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Article: No joke! Gene & Dean Ween get serious about guitar.(Interview)
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- Guitar Player
- Article date:
- February 1, 2004
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> Ween began as the teenage creation of Mickey Melchiondo (a.k.a. Dean Ween) and his buddy, Aaron Freeman (a.k.a. Gene Ween). Armed with guitars, a 4-track, and a slew of effects, the Ween boys produced everything from bubble-gum pop to deconstructionist experiments that are simultaneously mind-bendingly beautiful and hilarious. Their first three records--GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, The Pod, and Pure Guava--are lo-fi masterpieces that eventually garnered the band an insanely dedicated following.
But with their 1994 release, Chocolate & Cheese, Dean and Gene began to move away from their primordial 4-track musings and began making records that occasionally had real ...
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Article: It's no joke: Rock band Ween wants to be taken seriously.
The Philadelphia Inquirer (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);
August 7, 2003 ;
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...Byline: Tom Moon Dean Ween, the guitar player and singer known ... band he leads with "brother" Gene Ween (Aaron Freeman) is nothing but another ... the story," says the 32-year-old Dean Ween, who says he listens to mostly old ...
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