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{{Rivers Cuomo quote|I was always a bit of an oddity [in high school]. When I was in ninth grade, we were picked on and ostracized. By 11th grade, we were tolerated. And by 12th grade, people gave us a certain amount of respect. But we were never rock stars, just the weird guys who did music."|''[[Hartford Courant article - December 4, 1996|The Hartford Courant]], [[December 4]], [[1996]]}} | {{Rivers Cuomo quote|I was always a bit of an oddity [in high school]. When I was in ninth grade, we were picked on and ostracized. By 11th grade, we were tolerated. And by 12th grade, people gave us a certain amount of respect. But we were never rock stars, just the weird guys who did music."|''[[Hartford Courant article - December 4, 1996|The Hartford Courant]], [[December 4]], [[1996]]}} | ||
[[Image:Avant Garde shirt.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Avant Garde merch from the late 1980s.]] | [[Image:Avant Garde shirt.jpg|thumb|200px|left|Avant Garde merch from the late 1980s.]] | ||
In the summer of [[1987]], Cuomo attended a summer program at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he met Texas native [[Michael Stanton]]. Cuomo and Stanton quickly became friends and spent hours composing dual guitar solos.<ref name="riversedge" /> After the program at Berklee concluded, Stanton traveled with Cuomo and Fisher back to Connecticut, where Stanton stayed at Cuomo's house, before sitting in with Avant Garde at a performance in Massachusetts. | In the summer of [[1987]], Cuomo attended a summer program at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, where he met Texas native [[Michael Stanton]]. Cuomo and Stanton quickly became friends and spent hours composing dual guitar solos.<ref name="riversedge" /> After the program at Berklee concluded, Stanton traveled with Cuomo and Fisher back to Connecticut, where Stanton stayed at Cuomo's house, before sitting in with Avant Garde at a performance in Massachusetts. | ||
On [[December 12]], [[December 13|13]] and [[December 18|18]] of [[1987]], Avant Garde recorded their first demo tape at Trod Nossel studios in Wallingford, Connecticut<ref name="cor">Cuomo, Rivers. ''[[The Catalog O' Riffs]]'', 2002. http://weezerpedia.com/catalogofriffs.html</ref><ref name="rechist1" />, later dubbed ''[[The Blue Demo]]'' for its light blue sticker label, consisting of the songs "[[Tongue of Fire]]", "[[I Must Be Dreaming]]" and "[[Black Rose]]." The band returned to Trod Nossel in July of [[1988]] to record a second demo, later dubbed ''[[The Purple Demo]]'' for | On [[December 12]], [[December 13|13]] and [[December 18|18]] of [[1987]], Avant Garde recorded their first demo tape at Trod Nossel studios in Wallingford, Connecticut<ref name="cor">Cuomo, Rivers. ''[[The Catalog O' Riffs]]'', 2002. http://weezerpedia.com/catalogofriffs.html</ref><ref name="rechist1" />, later dubbed ''[[The Blue Demo]]'' for its light blue sticker label, consisting of the songs "[[Tongue of Fire]]", "[[I Must Be Dreaming]]" and "[[Black Rose]]." The band returned to Trod Nossel in July of [[1988]] to record a second demo, later dubbed ''[[The Purple Demo]]'' for its purple label. Fewer than fifty cassette copies are believed to have been produced.<ref name="rechist1" /> In a matter of weeks, the demo received heavy rotation on WHUS 91.7, University of Connecticut's campus radio station, appearing in the #11 slot (above [[Jane's Addiction]]'s debut).<ref name="riversedge" /> Avant Garde would go on to headline shows throughout [[1988]]. That same year, [[Michael Stanton]] relocated from Texas to Connecticut to join the band full time, replacing [[Eric Ridel]]. | ||
Throughout January and February of [[1989]], the band recorded a third demo titled ''[[Somethin' Different!]]'', featuring three new songs and three from ''The Purple Demo''. The band planned to perform a concert in their hometown that winter, but on the night of the show, the band arrived at the venue to find it closed down due to a snowstorm<ref name="riversedge" /> | Throughout January and February of [[1989]], the band recorded a third demo titled ''[[Somethin' Different!]]'', featuring three new songs and three from ''The Purple Demo''. The band planned to perform a concert in their hometown that winter, but on the night of the show, the band arrived at the venue to find it closed down due to a snowstorm<ref name="riversedge" /> | ||