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On March 19, 1992, Rivers Cuomo and Matt Sharp moved into [[Amherst House|2226 Amherst Avenue]] | On March 19, 1992, Rivers Cuomo and Matt Sharp, along with friend [[Justin Fisher]], moved into a house at [[Amherst House|2226 Amherst Avenue]] in Los Angeles.<ref name="first show" /> The building's garage soon became the regular home for band rehearsals. On the same day that Cuomo and Sharp moved in to their new home, Cuomo phoned the [[Raji's]] nightclub in hopes of finding a concert to play. That night, the band [[Dogstar]] was performing and needed more bands to fill the night's lineup. Cuomo accepted and the band began seriously discussing a name. Cuomo suggested "Weezer" and the rest of the band accepted the distinctive name. Weezer's first performance took place after Dogstar's, meaning that the majority of the audience had already left by the time Weezer took stage. While the exact number is unknown, somewhere between twenty and twenty-five people remained in attendance for the band's half-hour set. Seventeen of those audience members were friends of the band.<ref name="first show">Koch, Karl. ''Super Chrono'', archived from weezer.com. https://www.weezerpedia.com/wiki/Historic_event:_03/19/1992</ref> | ||
Weezer continued to play clubs around Los Angeles throughout the remainder of 1992. Shows were an excellent format for the band to test new songs and figure out which ones worked for the band and which ones were not of the direction they were interested in pursuing. The band found it increasingly frustrating that their shows were not turning up more fans. Rivers himself was dumbfounded that songs like [[Undone - The Sweater Song|Undone]] and [[Say It Ain't So]] were not drawing larger crowds. Large following or not, the band did manage to draw the attention of two sisters, [[Mykel and Carli Allan]]. Said the two, "''July 9, 1992 we were at Club Dump (Johnny Depp bought the place, called it the Viper Room, River Phoenix died there) to see a good band Crux (No longer a band). At someone's suggestion we stuck around to see the next band Weezer.''" The next day, at the birthday party of Bryan Ray (of Black Market Flowers), Mykel noticed the long haired guy sitting alone--it was Rivers Cuomo, whom she recognized from the night previous. The two began to strike up a conversation and it was not long before a strong friendship between Weezer and the sisters was formed. As time went on, Rivers began to work on a song called "Please Pick Up the Phone", which eventually morphed into "[[Mykel and Carli (Weezer song)|Mykel & Carli]]". | Weezer continued to play clubs around Los Angeles throughout the remainder of 1992. Shows were an excellent format for the band to test new songs and figure out which ones worked for the band and which ones were not of the direction they were interested in pursuing. The band found it increasingly frustrating that their shows were not turning up more fans. Rivers himself was dumbfounded that songs like [[Undone - The Sweater Song|Undone]] and [[Say It Ain't So]] were not drawing larger crowds. Large following or not, the band did manage to draw the attention of two sisters, [[Mykel and Carli Allan]]. Said the two, "''July 9, 1992 we were at Club Dump (Johnny Depp bought the place, called it the Viper Room, River Phoenix died there) to see a good band Crux (No longer a band). At someone's suggestion we stuck around to see the next band Weezer.''" The next day, at the birthday party of Bryan Ray (of Black Market Flowers), Mykel noticed the long haired guy sitting alone--it was Rivers Cuomo, whom she recognized from the night previous. The two began to strike up a conversation and it was not long before a strong friendship between Weezer and the sisters was formed. As time went on, Rivers began to work on a song called "Please Pick Up the Phone", which eventually morphed into "[[Mykel and Carli (Weezer song)|Mykel & Carli]]". | ||