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-{{Featured article headline|[[Getting Dangerous]]}}
+{{Featured article headline|[[60 Wrong Sausages]]}}
-[[Image:Adam Orth.jpg|150px|right|link=Getting Dangerous]]
+[[Image:60+Wrong+Sausages today.jpg|150px|right|link=60 Wrong Sausages]]
-'''"Getting Dangerous"''' is an article written by [[Adam Orth]] in 2008. It provides some real-life backstory for the ''[[Red|Red Album]]'' song "[[Everybody Get Dangerous]]." The text below is an excerpt of the full article.
+'''60 Wrong Sausages''' was a precursor to [[Weezer]]. It was founded by [[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Patrick Wilson]], [[Pat Finn]] and [[Jason Cropper]] in [[1991]] in Los Angeles.
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-[[Rivers]] used to have this Toyota Tercel and he would drive me and [[Justin Fisher|Justin]] (and sometimes Matt Hayes) home after school. Since we lived in the country (as opposed to the city) there were all sorts of crazy winding roads and hills in our town. This one particularly steep hill on Gurleyville road that led down to Justin’s house was epic. Steep as hell with an unreal 90 degree dead man’s curve at the bottom. Growing up, I saw many cars wreck on that corner. People died there.
-Upping the stakes of getting dangerous resulted in a fun little game i used to call “HOLY SHIT WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE”. This is how we played the game.
+WS held only seven practices in total between [[October 20]] and [[November 20]] of 1991, all at a cheap, filthy, and very popular with young starving bands rehearsal place called Fortress in Hollywood. The band rehearsed the performances of material from their ''[[Cholesterol]]'' EP as well as new songs like "[[The Barnaby Jones]]", "[[Tennis Ball]]" and "[[Run the Gamut]]".  Additionally, old [[Bush]] songs like "[[Beyond Life]]" and "[[Crayon Man]]" were rehearsed.  Cuomo's own [[Fuzz]] songs "[[Answer Man]]" and "[[Burn My Britches]]" were rehearsed and finally, the Wilson/Finn song "[[Sheriff Wong]]", which was a song about a member of law enforcement who carried a bong.
-Rivers would be driving and without warning (it was never guaranteed this game would commence at the top of the hill. Always random.), Rivers would throw the car in neutral and rip the keys out of the ignition and toss them in the back seat as the steering wheel locked-up and the car careened down this deadliest of hills.
+Over Thanksgiving weekend 1991, the band stayed at Finn's mom's house in Petaluma, and 60 Wrong Sausages played the Phoenix Theater, it's only gig. [[Matt Sharp]], then living in El Cerrito CA (near Berkeley), attended this show, and was captured on video yelling "WHO HOLDS THE SCEPTER?" to the band between songs. The band's name came from an original name of "The Wrong Sausage."  Apparently, one of the band members said: "No, it can't be just one wrong sausage.  It needs to be, like, SIXTY Wrong Sausages!"
-The object of the game was for the screaming and terrified (and laughing) passengers to try and find the keys and get them back to Rivers in time so he could start the careening death trap up again and unlock the steering wheel to regain control of the car before we got to the bottom and died in a heap of twisted metal.
+{{Featured article links|60 Wrong Sausages}}
-{{Featured article links|Getting Dangerous}}
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