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-{{Featured article headline|[[60 Wrong Sausages]]}}
+{{Featured article headline|[[Maladroit]]}}
-[[Image:60+Wrong+Sausages today.jpg|150px|right|link=60 Wrong Sausages]]
+[[Image:Weezer Maladroit.jpg|150px|right|link=Maladroit]]
-'''60 Wrong Sausages''' was a precursor to [[Weezer]]. It was founded by [[Rivers Cuomo]], [[Patrick Wilson]], [[Pat Finn]] and [[Jason Cropper]] in [[1991]] in Los Angeles.
+'''''Maladroit''''' is the fourth studio album by Weezer, released on May 14, 2002. The album is known for its "heavy metal" sound, and for the Weezer fanbase's involvement with the recording process.
-WS held only seven practices in total between [[October 20]] and [[November 20]] of 1991, all at a cheap, filthy, and very popular with young starving bands rehearsal place called Fortress in Hollywood. The band rehearsed the performances of material from their ''[[Cholesterol]]'' EP as well as new songs like "[[The Barnaby Jones]]", "[[Tennis Ball]]" and "[[Run the Gamut]]".  Additionally, old [[Bush]] songs like "[[Beyond Life]]" and "[[Crayon Man]]" were rehearsed.  Cuomo's own [[Fuzz]] songs "[[Answer Man]]" and "[[Burn My Britches]]" were rehearsed and finally, the Wilson/Finn song "[[Sheriff Wong]]", which was a song about a member of law enforcement who carried a bong.
+Immediately following the release of ''[[The Green Album]]'', Weezer fired their management, Atlas/Third Rail Management, and longtime manager [[Pat Magnarella]] (Magnarella later sued [https://hitsdailydouble.com/news&id=274861&title=UNDER-NEW-MANAGEMENT], leading to [https://www.dir.ca.gov/dlse/TAC/2001-21%20Rivers%20Cuomo%20et%20al%20v%20Atlas%20Third%20Rail%20mgmt%20inc.pdf a protracted legal battle]). According to [[Karl Koch]], the firing was a "statement of intent" and [[Rivers Cuomo]] felt that the band didn't need management, and could simply fund their next album with their own money and pay themselves back when the album sold. Within mere weeks of the release of ''Green'', the band began recording wholly new songs.
-Over Thanksgiving weekend 1991, the band stayed at Finn's mom's house in Petaluma, and 60 Wrong Sausages played the Phoenix Theater, it's only gig. [[Matt Sharp]], then living in El Cerrito CA (near Berkeley), attended this show, and was captured on video yelling "WHO HOLDS THE SCEPTER?" to the band between songs. The band's name came from an original name of "The Wrong Sausage."  Apparently, one of the band members said: "No, it can't be just one wrong sausage.  It needs to be, like, SIXTY Wrong Sausages!"
+Throughout the process of writing and recording ''Maladroit'', Cuomo began encouraging webmaster [[Karl Koch]] to upload in-progress demos to [[weezer.com]], in order to get feedback and to let the fans decide what direction the album would take. Koch also uploaded soundboard recordings from the [[Midget Tour]]. By the time ''Maladroit'' was completed, the band had uploaded over 150 in-progress MP3s in various states of completion from the Cello sessions alone, in addition to numerous demos from the [[Maladroit Demos|preceding studio sessions]], all without Geffen's awareness or permission.
-{{Featured article links|60 Wrong Sausages}}
+The title "Maladroit" was suggested by a fan by the username of "lethe". Cuomo also admitted in [[Guitar_World_interview_with_Rivers_Cuomo_-_May_2002|an interview with Guitar World]], "I never would have thought to put the song "[[Slob]]" on the record if the fans did not request it." Recording of ''Maladroit'' concluded in February, with additional bonus track recording sessions in April. By February of [[2002]], the band had already begun [[Album 5 Demos|recording demos for their ''next'' album]], well in advance of ''Maladroit'''s May release.
+{{Featured article links|Maladroit}}
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