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| name = Fury | | name = Fury | ||
| type = Band | | type = Band | ||
| image = | | image = 1*aejhExjXBSu PFlgn aMLw.webp | ||
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| alt = | | alt = Justin Fisher and Rivers Cuomo in Kiss-like make up, performing at | ||
| caption = | | caption = [[Justin Fisher]] and [[Rivers Cuomo]] performing at their first concert in September 1984 | ||
| origin = Storrs, CT | | origin = Storrs, CT | ||
| occupation = | | occupation = | ||
| instrument = | | instrument = | ||
| years_active = [[1984]] - [[ | | years_active = [[1984]] - [[1986]](?) | ||
| genre = Metal | | genre = Metal | ||
| acts = | | acts = | ||
| associated_acts = [[Warlock]]<br>[[Avant Garde]] | |||
| associated_acts = | |||
| notable_instruments = | | notable_instruments = | ||
| past_members = [[Rivers Cuomo]]<br>[[Justin Fisher]]<br>[[Leaves Cuomo]]<br>[[Eric Robertson]] | |||
| past_members = [[Rivers Cuomo]] <br> [[Justin Fisher]] <br> [[Leaves Cuomo]] <br> [[Eric Robertson]] | |||
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'''Fury''' was the first band of [[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Justin Fisher]] and [[Leaves Cuomo]]. | '''Fury''' was the first band of [[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Justin Fisher]] and [[Leaves Cuomo]]. | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Fury was started in | Fury was started in June 1984, after Rivers Cuomo received his first guitar for his fourteenth birthday. The inspiration for Fury came from witnessing an eighth grade graduation party performance of Quiet Riot's "Metal Health." The performance blew young Rivers away, and he was particularly inspired by the fact kids his age got together and sounded like that.<ref>"Weezer." ''Reverb'', season 4, episode 14, 14 November 2001. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDHyXqiKw8M&t=368</ref><ref name="GuitarWorld2021">[[Guitar World article - July 2021|''Guitar World'' article - July 2021]]</ref> Both Justin Fisher and Rivers also took note of the screaming crowds and girls. Fury's first rehearsal was on [[June 23]], 1984 -- four days after Rivers received his guitar.<ref>Cuomo, Rivers. [http://weezerpedia.com/catalogofriffs.html The Catalog o' Riffs]. Archived on [[Weezerpedia]].</ref> Fury was a band comprised solely of Kiss covers, with Rivers singing [[Paul Stanley]]'s vocal parts and playing [[Ace Frehley]]'s lead guitar parts, while Leaves played Stanley's rhythm guitar parts.<ref name="GuitarWorldMarch1995">[[Guitar World interview with Rivers Cuomo - March 1995]]</ref> [[Eric Robertson]] played drums and Justin Fisher played bass guitar. | ||
Rivers played a | Three months of rehearsal were focused on learning three songs from Kiss' live album ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alive!_(Kiss_album) Alive!]'', "{{Wikipedia|Cold Gin}}," "{{Wikipedia|Rock and Roll All Nite}}," and "{{Wikipedia|Strutter}}."<ref name="APJanuary1997">[[Alternative Press interview with Weezer - January 1997]]</ref> These were done by ear gradually, as they couldn't find a Kiss songbook for guitar.<ref name="GuitarWorld2021" /> Rivers played a Stratocaster copy through a Yamaha amp,<ref name="GuitarWorld2021" /> Leaves had "something cheesy", said Fisher, and Justin used his father's Gibson SG bass and cabinet. Eric, a more experienced musician, had a Pearl drum set.{{citation needed}} The band played their [[Fury concert: 09/1?/1984|first show in Southbridge, Massachusetts]] at an unknown state fair battle of the bands event in September of 1984.<ref name="KKS0225">[[Karl Koch|Koch, Karl]] (as Karlophone). (February 25, 2025). Discord message. Archived from the original on Weezerpedia at [[Weezerpedia Discord Q&A with Karl Koch - February 2025]].</ref> The band performed the three songs they had learned in Kiss-like outfits, with black eyeliner, streaks under their eyes and parachute pants.<ref>[[Hartford Courant article - October 6, 1994]]</ref><ref name="APJanuary1997">[[Alternative Press interview with Weezer - January 1997]]</ref><ref name="APJanuary1997" /> | ||
Fury | In a [[2021]] interview with ''[[Guitar World article - July 2021|Guitar World]]'', Rivers talked about his hopes for Fury. "With my 14-year-old logic, I thought I could make it as a musician playing somebody else's songs. I just thought we were going to be Kiss, but called Fury, and that we'd make it somehow." Despite this, the band would break up at some point in 1986 or [[1987]] for unknown reasons. Rivers and Justin would later form [[Avant Garde]] in 1987, during their senior year of high school.<ref name="riverpedia-ag">"[[Riverpedia archive - 08/21/2020|Avant Garde]]" ''Riverpedia''. 23 November 2020 Archived by ''Wayback Machine'': https://web.archive.org/web/20210715183218/https://books-r-fun.herokuapp.com/wiki/Avant%20Garde from the original: https://books-r-fun.herokuapp.com/wiki/Avant%20Garde</ref> | ||
According to Justin, tapes still exist from those days,{{citation needed}} and a snippet of a summer 1984 Fury rehearsal can be heard on the ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' track, "[[I Wish You Had an Axe Guitar]]". A tape of Fury's first show exists in the Weezer archives, as well as a videotaped show from [[Fury concert: 11/08/1985|November 1985]].<ref name="KKS0225" /> | |||
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Fury's first show | |||
==Members== | ==Members== | ||
* [[Rivers Cuomo]] - guitar, vocals | * [[Rivers Cuomo]] - lead guitar, vocals | ||
* [[Justin Fisher]] - bass | * [[Justin Fisher]] - bass | ||
* [[Leaves Cuomo]] - guitar | * [[Leaves Cuomo]] - rhythm guitar | ||
* [[Eric Robertson]] - drums | * [[Eric Robertson]] - drums | ||
==See also== | |||
*[[Warlock]] | |||
*[[Fury concert: 09/1?/1984]] | |||
*[[Fury concert: 11/08/1985]] | |||
==References== | |||
<references /> | |||
{{Rivers Cuomo Discography}} | {{Rivers Cuomo Discography}} | ||
[[Category: Weezer-related bands]] | [[Category: Weezer-related bands]] | ||
[[Category:Fury]] | [[Category:Fury]] | ||