![]() ![]() ![]() There’s casual fandom, and there’s bands and records that seep into your soul. Yet records like The Mollusk endure, and continue to confound, surprise, offend, and influence a generation of bands more concerned with artistry and pushing boundaries than moving units. A critical and minor commercial failure in the post- Alternative Nation, when MTV was making stars of Third Eye Blind and Sugar Ray, bands like the Butthole Surfers, the Flaming Lips, and Ween - once embraced for their weirdness and raw eccentricities - were cast aside: a bad acid hangover from the early ’90s. A woozy, nautical, pseudo-prog record composed of sea chanties involving the titular mollusk, pirates, pink eye, and whales with polka dot tails, it would have been a tough sell at any period in history. Upon its initial release on, it was a tough sell, even by oddly established Ween standards. Our phone call lasted over an hour, and what you’re about to read is the transcription of Mickey’s story, along with never-before-published archival photos and video.Įven 20 years later, Ween’s The Mollusk remains a record out of time. Flat-out, he wanted to explain everything to me, from beginning to end. Five minutes after receiving the text, I got on the phone with Mickey, who explained that this wouldn’t be a traditional interview. The Mollusk is Mickey’s favorite Ween album. Mickey is perhaps better known as Dean Ween, and in the band, he’s abetted by partner Aaron Freeman, aka Gene Ween. It is to art-rock what The Hudsucker Proxy is to Capra films.” – Les ClaypoolĪ couple weeks ago, I received a text from my friend Mickey Melchiondo, asking if I’d be interested in putting together an oral history for the 20th anniversary of Ween’s album The Mollusk. ![]()
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