Thursday,
31st March 2011
“We’ve been doing festival gigs all summer and the music just sucks so bad,” Melchiondo says. “It completely blows my mind just how spineless the music is where there’ll be 115 bands on four stages and there’s not one fucking guy up there playing a guitar solo with distortion.”
Asked to name some of the bands he finds most offensive, Melchiondo offers: “All of them.” According to the guitarist, today’s music is so “wimpy” that he’s developed a newfound appreciation for some of the ’90s alt-rock bands Ween initially rebelled against.
“I thought Pearl Jam was the wimpiest shit I ever heard when it came along,” Melchiondo says. “But I will eat shit and say that while I was a total hater then, now it comes on and it sounds amazing.”
Tuesday,
9th November 2010
Little Miss Mandee by Ween.
I downloaded a torrent of around a hundred Ween b-sides, demos and rarities at least a year ago, and amongst the songs that sound like they were recorded on a shitty tape deck I’m still discovering gems like this.
Friday,
5th November 2010
A demo version of Buenas Tardes Amigo by Ween.
Thursday,
30th September 2010
She’ll Just Get You by Ween, a slice of 1970s lite funk from the White Pepper demo sessions.
Friday,
13th August 2010
Bad to the Bone by Z-Rock Hawaii, a collaboration between Ween — the greatest band ever — and Boredoms, an Osakan noise rock collective.
Friday,
30th April 2010
1.0 (Fuck No) by Dean Ween’s other band, Moistboyz.
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By day, he works for ABC TV as a web developer. By night, he plays bass guitar in Look Who's Toxic. He also runs a little Unix Timestamp conversion site. There are plenty of other things he should be doing, but most of the time he's dreaming of what he'll do when he grows up while watching bad Star Trek spin-offs.
