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Mickey Melchiondo
Michael Melchiondo Jr. (born September 25, 1970), better known by his stage name Dean Ween, is an American guitarist, singer and a founding member of the alternative rock group Ween. He is currently active in the groups Ween, Moistboyz and The Dean Ween Group. Biography In 1984, 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 after the demon-god Boognish appeared to them, with Melchiondo taking up the name Dean Ween and Freeman the name Gene Ween. In 1991, Melchiondo formed the punk rock duo Moistboyz with Guy Heller. Moistboyz have released five eponymous studio recordings. 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trenton, New Jersey
Trenton is the List of capitals in the United States, capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County, New Jersey, Mercer County. It was the federal capital, capital of the United States from November 1 until December 24, 1784.New Jersey County Map , New Jersey Department of State. Accessed July 10, 2017. Trenton and Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton are the two principal cities of the Trenton–Princeton metropolitan statistical area, which encompasses those cities and all of Mercer County for statistical purposes and constitutes part of the New York metropolitan area#Combined statistical area, New York combined statistical area by the United States Census Bureau, U.S. Census Bureau. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monica Hampton
Monica Hampton is a New York-based narrative and documentary filmmaker. Her documentary film credits include Michael Moore's ''Fahrenheit 9/11'', '' Heavy Metal in Baghdad'', the 2008 documentary on Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda and the 2008 documentary '' Slacker Uprising'', a film about Michael Moore's 2004 tour across the United States. In 2005 she joined VICE (magazine) as Head of Production and Post Production of a new division of Vice Media created to make videos and documentaries, at the time the network would be called VBS.tv and would launch online in 2007. In 2000 she produced Kevin Smith's View Askew Productions' '' Vulgar'', a narrative film directed by Bryan Johnson (comic book writer). She began her film career as an assistant director and production manager on low budget indie films in New York including '' Palookaville'', ''Wishful Thinking'' (Drew Barrymore, Jon Stewart) and ''Chasing Amy'' (Ben Affleck, Jason Lee). She appears in front of the camera uncr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TVT Records
TVT Records, originally Tee-Vee Toons, was an American record label founded by Steve Gottlieb in 1984. Initially created to release the '' Television's Greatest Hits'' series of classic TV theme tune compilations, the label would expand into rap, industrial rock, and electronic music amassing 25 Gold, Platinum, and Multi-Platinum albums over the course of its 24-year history. After losing a legal battle with Slip-N-Slide Records, TVT Records filed for bankruptcy in 2008 and the company's assets were acquired by The Orchard and Reservoir Media. Content that had previously been transferred to Prudential Financial was acquired by Bicycle Music Company in 2010. The label's roster included Nine Inch Nails, Ja Rule, Lil Jon, Underworld, KMFDM, Gravity Kills, The KLF, The Baldwin Brothers, Sevendust, Nothingface, the Wellwater Conspiracy, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Holloways, The Cinematics, Buck-O-Nine, DJ Hurricane, Speech and Pitbull. The label had a triple platin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
En Esch
Nicklaus Schandelmaier, (born 23 March 1968) is a German musician, better known by his stage name En Esch, and has been a member of the bands KMFDM, Pigface, Slick Idiot, and . History En Esch, born near Frankfurt, is an orchestra percussionist, drummer, programmer, producer, sound mixer, guitarist and singer. He was a member of the German industrial rock group, KMFDM, from 1985 to 1999, during which time he contributed to ten studio albums and more than a dozen singles as musician, composer and producer. Sascha Konietzko claims to have given Esch his nickname because the latter felt that his real name was inappropriate for the stage. It is derived from the German pronunciation of his initials (N. Sch.). Esch lived in Germany until 1992, when he moved to Chicago to join Konietzko, who had moved there a year earlier. It was at this time that Esch first worked with Pigface, whom he also toured with in the early 1990s. This would be the first time Esch "left" KMFDM and Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
III (Moistboyz Album)
''III'' is the Third Studio album by Moistboyz, a rock group consisting of Mickey Moist (Mickey Melchiondo) and Dickie Moist (Guy Heller). It was released in 2002 by Ipecac Recordings. ''Exclaim! ''Exclaim!'' is a Canadian music and entertainment publisher based in Toronto, which features coverage of new music across all genres with a special focus on Canadian and emerging artists. The monthly ''Exclaim!'' print magazine publishes seven ...'' wrote that "each track is a laser guided guitar riff masterpiece." Track listing All tracks written by Moistboyz. # "Shitheel" – 2:13 # "I Am the Reaper" – 2:15 # "In the Valley of the Sun" – 3:15 # "The Tweaker" – 3:15 # "The Spike" – 3:09 # "Five Time Loser" – 3:21 # "Great American Zero" – 2:21 # "I'm Gonna Kick Your Ass" – 1:54 # "Black Train" – 3:32 # "The Walker" – 3:41 References Moistboyz albums 2002 albums Ipecac Recordings albums {{2002-rock-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Cucaracha (album)
''La Cucaracha'' is the ninth and final studio album released by the American alternative rock band Ween. The album was available streaming on the band's MySpace page October 16–19, 2007, and it was released on October 23. It was named the 2007 Album of the Year by '' Magnet'' magazine. A bonus track, "Bag of Fat," was available as an iTunes iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management (MDM) utility developed by Apple. It is used to purchase, play, download and organize digital multimedia on personal computers running the macOS and Windows operating s ... exclusive with the purchase of the entire album. Track listing All tracks written by Gene Ween and Dean Ween. Personnel ;Ween * Dean Ween * Gene Ween * Dave Dreiwitz * Glenn McClelland * Claude Coleman Jr. ;Additional musicians * Chuggy Carter * David Sanborn * Bunny Sigler * Gloria Galante * Debbie Richard * Emma Kummrow * Olga Konopelsky * Igor Szwec * Larry Gold ;Producti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quebec (album)
''Quebec'' is the eighth studio album by the American rock band Ween, released on August 5, 2003, on Sanctuary Records. It was the first album released after the band's contract with Elektra expired, and marked its return to independent labels. Recorded during a period of strife in the band members' personal lives, ''Quebec'' was described by Dean Ween as a "very negative" album that takes on a darker tone compared to the band's prior work. Josh Freese performed the drums on the album, stepping in for Claude Coleman Jr. as he was recovering from a near-fatal car crash in 2002. Freese also played with the band on tour during this time, including during a series of benefit concerts for Coleman at New York City's Bowery Ballroom on October 7 and 8, 2002. The album cover is an edited version of the packaging for the game ''Thorns'' from the 3M Paper Games series with the band superimposed on it. Background The album was the band's first since 1991's ''The Pod'' to be released ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Pepper
Black pepper (''Piper nigrum'') is a flowering vine in the family Piperaceae, cultivated for its fruit (the peppercorn), which is usually dried and used as a spice and seasoning. The fruit is a drupe (stonefruit) which is about in diameter (fresh and fully mature), dark red, and contains a stone which encloses a single pepper seed. Peppercorns and the ground pepper derived from them may be described simply as ''pepper'', or more precisely as ''black pepper'' (cooked and dried unripe fruit), ''green pepper'' (dried unripe fruit), or ''white pepper'' (ripe fruit seeds). Black pepper is native to the Malabar Coast of India, and the Malabar pepper is extensively cultivated there and in other tropical regions. Ground, dried, and cooked peppercorns have been used since antiquity, both for flavour and as a traditional medicine. Black pepper is the world's most traded spice, and is one of the most common spices added to cuisines around the world. Its spiciness is due to the chemical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mollusk
''The Mollusk'' is the sixth studio album by American rock band Ween, released by Elektra Records on June 24, 1997. It is a multi-genre concept album with a dark nautical theme, with several songs incorporating elements from psychedelia and/or sea shanties, while also featuring a heavy progressive rock influence. Dean Ween described the album as "the only record that I ever felt really confident about" and "my favorite record we've ever done". Gene Ween has echoed this sentiment, saying: "''The Mollusk'' is probably my favorite, at the end of the day". Background Starting with the release of their 1994 album ''Chocolate and Cheese'', Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo—known by their stage names Gene and Dean Ween, respectively—began to significantly enhance their approach to studio recording. While their earlier albums were almost entirely recorded by Freeman and Melchiondo themselves at their home using a 4-track recorder, ''Chocolate and Cheese'' marked the first time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
12 Golden Country Greats
''12 Golden Country Greats'' is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Ween, and their third on Elektra Records. It is the only album on which the group limited themselves to a specific genre of music (in this case, country music). Background and recording According to producer and friend of the band Ben Vaughn, Ween asked him to produce the album because he already had experience working with musicians in the Nashville country scene, having produced Arthur Alexander's album '' Lonely Just Like Me'' (1993) and co-written songs with Rodney Crowell and Gary Nicholson. The legendary Bradley's Barn was chosen as the recording studio for the album. Some musicians, such as keyboardist Bobby Emmons (who also served as a church deacon) and Danny Davis, declined to participate in the recording due to the vulgar nature of much of the lyrics, with Emmons saying "I prefer not to work on blue material". However, Ween and Vaughn still got many highly regarded country musicians to p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chocolate And Cheese
''Chocolate and Cheese'' is the fourth studio album by the American rock band Ween, first released on September 27, 1994, through Elektra Records. 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''. However, most of the instruments were still played by Dean and Gene Ween, including their drum machine. After self-producing their previous album, ''Pure Guava'' (1992), the band reunited with Andrew Weiss to produce the album. Its broad sound has been described as "genre-hopping", prominently featuring styles of music including psychedelia, country, funk, industrial, and Latin music. ''Chocolate and Cheese'' was supported by the singles "I Can't Put My Finger on It", "Freedom of '76", and " Voodoo Lady". Though the album did not perform well commercially, it received positive reviews and has been recognized as one of Ween's signature albums. It received a 30th anniversary deluxe ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
