Mickey Melchiondo
| Dean Ween | |
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Dean Ween performing with Ween at the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in San Francisco, California on August 30, 2009.
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Michael Melchiondo "Little Man", Jr. |
| Also known as | Dean Ween |
| Born |
September 25, 1970 New Hope, Pennsylvania United States |
| Genres | Alternative rock, experimental rock, neo-psychedelia, hard rock, lo-fi |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, fishing guide |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, bass |
| Associated acts | Ween, Moistboyz, The Dean Ween Group |
Michael Melchiondo, Jr. (born September 25, 1970), better known by his stage name Dean Ween, is an American guitarist, and is one half of the alternative rock group Ween. Melchiondo is currently active in the groups Moistboyz, The Dean Ween Group and Ween.
Melchiondo met Aaron Freeman in a junior high school typing class in their hometown of New Hope, Pennsylvania. The two adopted the fictitious surname, Ween, with Melchiondo taking up the name Dean Ween and Freeman the name Gene Ween.
Melchiondo started up another band called the Moistboyz.
After having recorded 12 Golden Country Greats, an album of ten country tunes Ween had written over the years with the help of Charlie McCoy, Buddy Harman, and Bobby Ogdin, in Nashville was released in 1996.
Melchiondo made contributions to two projects by his friend Josh Homme: The Desert Sessions and Queens of the Stone Age. On the 2002 Queens of the Stone Age album Songs for the Deaf, Melchiondo played guitar on "Mosquito Song", "Gonna Leave You", and "Six Shooter".
In 2009 Melchiondo received his captain's license and regularly leads fishing trips off the Jersey shore as Mickey's Guide Service.
In 2013, Melchiondo released the fifth Moistboyz album, "Moistboyz V". In August 2016 the Dean Ween Group's debut album, The Deaner Album, was announced. It was subsequently released on October 21 through ATO Records.
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