The band Ween broke up today to the cries of all jam band fans around the world. While not as big as Phish, I imagine, Ween was loved by jam band (old hippies) fans around the world. That’s just my assumption because I have never listened to them.
If the idea of jam bands and their fans were not enough to deter you from having a listen, they decided on naming themselves Ween; wtf does that mean. Seeing as all this deterred me before this from having a listen, I don’t think I will start now.
However revolutionary Ween was, I am sure they will be much bigger now that they are gone (can I get a Ween hologram?). Like the unfortunate end to the Kriss Kross’ and Rolling Stones before them, I am sure the media will latch on to what was. Anyways, my editor likes this song so have a listen if you’d like.
Writers note: Ween turns out to be a he and not a them, oh well.
May 30, 2012 at 12:27 am, Thomas Decker said:
Jesus, how much more wrong could this article be? Ween was never a jamband, they hated the dirty wooks that followed them and so did I! Phish decided to cover Ween's "Roses are Free" and all the sudden every stinky hippie on the planet was calling them a freaking "jam band". They broke up because they could no longer handle the stink at the shows…
May 30, 2012 at 12:36 am, Holy Diver said:
Have fun at the Sleigh Bells show, douchebag
May 30, 2012 at 12:40 am, Chris McElroy said:
wow. you are a complete moron. jam band?
May 29, 2012 at 10:01 pm, A well-regarded jam band I have never heard of called Ween broke up today. said:
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May 30, 2012 at 2:18 am, Brent Ryals said:
Your writers note is way off to Mr. Richard Smoker
May 30, 2012 at 2:34 am, Chris Debeikis said:
Far from a jam band Camps! If you've never heard of them or listened to them why would you comment on them? Hopefully someone will sell you a chicken with poison interlaced with the meat!
May 30, 2012 at 9:08 am, Mike McDermott said:
Hey now, being a complete and total douchebag doesn't warrant death. Just imagine what it must be like writing for a mag like this, and never having heard of Ween.
May 30, 2012 at 4:45 pm, Mary Lou Jansson-Costantini said:
Yesssss!!
May 30, 2012 at 2:44 am, Nicholas Jacob Link said:
Maybe you should get a writer who knows about music.
May 30, 2012 at 4:04 am, Rachel Horden Roberts said:
Agreed
May 30, 2012 at 4:44 pm, Mary Lou Jansson-Costantini said:
No shit!! At least a bit history read up or something.. Be classy in your writing !!
May 30, 2012 at 2:45 am, Doc Callout said:
Kill yourself Kevin Camps.
May 30, 2012 at 3:03 am, Chris Shaw said:
Hey Kevin. You are the worst human being I've ever known. I hope youre kidnapped by Miami zombies and your face is slowly eaten to a Ween soundtrack followed by the demise of the rest of your family. Your gene's do not deserve a place on this Earth. Lovey Dovey.
May 30, 2012 at 9:11 am, Mike McDermott said:
Was that a fantastic hidden joke? His Genes shouldn't be passed on, or his Deans either.
May 30, 2012 at 3:31 am, Ezra Fridlich said:
Kevin Camps knows little about music.
May 30, 2012 at 4:16 am, Brandon Pratt said:
I also only have negative things to say in regard to what it is that I just read.
May 30, 2012 at 4:24 am, George Is Frye said:
"Is this guy an Idoit?" Don't be a music writer if you don't know anything about The Music.
May 30, 2012 at 4:34 am, Michael Joseph said:
possibly the most ignorant review i have ever read.
May 30, 2012 at 4:39 am, Michael Joseph said:
of anything
May 30, 2012 at 12:46 pm, Jeff Martin said:
I'm going to pretend this is just a joke?
May 30, 2012 at 1:59 pm, Nicholas Jacob Link said:
I'm pretty sure he's just an idiot.
May 30, 2012 at 5:02 am, Mark Jaynes said:
I will not believe this is not a joke. No editor would let this fly. And I'm not just talking about the gross misrepresentation of the band in question.
May 30, 2012 at 5:07 am, Lindsay Hoffman said:
completely cringe-worthy. I can barely get through it without wanting to flip a table.
May 30, 2012 at 5:13 am, Leigh Ann Link said:
BS. Utter, utter BS.
May 30, 2012 at 5:28 am, Joe A. Brooks said:
im really hurt by this
May 30, 2012 at 5:33 am, Zac Clark said:
two words: CABIN BOY
May 30, 2012 at 5:38 am, Eric Frasz said:
Has to be a joke. The Rolling Stones mention and the writers note both point to that…. awkward and unfunny as it is.
May 30, 2012 at 6:30 am, Robert Lee said:
I just don't know what… how to… I'll just continue not to I guess…
May 30, 2012 at 9:11 am, Mike McDermott said:
I agree, if this was supposed to be a joke, it comes off as way too smarmy and self-absorbed. Really falls into the category of trolling, to see how many negative comments one complete douchebag can ring up.
May 30, 2012 at 1:43 pm, Nicholas Jacob Link said:
Joke or not whoever wrote this should be fired. It totally makes Death & Taxes seem like a joke of a publication no matter how they intended it.
May 30, 2012 at 2:49 pm, Romanie Harper said:
The following 'related articles' headline is 'Jet, the greatest band ever to walk the face of the earth, break up.' Lighten up -joke.
May 30, 2012 at 5:17 am, Cory Withers said:
This guy may be the greatest writer of all time. He thought Ween was a guy, and yet thought a guy broke up. They should name awards after Kevin Camps. I sure hope one day I'm smart enough to win me a Campy!
May 30, 2012 at 6:15 am, Graeme Phillips said:
You are a complete idiot, an absolutely terrible writer and have no fucking clue what you speak of. GIve up please. Quickly.
May 30, 2012 at 9:03 am, Mike McDermott said:
This dude is so hip he needs to buy his bikini bottoms a size larger than his tops.
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May 30, 2012 at 3:17 pm, Nicholas Upton said:
At my job, when I have to write something, I research it beforehand for more than 10 seconds. Oh what bloggers have done to media.
May 30, 2012 at 3:52 pm, Scott Whitaker said:
Not bloggers- idiots.
May 30, 2012 at 3:55 pm, Hunter Sapp said:
Smile on mighty Jesus, spinal meningitis got me down.
May 30, 2012 at 3:58 pm, Sean Whiskey Mountain Meyers said:
Ween is a jam band now?
May 30, 2012 at 7:51 pm, Hunter Sapp said:
Yeah this blog isn't very good…I don't consider them a Jam Band.
May 30, 2012 at 8:47 pm, Hunter Sapp said:
Or should I say, this blogger isn't very good. I usually like what people write about on D&T!
June 03, 2012 at 10:52 pm, Erik Estrada said:
So friggin bummed about this
May 30, 2012 at 5:06 pm, Bill Graff said:
Quite possibly the poorest piece of music related writing I've ever read, apathy and stupidity masquerading as apathetic cool. How did this dipshit get a writing job? And comparing Ween to Phish makes me want to push your smug, entitled face off a rooftop.
May 30, 2012 at 6:40 pm, Jack Browne said:
This is content free disdain posing as aesthetic stance. As heinous as "I haven't actually read the article, but"…and then giving a point of view. BESIDES these jaw dropping mistakes: 1. As you mentioned, Ween is nothing like Phish, and aren't particularly a jam band. 2. "wtf does that (name Ween) mean?" What does any name "mean"? This guy writes about popular music? 3. "unfortunate end to (the) Rolling Stones" the least familiarity with current music news and you know the Stones are planning a new tour. Again, this person writes about popular music? That's a lot of suck in three paragraphs!
May 30, 2012 at 8:02 pm, Bill Graff said:
It's the laziness of this that irritates me the most. If, as a freelance writer, I tossed off 300 words of unresearched bullshit and opinon for publication,it would rightfully be rejected, yet somehow this is considered publishable. It's barely even worth tweeting. If you want to become a better writer, drop the apathetic attitude. I know you interned for Vice, dude, but you're not old enough to be vitriolic and jaded yet.
May 30, 2012 at 1:09 pm, A well-regarded jam band I have never heard of called Ween broke up today. said:
[...] (old hippies) fans around the world. That's just my assumption because I have … …Source Tags: [...]
May 30, 2012 at 6:03 pm, Jamie Schott said:
Worst WEEN review ever!
May 30, 2012 at 6:11 pm, Jonathan Mack said:
u old hippie–lol
May 30, 2012 at 6:12 pm, Jamie Schott said:
Interestingly this is the first I've ever heard them referred to as a jam band. I suppose Primus is a jam band too?
May 30, 2012 at 6:12 pm, Jamie Schott said:
Interestingly this is the first I've ever heard them referred to as a jam band. I suppose Primus is a jam band too?
May 30, 2012 at 8:44 pm, Justin Siemaszko said:
Its not a joke review? I mean, it's kind of funny as is…
May 30, 2012 at 6:12 pm, Ryan Bolgan said:
Kevin Camps, you fucked up; you bitch. You really fucked up. You fucked up; you fucking Nazi whore.
May 30, 2012 at 6:12 pm, Ryan Bolgan said:
Kevin Camps, you fucked up; you bitch. You really fucked up. You fucked up; you fucking Nazi whore.
May 30, 2012 at 6:32 pm, Sarah Rae Fruchtnicht said:
D&T said this was meant to be a joke. Did they really pay a freelancer for this 300-word piece of garbage? Leave humor writing to the Onion.
May 30, 2012 at 8:36 pm, Sean Whiskey Mountain Meyers said:
Clearly Kevin is more well informed about music than the rest of us. You see, Kevin is a college senior in Boston, the city that is the epicenter to all musical knowledge. Everyone knows that in your freshman year, you start to get into bands like Phish, Dave Matthews, O.A.R and the like. Things were going great for Kevin until he met Stacy. Stacy was a junior at Boston University that had just completed hormone treatment to being her life anew as the first transgender internet DJ in Boston University history. The two of them met at a Fleet Foxes show downtown because the genre of reverby-folk both fit into their tastes at the time. The two of them chatted for hours about how the sound of acoustic guitars swooned them and that they both really used to be into Dashboard Confessional. They added each other on Facebook from their iPhones within minutes of departing from the show. The next day Stacy shared an article from Pitchfork with Kevin about how Animal Collective has just enough fans to stay beneath the threshold of being too popular. Because of his infatuation with Stacy, Kevin decided to rid himself of all music that he thought had too many fans. Like a crazed evangelist youth pastor, he started smashing CD's left and right. Counting Crows, Grateful Dead, Coldplay, Black Sabbath, Tom Petty, everything he brought from home reduced to a pile of shiny plastic outside of his dorm. Free. He was finally free from the bondage of popular music. He was free from needing to know anything about music aside from the number of fans they had on Facebook. He knew at that moment he was being called to write about music for dime a dozen blogs on the internet. Congratulations on your upcoming graduation Kevin! I know the world is just eagerly awaiting to hear what you have to say, whether they know it or not.
May 30, 2012 at 8:42 pm, Hunter Sapp said:
HAH! Well done sir!
May 30, 2012 at 9:05 pm, Sean Whiskey Mountain Meyers said:
Thank you sir.
May 30, 2012 at 9:15 pm, Justin Zupnick said:
Haha.
May 31, 2012 at 1:26 am, Michael Krimm said:
I'll bet this story was hilariously snarky in your head. Not so much on the screen, where it makes you look like a whiny, arrogant, ignorant college boy with a tiny range of musical interest and a smaller vocabulary. Oh WAIT, that's exactly what you are! This is most likely the single most ignorant and off-target article ever written about music. Ween was never a jam band. A jam band covered one of their songs. And as far as I know The Rolling Stones are still together and tour every few years to bring in a few million bucks. Go back to your One Direction, or Nicky Minaj, or Justin Bieber, or Black Eyed Peas or whatever the f@ck and leave the serious music to the people who know.
May 31, 2012 at 4:57 am, Paul Frank said:
wow this is a terrible impression of HIPSTER RUNOFF.
May 31, 2012 at 11:44 am, Jake Gardner said:
Why am I wasting my time posting a comment on what is clearly a shitty, shitty website? This asshole called Ween a jam band. Not ok!
June 14, 2012 at 9:25 am, Danyelle Winter said:
Idgaf if some terrible band named Ween that no1 seems to have heard of Broke Up May 31st, 2012. Thats prolly the reason. Ween Sucks!!!!!
November 21, 2012 at 7:35 pm, Mark Doron said:
IDIOT