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| Length  = 0:36
| Length  = 0:36
| Label    = [[Geffen]]  
| Label    = [[Geffen]]  
| Writer  = Rivers Cuomo
| Writer  =  
| RC#      = N/A
| Producer =  
| COR#    = N/A
| Producer = Rivers Cuomo
| Status  = Released
| Status  = Released
| Album          = Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
| Album          = Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo
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"'''I Wish You Had an Axe Guitar'''" is the seventeenth track from ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''.
"'''I Wish You Had an Axe Guitar'''" is the seventeenth track from ''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''.
==Overview==
==Overview==
"I Wish You Had an Axe Guitar" is a recorded conversation between [[Weezer]] front man [[Rivers Cuomo]] and some of  his friends as children. Cuomo and future bandmate [[Justin Fisher]] talk with a third friend about wanting to start a band. The recording was previously unheard before the album's release.
==Liner notes==
{{Alone liner notes|Justin, Eric, and me at a rehearsal of our first band, Fury.
{{Alone liner notes|Justin, Eric, and me at a rehearsal of our first band, Fury.


I'm the pushy one.}}
I'm the pushy one.|''[[Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]'' [[Alone liner notes|liner notes]]}}
"I Wish You Had an Axe Guitar" is a recorded conversation between [[Weezer]] frontman [[Rivers Cuomo]] and some of his friends as children. Cuomo and future bandmate [[Justin Fisher]] talk with a third friend, [[Eric Robertson]].
==Personnel==
*[[Rivers Cuomo]]
*[[Justin Fisher]]
*[[Eric Robertson]]
==Audio==
==Audio==
<YouTube>SOzvuHot_LE</YouTube>
<YouTube>SOzvuHot_LE</YouTube>
==Personnel==
*[[Rivers Cuomo]] – voice
*[[Justin Fisher]] - voice
*Eric - voice
==Transcript==
==Transcript==
"I meant that one. This one.  That's me. I don't want to have my hair like that though. But I'm going to anyways."
<poem>"I meant that one. This one, that's me. I don't want to have my hair like that, though, but I'm going to anyways."
 
"Yeah, you don't have a choice. I wish you had an axe guitar."
"Yeah, you don't have a choice."
"Are you kidding? You're going to wear your hair like that?"
 
"I wish you had an axe guitar."
 
"Are you kidding?You're going to wear your hair like that?"
 
"Yeah."
"Yeah."
"Why?"
"Why?"
 
"'Cause we wanna look like [[KISS]]."
"'Cause we wanna look like KISS."
"Hey, I'm not changing ''my'' hair."
 
"A wig, you fool."
"Hey I'm not changing my hair."
"An axe guitar is with an axe on the end?"
 
"Yeah, his guitar is, like, it's...it's shaped like an axe. It's got a blade here and everything."
"A wig you fool."
"See this is the same thing as the other pictures except it doesn't have a thing, it doesn't have an arm brace."
 
"Here go back, go forward again..."</poem>
"An axe guitar with an axe on the end?"
 
"Yeah, his guitar is like it's...it's shaped like an axe. It's got a blade here and everything."
 
"See this is the same thing as the other pictures except this thing doesn't have an arm brace."
 
"Here go back, go forward again..."
 
==See also==
==See also==
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]]
*[[List of Rivers Cuomo songs]]
==External Links==
==External Links==
[http://tvs.soymilkrevolution.com/?p=157 Teenage Victory Songs entry for "I Wish You Had an Axe Guitar"]
*[http://tvs.soymilkrevolution.com/?p=157 Teenage Victory Songs entry for "I Wish You Had an Axe Guitar"]
 
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