Sure you weren't singing backuip vocals on that Love of My Dreams song too?

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I can't wait to listen to the rest of the discography daaamn

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F*** french people!

Since we on french sht, can someone post the french cover rivers did

I tried to find it yesterday to listen to it but i cant remember what its called enough to even attempt to spell it

my goat covering my french goat aka the most beautiful woman ever

Tbh before the recent weezer revival I've had, the last time i listened to weezer was a few months ago

I was on ig and some girl put phoebe bridgers on her story
I been checking to get one of her vinyl, so it reminded me to go to check and i come across that jimmy eat worlds bleed American is on sale for 5 bucks

So i get it and im like lemme listen because its been prob almost decade since i last listened to it

It gets to the authority song

And none other than rachel haden is on the back vocals

Im like "omg, i had forgotten this angelic voice" and immeditaely put on "i just threw out....

The idea being it was all by pure chance

Omg thank you!!!!

you ever got into ozma or the rentals? lowkey kinda hate matt sharp tbh lol

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tagging whoever this post might interest the most as it touches on some jazz

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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

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ok back to sending the demo

holy s*** this is like six degrees of weezer
great find holy s***

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can’t listen to the stuff linked rn but nice read, shame Rivers was named after soccer 🤢 related stuff