Career
Melchiondo is currently active in the groups Moistboyz, The Dean Ween Group and reunited with Ween. Melchiondo met Aaron Freeman in a junior high school typing class in their hometown of New Hope, Pennsylvania. The two adopted the fictitious surname, Ween, with Melchiondo taking up the name Dean Ween and Freeman the name Gene Ween.
Ween"s released the albums Pure Guava and Chocolate and Cheese.
After having recorded 12 Golden Country Greats, an album of ten country tunes Ween had written over the years with the help of Charlie McCoy, Buddy Harman, and Bobby Ogdin, in Nashville, Melchiondo married longtime girlfriend Ellen Schmit. The couple have a son born in 2000.
The family currently resides in New Hope, Pennsylvania. On the l 2002 Queens of the Stone Age album Songs for the Deaf, Melchiondo played guitar on "Mosquito Song", "Gonna Leave You", and "Six Shooter".
In 2009 Melchiondo received his captain"s license and regularly leads fishing trips off the Jersey shore as Mickey"s Guide Service.
On September 20, 2012, Melchiondo announced via his Facebook page that a new Moistboyz album and a solo record called "MIGGY" was nearing release.