Dean Ween Net Worth is
$1.9 Million

Mini Biography

Mickey Melchiondo (Dean Ween) was created on Sept 25, 1970. He was raised listening to from the Beatles to Parliament/Funkadelic to Leonard Cohen to Prince towards the Ramones to Laurie Andersen. He fulfilled Aaron Freeman inside a junior senior high school keying in class within their hometown of New Wish, Pennsylvania, and even though the two didn’t get along initially, they soon discovered they were spirit brothers and kindred spirits within their like for music. Upon recognizing this, they created a band immediately in class, keying in up the titles from the yet-to-be-written tunes they believed would comprise their 1st album. In addition they concocted a ridiculously ideal tale in regards to a demon god called “Boognish” who seemed to them outdoors their classroom, giving them scepters of prosperity and power in trade for spreading the term of Him. Both were soon spending all their amount of time in Melchiondo’s bedroom, Melchiondo banging out songs on guitars tuned to open chords and Freeman wailing out the nice word from the Boognish right into a cheap microphone. Becoming big Ramones followers, they experienced that they ought to talk about a common surname, and that’s where the pseudonyms Dean (Melchiondo) and Gene (Freeman) Ween originated from. Within a couple of years, the two discovered themselves starting for underground favorites just like the Butthole Surfers and Henry Rollins. Sometime in 1989, Ween opened for the music group Skunk inside a cellar, which been attended with a Twin/Firmness Records scout, who also offered Ween an archive offer. The brothers in music instantly decreased out of community university and documented their sprawling debut record, GodWeenSatan – The Oneness (1990) with Andrew Weiss (of Rollins Music group). The record showcased Ween’s wide musical range – gospel, reggae, punk, spirit, funk, flamenco, psychedelic, folk, all warped in the manner Ween would become notorious for. A tour of Holland implemented, and shortly Ween acquired enough buzz to produce a journey jealous. A proceed to the label Shimmydisc created the dark, lo-fi traditional, The Pod, called after the house the two resided in while they documented the material on the Tascam 4-monitor. The Pod was situated on a equine farm. Through most of the time spent living and documenting in The Pod, Melchiondo was immobile within the couch from the house with mononucleosis. The story that both inhaled many cans of Scotchguard during this time period period (as the liner records towards the Pod state) is definitely untrue. The music group fabricated that as a tale and later on regretted it when diehard followers started huffing Scotchguard. Their rising underground status soon had Elektra Files knocking on the entranceway of their little Pod, and by 1992, the duo had a significant label record entitled Pure Guava, that was still all materials using their time spent in The Pod, although songs and mood on Guava were noticeably more lively and less dark than it’s predecessor. They obtained a cult strike song “Drive Th’ Small Daisies,” that your two performed on MTV’s Springtime Break. Up up to now, Ween’s information had sounded quite lo-fi. Both felt it had been time to go on up, and utilized the amount of money from Pure Guava’s achievement to create a appropriate studio (rather than buying expensive vehicles) and record 1994’s extremely well-received Chocolates and Parmesan cheese, though both Melchiondo and Freeman didn’t really like the grade of the documenting. Melchiondo had stated that it sounded an excessive amount of like “cup”. Both had been also disappointed that Elektra turned down their idea to truly have a “homosexual sailor” theme over the record cover and opted rather to really have the torso of the shapely gal having a Boognish belt sophistication the cover; the undeniable eye-catcher that cover was most likely improved the CD’s reputation, and to today it continues to be the best-selling Ween record. Ween never also got to meet up with the gal, which bummed them out a little. Around once as the saving of Chocolate and Cheese, Adam Bernstein, who acquired directed Ween’s Press Th’ Little Daisies video, was directing the Sunday Night time Live-based film It’s Pat starring Julia Sweeney, and got Ween to try out the music group in the film. It had been also for this period that Melchiondo began up a part project along with his friend Man Heller known as the Moistboyz. In standard common surname style, Melchiondo dubbed himself Mickey Damp and Heller got the name Dickie Damp. The Moistboyz music was, generally, a cross of metallic and punk as the lyrics centered on overtly unpleasant humor blended using a strange type of social commentary. In later 1995, Melchiondo and Freeman found themselves in Nashville, saving an album of all country tunes that they had written over time by using Charlie McCoy, Buddy Harmann, and several other big names in Nashville. Not really far off with time in the Nashville periods, Ween also rented a residence on a seaside and began documenting oceanic music in 3/4 period and drinking plenty of beer. Caused by these two significantly different conditions had been 1996’s 12 Golden Nation Greats and 1997’s The Mollusk. It had been also in 1996 that Melchiondo married longtime sweetheart Michelle Ellis (whom he met when she pulled up in her pickup at his work pumping gas in a Mobile Train station back New Wish in the first 90’s). Ween’s last release from the hundred years was a dual disk of live materials called Paintin’ the city Brown. In middle-1999, and in-may of 2000 they released their most available batch of pop tracks on White colored Pepper, extremely Beatlesque in the simplest way possible. By this aspect, the two had been a cult sensation with an increase of than their talk about of supporters at both displays and online. The Fox network acquired the Ween bros. perform every one of the music because of their show Grounded FOREVER and a online station known as Ween Radio allowed supporters to make demands from an array of over 1,500 recordings of Ween music. 2003 saw the discharge of ‘quebec’, Ween’s 8th studio record, as well as the strangest, most avant-garde cornucopia of bizarro because the times of The Pod and Pure Guava, only this time around well-recorded and older, only if because quebec contains much less profanity than early Ween records. The group has always resented being called a novelty act and also have stressed in lots of interviews that because their music has laughter will not mean it’s a tale. The fact that folks think they certainly are a parody of different musical designs hurts them deeply. Melchiondo still helps to keep in close contact with all the current Ween supporters online by commandeering the rings official internet site and posting over the newsgroups and going to the Ween chatrooms. He and his wife had been blessed using a baby guy in Dec of 2000. He’s also an enormous sports enthusiast, and continues to get sports credit cards, play whiffle ball, and golfing frequently, and also understands a lot about cars.

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