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{{Red liner notes|THE WAR ROOM was a badly decorated room adorned with wall to wall mirrors probably normally used for some kind of dance class for bored Malibu house wives. It was stage left as they say in our business behind the MPAC auditorium stage where we recorded the self produced portion of The Red Album. The war room was literally backstage, another popular music biz term. We met there every day during the summer months of 07 around noon, give or take ten minutes for late stragglers. For some reason in this room we included a big screen TV with a couple of video game systems (yes, more than one of those stupid things) hooked to it and a pair of soccer goals at opposite ends of the rectangular box known as the war room. I once played my visiting nephew and whipped the little five year old 6 to 3, obviously I had the home field advantage. Most days Rivers was dressed like a high school gym teacher wearing knee length plaid shorts, white t-shirt and a maroon wind breaker, all that was missing was a whistle around his neck. One day I was late and thought he might have me doing wind sprints in the parking lot. Many songs during this self produced period were quite challenging and deviated from the norm. Butcher paper, masking tape and an arsenal of thick black permanent markers were sent out for. Some days I was assistant coach and helped Rivers tape the butcher paper over the mirrors, other days it was Scott. I can't say I remember Pat ever helping with that, but being the rad drummer he is I see no reason why he should. Many plans of attack were discussed for these challenging tunes and ideas were written in permanent ink. I think the song "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived" used about 20 feet of butcher paper and we discussed how we were going to successfully record it almost as long as actually recording it.<br><br>''Such fond memories,<br>Brian''}} | |||
Weezer's new album sessions began shortly after [[Rick Rubin]] received a copy of ''Deliverance at Hand!'' in Spring 2007. The material was somewhat more experimental than anything Weezer had previously done. At the beginning of the album's creation each Weezer member asked themselves what they wanted to get out of the album. With that in mind, they set out to record. Recording was done in three sessions. Half of the album was recorded during the Spring of 2007 with Rubin overseeing production. Interestingly, Rubin was far less involved with the album than he was in ''Make Believe''. It is uncertain if the band had a falling out, but the band did comment later that he "just sort of stopped showing" up to the sessions. Weezer went on to finish the production of the album themselves in a second recording studio. Finding themselves with an abundance of experimental (by Weezer standards) material, Geffen told Weezer that the album lagged and was too slow. This forced Weezer to enter into a third session in which two new songs were recorded with [[Jacknife Lee]]: "Troublemaker" and "[[Pork and Beans]]". | Weezer's new album sessions began shortly after [[Rick Rubin]] received a copy of ''Deliverance at Hand!'' in Spring 2007. The material was somewhat more experimental than anything Weezer had previously done. At the beginning of the album's creation each Weezer member asked themselves what they wanted to get out of the album. With that in mind, they set out to record. Recording was done in three sessions. Half of the album was recorded during the Spring of 2007 with Rubin overseeing production. Interestingly, Rubin was far less involved with the album than he was in ''Make Believe''. It is uncertain if the band had a falling out, but the band did comment later that he "just sort of stopped showing" up to the sessions. Weezer went on to finish the production of the album themselves in a second recording studio. Finding themselves with an abundance of experimental (by Weezer standards) material, Geffen told Weezer that the album lagged and was too slow. This forced Weezer to enter into a third session in which two new songs were recorded with [[Jacknife Lee]]: "Troublemaker" and "[[Pork and Beans]]". | ||