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-[[Weezer]] recorded numerous demos for their fourth album, ''[[Maladroit]]'', beginning mere weeks after the completion of {{PN|Weezer}} [[2001]] album, ''[[Weezer (The Green Album)|The Green Album]]'', continuing through the completion of ''Maladroit'' in early [[2002]]. The term "'''Maladroit demos'''" can refer to demos from this period or, more specifically, demos distributed to fans on [[weezer.com]] from the band's album recording sessions at [[Cello Studios]].
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+| [[Image:Karlscorner-20020127.jpg|160px]]<br>CD-R's used during the formal ''[[Maladroit]]'' sessions in January of 2002. ||  [[Image:Karlscorner-20010819-a.jpg|125px]]<br>[[Rivers Cuomo]] at a rehearsal in August of [[2001]].
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+|  [[Image:Karlscorner-20010922-g.jpg|125px]]<br>[[Scott Shriner]] performing in Detroit, a few weeks after joining the band. || <br>[[Image:Karlscorner-20010819-e.jpg|160px]]<br><br><br>[[Karl Koch]], [[August 19]], [[2001]].
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+|colspan=2|'''Photos by [[Karl Koch]].'''
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+[[Weezer]] wrote and recorded hundreds of '''demos for their fourth album, ''[[Maladroit]]'''''. Utilizing at least eight distinct studios all over the country, the band developed the album over the course of roughly a year, from May 2001 to May 2002. {{PN|Rivers Cuomo}} began preparing solo demo recordings mere weeks after the release of ''[[Weezer (The Green Album)]]'', and ''Maladroit" was eventually released on [[May 14]], [[2002]].
+The band's schedule during this year was an aggressive one, at least partially due to Cuomo's recent decision to manage the band on his own. He booked ad-hoc recording sessions between the band's ''Green Album'' concerts and press duties, used soundcheck sessions and concert setlists to teach the band new songs, and even leveraged radio station studio sessions - normally reserved for promoting previously released singles - to practice and release new material. Adding to the intensity of this experience, [[Mikey Welsh]] would depart the band about one-third of the way through this tandem touring-and-recording schedule. Welsh was replaced by [[Scott Shriner]], who first went into the studio with the band in August of 2001.
+The formal "''Maladroit'' sessions" were recorded at [[Cello Studios]] from December 2001 through January of 2002. As such, the term "'''Maladroit demos'''" is sometimes used to refer to recordings from these specific sessions, or - even more specifically - the MP3's distributed to fans on [[weezer.com]] during the lead up to the labum's release.
 ==[[Rivers Cuomo]] solo demos==
 {{Main|Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years}}
-[[Rivers Cuomo]] began recording low-fidelity demos onto an Olympus handheld digital recorder<ref>''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'', [[Alone II liner notes|liner notes]]</ref><ref name="maladroitpreview" /> around July of [[2001]].<ref>Cuomo, Rivers. "The Catalog O' Riffs" 2002. Archived by ''Weezerpedia'': http://weezerpedia.com/catalogofriffs.html</ref> Said Cuomo in [[2021]], "...this was my nadir, if not as a songwriter/artist/human being, at least in terms of recording quality."<ref name="maladroitpreview">"Maladroit Preview 2021-12-27 14.38.mp3" ''[[Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years]]''</ref> Cuomo released a digital compilation of these demos in [[2020]] as ''[[Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years]]''.
+{{Rivers Cuomo quote|Despite ''Green’s'' success, criticism of the songwriting stuck out to me. At the same time, the commercial success told me the method I took to write the songs for Green was the way to go, so I continued cataloguing as I composed. Many of the demos in [[The Maladroit Years|the Maladroit Years]] were recorded with just a guitar on an Olympus digital handheld recorder.|[[Riverpedia_archive_-_02/15/2021#The Maladroit Years|Riverpedia archive - 02/15/2021]]}}
+Cuomo began recording low-fidelity demos for the band's follow-up to ''Green'' around July of [[2001]].<ref>Cuomo, Rivers. "The Catalog O' Riffs" 2002. Archived by ''Weezerpedia'': http://weezerpedia.com/catalogofriffs.html</ref> About twenty years later, he would refer to this period as his "nadir, if not as a songwriter/artist/human being, at least in terms of recording quality."<ref name="maladroitpreview">"Maladroit Preview 2021-12-27 14.38.mp3" ''[[Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years]]''</ref> Cuomo released a digital compilation of these demos in [[2020]] as ''[[Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years]]''.
+{{Template:Maladroit Years file list}}
 ==DC Demos==
-Weezer booked studio time at Monster Island Studios in Washington, D.C. on [[May 27]], [[2001]] during a stop on the band's [[Hooptie Tour]] in support of [[Weezer (The Green Album)|''The Green Album'']]. The demos were recorded for the purposes of sending to potential producers for the band's planned album.<ref>[[Recording_History_-_Page_13#5.2F27.2F01:_DC_Demos|Weezer Recording History - Page 13]]</ref> Of the thirteen songs attempted, ten songs were finished, with eight later seeing release for free on the band's [[weezer.com|official website]]. The band had already given the songs some shape during soundcheck while on tour, and played some of them live at [[Weezer concert: 05/20/2001|a show in St. Louis]] a week before<ref name="KC 5/27/01">[[Karl's Corner - 05/27/2001]]</ref>. [[Karl Koch]] expanded on this approach to demoing songs on the road in a [[Karl's Corner]] post from the day:
+[[Image:Karlscorner-20010527-e.jpg|thumb|200px|right|[[Mikey Welsh]] and [[Rivers Cuomo]] recording at Monster Island Studios in Washington, D.C. Photo by [[Karl Koch]].]]
-''<blockquote>the new songs have been flowing pretty good since the Green Album was "put to bed", and everyone is already excited about doing the next album. Rather than ignore the new stuff while touring for the Green Album, the guys have opted to prepare in advance, so that whenever they finally have the opportunity to make the next album, they will be fully ready to go, without having to go through another painful selection and demo process like last time.
+<br>{{Karl Koch quote|...the new songs have been flowing pretty good since the Green Album was "put to bed", and everyone is already excited about doing the next album. Rather than ignore the new stuff while touring for the Green Album, the guys have opted to prepare in advance, so that whenever they finally have the opportunity to make the next album, they will be fully ready to go, without having to go through another painful selection and demo process like last time.|[[Karl's Corner - 05/27/2001]]}}<br><br>
-: - Karl Koch<ref name="KC 5/27/01" /></blockquote>''
+Weezer booked studio time at Monster Island Studios in Washington, D.C. on [[May 27]], [[2001]] during a stop on the band's [[Hooptie Tour]] in support of[[Weezer (The Green Album)|''The Green Album'']]. The demos were recorded for the purposes of sending to potential producers for the band's planned album.<ref>[[Recording_History_-_Page_13#5.2F27.2F01:_DC_Demos|Weezer Recording History - Page 13]]</ref> Of the thirteen songs attempted, ten songs were finished, with eight later seeing release for free on the band's [[weezer.com|official website]]. The band had already given the songs some shape during soundcheck while on tour, and played some of them live at [[Weezer concert: 05/20/2001|a show in St. Louis]] a week before<ref name="KC 5/27/01">[[Karl's Corner - 05/27/2001]]</ref>.
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