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Valley Forge

"Valley Forge" is a song by Rivers Cuomo.
===Appearances===
*Alone VI: The Black Room (2020)
==Overview==
"Valley Forge" was recorded in 1999.Weezer Recording History - Page 11 The song was among hundreds of Cuomo's demos leaked through the demo storefront on riverscuomo.com on November 7, 2020. It was soon thereafter released as part of the digital compilation Alone VI: The Black Room on November 22.
==Lyrics==
Wait
Come back here
Persevere
Don't give up
Wait
In the year
Frozen fear
I'm fed up
Wait, whatever you do
Wait, the best of our crew
Wait, it's all on the line
And we ain't got much time
Left to lose
Wait
Come back here
Come with fear
Don't give up
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
*Alone VI: The Black Room
==References==
Category:Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Songs on Alone VI: The Black RoomCategory:Catalog o' Riffs
Valley of a Thousand Dreams

Valley of a Thousand Dreams is a song performed live by Ozma in 2024. 
== Overview ==
The song was first played at an acoustic concert featuring Ryen Slegr and Daniel Brummel on September 22, 2024. Its first and only performance with Ozma was during the second of three shows at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California the same year. This performance also featured Slegr and Brummel on acoustic guitars. The song was originally released in 2011 on Mike & Ryen: Omar Chu Demos.
== Video ==
<youtube>vEUXd5x71ec</youtube>
== Lyrics ==
In the land that time forgot
There were things that we both thought
How the world's supposed to be, and you were meant for me
Words that we said and we can't say again
But they're written in my soul
We were just kids
Having fun
On the run from the future
Down with them and
Take a stand
For the kids in the future
In the valley of a thousand dreams
In the shadows underneath my tree
We could sit and watch the world go by and never say goodbye
Words that we said and we can't say again
But they're written in my soul
We were just kids
Having fun
On the run from the future
Down with them and
Take a stand
For the kids in the future
The future
The future
In the valley, in the
In the valley of a thousand dreams
In the valley of a thousand dreams
We were just kids
Having fun
On the run from the future
Down with them and
Take a stand
For the kids in the future
The future
The future
The future in the valley of a thousand dreams
== See also ==
*List of Ozma songs
Category:Ozma
Category:Ozma songs
Category:Slegr-Brummel writing credit
Vans Warped Tour

The Vans Warped Tour is a touring summer music and extreme sports festival that has toured annually since 1995. Weezer performed on seven dates of the tour in 2000.
==Tour dates==
*06/23/2000 Fresno, CA - Fresno State Ampitheatre
*06/24/2000 San Diego, CA - Coors Ampitheatre Lot
*06/25/2000 Phoenix, AZ - Manzanita Speedway
*06/28/2000 Ventura, CA - Ventura County Fairgrounds
*06/29/2000 Anaheim, CA - Arrowhead Pond
*06/30/2000 Anaheim, CA - Arrowhead Pond
*07/01/2000 San Francisco, CA - Pier 30/32
==Vans Warped Tour 2000 lineup==
 (North Stage)
*AFI														
*A.N.I.M.A.L.														
*Anti-Flag														
*Avail														
*Beatsteaks														
*Bif Naked														
*Deviates														
*Flogging Molly														
*Gob														
*Green Day														
*Hepcat														
*Kottonmouth Kings													
*Long Beach Dub All-Stars												
*Lunachicks														
*The Mighty Mighty Bosstones												
*Morgan Heritage													
*The Muffs														
*No Doubt														
*NOFX															
*One Minute Silence													
*Papa Roach														
*Save Ferris														
*Six Feet Under														
*Skarhead														
*Snapcase														
*The Stingrays														
*Suicide Machines													
*Weezer
Category: Weezer tours
Vegeterrorists

Vegeterrorists (or Veggiterrorists) was a moniker briefly used by Rivers Cuomo in the early 90s for an unreleased rap project. The name was listed in the Weezer Recording History alongside a song title called "Black Fur in the Hour of Chaos". Former Weezer guitarist Jason Cropper recalled the project in a 2019 Rolling Stone article:Hiatt, Brian. "The Strange Birth and Near Death of Weezer." Rolling Stone. 28 August 2019. https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/weezer-blue-album-25th-anniversary-877089/
Cuomo decided he would write 50 songs in a row before allowing himself to form another band or play live again. He moved to Santa Monica, started attending college there, and recorded demo after demo on an eight-track cassette recorder. He wrote only 30 or so songs, but among them were “Undone – The Sweater Song” and other eventual Weezer tracks. Cropper says that around this time, Cuomo also made an entire, never-released rap album under the name Vegeterrorists – songs about his lifelong vegetarianism in styles akin to Public Enemy and Run-DMC. “Rivers can drop mad beats and spit mad rhymes with the best,” says Cropper. “And if I stayed in the band, we would’ve done records like that years ago.” (The only released evidence of this period is a striking demo of Cuomo covering Ice Cube’s “The Bomb” like a one-man Rage Against the Machine.)
In a Facebook Q&A held for members of the Weezer Fan Club on August 2, 2020, Karl Koch briefly discussed Veggiterrorists, explaining that "Black Fur in the Hour of Chaos" was Cuomo's attempt at a vegetarian-themed rap song in the style of Public Enemy (the title being a riff on the Public Enemy song "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos"). Said Koch:
In 2020, as part of an assignment for a web programming course, Cuomo created a wiki titled Riverpedia, which included an entry for a person named Roger Marinelli (one of Cuomo's roommates at Poinsettia Place in Los Angeles), who Cuomo described as "his partner in the Vegeterrorists" and, as Cuomo added, "Generally thought to be the better rapper of the two."
==See also==
*Rivers Cuomo
*"The Bomb"
==References==
Category:Rivers Cuomo
Velouria

"Velouria" is the third track and first single from the Pixies album Bossanova. Weezer recorded a cover of the song in 1998.
==Overview==
"Velouria" was originally recorded by the alt-rock band The Pixies, who Rivers Cuomo has cited as an influence on Weezer's early sound. The band recorded a cover of the song in August of 1998, which was included on the 1999 compilation, Where Is My Mind? A Tribute To The Pixies. The track is, notably, the first officially-released Weezer recording to feature Mikey Welsh on bass.
The liner notes of the compilation misspell co-producer Rich Mouser's name as "Rich Moser".
==Personnel==
*Rivers Cuomo - lead guitar, lead vocals
*Pat Wilson - drums
*Brian Bell - rhythm guitar, backing vocals
*Mikey Welsh - bass, backing vocals
==Audio==
<youtube>vo9-NuvN028</youtube>
==Lyrics== 
Hold my head 
We'll trampoline 
Finally through the roof 
And on to somewhere near 
And far in time 
Velouria 
Her covering 
Travelling career 
She can really move 
Oh velveteen
My Velouria, my Velouria 
Even I'll adore you, my Velouria
Even I'll adore you, my Velouria
Say to me
Where have you been?
Finally through the roof 
And how does lemur skin 
Reflect the sea?
Velouria
Where have you been?
My Velouria, my Velouria 
Even I'll adore you, my Velouria
Even I'll adore you
We'll wade in the shine of the ever 
We'll wade in the shine of the ever 
We'll wade in the tides of the summer 
Every summer, Every
My Velouria, my Velouria 
Forever green
I know she's here
In California
I can see the tears 
Of Shastasheen
My Velouria, my Velouria 
Even I'll adore you, my Velouria
Even I'll adore you, my Velouria
Even I'll adore you, my Velouria
==See also==
* List of Weezer songs
*List of Weezer cover songs
==External Links==
Teenage Victory Songs entry for "Velouria"
Category: Weezer songs
Category:Cover songs
Category:Self-produced Weezer songs
Category:Weezer songs produced by Todd Sullivan
Category:Weezer songs produced by Rich Mouser
Category:Book-end tracks
Velvet Elvis

"Velvet Elvis" is the fifth track from Carnival Art's 1989 album "Like Nobody's Business."
==Lyrics==
Dropped to my knees
Soon a missionary blessed
Seen a man in a large hat and a bulletproof vest
Stubbed my toe
Thrown my fist
I wipe my tears on your 
Velvet Elvis
Look through your cracks
Through your picket fence
Lost hours last week, lost dollars and sense
Open my eyes up, ducked and missed
I wipe my tears on your 
Velvet Elvis
First time it broke
The second it died
In your den of iniquity, on your bed of lies
Open your mouth, I took the fifth
I wipe my tears on your
Velvet Elvis
Don't walk away
Don't leave me behind
Don't walk on me
Don't tread on me
Don't second guess me
Don't try to impress me
Don't alleviate me
Don't humiliate me
Don't analyse me
Don't rationalize me
Don't walk away
Don't walk away
Don't leave me behind
Don't persecute me
Don't try and hoop me
Don't consitute me
Don 't slap or shoot
I wipe my tears
I wipe my tears
I wipe my tears
I wipe my tears
On a
On a
On a
Velvet Elvis
A hunk of burning looks
In a heartbreak hotel
Somebody tell me where a lightswitch is
==See also==
*List of Carnival Art songs
Category:Carnival Art songs
Category:Carnival Art
Category:Songs on Like Nobody's Business
Category:Self-produced Carnival Art songs
Victorious

"Victorious" was the second single by American rock band (and Weezer labelmate) Panic! at the Disco for the album Death of a Bachelor. The song was cowritten by Rivers Cuomo, Mike Viola, and frequent Weezer collaborator and producer Jake Sinclair. Sinclair is also credited on the song as a backing vocalist and producer. Suzy Shinn is credited as an additional producer, engineer and backing vocalist.
Cuomo's contribution was reused from a 2015 demo titled "Turn Up the Crazy."
===Appearances===
*Death of a Bachelor (2016)
*All My Friends We're Glorious (2017)
==Overview==
"Victorious" was the first Panic! at the Disco single to hit the Billboard Pop Songs chart since their 2006 hit "I Write Sins Not Tragedies". The song peaked on Billboard's US Hot Rock & Alternative Songs at number 7, making it the first Rivers Cuomo written song to break the top 10 on that chart since (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To and the first to break it to the Mainstream Top 40 since Magic (B.o.B song).
==Audio==
<youtube>AUChk0lxF44</youtube>
==See also==
*Crazy=Genius
*Turn Up the Crazy
*Freckles
Category:Songs featuring contributions by Rivers Cuomo
Victory

"Victory" is a demo by Rivers Cuomo.
===Appearances===
*Alone IX: The Make Believe Years (2020)
==Overview==
"Victory" was demoed by Cuomo in 2003 or 2004. The song shares its verse melody with "I Don't Want Your Loving", though it is not known which song was recorded first. "Victory" was released as part of the demo compilation Alone IX: The Make Believe Years in 2020.
==Lyrics==
In my youth, I was tough
I enjoyed being rough
I would fight anyone
Just to climb one more rung
Now I don't want to struggle anymore
So I lay down my worries at your door
Oh, victory
This is my happiest day
Take all my troubles away
Cause' I feel like I've already won
I was strong, I was mean
I could ride in-between
Now I can't hide my feelings anymore
So I throw wide open every door
Oh, victory
This is my happiest day
Take all my troubles away
Cause' I feel like I've already won
Cause' I can't hide my feelings anymore
So I throw wide open every door
Oh, victory
This is my happiest day
Take all my troubles away
Cause' I feel like I've already won
Oh, victory
This is my happiest day
Take all my troubles away
Cause' I feel like I've already won
Feel like I've already won
I feel like I've already won
I feel like I already won
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Rivers Cuomo songsCategory:Songs on Alone IX: The Make Believe Years
Victory on the Hill

"Victory on the Hill" is the first track on Alone II.
===Appearances===
*Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo (2008)
==Overview==
"Victory on the Hill" is an all-trumpet instrumental written and performed by Rivers Cuomo in late 1993. Its all-trumpet sequel, "Defeat on the Hill", was written and recorded between touring for the Blue Album in mid-1994.
==Audio==
<youtube>rIgBlOYCt7g</youtube>
==See also==
* List of Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Songs that appeared on the 4 and 5 Star Demos of Rivers Cuomo list
Category:Instrumentals
Category:Songs on Alone II
Category:Self-produced Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Alone series
Vin's F*****g Uncensored Blog interview with Karl Koch - July 13, 2007

friday, july 13, 2007
This week's guest: Karl Koch...
Karl Koch is the official archivist for the rock band Weezer. As a longtime friend of the band since 1991, Koch has performed many jobs for the band over the years including roadie and historian. His production credits include the band's DVD, "Video Capture Device" and videos for "Pink Triangle", "Photograph", "Slob" and the video for The Special Goodness' "Life Goes By" of which Weezer's Pat Wilson is a member. Karl Koch also has in his possession one of the only full copies of the unreleased Weezer songs that were to be collaborated on Songs from the Black Hole (an album that Weezer fans have been hoping for the release of since it became known) and hundreds and hundreds of other unreleased Weezer recordings as well as over 10,000 LPs in his personal record archive. He is very involved with the band but is rarely seen. He is often concidered the 5th member due to all of his many contributions to the band. Karl appears in Weezer's 2006 music video for "Perfect Situation" as well as the 1995 video for "Say It Ain't So." Koch writes his own experimental/electronica music as "Karlophone" (www.karlophone.com). His 2002 LP "Press Any Key to Begin" has received some attention for its creativity and innovation. More recently, Karlophone has released a 7" record titled "Desire". His latest album, "I Must Find This Karlophone" has also recently been released by CDBaby. And now on to the interview:
==See Also==
*Original article (archive)
*Karl Koch
*Karlophone
*Albumsix
*Songs from the Black Hole
*Video Capture Device
Category:Interviews
Category:Transcripts
Category:Karl Koch Interviews
Vipassana

Vipassana meditation is one of the world's most ancient techniques of meditation. The word comes from Sanskrit for "to see things as they really are." Vipassana has been taught - starting in India - for more than 2500 years ago as a universal remedy for universal ills, an "Art of Living." Rivers Cuomo practices Vipassana meditation roughly two hours every day.
==Rivers Cuomo and Vipassana==
Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo, on the advice of producer Rick Rubin, became involved in Vipassana in February 2003, during the early stages of the making of Make Believe.
From an essay by Rivers Cuomo:
 During this latest swing towards spirituality, however, I started a practice at Rick Rubin's suggestion which may help me achieve some balance: meditation. I was averse to the idea, initially. My goal in trying all the crazy experiments in my life has always been to improve, maintain, or recover my connection to music. Meditation, it seemed to me, would rob me of the angst that I believed was an essential precondition to that connection. With little to lose, however, I took the chance. I experienced immediate benefits.
 The technique I was drawn to is called Vipassana. It is taught around the world at over one hundred centers... I started the practice fourteen months ago, attending seven ten-day courses and serving as a volunteer at two. Since then, I have found that the areas of tension in my mind - the fear, the anger, the sadness, the craving - are slowly melting away. I am left with a more pristine mind, more sharp and sensitive than I previously imagined possible. I am more calm and stable. My concentration and capacity to work have increased greatly. I feel like I am finally much closer to reaching my potential."''
===Dan Harris interview===
<youtube>IU_3KRd0U9Q</youtube>
==Philosophy==
In the Pali language of the early Buddhist texts, vipassana means insight. It is often used to describe one of the two main categories of Buddhist meditation (the other being samatha or tranquillity). The term may correctly be applied to any Buddhist meditation technique that aims for a complete understanding of the Three Characteristics - dukkha (suffering or unsatisfactoriness), anicca (impermanence) and anatta (not-Self).
==See also==
*Make Believe
*"Pardon Me"
*Rick Rubin
==External links==
*Official website of S.N Goenka's Vipassana organization
*Vipassana at Wikipedia
Category:Influences
Category:Rivers Cuomo
Visions of Anna

"Visions of Anna" is the third track from the EP Puckett's Versus the Country Boy by Matt Sharp. 
==Overview==
"Visions of Anna" was originally debuted during acoustic sets at Rentals shows in Japan in 1999. The song was later repurposed for Matt Sharp's solo projects.
==Personnel==
==Audio==
<youtube>uR-P6dZjyqk</youtube>
==Lyrics==
In the red room at night
The moans of lovers brush the blinds
A howl of curses intertwined
As I betray a good friend of mine
Visions of Anna make me cry
In the red room at night
All the bodies lay like human vines
A moan of curses intertwines
As the light left my eyes
Visions of Anna make me cry
She holds Amanda to her side
The sweetness of our youth has died
Visions of better times
Yeah, the better times
Red room sunlight
Your contact lenses have dried up and died
There's always something left behind
In the red room at night
Visions of Anna make me cry
==See also==
*List of Matt Sharp songs
Category: Matt Sharp
Viva la Vida

"Viva la Vida" is the twelfth track on the deluxe edition of Hurley.
===Appearances===
*Hurley (Deluxe Edition) (2010)
==Overview==
"Viva la Vida" is a cover of a song originally performed by the English alternative rock band Coldplay. It was written by all members of the band for their fourth album, Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends. "Viva la Vida" means "Long live life" in Spanish. Weezer lead singer Rivers Cuomo performed the song live on October 28, 2009 for an I Heart Radio "Stripped" performance in New York.
==Video/Audio==
<youtube>JHjXt6vJhn</youtube> <youtube>7srr8XJwNnI</youtube> 
==Lyrics==
I used to rule the world
Seas would rise when I gave the word
Now in the morning I sleep alone
Sweep the streets I used to own
I used to roll the dice
Feel the fear in my enemy's eyes
Listened as the crowd would sing
Now the old king is dead long live the king
One minute I held the key
Next the walls were closed on me
And I discovered that my castles stand
Upon pillars of salt and pillars of sand
I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
Missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
Once you'd gone there was never
Never an honest word
And that was when I ruled the world
It was a wicked and wild wind
Blew down the doors to let me in
Shattered windows and the sound of drums
People couldn't believe what I'd become
Revolutionaries wait
For my head on a silver plate
Just a puppet on a lonely string
Oh who would ever want to be king?
I hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword, my shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
I know St Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
Hear Jerusalem bells a-ringing
Roman cavalry choirs are singing
Be my mirror, my sword and shield
My missionaries in a foreign field
For some reason I can't explain
I know St Peter won't call my name
Never an honest word
But that was when I ruled the world
==See also==
*List of Weezer songs
Category:Weezer songs
Category:Bonus tracks
Category:Songs on Hurley
Category:Cover songs
Volume Nine

Volume Nine was a compilation CD released in 1994. It was included in the ninth issue of the British periodical magazine Volume. It contains an early, alternate mix of "One Summer Night", a song from their second album, Totally Crushed Out!.
==Track listing==
#"Wheels" - Mark Lanegan
#"Sharks Patrol These Waters" - Morphine
#"One Summer Night" - That Dog
#"Soda Jerk" - Beffalo Tom
#"Black Sheep Boy" - Paul Weller
#"Roland Navigator" - Madder Rose
#"Doctor's Orders" (Thurston vocal) - Sonic Youth
#"Gas Fish" - Wagon Christ
#"Emile" - Pressure Of Speech
#"Aqualung" - Spooky
#"Life's What You Make It" - The Divine Comedy
#"How" - The Cranberries
#"Her" - Thundersticks
#"Close your Eyes" Kristin Hersh
#"Whisky Priests" - Jah Wobble
#"New World Order" - Fun-Da-Mental
#"Suspend" - Rub Ultra
#"Daisy" - Blessed Ethel
#"Top Of The World" - Compulsion
==See also==
*4AD FAQ (scroll down a bit)
Category:That Dog compilation appearances
Category:1994 releases
Volunteers

"Volunteers" is a song by Rivers Cuomo. Demos of the song were released in 2020 as part of the digital compilation Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years.
===Appearences===
*Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years (2020)
==Overview==
"Volunteers" was one of many songs demoed in contention for what would eventually become ninth album, Everything Will Be Alright in the End. The chorus from "Volunteers" was later reworked into the bridge for the song "Beginning of the End" from Weezer's 2021 album, Van Weezer.
==Lyrics==
===Volunteers (ver. 10)===
My devices are buzzing
Everyone seems to me love me, love me
Just like it's my birthday
Later on I'll go hiking
My friends will be right beside me
We're flying over the mountain
Sixteen-hundred volunteers
Wouldn't be enough to dry these tears
Still I'll be here hanging on
And on, and on
Things will never be the same
Save the pieces of your brain
Scrounging and scavenging down in the dirt
Better enjoy what you got
Today I snoozed my alarm clock
Fell back asleep and the day wore on and on
Into oblivion
Was staring down at the paper
Oh well, I guess I'll try again later
What am I saying?
Sixteen-hundred volunteers
Wouldn't be enough to dry these tears
Still I'll be here hanging on
And on, and on
Things will never be the same
Save the pieces of your brain
Scrounging and scavenging down in the dirt
Better enjoy what you got
==Known recordings==
==See also==
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
*"Beginning of the End"
*Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years
Category:Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Songs on Alone XI: The EWBAITE Years
Vomit All of You

"Vomit All of You" is a demo by Rivers Cuomo.
==Overview==
"Vomit All of You" was, presumably, composed by Cuomo in early 2000. The song has never been heard by fans.
==See Also==
*List of Rivers Cuomo songs
Category:Rivers Cuomo songsCategory:Catalog o' Riffs
Category:RC demos not circulating
Von Knows

150px|thumb|right|Von Knows logo used on Candy Rock CD
Von Knows was a bootleg CD label run by a user on the Japanese blogging website Livedoor. The blog was titled "Mr. T's collector's CD diary", and on it, a vast quantity of homemade bootleg releases were made available for purchase by mail order. The label was active from July 15, 2005 until May 12, 2012. Four Weezer bootlegs were released under the label.
==Weezer Releases==
Cover	Details
 	B-Side & Rare
*Recorded:
**Various
*Released: November 22, 2005
*Catalog Number: V-249
*Format: CD
 	Candy Rock
*Recorded:
**September 9, 1994
*Released: June 24, 2006
*Catalog Number: V-250
*Format: CD
 	Santa Barbara
*Recorded:
**June 16, 2000
*Released: May 4, 2008
*Catalog Number: V-061
*Format: CD
 	Santa Barbara (re-release)
*Recorded:
**June 16, 2000
*Released: September 23, 2008
*Catalog Number: V-061
*Format: 2xCD
==See also==
*List of unofficial bootlegs
*Sizzling Music
==External links==
*"Mr. T's collector's CD Diary" on Livedoor
Category:Record labels