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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.  

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.

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.