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'''Wax''' was a Los Angeles-based punk-pop band in the early 1990s. They released two albums in their initial four-year run: [[1992|1992's]] ''[[What Else Can We Do]]'' and [[1995|1995's]] ''[[13 Unlucky Numbers]]''. The latter contained "[[California (Wax song)|California]]," a minor hit. Wax and Weezer were closely associated in the early 1990s and regularly attended each other's live shows. | '''Wax''' was a Los Angeles-based punk-pop band in the early 1990s. They released two albums in their initial four-year run: [[1992|1992's]] ''[[What Else Can We Do]]'' and [[1995|1995's]] ''[[13 Unlucky Numbers]]''. The latter contained "[[California (Wax song)|California]]," a minor hit. Wax and Weezer were closely associated in the early 1990s and regularly attended each other's live shows. | ||
==Origins== | |||
Prior to the existence of Wax, several of its future members were acquainted with people from the future weezer scene. In the fall of 1988 Pat Finn started attending [[Musician's Institute]] in Hollywood, and there he met fellow students Matt Sharp and Tom Gardocki. Tom had come from Chicago, and several of his Chicago friends arrived around the same time, including future Wax members Dave Georgeff and Loomis Fall, as well as Bob Hnilo (later of [[The Dum-Dums]], Jack Polick, and several others. These meetings pre-dated the arrival of "the Connecticut crew", i.e. Rivers Cuomo, Justin Fisher, Kevin Ridel and other members of [[Avant Garde]], who would arrive in 1989. Rivers moved to Los Angeles under the pretense to his mom that he was going to attend M.I., but did not complete any classes. So initially he had little to no contact with Sharp nor "the Chicago crew", despite them all sharing the same nascent scene. | |||
==formation== | |||
While Tom Gardocki played with Pat Finn and Patrick Wilson during the summer of 1990 in [[Bush]], other future Wax members were feeling out the scene as well, but no bands came of it until a new arrival entered their circle in 1991. [[Joe Sib]] was from San Jose CA and had been in several punk/pop-punk bands in that area in the late 80's including The End (changed to The Living End)(not the same Living End as the 90s Australian punk band), and Front Line. Once he was in L.A. he got acquainted with Tom, Dave and Loomis, they quickly decided to get a band going, and named themselves Wax. | |||
===inspiration and assistance to weezer== | |||
Wax had a nearly immediate buzz in Hollywood despite the scene still being mired in the dying hair and glam metal scenes of the 80s, due to their extremely high energy shows and great vibes. Joe Sib was (and remains) known for his infectious positivity and good natured-ness, and his astoundingly good stage presence which stoked up the typically "stand and stare" LA club audience. | |||
Wax had the audacity to somehow arrange to play an in-store at the Hollywood Del Taco fast food restaurant, on xxxxxxxxx. Patrick Wilson, Pat Finn, Bob Hnilo, Rob Zombie, Karl and at least 150 other L.A. scenesters packed into the small restaurant as Wax played, ordering tacos and burritos as the show went on. This event became a legendary tale that served as motivation for many bands around that time - ("look at Wax! They played a Del Taco, for crying out loud - what are WE gonna do?") | |||
All this was hugely inspirational to weezer, who were just getting started and found it hard to do more than simply play their songs on stage. There was no thought of actually "preforming" or "putting on a show", the game was just survival. So Wax's approach left a big impression and something to live up to (someday). | |||
Additionally, after becoming good friends with Wax (another association that can be traced back to Pat Finn, who somehow introduced nearly every single person on the scene to each other), weezer sought to piggyback on their scene, getting on as many shows with them as possible and getting exposure to Wax's considerably larger audience. | |||
==Weezer connections== | ==Weezer connections== | ||
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{{Karl Koch quote|[[Black Market Flowers|BMF]]/[[Weezer]]/[[El Mag]] ... 3 bands, who along with Wax defined the mini-scene that weezer was a part of then, trying to forge a non-hair band -yet- non-grunge scene.|<ref>[[Historic event: 06/07/1993]]</ref>}} | {{Karl Koch quote|[[Black Market Flowers|BMF]]/[[Weezer]]/[[El Mag]] ... 3 bands, who along with Wax defined the mini-scene that weezer was a part of then, trying to forge a non-hair band -yet- non-grunge scene.|<ref>[[Historic event: 06/07/1993]]</ref>}} | ||
Weezer played "[[Conversationalist]]" live at a handful of shows in 1992. This was a reworked version of Wax's song "So Much Talk." | Weezer played "[[Conversationalist]]" live at a handful of shows in 1992. This was a reworked version of Wax's song "So Much Talk." | ||
"Wax" is mentioned repeatedly in the spoken work verse parts of the 11/92 Demo tape version of "Undone" | |||
The inspiration for Matt's "stoked guy" character in the "Undone" spoken part (1st verse) on The Blue Album is Joe Sib. However this was done as a good natured homage. Joe was (and remains) a truly amazingly positive person who didn't seem to have a cynical bone in his body, and that was both alien and highly impressive to the (then) highly pessimistic Rivers and Matt. When the song's roles called for a stoked guy to play off Karl's "bummed guy", there was no better person to draw inspiration from. | |||
Wax reunited in 2009 | Wax reunited in 2009 with all original members, to open a Weezer show at the Palladium on [[October 24]]. [[Johnny Knoxville]] (who had been a part of the early scene and was a close associate of all the "Chicago people" despite hailing from Knoxville) introduced the band. | ||
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===Shows played with Weezer=== | ===Shows played with Weezer=== | ||
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*Tom Gardocki - guitar | *Tom Gardocki - guitar | ||
*Dave Georgeff - bass | *Dave Georgeff - bass | ||
*Loomis - drums | *Loomis Fall - drums | ||
==References== | ==References== | ||