Continuing in the Star Wars Rocks interview series, I decided to diversify the section a bit by not only talking with the founder of the '90s alt.rockers Ween, but also chatted with the lounge singer/comic Richard Cheese about why Star Wars will alway be cool to them. I hope you all dig reading the articles.
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When Mickey Melchiondo, otherwise known as guitarist Dean Ween of the mutant rock band Ween, first heard the epic dialog from Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker in A New Hope as a young boy, he knew he had discovered something rather special.

"My first memories are obviously of A New Hope," Ween says. "When it was released it had an impact on every young kid in America at the time. My parents owned a summer house at the beach in New Jersey and I went to see the movie at least three times when it was first released. I owned the book and the record album, which had all of the dialog from the movie. I had baseball cards, the whole nine yards. I remember hitting my younger sister with a Wiffle ball bat because I didn't have a proper lightsaber. That didn't go over too well with my parents."

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Welcome to Tatoo-Ween

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Shocking as this may sound to some fans, lounge-singer extraordinaire Richard Cheese never watched the Star Wars films as a young lad, but instead when he was an older, wiser adult playing a gig with his band in a cocktail lounge -- much like Max Rebo and his bizarre-looking band mates.

"I never saw the Star Wars movies in theaters; I guess the whole Star Wars thing passed me by the first time around," Cheese confesses. "I mostly watched films like the Maltese Falcon, Goldfinger, and anything with Frank, Sammy or Dino in it. Then, a few years ago, I played at a hotel cocktail lounge that had one of the Star Wars movies playing on a big-screen TV, as sort of background eye candy. It looked like a crazy heist flick, just like Ocean's 11. This gang of good guys was trying to knock off the biggest casino in the galaxy, the Death Star. So I had the rest of the movies sent to my room, and I watched them between sets. I was struck by the 'futuristic' vibe in the movies. I guess the 'Wars' take place in space or something. Not normally my scene, but I dug the chick with the hair and the electric swords -- those were swingin'. Oh, and the floating car was a gas."

Read more here:
Richard Cheese: Star Wars Swings!

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