They did so at the direction of The Boognish, the god that created Dean and Gene to make mischief on his behalf (and who the duo created). In return for their service, The Boognish gave Gene and Dean wealth and power and made rock gods out of them...

Check it out.... "Early in the first show of Ween's three-night stint at the Fillmore, guitarist and frontman Dean Ween offered the crowd a simple game plan: "We're Ween. We're the band for the next few days," Dean Ween (aka Mickey Melchiondo)...

They formed in 1984 in New Hope, Pennsylvania when central members Aaron Freeman (Gene Ween) and Mickey Melchiondo (Dean Ween) met in an eighth grade typing class. Ween have a large cult underground fanbase despite being generally unknown in American...

(Provided by Ween) The joke-rock duo of Gene and Dean Ween has never been a general-audience rock act. Despite the reams of press the band gets, and a brief dalliance with the mainstream after the left-field MTV hit "Push Th' Little Daisies" in 1993,...