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Featured article: Shmedly

Ryan Maynes, also known as "Shmedly" or "Shmed", was a musician. He was perhaps best-known for his work with the pop band Arlo.

He started playing piano at the age of three, and gave himself the name "Shmedly" at age thirteen because "there were too many Ryans around." Before working with Weezer, he performed with the bands Floor 13, Date with Dizzy, Holliston Stops, Northern Lights, and The Ben Vaughn Desert Classic. In 2002, he was briefly recruited as a session keyboardist for Weezer, and can be heard on various tracks from the recording sessions for the band's intended fifth album.

Maynes also played piano and celesta on the Space Twins' 2003 album The End of Imagining, and the Ozma album Spending Time on the Borderline, also released in 2003. He also played in the band Yes Dear after the departure of Ryen Slegr and Jose Galvez.

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Featured song: "Kings of Money"

"Kings of Money" (also known as "Prodigy Lover") is a Weezer song demoed at multiple points during sessions for the band's fifth album.

The song was first demoed in early 2002 under the name "Prodigy Lover", which would remain its title until November of that year. This demo, performed alone by Rivers Cuomo on an acoustic guitar, would be released in 2020 as part of the digital compilation Alone VIII: The Maladroit Years. Though unconfirmed, it is speculated that the song was written about Matt Sharp, with the "Prodigy" in the title referring to a model of Moog synthesizers played by Sharp. The song was practiced numerous times during early rehearsals for the album that would later become Make Believe, though the song ultimately did not make the cut. One of these rehearsal clips was videotaped and released on the 2004 DVD Video Capture Device, featuring Ryan "Shmedly" Maynes on keyboards. "Kings of Money" was performed live exactly once by Weezer, at an acoustic show at the Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles, California.

A series of revisions throughout 2003 and 2004 ended with "Kings of Money" becoming "I'm A Robot", which was released on Death to False Metal along with three of the other Fallen Soldiers.

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Featured quote: Ryan "Shmedly" Maynes on starting his own studio, May 27, 2010.

"I realized if I had my own studio and my own little band and I lived in a small town and cranked out albums, I'd be happier, I wanted to try to be the big fish in the small pond. Everybody told me I was crazy, they told me that I was blowing my big chance in L.A.

- Ryan Maynes, Missoula Independent Article - May 2010

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L to R: Shmedly, Patrick Wilson, Rivers Cuomo, and Todd Sullivan playing Foosball.
Photo by Karl Koch and "SB".
June 25, 2002
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