The Kitchen Tape

The Kitchen Tape is the name of second demo tape. It was recorded in an attempt to create a "serious" demo to hand around local clubs in attempts to generate "a buzz." During the recording process, the project was dubbed Weezer's First Album.
==Overview==
The demo was mostly recorded beginning August 1, 1992 at the band's rehearsal space in the garage at 2226 Amherst Avenue. Initially labeled Weezer's First Album during the recording process, the title The Kitchen Tape was later adopted as the drums were recorded in the house's kitchen.Recording History - Page 3 The band recorded using 8-track tape recorder. It was long thought that the songs "Thief, You've Taken All That Was Me", "Let's Sew Our Pants Together" and "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" originated from the band's first demo and were simply added to the tape,Weezine Issue #3, 1995. but Karl Koch confirmed in 2024 that the first demo and Kitchen Tape demo are both separate recordings entirely.Koch, Karl (as Karlophone). (August 9, 2024). Weezerpedia Discord server. Archived from the original on Weezerpedia at :File:Karl_confirms_different_takes.jpg. About 12 copies of the demo were produced in total.
Three songs from the tape ("Undone - The Sweater Song," "Paperface," and "Only in Dreams") were released officially on the bonus disc Dusty Gems and Raw Nuggets, from the Deluxe Edition of The Blue Album. The rest of the tracks were excluded as they were considered too "sloppy" by Todd Sullivan,:File:Atw-karl-bde-toddsullivan.png Weezer's former A&R manager at Geffen who also produced the deluxe release of The Blue Album.Weezer (The Blue Album): Deluxe Edition liner notes. Screenshot: :File:Bluedeluxejapbooklet24.jpg The Kitchen Tape recording of "Undone" also appeared on the promotional CD Deluxe Edition Sampler - Volume 3. The Kitchen Tape recording of "My Name Is Jonas" was uploaded to Weezer's YouTube channel on May 10, 2024 to celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Blue Album.
Digital rips of The Kitchen Tape have circulated online since the early 2000s. An unofficial bootleg CD mentioned in an issue of Beatleg Magazine features some of the recordings, indicating that they have been in circulation since before June 2002 (the magazine's publication date). However, before 2016, only 6 of the demo's total 8 songs had been distributed online or released in an official capacity. The Kitchen Tape's versions of "Say It Ain't So" and "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" remained unheard until 2016 (see: Opposite Sides of the Same Good Ol' Fence).
===Track list===
Two versions of the tape were distributed, one with 8 tracks and another with only 5. The latter excludes "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here", "Undone" and "Say It Ain't So."weezer.com "Historic event: 08/01/1992" Archived by Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20050125134334/http://www.weezer.com/karlscorner/chrono.asp?NEWSID=9331
==Opposite Sides of the Same Good Ol' Fence==
Opposite Sides of the Same Good Ol' Fence is the title of at least 2 copies of The Kitchen Tape, one of which was given by Cuomo to engineer Paul du Gré (who would eventually produce the Blue Album b-sides "Mykel & Carli", "Susanne", and "My Evaline") in September 1992. The tape contains the same recordings as The Kitchen Tape, with all 8 tracks included in a new sequence. The (du Gré) tape was purchased in an eBay auction in June of 2016 by an All Things Weezer forum user, Geewiz, for $4,350, partially crowd-sourcing the purchase via donations from other forum members.Geewiz. "KITCHEN TAPE MEGATHREAD -- scans on p. 10" All Things Weezer. 19 June 2016. https://allthingsweezer.com/index.php?threads/kitchen-tape-megathread-scans-on-p-10.37913/ Screenshot: :File:Atw-geewiz-kitchentapethread.png. The tape (sourced from another copy, not the du Gré copy) would be re-released on CD and Vinyl on a 30th anniversary edition of the Blue Album.
===Track list===
==Gallery==
Image:Super-Chrono-19920801-b.jpg|Kitchen Tapes 8-track "reels"
Image:Fencejcard.jpg|Opposite Sides J-card with track list
Image:Fencecassette.jpg|Opposite Sides cassette
Image:Fencecover.png| Fan Cover used prior to Blue's 30th deluxe
==See Also==
*Weezer's first demo
*Weezer's third demo
*The Blue Album
==References==
Category:Weezer demos
Category:Promotional release
Category:1992 releases