aaron Freeman) and his, uh, “brother” Dean (Mickey Melchiondo) are defined largely by their lack of a specific sound.
		Ween fits well into this category in the minds of the many jam fans—let’s call them Weenies—who’ve been flocking to their shows since Phish covered one of their songs.
		Ween is able to take overblown styles—power ballads, metal solos, “smile on your brother” hippie shit, prog rock—and play them so spot-on, it’s as much homage as parody.
	www.sbcskateboard.com /pages/ween.html (786 words)

	MC Paul Barman and Ween (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The kids who were chosen last when teams got picked for gym in junior high, who couldn't get a date to the high-school prom, who plain old didn't fit in, can and regularly do turn up a few years later making a career of music, recast as the cool ones at the party.
		Hailing from New Hope, Pennsylvania, Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman become Dean and Gene Ween, a pair of merry pranksters who started with little more than a four-track and a bunch of fully baked ideas to amuse themselves a decade ago and have been screwing ingeniously with the pop form ever since.
		Gene: You might have little pieces lying around of this and that and you might have an idea for a song title.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/music/00/04/27/BARMAN_AND_WEEN.html (1568 words)

	Horns, strings and airborne panties / Mountain Xpress / Asheville, NC
		A layered stream of strings, horns and backup singers completes the weirdness; even the jokes are coyer than usual (though "Bananas and Blow" is a pretty straightforward mockery of Jimmy Buffet, the rest of the songs sound downright normal – until you start to understand the lyrics).
		Onstage, Ween serves up a sampling of all its albums, including a huge helping from its current release – and the crowd gobbles it up.
		Gene's immediate plans, however, are much smaller in scope.
	www.mountainx.com /ae/2000/0517ween.php (988 words)

	Ween, MP3 Music Download at eMusic
		Ween was the ultimate cosmic goof of the alternative rock era, a prodigiously talented and deliriously odd duo whose work traveled far beyond the constraints of parody and novelty into the heart of surrealist ecstasy.
		Having taken their anything-goes aesthetic to its logical extreme, Ween took a sharp left turn for 1996's 12 Golden Country Greats, a ten-track concept album recorded in Nashville with Music City session luminaries including the Jordanaires, Bobby Ogdin, Russ Hicks, Hargus "Pig" Robbins, and Charlie McCoy.
		Around this time, the band and Elektra parted ways, and Ween was without a record label as they worked on their eighth studio album.
	www.emusic.com /artist/11578/11578215.html (669 words)

	Ween “Rocks” Northern Lights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Dean and Gene Ween (not real brothers) and their additional, rotating musicians are famous for their live shows, a fact that wasn’t lost on upstate folk, it seems.
		But those who wandered in late still got their $20 worth; Ween played for over three hours, rocking harder and harder as the night wore on.
		This stage game is one reason Ween’s live shows are so popular; they seem to have fun on stage and enjoy their sound.
	www.skidmore.edu /studentorgs/skidnews/2001-11-02/a-e/moran.shtml (443 words)

	Fresh Brine
		Ween was formed (during 8th grade typing class) in 1984 in New Hope, PA by Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, aka Gene and Dean Ween.
		Ween has always made songs about our life and what's happening to us at the moment, and that hasn't changed.
		For Ween to be effective and productive, our friendship has to remain intact, and the lines of communication between us have to be open.
	www.freshbrine.com (12504 words)

	the Mollusk World Tour
		Subject: Ween concert in Cleveland From: Gifford@worldnet.att.net I was at the Sept.12 concert in Cleveland.
		WEEN, CHAVEZ Odeon September 12 Those unfamiliar with Ween's musical madness may recall the duo's wacky 1993 video for "Push th' Little Daisies," which aired repeatedly during "Beavis and Butthead" on MTV that year.
		Fictional brothers Dean and Gene Ween aren't unlike the cartoon knuckleheads when it comes to groovin' on goofiness--but the New Jersey natives are dead serious when it comes to delivering their cerebral humor rock in a live context.
	www.nofadz.com /vlww/091297.htm (1325 words)

	Nude as the News: Ween: White Pepper
		Crude, narcotics-addled early albums such as 1990’s God Ween Satan and 1991’s The Pod set the table with songs that ranged from alternate-universe masterworks or listener-baiting mindfucks (the latter’s “Pollo Asado” is the band ordering a meal from a Mexican restaurant).
		Ween is also a notoriously must-see live act, a fact documented by 1999’s double-disc Paintin’ The Town Brown and a series of self-released concert sets.
		The beauty of the record is that even though listeners already expect Ween to be peculiar, the band's versatility and the strength of their songwriting keeps White Pepper intriguing through dozens of spins.
	www.nudeasthenews.com /reviews/835 (559 words)

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