Ween returns to road riding 'Cucaracha'
Dean and Gene Ween--a.k.a. Mickey Melchiondo and Aaron Freeman--will kick things off Oct. 16 in Bloomington, IN, with the band set to hit 10 cities through early November, and another pair of New York City dates on the schedule for early December. All dates are shown below.
"La Cucaracha," the duo's new studio album, is due to hit stores Oct. 23. The set features a first for the Ween "brothers"--horn music, via a guest appearance by saxophonist David Sanborn.
"We vowed never, ever, ever, would there be horns on a Ween album," Dean Ween said in a press statement of Sanborn's appearance on the album. "But there has always been one provision to this rule, and that was we would only use horns if we could get David Sanborn to play some sexy saxophone on a Ween tune. We finally wrote a song worthy of him, contacted his manager and it turns out he was a Ween fan and immediately agreed to do it."
Recorded "in a rented, moldy 200 year old farmhouse in our hometown of New Hope, PA," according to Dean, "La Cucaracha" is the pair's first studio release since 2003's "Quebec."
October 2007
16 - Bloomington, IN - Bluebird Nightclub
17 - Urbana, IL - Canopy Club
19 - Madison, WI - Orpheum: Madison
20 - Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom
22 - St. Louis, MO - The Pageant
23 - Columbus, OH - Lifestyle Communities Pavilion
25 - Cleveland, OH - House of Blues
26 - Toronto, Ontario - The Docks Entertainment Complex
27 - Detroit, MI - Fillmore Detroit
November 2007
5 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues
30 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
December 2007
1 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
Ween returns to the road in search of 'Friends' [March 2008]
Ween maps Southeast tour to kick off 2008 plans [November 2007]
Ween fills out late-year road schedule [October 2007]
Ween schedules more dates, promises new album soon [April 2007]


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