Draft:Weezer Recording Chronology: 1998-1999

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The Weezer Recording Chronology (WRC) is an attempt by Weezerpedia to create a successor to the Recording History, a detailed list of every demo, bootleg, and studio recording by the band Weezer and any directly associated bands, written by Karl Koch from the years of 2000 to 2011. Pages are separated by years. 
This page details the years 1998 and 1999. It contains demos and other projects recorded during Weezer's first hiatus.
== 1998 ==
=== Seven More Minutes mixing at Fort Apache Studios, winter 1998 ===
=== "American Girls", winter 1998 ===
This version of "American Girls" was released on March 24, 1998. It was recorded by Matt Sharp in Boston, and, as well as featuring all four members of Weezer at the time, features instrumentation from Yuval Gabay and Sebastian Steinburg of Soul Coughing, guitar by Greg Brown of Cake, and additional vocals from childhood friends Justin Fisher and Adam Orth as well as Geffen A&R representative Todd Sullivan. It is, to date, the final recording to feature the Weezer lineup of Rivers Cuomo, Brian Bell, Pat Wilson, and Sharp.
=== Riffs mit Adam and Writing Tape, January 1998 ===
This is the first of several "writing tapes" recorded by Cuomo throughout 1998.
=== Seven More Minutes recording wraps up, winter-summer 1998 ===
After the Fort Apache mixing, Sharp returned to California to finish the album. While recording for the album would end that summer, Maverick Records were constantly asking Sharp to change things that he was refusing to change, as well as the constant re-mixing and modifying of songs by Sharp, both delaying the album several times before its release on April 13, 1999.
=== Weezer demos, late February 1998 ===
By this time, after several trips to London, UK and back to work on the upcoming second Rentals album throughout 1996 and 1997, Sharp had fully left Weezer. Tryouts for new bass players would commence throughout the next few months, including former 60 Wrong Sausages bass player Pat Finn. When it came time to record new demos at Fox Force Five in Hollywood, however, the band was left without a bass player.
=== Bed, March 9-15, 1998 ===
=== Rivers demos, March 1998 ===
==== Rivers's Sketch Tape, March 11, 1998 ====
==== Miscellaneous Rivers demos, March 1998 ====
=== Rivers's Sketch Tape, May 1998 ===
=== Weezer demos with Mikey, May-November 1998 ===
After tryouts for several bass players, Mikey Welsh (formerly of Lovely) was chosen to be Weezer's new bass player late spring, moving into a townhouse with Wilson and Cuomo in Hollywood. Rehearsals started at Cole Rehearsals then moved to TK Productions & Rehearsal Studios in the summer. These are also closely tied to the later TK(X) Cuomo demos; a few of them are likely actually Weezer demos.
=== C demos, Mid 1998 ===
=== Rivers's Sketch Tape, June 1998 ===
=== TK(X) demos, June-December 1998 ===
These were a set of demos recorded at TK Productions & Rehearsal Studios in Los Angeles. Some of these recordings are suspected to be with Weezer, while others are clearly solo Cuomo demos. There were two groups of these recordings: TK and TKX. The distinction between the two is unclear.