Philly's Ween Performing Homecoming Anniversary Show In Fall 2024

PHILADELPHIA — Beloved Philly rockers Ween are coming to the city next fall for a homecoming show.

Ween, which formed in the mid 80s up in New Hope, are set to play a homecoming 30th anniversary celebration of their album "Chocolate and Cheese" at The Mann Center.

Known for their incendiary live shows that have truly cultivated a diehard fan base, Ween, featuring Gene and Dean Ween alongside longtime band members Claude Coleman Jr. on drums, Dave Dreiwitz on bass, and Glenn McClelland on keys will play Friday, Sept. 27, 2024 at The Mann Center.

Tickets will go via an artist presale at 10 a.m. Wednesday online here ahead of the general on-sale, which starts at noon Friday on Livenation's website here.

Formed by Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo Jr. in New Hope, Ween has taken on a cult-like status with legions of devoted fans around the world. Beginning with six self-released cassettes in the 1980s followed by 11 studio albums, six live albums and a smattering of EPs through the 1990s and 2000s, Ween’s recorded output is far-reaching in its styles moving from rock to punk to psychedelic to country to alternative and all points in between.

"Chocolate and Cheese" is Ween’s fourth studio album, originally released by Elektra Records in 1994. It was the first Ween album to be recorded in a professional studio, in contrast to the crude four-track home recordings of The Pod and Pure Guava. However, most of the instruments were still played by Dean and Gene Ween, including their drum machine.

In July 2014, Guitar World placed Chocolate and Cheese at No. 45 in their "Superunknown: 50 Iconic Albums That Defined 1994" list.

The album is dedicated to comedian John Candy, who died while Ween was putting the album together. "A Tear for Eddie" was dedicated to the funk/psychedelic guitar pioneer Eddie Hazel, who died Dec. 23, 1992. In a 2011 interview, Gene Ween credited a Spanish lesson on Sesame Street with inspiring "Buenas Tardes Amigo." The album's title is phonetically similar to the British saying "chalk and cheese," a way of saying that two items have nothing in common.