The vocalist chewed through Joel's vocal inflections while retaining his own flair (those distinctions were blurred from the start). Each arrangement and musician was crackling and accurate and never sounded rote. The crowd ate up both sides of the Gene/Joel equation. The introductory piano of 1973's "The Ballad of Billy the Kid" was there again in 2015. The Ween version of the slashing "Big Shot" used the guitar trick - the bent-whammy-bar "beehrrrerer" toward the song's close - as in Joel's 1978 hit. The saxophones of Ween's take on the zigzagging "Moving Out (Anthony's Song)" and "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" had exactly the breathiness and bouncy-ness, in the same exact spots, as Joel's album cuts. As Gene Ween, Bucks County's Freeman was one-half of the avant-garde, alt-rock Ween, with Mickey Melchiondo, who ran by the name of Dean Ween. Yes, these were note- and nuance-filled renditions of what Ween called "just the hits." Aggressive tracks like "Pressure" and "Sometimes a Fantasy" used the same pumping, dated synth sounds as in Joel's recordings (cheesy then, but for some strange reason coolly kitsch now). It must be outrageous fun being Aaron Freeman. But "Gene Ween Does Billy Joel" went beyond being just the next best thing. Philly fans of the Piano Man can catch their hero at Citizens Bank Park on Aug. Still, you can't keep a good Ween down, or away from occasional weirdness, which is why Freeman - as Gene Ween - fronted a six-piece Billy Joel cover band with onetime Philly pal/bassist Paul "School of Rock" Green at a packed Underground Arts on Friday. Konceptualni je album mrane morske tematike veina pjesama sadri elemente iz psihodelinih anrova ili mornarskih pjesama, ali je prisutan i snaan utjecaj progresivnog rocka. Diskografska kua Elektra Records objavila ga je 24. First he covered Rod McKuen (2012's Marvelous Clouds), then his own sweetly elegiac songs on 2014's Freeman. The Mollusk je esti studijski album amerikog rock-sastava Ween. There is no question Gene Ween is the most famous. Explore Gene Ween Wiki Age, Height, Biography as Wikipedia, Wife, Family relation. Freeman, along with childhood friend Dean Ween (Mickey Melchiondo), started the group in the mid-1980s. Freeman surprisingly dropped that partnership, nearly 28 years since its start, for a sober life and soberer musical forms under his real name. Gene Ween is an American musician and a founding member of the experimental alternative rock group Ween. Together, they aped C&W, '70s R&B, and more through their own satirical, creepy-guy filter. It must be outrageous fun being Aaron Freeman. Aaron Freeman, better known as Gene Ween of Ween, has stepped out from behind his pseudonym to record his first-ever solo record, Marvelous Clouds (Partisan Records).
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