Draft:Weezer Recording Chronology: Pre-1991: Difference between revisions

The only known recording publicly released from the Fury era remains "[[I Wish You Had an Axe Guitar]]", a short clip taken from an undated Fury rehearsal tape, it contains no actual music, instead consisting of a conversation between bandmates Cuomo, [[Justin Fisher]], and [[Eric Robertson]]. Although more recordings are likely to exist from this time (specifically, the tape that was truncated for "I Wish You Had an Axe Guitar",) information on these tapes are currently unavailable.

{{Karlification box|This was the first "pro" band that Rivers was in, and is mentioned here due to the fact that the 3 demo tapes (1987,8,and 9) may be the earliest "non-amateur" recording featuring Rivers.(There are several very amateur recordings from the junior-high and High School years leading up to Avant Garde, but they are not listed here) Rivers's contribution To AG was primarily guitar playing and soloing. The whole band is credited as the songwriter, but I beleive Rivers mostly came up with the guitar parts. The band also included both Kevin Ridel (later of Ridel High and AM Radio) on vocals, Justin Fisher (later of Shufflepuck, Nerf Herder, and Psoma) on bass, Bryn Mutch on "percussion" (drums, really), and Mike Stanton (later of Microsoft) sharing guitar duties with Rivers.|[https://web.archive.org/web/20140519062941if_/http://daveandnikolai.com/wzr/classic/03_Recording_History/WeezRecHist1.html Weezer Recording History, Page 1]}}

At some point from 1987 to 1988, Cuomo and Stanton recorded demos together.

 

=== Zoom demo, 1990 ===

By [[1990]], the members of Avant Garde had moved to Los Angeles, California and renamed their band to [[Zoom]]. The lone demo tape under this name was recorded in late 1989 or early 1990 in Los Angeles, and featured the songs and info printed directly onto the cassette. At least 50 copies of this demo exist.

Note that Zoom broke up, with most members besides Rivers returning to Connnecticut, around the spring of 1990. by summer or fall of 1990 Rivers was starting to write his own music.|[https://web.archive.org/web/20140519062941if_/http://daveandnikolai.com/wzr/classic/03_Recording_History/WeezRecHist1.html Weezer Recording History, Page 1]}}

[[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]].