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{{Featured quote code 3|headline=An example of {{PN|Rivers Cuomo}} negotiation tactics, pre-''[[Maladroit]]''.|image=[[Image:Emptylogo.png|100px|link= ]]|article=[[LA Times interview with Weezer - May 21, 1995|an ''LA Times'' interview from May 1993]]|quote= | |||
Nobody in the band expected Weezer to take off. Cuomo, who arrived in Los Angeles from Connecticut with [[Avant Garde|his hometown band]] right after high school in March, [[1989]], planned to continue riding his bike to [[Santa Monica College]] every day until the band completely failed. Then he would transfer to Berkeley as an English major. | |||
But the band began to generate a buzz in club circles in 1993. Record company scouts flirted with them, talked of signing them, then mostly disappeared, muttering something about a band called [[Green Day]]. | |||
“Every label was flipping out over them,” [[Matt|Sharp]] says. “We kept hearing their name over and over and over again.” | |||
Even [[Geffen Records]] at first passed on Weezer but eventually found itself the only major label still interested in the group. Negotiations also suddenly turned strange when the cleanshaven Cuomo showed up at the label’s offices one day wearing a thick, Marlboro Man mustache. | |||
“I like to disturb people with my image,” Cuomo says. “That was really strange. I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror. When I went in to meet with Geffen about the album cover, I told the art director all four of us were going to have these mustaches. She was really upset and disturbed. From then on we had to work with another art director.” |person=Steve Appleford|source=[[LA Times interview with Weezer - May 21, 1995]]|sourcelink=[[LA Times interview with Weezer - May 21, 1995|see full article]]}} | |||
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