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In October of 1991, drummer [[Patrick Wilson]] and bassist [[Patrick Finn]] recruited guitarist friends [[Rivers Cuomo]] and [[Jason Cropper]] to form the band [[60 Wrong Sausages]]. Throughout the next two months, the band would practice together several times and work to record a demo tape, named the ''Cholesterol EP''. On November 29, the band performed at the Phoenix Theatre in Petaluma, California in a concert that had been attended by friend of the band [[Matt Sharp]]. After a final practice on December 4, the band would break up and the ''Cholesterol EP'' was never distributed in any form.

During this same time, Wilson and Cuomo began writing songs with the intentions of forming a new, as-of-yet unnamed music project. This was dubbed [[The 50 Song Project]], although such goal was never reached. From November 1991 to February 1992, the two had recorded twenty-seven songs for this project, and Jason Cropper had contributed two songs of his own. Songs such as "[[The World Has Turned and Left Me Here]]," "[[My Name is Jonas]]" and [[Undone (The Sweater Song)]]" were written during this time. Much of the Cuomo-penned songs were compiled into a singular demo tape that was given the name ''[[Weezer (Rivers Cuomo tape)|Weezer]]'', a nickname that his father had given Cuomo as a child due to his regular asthma-induced wheezing.

On February 14, Cuomo, Wilson, and Cropper recruited Matt Sharp and began practiing songs from their 50 Song Project at a TK Productions rehearsal studio in West Los Angeles. The band rehearsed for three days in a row, with a lineup of Wilson on drums, Cuomo on electric guitar, Cropper on acoustic guitar, and Sharp on bass. The third day of practice, February 16, was recorded by band friend [[Karl Koch]], with this performance of "[[I Can't Forget the Way]]" being informally recognized as the first Weezer song.

During this early period, the band had yet to decide on a name. The February 16 rehearsal tape was labelled with several possible band names such as "Hummingbird," "Outhouse," "The Big Jones" and even "[[Fuzz]]," the name of a previous band that featured both Rivers Cuomo and Patrick Wilson.