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-{{Featured article headline|Scott Shriner Fan Interview 2008}}
+{{Featured article headline|Avant Garde}}
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+[[Image:Zoom 3.jpg|300px|right]]
-'''The following questions are only selections of the full interview. See the full thing <u>''[[Scott Shriner Fan Interview 2008|here]]</u>!'''''
+'''[[Avant Garde]]''' (later known as '''Zoom''') was a progressive heavy metal band from Connecticut. It was [[Weezer]] lead singer [[Rivers Cuomo|Rivers Cuomo's]] first serious attempt at being a musician.
-{{Interviewer| Kim, NJ |Out of The Blue Album, Pinkerton, and The Green Album - which one album do you wish you could've been a member of the band for? Why?}}
-{{Scott|Wow, that's a tough one. I wouldn’t change one thing- including adding myself on any of those records. }}
-{{Interviewer|Jason in Los Angeles, California & Eric from Roanoke Virginia|How were you selected to become a part of Weezer? did you audition or what? did you have to show what you could do musically? Also, what song did you play? Basically what was the audition process like? Thank you for your time!}}
-{{Scott|Hey, you guys. Thanks for the question. I was purely a fill in at first.  The band was getting ready to demo songs for Maladroit, so they didn’t want me to learn any old songs.. Rivers showed me the songs on the spot. I guess learning them on the fly helped prove myself, but I think it was fate.  I just played how I play. I  came in as myself. It worked. Be yourself. }}{{Interviewer| lordofthemanor, albumsix.com|Of the many tracks that weren't chosen to be on Make Believe, which were your favorites? Are there any you wish made the album?}}
-{{Scott|I really liked a lot of the songs that didn’t make the record. One of my favorite was called “I'm Losing My Mind” we also did a cover that I can’t mention but I have the master safe and sound.}}
+Cuomo formed Avant Garde in 1985 with a childhood friend of his named [[Justin Fisher]]. Although the two had both just formed another band, [[Fury]], they both agreed they wanted to play a heavier type of music. The two began writing as members drifted in and out. At the time, Cuomo was writing his own guitar parts as well as covering Metallica and [[Fates Warning]]. Eventually, Cuomo and Fisher would call the band Avant Garde. Cuomo has since said, "We were anything but."
+On [[December 12]], [[December 13|13]] and [[December 18|18]] of 1987, Avant Garde recorded six new songs at Trod Nossel studios in Wallingford, Connecticut. It cost the band $288.37. This first professional demo was known as [[The Purple Demo]] for it's purple label.
-{{Featured article links|Scott Shriner Fan Interview 2008}}
+The band moved to Los Angeles together in 1988, and quickly changed their name to Zoom. Despite this new effort, however, the group soon disbanded as the members began pursuing other projects.
+{{Featured article links|Avant Garde}}
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