Karl's Corner - Winter 1996: Difference between revisions

''Hello everybody! Well, welcome to the "lean months". Public excitement has faded, radio stations and Mtv hardly play any Weezer anymore, the band isn't on tour, the new record isn't finished yet, blah, blah, blah... Hmmm! Sounds like winter to me! Well I hope I can spread some holiday cheer around! Let's see...''

''Well, I suppose the biggest good news is The Rentals and their successful start. Matt Sharp's labor of love is off the ground and on the street. By the time you read this their first tour will be history, with plannings underway for future shows. For all the Matt fans out there it's a pretty amazing time indeed! I personall dig his album quite a bit. Nothing else out there really sounds like it. Matt did a great job recording and getting himself his own record deal to boot! Matt was pretty independet when it came to The Rentals. My personal experience was fairly limited. I helped him move equipment for a few hectic days in Spring '94 so he could start recording at a small studio in L.A. Those sessions were scrapped later when the opportunity arose to record at Poop Alley studios with Tom Grimley. Poop Alley is a strange and magical little L.A. studio where bands like that dog., the Geraldine Fibbers and Beck have made many recordings. I was only there a couple times during The Rentals recording sessions. I can only say that Poop Alley may be the only recording studio with both a working electric butt massager and a working intellivision video game setup.''

''Anyway, more stuff... vinyl people will be pleased to know that yes, the Weezer album finally exists as an L.P. record. Geffen U.K. at last send me a copy, and I immediately put it on my turn table and put down the needle... I gotta say it was a good day, to borrow from Ice Cube. However, I can report that while it is cool, it's not as cool as it could be. Inside there is no garage photo anywhere, just a paper sleeve with the record in it. The cover photo looks kind of grainy, as if they just blew up the CD booklet rather than work from the original photo. And, of course, they cut off the guys' legs too low, just like on the CD, and even gave the same old ,mailing address. Somebody wasn't on the ball. I did everything I could, but somewhere along the line my "sggestions" (I considered them orders, of course) were apparently thrown out of the window.''

''In other discographic news, it has come to my attention that there is a Weezer bootleg out there. I have seen and listened to this CD. It looks similar to the album at first glance, but says "Weezer...Geezer" across the top, and the guys' heads are replaced with random old men's heads. This CD was apparently made from a "homemade" audience recording at a show last winter at The Sting in New Britain, CT (not the show opening for Live in October '94 but the headlining show i December '94 where Letters To Cleo and The Dambuilders openend). It doesn't sound too good and is by no means worth the 25 to 30 dollars it sells for. It does contain "getchoo" (listed as "get to my heart", apparently mistakenly interpreted from the line "get-choo, uh huh"). Dispite this "debut" and the general scarcity of live Weezer material out there, I must discourage the purchase of this CD, as not only is it of inferior quality at an outrageous price, but it's illegal and like all bootlegs, all the proceeds go to somebody who snuck in a tape recorder at the show. Unless you can get it for a fraction of its usual price, it really is a rip-off. Preferably only a few people will buy it and everyone else can tape it off of them. Thanks to Jeremy Crum for advance warning on all this. He wrote that he found it in an ad in Goldmine! Sheese!''