Morrissey Retirement, ...Pokey how do you feel man? Options

[OutToDry]

He's stating he's retiring in 2014.



Pokey, what the down low?



http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2012/06/05/19839...ssentertainment

[Pokey]

What I am more upset about is probably my equally favorite band with Moz, Ween have just broken up. It was on the cards for awhile I guess but still very sad.

Gene Ween (Aaron Freeman) just did a solo album and now the band is done (sound familiar?). But unlike Ed I guess he has different reasons. He's a drug addict and alcoholic and is trying to get his life back on track and sees Ween as a gateway to that lifestyle. He composed his solo album all from living in a rehab clinic and has minders go to gigs with him to physically make sure he doesn't take any offered drugs. He looks the best he has in years, finally healthy with no drastic weight gain and loss... So personally you'd think he's doing a good thing breaking up Ween for himself. But what sucks was how it happened. He announced it in an interview and then on Facebook to which the other half of Ween (Dean Ween) responded just like a fan saying "this is the first I've heard of this, what's happening? Call me". Which shows some serious communication breakdown.

Ween is a lot like Live, both from PA and both around the same age and both are childhood friends. They formed Ween when they were 12yrs old at school in New Hope PA. So to see another of my fav bands with a similar story to Live go down the same path, brothers falling apart, it's kinda sad.

That being said I believe somewhere down the track they will probably get things back together. They don't need much to make music, they still make it as a duo in their farm house studio in New Hope and both still live around there so I figure at some point they'll ride again. But yeah, still pretty sad.