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-{{Featured article headline|[[Pat Finn]]}}
+{{Featured article headline|[[Alone liner notes|''Alone'' liner notes]]}}
-[[Image:Pat Finn.jpg|150px|right|link=Pat Finn]]
+[[Image:Rivers Cuomo Alone.jpg|150px|right|link=Alone liner notes]]
-'''Pat Finn''' is a Buffalo, NY born musician and artist who founded two pre-[[Weezer]] bands - [[Bush]] and [[60 Wrong Sausages]] - before pursuing a variety of other musical projects. He is the songwriter and lead vocalist behind [[Organic Mechanic]]. He introduced [[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Pat Wilson]], [[Matt Sharp]], [[Jason Cropper]] and [[Karl Koch]] to each other.
+The following is an excerpt from '''[[Rivers Cuomo's]] liner notes for his first officially-related demo compilation, ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'''''.
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+<span style="color:#aa0000">'''BUDDY HOLLY.'''</SPAN> June 1993<br>
+{{Rivers|I was in the Santa Monica College Choir and I met a kid named Steve Graff who lent me his Korg Keyboard. Inspired by its goofy synth sounds, I decided to write some new-wave influenced songs.
-In 1988 Pat moved to Los Angeles from San Francisco, and attended the Musicians Institute. There he met fellow students [[Matt Sharp]] as well as (among others) Dave "Burdie Cutlass" Georgeff and Tom "Soda Pop" Gardocki, later members of [[Wax]]. After, he returned to Buffalo, NY and stayed there from Summer 1989 - Spring 1990, woodshedding songs and working random jobs, regrouping his plans. While living in Buffalo he met [[Patrick Wilson]], who was working at a music store called Music Mart in the suburb of Amherst, giving drum lessons to youngsters. In March [[1990]], Finn moved to Los Angeles, and implored Wilson to come with him. Wilson has stated that he knew he had no prospects in the Buffalo area, and was eager to get his music career started, so he instantly and without hesitation accepted Finn's offer, despite having no plan, few possessions, and almost no money. Soon, Finn met [[Rivers Cuomo]] while working at Tower Records on Sunset Blvd, later introducing him to Wilson.
+The chorus melody, though, I came up with as I was walking through the lawns of the campus. The melody was in time to my steps: "ooo-we-ooo I look just like Buddy Holly." The lyrics I struggled with, trying to find the right reference point. An early version read, "ooo-we-ooo you look just like Ginger Rogers. Oh-oh I move just like Fred Astaire."
-In 1998, Finn was invited to play with Weezer as a potential replacement for Matt Sharp. This resulted in a few weeks of hanging out and several rehearsal sessions, but in the end Pat went back to Portland and later [[Mikey Welsh]] joined the band. In 2005, he appeared onstage with Weezer during the [[Foozer Tour]] in Portland, OR.
+The life-situation that inspired the lyric was an incident in which the Weezer guys were making fun of my friend Kyung He (also in the Santa Monica College Choir). They were the "homies dissin' my girl".
+I rarely wrote lyrics about tension between me and the guys in the band because I thought it would be awkward for us all to perform those songs together. In this case, though, it didn't seem like a big deal.
+Obviously, this track is kind of slow compared to how it ended up on the Weezer record. [Even on the Weezer record we recorded it pretty slow. We sped it up during mastering.] I've always like big, fat, heavy guitar sounds and when I write a song with a sound like that I end up digging in and playing real slow. It isn't 'til we hear a song back on tape that we realize, "hey, that's a little dirgy."}}
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