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that dog. are an LA band from 92 and dropped their first album in 93, this was around weezer got signed and was working on the blue album - they were doing club shows and what not and opened for that dog, at that time rivers even wrote a song about them titled “punk rock girl” which he demoed, it was never heard of until now he coded his own website and sells his demos on his market

on that first album they dropped that dog had a video shot by spike jonze, it’s not a reach to assume that from this to the undone and buddy holly videos shot by spike jonze, there was prolly some link and spike heard of weezer through that dog or what not which led to that

what’s interesting about that dog is they are all females but one guy in the band and most of them are daughters of important ppl: the singer i believe is the daughter of a producer, but most importantly and what picks our interest here is rachel the bassist of the band is the daughter of charlie haden

may he rest in peace- for those unaware charlie was a longtime prolific jazz bassist that goes back to the 50s and a contributor to the free jazz and avant garde jazz scene with his work with ornette coleman, he is indeed the bassist on this iconic and very important album to jazz culture:

(fun fact one of rachel sisters is now married to jack black! all of haden’s daughters do sing together too)

ofc as the blue album came out and took over the world like a hurricane, that dog were now the ones opening for weezer, rivers still had them in mind and was grateful - before the follow up to the blue album became the legendary pinkerton it was first a space rock opera fully fletched out with multiple characters of different genders that had each singers attributed to these roles with one of them being rachel haden as laurel, the project was titled songs from the black hole

but that’s it for that, if i get into that im gonna digress hardcore, the reason I bring this up and charlie haden’s legacy and own work is because rivers father himself was a great altho short lived jazz musician too

frank cuomo was a jazz drummer in the sixties to seventies, never went big but nether less found a spot on a 1970 wayne shorter album, a blue note record none the less! the most iconic jazz label, and boy did he killed that b****, here is a song where he snaps out and does a dope ass drum solo at 3 minutes mark:

it seems to be the only notable recording we know of in which he is credited

this was recorded two months after rivers birth, he was the one who got rivers obsessed over soccer - he missed rivers birth to stay home and watch the 1970 world cup live on tv, in fact he named rivers after the three stars of the 1970 world cup: riva (italy), rivera (italy) and rivelino (brazil) - rivers was born with a leg shorter than the other, it didn’t stop him to play soccer and trying to go pro but either his shorter leg stopped him from entering that or he had an injury that stopped him I don’t recall, but this is actually what led him to become full time musician, if not for that weezer probably would’ve never happened?

after the blue albums success he went under surgery to correct his leg which got him in a hospital bed and walking around a cane, if you’re familiar you’ve already guessed that this sounds like the lyrics of the good life mf that’s because that what the songs about and when it was written, the xray photo of his broken bone was used as the back cover of the ep of the good life

frank disappeared from rivers and his brother’s life and moved to germany where he had another kid who himself went semi pro on soccer, it runs in the family

but they’ve since reconnected and made peace, some years ago in 2015 frank got on stage for the first time with rivers:

frank is the subject of some of the most crucial weezer song, such as say it ain’t so

Tbh lmao

honestly, i think the last time i ever saw her was when we went to see weezer. So it began and ended at a weezer show. A fitting end.

my brother

what was the set list???

you should hit her up again “hey ok human dropping soon”

Stage dude f***ed it up taking it from the stage but at least i have most of it

OO MAN WTF DUDE EVEN HAS THE PHYSICAL SETLIST

woah this is a memories tour show !!!!! so you did keep come back post mb

hey do you remember the chewie cardboard that was on stage during that tour???

@Ithaka
have u ever made a post in here about Weezer Cruise? That would be an interesting one
I remember when a bunch of bands were doing that, Paramore had a cruise too lmao

this video always crushed me

forbidden knowledge

yeah but it was just for those shows really specifically

after that show i made the decision to never see them again. that’s actually probably more or less when i basically quit weezer until white album came out

so i learned/worked out friend of a friend today (thus the reason i went to my closet to dig out my guitar)

i think i got the chords close but anyway, if u want to see and hear s*** singing, i put a clip on my stories

instagram.com/stories/prettyhow/2486729832449297478?igshid=ccu6xdrjjh8g

maybe that’ll work

that’s a great idea! will do that next, finishing the one i promised u some week ago when u mentioned that dog

lets GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

GOAT

i was the one with my friends who got the chewie cardboard up there and the first to sign it

did this leak??

it’s a demo rivers did and abandonned from the white album era

Pinkerton in full GOAT s***

what demo are you talking ab?

wait he used this idea for living in la

“looking for a fight 4” with the kanye west sample

looks like he pick on the chorus yeah

it’s not abandonned ig just morphed but really it’s so different it might as well be a whole other song, wish we had this kind of stuff on black would’ve been hard, love livin in la tho so it’s all cool

you wanna hear the white era demo with kanye sample? ima tag more ppl later and send it im at barber rn

he originally wrote looking for a fight in 2003 and reworked it 12 years later