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{{Main|Main article: [[Weezer (The Red Album)]]}} | {{Main|Main article: [[Weezer (The Red Album)]]}} | ||
Shortly after Weezer's last ''Make Believe'' tour, Rivers Cuomo returned to Harvard to finish a degree in English. Pat, meanwhile, set out to work on [[The Special Goodness]] (having scrapped sessions he did a year earlier with Scott Shriner. Brian Bell set out on a brand new project called [[The Relationship]]. With all four members of Weezer off purusing different things, little was spoken of on the Weezer front. In June of 2006, Rivers married [[Kyoko Ito]] and the two honeymooned to Japan. While in Japan, Rivers did an interview with MTV. The article was finally published and its selling point was that Weezer had broken up. Despite Rivers never saying "Weezer have broken up", he did say, "Really, for the moment, we are done. And I'm not certain we'll ever make a record again, unless it becomes really obvious to me that we need to do one." Rivers would later admit that he was peeved to have to do an interview on his honeymoon. Additionally, the interviewer was new. Still, the damage was done, and even well into 2008 many people were under the impression that Weezer had broken up. The band was quick to dismiss the breakup rumors on .com, where Karl posted a picture of Rivers, Brian and Scott sitting around the table. | Shortly after Weezer's last ''Make Believe'' tour, Rivers Cuomo returned to Harvard to finish a degree in English. Pat, meanwhile, set out to work on [[The Special Goodness]] (having scrapped sessions he did a year earlier with Scott Shriner.) Brian Bell set out on a brand new project called [[The Relationship]]. With all four members of Weezer off purusing different things, little was spoken of on the Weezer front. In June of 2006, Rivers married [[Kyoko Ito]] and the two honeymooned to Japan. While in Japan, Rivers did an interview with MTV. The article was finally published and its selling point was that Weezer had broken up. Despite Rivers never saying "Weezer have broken up", he did say, "Really, for the moment, we are done. And I'm not certain we'll ever make a record again, unless it becomes really obvious to me that we need to do one." Rivers would later admit that he was peeved to have to do an interview on his honeymoon. Additionally, the interviewer was new. Still, the damage was done, and even well into 2008 many people were under the impression that Weezer had broken up. The band was quick to dismiss the breakup rumors on .com, where Karl posted a picture of Rivers, Brian and Scott sitting around the table. | ||
In April of 2007, Weezer fans were treated to their first bit of new material in nearly two years when the song "[[Pig]]" leaked as an acoustic home demo on music blogs. It is still entirely unknown how the song managed to get out, but Karl did post a link to the song briefly on Karl's Corner. It is unknown why the link was taken down hours later. The metadata for the track revealed it was a twelve track album entitled ''[[Deliverance at Hand!]]''. Nothing related to ''Deliverance at Hand!'' would be spoken of, or known of, for another year. Around this time, a mysterious website entitled [[Albumsix]] popped up with an image saying "Album 6" that redirected to the official website. At the time, Karl was rather unaware of Weezer happenings and truthfully reported that he had "no idea what this albumsix stuff is about". Also around this time, Rivers wrote a letter on the official website stating that recording for the new Weezer album would begin shortly. Eventually, Albumsix turned into a fake album called ''[[Tout Ensemble]]'', which many major news outlets picked up on. Karl was forced to write the statement: "Please note that Weezer and Geffen Records have no affiliation with www.albumsix.com. The new Weezer record is not called Tout Ensemble and there is no official release date yet for the album. Remember, when it's on Weezer.com, it's for sure. (Though I will say, 'well played', to the authors of that site.)" | In April of 2007, Weezer fans were treated to their first bit of new material in nearly two years when the song "[[Pig]]" leaked as an acoustic home demo on music blogs. It is still entirely unknown how the song managed to get out, but Karl did post a link to the song briefly on Karl's Corner. It is unknown why the link was taken down hours later. The metadata for the track revealed it was a twelve track album entitled ''[[Deliverance at Hand!]]''. Nothing related to ''Deliverance at Hand!'' would be spoken of, or known of, for another year. Around this time, a mysterious website entitled [[Albumsix]] popped up with an image saying "Album 6" that redirected to the official website. At the time, Karl was rather unaware of Weezer happenings and truthfully reported that he had "no idea what this albumsix stuff is about". Also around this time, Rivers wrote a letter on the official website stating that recording for the new Weezer album would begin shortly. Eventually, Albumsix turned into a fake album called ''[[Tout Ensemble]]'', which many major news outlets picked up on. Karl was forced to write the statement: "Please note that Weezer and Geffen Records have no affiliation with www.albumsix.com. The new Weezer record is not called Tout Ensemble and there is no official release date yet for the album. Remember, when it's on Weezer.com, it's for sure. (Though I will say, 'well played', to the authors of that site.)" | ||