They Won't Be Giants
From citypages.com , written by Miki A. Mosman. Ween's Mickey Melchiondo talks about drugs, his fans, and the duo's new live collection, Paintin' the Town Brown Not many bands admit to the influence of inhalants on their music, or draw an income singing about spinal meningitis, or survive for 15 years without a single national radio hit. But Dean and Gene Ween (a.k.a. guitarists Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman) keep on truckin' down their own private wrong-way off ramp, with a singularly weird brand of omnivorous basement pop. Ween's material ranges from the creepy ("Mister Would You Help My Pony" is a spine-crawling child-abuse allegory) to the Zeppelinesque (the classic-rocker "Voodoo Lady"). Their best-known near hit, "Push th' Little Daisies," is a children's song about death that made it to the Australian Top 10 and could be called a Chipmunks-on-mescaline reworking of "Ring Around the Rosie." Ween never see...