Gene Ween

...Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo met in an eighth grade typing class. The pair became known respectively as Gene Ween and Dean Ween. Ween has a large underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in American pop music. Their...

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Gene Ween (also known as Gener), the pseudonym for Aaron Freeman (b. March 17 1970, New Hope, Pennsylvania), is the rhythm guitarist and lead vocalist for experimental alternative rock group Ween. Alongside his longtime friend and band mate,...

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...versions of songs on the album, but many outtakes not used on any album or tracks used on future albums. "Recorded by Dean and Gene Ween on a Tascam four-track cassette recorder between January and October 1990. All songs recorded at the...

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..., to The Ramones to Laurie Anderson . He has a very wide range of musical influences. Dean later met Aaron Freeman (Gene Ween) in a typing class in their hometown of New Hope, Pennsylvania, and although the two did not get along at...

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...hilarious, and majestic music with Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo Jr.) as the underground rock band Ween. Gene Ween Stays Forever at SF Independent Gene Ween, singer of underground band Ween, played two sold out nights in SF, alone. Ween...

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Tonight Tonight: The Fucking Eagles, Diamond D, Gene Ween Posted by Chris Govella on Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 9:00 AM Comet) Like their peers in Asheville's Reigning Sound, Tacoma's the Fucking Eagles have garage rock down pat. From the...

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...a narcoticized version of "Zoloft" didn't exactly make musical history -- the rest of the evening was hard-driving goodness. Gene Ween's a sharp, funny singer (and turned in some mean mandolin on "Ocean Man"), but it was really Dean's...

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...no other song on the album sounds like that one, all of them share its class-clown 'tude. The guys who call themselves Dean and Gene Ween have been recording since 1990. Although more skilled and better connected than in their early days --...

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...sung by just about everyone in the building. Rahav Segev for The New York Times Ween at Terminal 5, with, from left, Aaron Freeman (Gene Ween), Dave Dreiwitz and Mickey Melchiondo (Dean Ween). A review by Kelefa Sanneh, Page 6. Rahav...

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...thing we've learned about Ween records: A song can go wherever it wants to, sound like whatever it wants to," says Gene Ween (aka Aaron Freeman), who is on a bus in western Canada heading north to Edmonton from Calgary. "It is whatever it...

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