Piss Up a Rope / You Were The Fool / So Long, Jerry.

The band has been relentlessly touring to date, in support of their newest studio album, La Cucaracha.

However he and Dean Ween have kept personal matters appropriately private.

There are rumors that in 2005, Gene Ween went into rehab. One of the Ween things is to do at least one song in every genre, and they have done very well with their goal, drifting effortlessly (on the same record!) between Punk, Pop, Baroque, Southern Rock, Soul, Funk and whathaveyou. One of their most divisive albums is 12 Golden Country Greats (the title refers to the number of players on the album, not the number of songs, which is 10), recorded with a bunch of old-school Nashville guys. Shortly after, they got signed to Shimmy Disc and picked up by Elektra, with whom they had a series of College Hits (and even some mainstream success). After self-releasing a bunch of cassettes, they got signed to Twin/Tone and did their first record. įormed in 1984, the Ween brothers (actually not brothers and named Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo) met in a junior high typing class and made records to amuse each other and their friends. Ween reformed in late 2015 and toured extensively with no stated plans to release new recorded material.

After a 28-year run, Freeman quit the band in 2012, citing the need to focus on his alcohol and drug addiction issues. Despite never receiving much mainstream recognition, Ween developed a large, devoted cult following and garnered critical acclaim. While Ween is generally categorized as an alternative rock band, they are known for their highly eclectic catalog of songs inspired by funk, soul, country, gospel, prog, psychedelia, R&B, heavy metal, punk rock, and more. The band's highest charting single is ' Push th' Little Daisies' (1993), which was a hit in the United States, New Zealand and Australia. Ween performed as a duo backed by a Digital Audio Tape for the band's first ten years of existence before expanding to a four-piece-and later five-piece-act.

After meeting in a middle-school typing class, the two began playing music and immediately chose the name Ween as well as their Ramones-inspired pseudonyms. Ween is an American alternative rock band formed in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in 1984 by childhood friends Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, better known by their respective stage names, Gene and Dean Ween.

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