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*[[List of Official Bootlegs|Official Bootleg series]] | *[[List of Official Bootlegs|Official Bootleg series]] | ||
* ''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]'' (2020) | * ''[[Alone IV: The Blue-Pinkerton Years]]'' (2020) | ||
*''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)]]'' (30th Anniversary Deluxe) (2024) | |||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
The music for "My Name Is Jonas" was initially composed by [[Patrick Wilson]] as part of the [[50 Song Project]] between Wilson and [[Rivers Cuomo]], and demoed to 4-track in late [[1991]] or early [[1992]]. This demo featured a different melody than the final song.<ref name="rechist2">[[Recording_History_-_Page_2#December_1991-January_1992:_.22The_50_Song_Project.22|Weezer Recording History - Page 2]]</ref> Founding [[Weezer]] guitarist [[Jason Cropper]] came up with what would become the song's fingerpicked intro. "My Name Is Jonas" is the only Weezer song to officially credit Cropper as a songwriter. "I got home from work [at the Italian restaurant]," Cropper recalled in a [[2019]] interview with ''Yahoo! Music'', "and I remember I was still wearing my cook's outfit. I picked up the guitar and played that first part of what became the intro to ‘My Name Is Jonas,’ and Pat [Wilson] said, ‘Stop. Just do that. Just don't keep going to different chords, just do those three notes, those three chords!’<ref name="Yahoo interview">Parker, Lyndsey "Only in dreams: Meet the founding member who became the 'Pete Best' of Weezer" ''Yahoo! Entertainment''. Mirror: [[Yahoo! Music interview with Jason Cropper - May 9, 2019]] https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/only-in-dreams-meet-the-founding-member-who-became-the-pete-best-of-weezer-164724591.html</ref> | The music for "My Name Is Jonas" was initially composed by [[Patrick Wilson]] as part of the [[50 Song Project]] between Wilson and [[Rivers Cuomo]], and demoed to 4-track in late [[1991]] or early [[1992]]. This demo featured a different melody than the final song.<ref name="rechist2">[[Recording_History_-_Page_2#December_1991-January_1992:_.22The_50_Song_Project.22|Weezer Recording History - Page 2]]</ref> Founding [[Weezer]] guitarist [[Jason Cropper]] came up with what would become the song's fingerpicked intro. "My Name Is Jonas" is the only Weezer song to officially credit Cropper as a songwriter. "I got home from work [at the Italian restaurant]," Cropper recalled in a [[2019]] interview with ''Yahoo! Music'', "and I remember I was still wearing my cook's outfit. I picked up the guitar and played that first part of what became the intro to ‘My Name Is Jonas,’ and Pat [Wilson] said, ‘Stop. Just do that. Just don't keep going to different chords, just do those three notes, those three chords!’<ref name="Yahoo interview">Parker, Lyndsey "Only in dreams: Meet the founding member who became the 'Pete Best' of Weezer" ''Yahoo! Entertainment''. Mirror: [[Yahoo! Music interview with Jason Cropper - May 9, 2019]] https://www.yahoo.com/amphtml/entertainment/only-in-dreams-meet-the-founding-member-who-became-the-pete-best-of-weezer-164724591.html</ref> | ||