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-[[Image:Weezer_Hash_Pipe_cover.jpg|thumb|right|200px]]
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 '''"Hash Pipe"''' is the lead single and third track from [[Weezer]]'s self titled 2001 album, known as ''[[The Green Album]]''.
-"Hash Pipe" was the first single released from the band's long-awaited third album, ''Weezer'', and the only [[SS2K]] song to make it onto the album (although "[[Dope Nose]]" and "[[Slob]]" were later released on ''[[Maladroit]]'').  According to an interview with [[Rivers Cuomo]], the song was written on the same night as "Dope Nose". The story is that he took "a bunch of Ritalin and had like three shots of tequila", paced around for a while, then wrote both songs.  It was inspired by a male transvestite prostitute known for rambling to people in Santa Monica.
+"Hash Pipe" was the first single released from the band's long-awaited third album, ''Weezer'', and the only [[SS2K]] song to make it onto the album (although "[[Dope Nose]]" and "[[Slob]]" were later released on ''[[Maladroit]]'').  According to an interview with [[Rivers Cuomo]], the song was written on the same night as "Dope Nose". The story is that he took "a bunch of Ritalin and had like three shots of tequila", paced around for a while, then wrote both songs.  It was inspired by a male transvestite prostitute known for rambling to people in Santa Monica.('''[[Hash Pipe|more]]...''')
-It is perhaps best known for its driving guitar riff, offbeat lyrical content, Cuomo's falsetto vocals and the gang backup vocals of "whoa-oh-oh." The guitar riff was at least partially inspired by the "Theme From Peter Gunn", the theme music for an old, cops-and-robbers style tv show. The theme has proven to be much more endurable than the show, and has appeared in many TV shows and films, both in its original recording as well as cover versions. Rivers has stated in several interviews at the time of the single's release that he ripped off the Spy Hunter riff, alluding to a popular arcade video game from the 80s which featured a digitized version of the Peter Gunn theme. ('''[[Hash Pipe|more]]...''')