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NYC: While [[Rivers Cuomo|Rivers]] and [[Matt Sharp|Matt]] and [[Karl Koch|I]] had at least been to New York, [[Patrick Wilson|Pat]] and [[Jason Cropper|Jason]] had not. And no one in our little band of rebels had ever spent more than a day or 2 there. Now the city was suddenly ours to explore, from our 2 rooms in the Gramercy Park hotel on 21st St. While ultimately the band knew that if they were ever to make a dime from the album they'd first have to pay all of this back, it was mighty easy to look out the window of the hotel and say "Screw it! Were in New York! Hoo Haa!" Almost immediately, and without warning or explanation, The remarkably trim and essentially underfed Rivers and Matt got memberships at a nearby gym/health spa, memberships which would later end in hilarious financial chaos and confusion. Everyone went into curious explorer mode from day 1 onward. | NYC: While [[Rivers Cuomo|Rivers]] and [[Matt Sharp|Matt]] and [[Karl Koch|I]] had at least been to New York, [[Patrick Wilson|Pat]] and [[Jason Cropper|Jason]] had not. And no one in our little band of rebels had ever spent more than a day or 2 there. Now the city was suddenly ours to explore, from our 2 rooms in the Gramercy Park hotel on 21st St. While ultimately the band knew that if they were ever to make a dime from the album they'd first have to pay all of this back, it was mighty easy to look out the window of the hotel and say "Screw it! Were in New York! Hoo Haa!" Almost immediately, and without warning or explanation, The remarkably trim and essentially underfed Rivers and Matt got memberships at a nearby gym/health spa, memberships which would later end in hilarious financial chaos and confusion. Everyone went into curious explorer mode from day 1 onward. | ||
Work started uptown actually, at S.I.R. rehearsals on 25th Street, where Ric had the band run through their stuff for several days in order to cull out any songs that weren't gelling with the rest. Here, early versions of "[[I Swear It's True]]", "[[Getting Up and Leaving]]", "[[Mykel & Carli]]" and "[[Lullaby for Wayne]]" were tried, but in the end only the 10 final album tracks plus "Mykel & Carli" and "Jamie" were chosen to try at Electric Lady. Ric dragged out his beastly Akai 12 track recorder and the band cut an admirable live demo over 2 days, with final vocals then overdubbed. | Work started uptown actually, at S.I.R. rehearsals on 25th Street, where Ric had the band run through their stuff for several days in order to cull out any songs that weren't gelling with the rest. Here, early versions of "[[I Swear It's True]]", "[[Getting Up and Leaving]]", "[[Mykel and Carli (Weezer song)|Mykel & Carli]]" and "[[Lullaby for Wayne]]" were tried, but in the end only the 10 final album tracks plus "Mykel & Carli" and "Jamie" were chosen to try at Electric Lady. Ric dragged out his beastly Akai 12 track recorder and the band cut an admirable live demo over 2 days, with final vocals then overdubbed. | ||
Ric also had some work to do at S.I.R. His own solo album ''Quick Change World'' was coming out and he had an upcoming appearance on Dave Letterman to rehearse for, as well as a one-off show in Boston. His band at the time included the Cars' Greg Hawkes and they ran thru a killer set of old Cars classics and new Ric tunes, with just us weez types for an audience. Greg was all too happy to show our curious minds his vintage keyboard setup, including the Univox MiniKorg responsible for all those shrill leads on the Cars classics. | Ric also had some work to do at S.I.R. His own solo album ''Quick Change World'' was coming out and he had an upcoming appearance on Dave Letterman to rehearse for, as well as a one-off show in Boston. His band at the time included the Cars' Greg Hawkes and they ran thru a killer set of old Cars classics and new Ric tunes, with just us weez types for an audience. Greg was all too happy to show our curious minds his vintage keyboard setup, including the Univox MiniKorg responsible for all those shrill leads on the Cars classics. | ||