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The album takes its name from the band's apartment where the album was recorded, which the band nicknamed "The Pod". [9] The album's cover art is a takeoff of the 1975 The Best of Leonard Cohen cover; Ween simply positioned a photo of part-time bassist Mean Ween's head (wearing a "Scotchgard powered bong") over Cohen's cover art, and altered the title text and other graphics. [3]
Ween is an American rock band from New Hope, Pennsylvania, formed in 1984 by Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, better known by their respective stage names, Gene and Dean. Generally categorized as an alternative rock band, the band are known for their irreverent, highly eclectic catalog of songs inspired by funk , soul , country , gospel ...
Later that year, the band held a poll on their official message boards to select songs for the band to play on their forthcoming live-in-studio album All Request Live. Released on November 22, the album would be the first time Ween would play all five parts of "The Stallion" (Parts 1 & 2 from The Pod, Part 3 from Pure Guava, the unreleased Part ...
On their earliest albums like The Pod and GodWeenSatan: The Oneness, Aaron “Gene Ween” Freeman and Mickey “Dean Ween” Melchiondo made druggy absurdist music full of surreal vocal effects ...
Chocolate and Cheese is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Ween, originally released by Elektra Records in 1994. It was the first Ween album to be recorded in a professional studio, in contrast to the four-track home recordings of The Pod and Pure Guava.
In 1994, during the recording of Chocolate & Cheese, Gene Ween, Dean Ween and Claude Coleman Jr. of Ween collaborated with Japanese noise rock band Boredoms on a project released two years later as Z-Rock Hawaii.
In 2014, Freeman formed a new five-piece band, aptly named Freeman. The band's debut, titled Free-Man, was released on May 23, 2014, by Partisan Records. The second half of 2014 was spent touring alongside Arc Iris. [5] In 2015, Freeman returned to using the Gene Ween name for his "Gene Ween Does Billy Joel" tribute concerts.
Dean Ween - lead guitar, bass, backing vocals, keyboards; Gene Ween - lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, drum machine; Additional musicians. Mean Ween (Chris Williams [citation needed]) – second vocal on "Little Birdy" Guy Heller – vocals on "Flies on My Dick" Larry Curtin – backing vocals and whistling solo on "I Saw Gener Cryin' in ...