Dean Ween

His name is often mentioned in sort of like a small circle of, of genius, DIY, bedroom musician circle.

You know, we talk of Sly, and St- you know, Prince, and Todd Rundgren, and Trent Reznor, and Stevie Wonder, and Beck, and even up to Steve Lacy and Finneas, you know, Gene and Dean Ween.

The list goes on and on.

It's not bad company.

Yeah, I met him, um, must have been 2006.

So yeah, the band was pretty rocky back then, but I went to a solo show, checked him out, and yeah, dude, fucking met the man himself, dude, Dean Ween.

Yeah, it was fucking crazy.

Yeah.

Cheryl Teagues.

And Dean Ween.

Brother of Gene.

Look now, the world, the world is in my hands.

They add A Perfect Circle, which is sort of the side project of Maynard from Tool, his other group.

They add their drummer, Paz Lynn Chanton, and Dean Ween.

comes on to do some guitar work on this dean ween yes wow as well uh also uh perfect circles guitarist comes in to join it so kind of queens of the stone age is usually like josh homey putting together like sort of a touring group of artists to some degree so The study members are not always consistent, but there's usually like friends, I was going to say a family, but there's no family, like friends of Josh Homier on this.

So he's got, yeah, he's got Ween in here, Perfect Circle in here, Foo Fighters, Slash Nirvana in here, right? He's got Screaming Trees, a little bit of everything.

It's like a

So they've collaborated, or I should say Josh has collaborated with Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine, John Paul Jones from Led Zeppelin, Elton John, Ben Shepard of Soundgarden, Trent Reznor, Dave Grohl, Shania Twain, which is just wild.

Mastodon, Iggy Pop, the Arctic Monkeys, PJ Harvey, Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top, Les Claypool, Brant Bjork, Dean Ween, Carla Azar run the jewels, the strokes, lady Gaga, Matt Cameron, Twiggy Ramirez, John McBain, Mike Holson, peach stall of goat snake, Mario Lolly.

Um, and if I'm butchering these people's names, I apologize doing the best I can.

Um, Ozzy Osbourne, Paul McCartney, Dan Druff, Brendan Nichol, Jesse Hughes, Mark Lanigan, Teddy Quinn, Jesse Hughes of Eagles of Death Metal, who I mentioned earlier, Nick Elardo, Fred Drake, Jordy White, Stella McGowsen, Matt Sweeney, Tony Mason, The Distillers, Royal Blood, Death From Above, Peaches.

I think I have a quote here somewhere.

Yes, so both Freeman and Melchiondo have stated several times that one of the band's biggest influences was Prince.

So I think they've covered multiple of their songs, Prince's songs.

They've also, in between their own song, have covered a Prince song.

No worries.

I think he looks just like Dean Ween, who I'd consider to be the second ugliest person I've ever seen in my life.

Dean Ween is very ugly,

yes.

I would think he's uglier

I love Ween so much, and I think they are comparable with their bulging eyeballs or fucking gnarly, but...

Eye

holes? Dean Ween looks