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-The '''Flying =W=''' is an iconic [[Weezer]] logo.  The famous Flying =W= was designed by [[Patrick Wilson]] during the making of [[Weezer's third demo]], when he and [[Karl Koch]] were 'drawing' by dispersing fuzz that had collected on the studio walls.  They found it amusing, and Koch reproduced the logo onto the back of lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]]'s jacket using the engineer's labeling tape.  Supposedly, Cuomo wore it around LA until the tape fell off.  It is a simultaneous homage and spoof of Van Halen's classic logo, which featured 'wings' protruding from the band's initials "VH."
+'''Allthingsweezer''' (formerly known as '''Albumsix''') is the name of a [[Weezer]] fansite started by boardies kingofthecounty and lordofthemanor.  The forums at Allthingsweezer are currently the most active Weezer forum on the internet.
-The logo was 'officially' employed immediately, and Wilson applied it to his drumhead, alongside [[Bokkus]].  It appears on a wide array of merchandise, including CDs, T-shirts, and more - including this website's logo.  An offshoot of this logo was created in conjunction with the band's appearances under the moniker [[Goat Punishment]].  The wings were attached to the G and P to form =GP=, and featured on a limited run of Goat Punishment T-shirts.
+Albumsix.com, as Allthingsweezer was originally known, started off as a single home page with a mysterious image reading "Album Six, Coming Soon", which linked to the official Weezer website.  Shortly after it began to gain steam, [[Karl Koch]] posted in [[Karl's Corner]] that he "honestly had no idea" what it was about.
-Weezer fans, in the band's early touring days, were known to flash a "W" during shows as a tribute to their heroes - almost as much as applause.  This is achieved by touching the tips of one's thumbs at an approximate 90 degree angle, and pointing the index fingers outward at 90 degree angles, to form a W.  In the years since the band's triumphant return to form in 2000, this tribute evolved to include one's middle fingers also pointing outward, parallel to the index fingers, in an effort to simulate the wings of the Flying =W=.  A depiction of this was used as the band's Fan Club logo upon its relaunch in the early 2000s.
+Albumsix went on to post a fictitious teaser for the then confirmed sixth Weezer album.  Albumsix called the album ''[[Tout Ensemble]]''.  Large music media publishers like ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' and ''[[Pitchfork Media]]'' took note of the fake album and began running news stories on it, confirming it as fact.  Following naming the album, the website posted a false release date for ''Tout Ensemble'' of [[April 22]], [[2008]].
-<span style="float:right; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; padding:0 .5em 0 2em">''[[Flying W|full article]] | [http://weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Weezerpedia:Featured_article&action=edit edit]</span>
+After ''Tout Ensemble'' proved to be a hoax, Albumsix.com was revamped into a forum.  Soon, the original creators kingofthecounty and lordofthemanor teamed up with Weerez.com's Greg to make albumsix the Official [[Weerez.com]] forums.  The forums grew very rapidly and are now read by all members of Weezer (Rivers Cuomo has not been confirmed), and several bits of Weezer information are released there by Koch, who posts under the name [[Karlophone]].
+During the early Albumsix period, the site temporarily had an online store featuring t-shirts with many designs created by the fans for the fans as well as several slogan t-shirts perpetuating the memes of the forums.  The store was closed after it became too expensive to keep open.
+<span style="float:right; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 80%; padding:0 .5em 0 2em">''[[Allthingsweezer|full article]] | [http://weezerpedia.com/wiki/index.php?title=Weezerpedia:Featured_article&action=edit edit]</span>
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