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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

RIP RIP Ween

Posted by on Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:54 AM

Ween frontman Aaron Freeman broke the news to Rolling Stone:

For most of his life he's been Gene Ween, the nimble-voiced frontman of one of rock's great genre-hoppers – but Aaron Freeman is finally ready to put his alter-ego to bed. "It's time to move on," Freeman told Rolling Stone from his home in New Jersey. "I'm retiring Gene Ween."

So does that mean the end for Ween, the band that Freeman formed with high school friend Mickey Melchiondo (a.k.a. Dean Ween) in New Hope, Pennsylvania, in the mid-Eighties?

"Pretty much, yeah," says Freeman. "It's been a long time, 25 years. It was a good run."

Read the whole story here.

 

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careychristie 1
Nooooooooooo!!!!!!
Posted by careychristie http://www.bethecrowd.net on May 30, 2012 at 9:16 AM
bunnypuncher 2
FINALLY
Posted by bunnypuncher http://twitter.com/princess_wolfie on May 30, 2012 at 10:27 AM
Jason Josephes 3
Those two comments sum up Ween. You were either in or you were out. I'm on 1's side.
Posted by Jason Josephes http://www.myspace.com/bluemoonseattle on May 30, 2012 at 10:47 AM
bunnypuncher 4
I actually like a handful of their songs, it will just nice to never have to hear their new record playing while I'm trying to crate dig. :)

(Also: their fans are the worst.)
Posted by bunnypuncher http://twitter.com/princess_wolfie on May 30, 2012 at 1:33 PM
Travis Ritter 5
@4 I'm a huge fan of Ween. Then again, I've loved them since I was 12... They wrote a lot of crap, but holy hell did they write some of the most fantastic pop songs and drug freak trip outs.
Posted by Travis Ritter http://nuglifer.wordpress.com on May 30, 2012 at 4:55 PM
6
great sadness, but it was going to happen eventually. I wonder what they will do with the new material they were working on...
Posted by The Mollusck on May 30, 2012 at 7:16 PM
bunnypuncher 7
@5 - I get it, it's like Lil Wayne for hippies.
Posted by bunnypuncher http://twitter.com/princess_wolfie on May 30, 2012 at 9:31 PM
ItsAllOverNow 8
@4 Hyperbole. Ween fans are not the worst. Record collectors who use the term 'Crate Dig' are the worst.

@6 I don't think they were working on new material.
Posted by ItsAllOverNow http://nowaybro.blogspot.com/ on May 31, 2012 at 2:00 PM

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