The Dean Ween Group is the first project Mickey Melchiondo launched during the four years Ween was inactive in the 2010s. Melchiondo adopted the name Dean Ween when he was a teenager in New Hope, Pennsylvania. He and friend Aaron Freeman -- who called himself Gene Ween -- formed Ween when they were just 14 years old, never imagining that they'd be saddled with those monikers for the rest of their lives. Ween, a post-punk prank infatuated with Prince Read more on