Here's The Poop On Ween
From Flagpole , written by Fritz Gibson. In 1984, two mild-mannered eighth graders met in a typing class at New Hope-Solebury High School in Pennsylvania. Little did Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo know that a mighty deity had plans for them - plans that involved music. Music and drugs. Their self-created demon-god Boognish rose from the mist and bestowed upon the pair their alter-egos: "Gene Ween" and " Dean Ween." Ween established itself as one of the wackiest, most subversive rock acts of the alternative rock era, one whose work traveled far beyond the constraints of taste, parody, novelty and satire. Sixteen years later, Ween has released its seventh album White Pepper , and while the years of substance abuse may be catching up to them, the Boognish-powered, so-called Poopship that is Ween shows no signs of slowing down. Flagpole caught up to Dean (Melchiondo) in New Orleans. Unfortunately, two o'clock in the afternoon may have been...