![]() ![]() tour in support of The Deaner Album, with the Meat Puppets opening. Melchiondo will hit the road Tuesday for a two-week U.S. At first I was doing a lot of Ween tunes now I’ll throw in some Ween tunes if I feel like it, but I don’t have to, you know what I mean?” I’m finding a way to walk that line where it’s not all just guitar players at my shows: you know, a bunch of dudes in Fender and Gibson jackets. ![]() “Now that I have a record done and I’m well into my second one, the focus is becoming finer. “So for this, I really wanted to live my dream out of being a guitar-player guy,” he continues. In addition to guitar, Melchiondo handles lead vocals on some tunes, and welcomes guests including Ween live members Dave Dreiwitz, Claude Coleman and Glenn McClelland, Parliament-Funkadelic guitarist Michael Hampton, Moistboyz frontman Guy Heller, and Meat Puppets singer-guitarist Curt Kirkwood. The record features 14 new songs, some of which will be familiar to fans who have seen Melchiondo’s Dean Ween Group live in recent years. After more than 30 years spent working with the recently reactivated Ween, five albums with side project the Moistboyz and guest appearances with everyone from Pigface to Queens of the Stone Age, the 46-year-old is gearing up to release his first LP as a bandleader: The Deaner Album, out October 21st and premiering here. It was in my fucking shoe.”ĭespite the ordeal, reminiscent of an early song by his best-known band – eclectic, offbeat, hyper-prolific cult favorites Ween – the man less commonly known as Mickey Melchiondo is in good spirits. ![]() “I’ve been stung by a million bees, but a hornet is a whole different level of the game. “I got stung by a hornet just about 10 minutes ago,” he says. Reaching Dean Ween by phone, Rolling Stone finds the guitarist and songwriter in a world of pain. ![]()
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