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-{{Featured article headline|Amherst House}}
+{{Featured article headline|Songs from the Black Hole}}
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+[[Image:Weezer sftbh fan cover.jpg|250px|right]]
-'''[[The Amherst House]] (2226 Amherst Avenue, Los Angeles)''' was the home of the [[Weezer]] members before their formation and well after their first album.
+'''''Songs from the Black Hole''''' (or '''''SFTBH''''') is an unreleased, unfinished [[Weezer]] album.  This space themed rock opera/musical was originally envisioned as the follow-up album to ''[[Weezer (The Blue Album)|The Blue Album]]'', but the concept was discarded during the course of songwriting/demoing. The project evolved into the album ''[[Pinkerton]]''.  Several of the ''SFTBH'' songs ended up on ''Pinkerton'' or as single b-sides, some of which were slightly altered lyrically or sonically. ''SFTBH'' was, in the words of songwriter [[Rivers Cuomo]], "supposed to be a whole album of songs transed together," meaning a seamless flow from one song to the next.
-On [[March 19]], [[1992]], lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo]], then-bassist [[Matt Sharp]] (fresh from Berkley) and friend of the band [[Justin Fisher]] moved into the Amherst house.  They convinced the land lords that they were UCLA film students and therefore would make a lot of noise.
+The characters of the story were to be [[Jonas]] (voiced by Cuomo), [[Laurel]] (voiced by [[Rachel Haden]] of [[that dog.]]), [[Maria]] (voiced by [[Joan Wasser]] of the Dambuilders), Wuan (voiced by [[Brian Bell]]), Dondo (voiced by [[Matt Sharp]]), and a robot called M1 (voiced by [[Karl Koch]] using a vocoder.). At the time, Wasser was unaware of Cuomo's intention of having her play a role on the album.
-Early band rehearsals and recordings took place at Amherst.  Members began to gravitate to [[The Garage|the garage]] for recording, which was situated next to the kitchen.
+Cuomo explained the plot in an interview for the [[November 15]], [[2007]] issue of [[Rolling Stone]]: "There's this crew - three guys and two girls and a mechanoid - that are on this mission in space to rescue somebody, or something. The whole thing was really an analogy for taking off, going out on the road and up the charts with a rock band, which is what was happening to me at the time I was writing this and feeling like I was lost in space."
-Roommates of the Weezer boys at Amherst also made names for themselves.  Some of the members of [[Wax]], as well as future MTV star [[Johnny Knoxville]] lived there at some point.  In [[2008]], Weezer drove around Los Angeles with Knoxville to promote ''[[The Red Album]]''. While driving around, the band returned back to the Amherst house and discussed some of its history.
+To this day, any and all unreleased ''SFTBH'' material remains a collective holy grail for many Weezer fans.  Over the years several petitions have been started with the aim of making the band release the lost ''SFTBH'' demos much in the same way the [[SS2K]] songs were released; the most recent petition was launched by Weezer fans on [[November 27]], 2005, with the goal of reaching one thousand signatures. It reached its goal on March 1st, 2006.
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