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 ==Biography==
 ===As a musician===
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 Welsh was born [[April 20]], 1971 in Syracuse, New York. He started off as a Boston-area musician, playing in bands such as [[Heretix]], Chevy Heston, [[Jocobono]], [[Left Nut]], and Slower. He also performed in [[Juliana Hatfield]]'s backing band and, during Weezer's hiatus, he performed as a touring musician for [[Wikipedia:Verbena_(band)|Verbena]] and in the first full-band incarnation of [[Patrick Wilson]]'s musical project [[The Special Goodness]]. Welsh joined Weezer following the departure of [[Matt Sharp]] in [[1998]]. According to Welsh in [[Facebook posts by Mikey Welsh|a Facebook post]] from [[September 13]], [[2011]], Welsh first met Rivers Cuomo when a member of [[Wikipedia:The_Mighty_Mighty_Bosstones|The Mighty Mighty Bosstones]] recommended Welsh to Cuomo:
 {{Mikey Welsh quote|the first time i met rivers cuomo, was in a bar in the south end of boston called "the deluxe".. it was after a jon spencer blues explosion show.. i was sitting at a table with several friends just hanging out when rivers walked in with a couple of guys from the band. we were all star struck about seeing r.c., and we started talking about how much we all loved his band.. i was trying not to look a...t him when he suddenly turned and started walking directly towards where i was sitting.. r. came up to me and asked me if i was mikey, the bass player.. i stammered out that i was. he told me that one of the guys in the mighty mighty bosstones had recommended to him that we try playing together, that we would probably hit it off.. we did. this was probably around the spring of 1997.. rivers went off that summer to tour on "pinkerton".. it was late august when he finally called me.. we ended up doing a lot of hanging and jamming together, ultimately playing two shows in boston as the rivers cuomo band..in jan. of 1998, i flew to los angeles to officially audition for weezer...after 3 or 4 days of playing together, rivers took me out to dinner at a california pizza kitchen on pico blvd. in hollywood... he was about to ask me a question, and my life would forever change....|[[Facebook posts by Mikey Welsh|Facebook post]]{{date missing}}}}
-Welsh performed with Rivers Cuomo during a number of Weezer "try-out" shows in late 1997. He would later formally audition for the band in early [[1998]] before becoming an official member that summer. His first appearance on a Weezer song was a recording of "Velouria" recorded in August of 1998 (released in early [[1999]]). According to the [[Recording History - Page 11|Recording History]], Welsh wrote a number of bass lines in this period, recorded them, and sent them to Rivers Cuomo for writing inspiration. Cuomo never used any of them, so Welsh instead offered them to Juliana Hatfield for her [[2000]] album ''[[Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure]]'', on which Welsh received co-writing credit for four songs.
+Welsh met [[Rivers Cuomo]] well prior to {{PN|Matt Sharp}} departure from Weezer. The band informally auditioned Welsh as a session player in the Spring of 1997 during the sessions Fort Apache studios in Boston, MA<ref>[[Recording History - Page 9#Spring 1997 - Boston, MA - Pink Triangle single session.]]</ref>. [[Scott Reibling]] was selected to appear on the recording in place of Welsh, to replace an absent Sharp. Welsh stayed connected to Cuomo after this, performing with him at a few Weezer "try-out" shows in late 1997. He formally auditioned for the band in early [[1998]], and, upon being selected moved in with Cuomo and [[Pat Wilson]] in Los Angeles<ref name="Tom">"[[Indecision and Abandoning the Past#Part 2|Indecision and Abandoning the Past]]" by [[User:Tom]]</ref> rehearsing semi-regularly with them and [[Brian Bell]] as early as June of that year. In addition to Weezer work, Welsh and Wilson helped Bell record four songs during this time period<ref>[[Recording History - Page 10#Late Summer 1998: Demo of Brian's songs (not really Weezer nor Space Twins)]]</ref>. His first recorded work to be released with the band was the [[Pixies]] cover "[[Velouria]]," which was recorded in August of 1998 but not released until the next year.
-Welsh toured with the band during their resurgence in the [[Summer Songs of 2000|summer of 2000]] and appeared on the EP ''[[Christmas CD]]'' that December. He has appeared on only one studio album with Weezer, the band's eponymous 2001 album (''"[[The Green Album]]"''). Welsh continued to play on the band's subsequent tours in support of the album as well as early sessions for the band's intended fourth album.
+Welsh wrote a number of bass lines for Weezer in this period, some of which Cuomo considered but never used. Welsh instead offered them to [[Juliana Hatfield]], who wrote four different songs using his material, all of which eventually saw release on her [[2000]] album ''[[Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure]]''. [[Karl Koch]] credited Welsh helping shape the song "[[Everyone]]," saying he was responsible for the song being "ultra heavy" and "{{Wiki2|Fu_Manchu_(band)|Fu Manchu}}-like."<ref name="Tom"/>
+The band did not perform live with Welsh until November of 1998, when they did two secret shows in California under the name [[Goat Punishment]]. One of these shows consisted of [[Nirvana]] covers and the other [[Oasis]] covers. When Weezer became less active in [[1999]], Welsh joined Wilson's project [[The Special Goodness]] for multiple tours, and recorded with Hatfield.
+Welsh toured with the band during their resurgence in the [[Summer Songs of 2000|summer of 2000]] and appeared on the EP ''[[Christmas CD]]'' that December.
 ===Departure from Weezer===
 Welsh left Weezer in August of 2001. On [[August 11]], Koch [[Karl's Corner - 08/11/2001|first mentioned Welsh's health problems]] on Weezer's official website: