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 ===Beginnings===
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-Weezer were formed February 14, 1992 at 1711 Stoner Avenue in Los Angeles, California. Although unnamed, Weezer were actually unofficially formed far earlier. The majority of the early Weezer material was written during the [[The 50 Song Project|50 song project]]. Before that, the members of Weezer were playing under the moniker [[60 Wrong Sausages]], with the inclusion of [[Pat Finn]] on vocals. After playing only one show, 60 Wrong Sausages slowly fizzled away as [[Rivers Cuomo]] became more interested in his own new songs and less interested in what the band was doing at the time. It was around this time that [[Patrick Wilson]] also began to shift his musical focus. Striking up a collaborative project, the two began writing Weezer's earliest material.
+In October of 1991, drummer [[Patrick Wilson]] and bassist [[Patrick Finn]] recruited guitarist friends [[Rivers Cuomo]] and [[Jason Cropper]] to form the band [[60 Wrong Sausages]]. Throughout the next two months, the band would practice together several times and work to record a demo tape, named the ''Cholesterol EP''. On November 29, the band performed at the Phoenix Theatre in Petaluma, California in a concert that had been attended by friend of the band [[Matt Sharp]]. After a final practice on December 4, the band would break up and the ''Cholesterol EP'' was never distributed in any form.
-Throughout December 1991 and February 1992, Patrick Wilson and Rivers Cuomo worked diligently on their 50 song project. Having finished with what they considered a reasonable amount of starting material, they showed the collaborations to mutual friend [[Matt Sharp]].
+[[Image:Very early weezer.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Weezer, circa 1992, in one of their first promo photos.]]
-On February 14, Valentine Day, Weezer held their first rehearsal at a local studio. At the time, the band's lineup was:<br>
+During this same time, Wilson and Cuomo began writing songs with the intentions of forming a new, as-of-yet unnamed music project. This was dubbed [[The 50 Song Project]], although such goal was never reached. From November 1991 to February 1992, the two had recorded twenty-seven songs for this project, and Jason Cropper had contributed two songs of his own. Songs such as "[[The World Has Turned and Left Me Here]]," "[[My Name is Jonas]]" and [[Undone (The Sweater Song)]]" were written during this time. Much of the Cuomo-penned songs were compiled into a singular demo tape that was given the name ''[[Weezer (Rivers Cuomo tape)|Weezer]]'', a nickname that his father had given Cuomo as a child due to his regular asthma-induced wheezing.
-Rivers Cuomo - lead vocals, electric guitar<br>
-Patrick Wilson - drums<br>
+On February 14, Cuomo, Wilson, and Cropper recruited Matt Sharp and began practiing songs from their 50 Song Project at a TK Productions rehearsal studio in West Los Angeles. The band rehearsed for three days in a row, with a lineup of Wilson on drums, Cuomo on electric guitar, Cropper on acoustic guitar, and Sharp on bass. The third day of practice, February 16, was recorded by band friend [[Karl Koch]], with this performance of "[[I Can't Forget the Way]]" being informally recognized as the first Weezer song.
-[[Jason Cropper]] - acoustic guitar<br>
-Matt Sharp - bass<br>
-[[Image:Very early weezer.jpg|right|250px|thumb|Weezer, circa 1992, in one of their first promo photos.]]
-Cuomo said, "When we first started practicing, I mean from our very first rehearsal, I thought to myself, 'We're amazing. This is incredible! Everybody's going to love us!" Matt felt differently. "We were doing this just because we liked the music. Not because we were all great at what we did. It was like, 'Wow, we suck. We don't know how to play well and we're not together.' But it was probably the most pure experience I'd been through as far as dealing with people. It was great."
-The band's first ever recording was [[I Can't Forget the Way]]. At the time, some names the band was consider included the old name "Fuzz", "Hummingbird", "This Niblet" and "The Big Jones". Much of this period is chronicled by mutual friend, [[Karl Koch]].
+During this early period, the band had yet to decide on a name. The February 16 rehearsal tape was labelled with several possible band names such as "Hummingbird," "Outhouse," "The Big Jones" and even "[[Fuzz]]," the name of a previous band that featured both Rivers Cuomo and Patrick Wilson.
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