Freak Me Out: Difference between revisions

''<br>Brian: I’m already on the record saying it’s about a spider, that’s all I know about it. But it’s some of the coolest guitar stuff ever, and I can say that because Rivers came up with it, so I don’t sound conceited. But I think that Rivers didn’t want the harmonics on it—[to Rivers] right, at one point?

<br>Rivers: Uhhhh…probably. [laughs]

<br>Brian: But there’s three guitars playing those harmonics. There were notes that I didn’t know even made harmonics. It took me a long time to figure out what was going on, and how to play it. It was a song, for me, that I discovered things about the guitar I didn’t know about. And that’s always amazing when you’ve been playing an instrument for 20 years, and you find a new sound it makes - it’s cool, you know?

<br>Scott: It reminds me of the apartment that Rivers had above the Sunset Strip, with like, a yoga mat, a spoon, a bowl, a bar of soap, and a towel—that’s about all that was in there.

<br>Rivers: I didn’t have a bowl! [laughter] I didn’t!

<br>Scott: …and just sitting in there…and it was just, I don’t know…

<br>Brian: It’s probably the most un-Weezer-like track that’s ever been on an album, whatever that means, and I think, you know, that that could be good.

<br>Rivers: I think, it didn’t work until Pat put the drum-beat on there. Cuz when I originally wrote it, and recorded the demo, it was some weird, New Age drum beat that I found in the Casio.

<br>Scott: Oh yeah, it was total, like, “In the Air”…

<br>Rivers: “This song’s kinda cool, but…”

<br>Scott: It was like a Phil Collins beat!

<br>Rivers: And then as soon as Pat put his beat on it, it sounded like Weezer.

<br>Scott: Yeah, Pat’s beat is correct on that song.

<br>Brian: It was a good…it was fun song to track live as a band too. I felt like something special happened while tracking it.''