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=== Avant Garde demo, 1988 === | === Avant Garde demo, July 3-16, 1988 === | ||
{{Hatnote|For the tape's tracklist, see [[The Purple Demo]].}} | {{Hatnote|For the tape's tracklist, see [[The Purple Demo]].}} | ||
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=== Four Trackin' w/ Mike, 1989 === | === Mike Stanton Demo Tape, 1987-1988 === | ||
At some point from 1987 to 1988, Cuomo and Stanton recorded demos together. | |||
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{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Mike Stanton]]|[[Father Time]]|09 Father Time solo sketches.mp3|[[1987]] - [[1988]]||3:00|''[[Alone V: Before Weezer]]''|}} | |||
{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Mike Stanton]]|[[Plankton Frito]]|10 Plankton Frito--demo of Mike's pa.mp3|[[1987]] - [[1988]]||3:24|''[[Alone V: Before Weezer]]''|}} | |||
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Tracks 1 through 8 are unknown. | |||
=== Four Trackin' w/ Mike, January 1989 === | |||
In January [[1989]], Cuomo and Stanton recorded a 4-track demo of the two writing guitar riffs. | In January [[1989]], Cuomo and Stanton recorded a 4-track demo of the two writing guitar riffs. | ||
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Tracks 4 through 7 are unknown. | Tracks 4 through 7 are unknown. | ||
=== ''Somethin' Different!'', 1989 === | === ''Somethin' Different!'', January-February 1989 === | ||
{{Hatnote|For the tape's tracklist, see [[Somethin' Different!]].}} | {{Hatnote|For the tape's tracklist, see [[Somethin' Different!]].}} | ||
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|style="text-align:left"|{{Karl Koch quote|There exist several very very rare live bootlegs of some A.G. shows, mostly in the Connecticut area. These are in the hands of old friends of Rivers and do include the ocassional song that was never officialy demo'd. There are no dates on these, but in theory they all date to around 1988.}} | |style="text-align:left"|{{Karl Koch quote|There exist several very very rare live bootlegs of some A.G. shows, mostly in the Connecticut area. These are in the hands of old friends of Rivers and do include the ocassional song that was never officialy demo'd. There are no dates on these, but in theory they all date to around 1988.}} | ||
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*"[[Crayon Man]]" | *"[[Crayon Man]]" | ||
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=== The Clique, July 1990 === | |||
[[Image:IceButterflyCover.png|thumb|150px|Maxi-single cover]] | |||
[[The Clique]] was a band formed by [[Matt Sharp]] in 1989. It came to fruition after someone who claimed to work at NBC came to Sharp's workplace and told him that they were working on a made-for-TV movie about [[Wikipedia:Nancy Kerrigan|Nancy Kerrigan]] called "Ice Butterfly: The Nancy Kerrigan Story." Sharp explained that he was a musician, and so he was commissioned to write the movie's theme song. The Clique consisted of Sharp on lead vocals and bass, [[Hurshel Burton]] on guitars, and [[Keith Harris]] on drums. The group recorded one song, eponymously titled "[[Ice Butterfly]]", in July 1990 at Paramount Studios in Hollywood and released it as a maxi-single cassette in [[1990]]. | |||
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{{Known recordings entry|aaffaa|[[The Clique]]|[[Ice Butterfly]]||July [[1990]]|Paramount Studios, Hollywood, CA|5:32|[[Ice Butterfly]]|}} | |||
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|style="text-align:left"|{{Karl Koch quote |A somewhat pretentious Cure/Joy Division style recording by Matt with 2 guys he met in a meeting of the Black Rock Coalition, including one Herschel Burton, whose computer artwork graces the cassette j-card. | |||
Matt soon abandoned this style of music, but left behind this 3 song demo tape, that was packaged as a cassette maxi-single. | |||
The three songs were all different mixes of The Cliques only song: | |||
"Ice Butterfly"<br /> | |||
"Ice Butterfly" (remix)<br /> | |||
"Ice Butterfly" (instrumental) | |||
=== Bush Demo, 1990 === | It's guessed that between 20 and 75 of these were pressed up. They have tan colored j-cards with "computer-style" art, and song info is printed onto the cassettes. | ||
According to Matt, one day a man came into his workplace in Westwood who claimed to be from NBC, and that he was producing a made for TV movie: "Ice Butterfly, The Nancy Kerrigan Story". Matt was looking for any inroads into the music scene and explained that he was a musician. The man was soon commissioning Matt to “write the theme song for my TV movie”. Matt went gung ho into the project - he had never written a song before or sung before. Borrowing funding from his mother, Matt and his 2 buddies rented a real studio and recorded the track. Soon it was learned that NBC killed the guys project, and the man stopped coming into Matt's workplace. Matt and his gang decided to turn the recording into a cassette "Maxi Single" and try to get it played on local LA college radio, etc. The project fizzled soon afterwards.}} | |||
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=== Bush Demo, July 25, 1990 === | |||
On [[July 25]], [[1990]], Finn and Wilson recorded a demo for Bush, without Gardocki's help. This was done at their friend, and prospective Bush member, [[Mark Kern]]'s house in Hollywood. Finn played both the bass and guitar and did the singing. Wilson did the drumming on the Roland "Octopad", an early drum triggering thing. They recorded these 4 songs, but the demo never saw any distribution. | |||
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