Draft:Weezer Recording Chronology: 1991

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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 year 1991. It contains many early recordings that would lead to the creation of Weezer, as well as any related bands and recordings.
== January-June 1991 ==
=== Brotherhood Groove Grand Junction demo, early 1991 ===
The Brotherhood Groove Grand Junction was a funk jam-band from northern California that Jason Cropper joined in early 1991. Cropper plays guitar on the band's one and only demo, and he left once Pat Finn brought him to Los Angeles in the spring.
=== Rivers 4 and 8-track demos, late 1990-March 1991 ===
Some of the first demos made once Rivers Cuomo started focusing solely on his own songwriting, picking up where Best of the Worst and Finishtum Productum left off. A lot of these demos appear on The Yeastmaster part 1.
=== Late Bush/early 60 Wrong Sausages rehearsal, spring 1991 ===
Although the band comprising of Patrick Wilson, Pat Finn, and the newly joined Cropper (Tom Gardocki was a member of Wax by this time) had been without an official name since 1990, the band still practiced. This rehearsal tape marks an important step that was after Bush, but before 60 Wrong Sausages, where the band ran through several songs without vocals.
=== Fuzz, spring-summer 1991 ===
Cuomo formed Fuzz in the spring of 1991 to embody his newer songs. Cuomo sung and played guitars, Wilson played drums, and Scottie Chapman played bass. The band had a sound comparable to, if not, heavier than the grunge music of the day. A practice was recorded at a rented rehearsal space on February 18:
A demo was recorded with Cuomo's 8-track recorder at the same rehearsal space on March 9:
Chapman left the band after one show at the Coconut Teaszer in Los Angeles, California, and after trying out another bass player, the band dissolved as 60 Wrong Sausages started not very long after. Chapman went on to join the cast of the TV show Mythbusters and now works as a dental hygienist.
=== Thrumdrone, late 1990-1991 ===
This was the full-length debut of Brian Bell in Carnival Art as their bass player and backing vocalist. It was recorded in various studios in Los Angeles, and was released on Beggars Banquet Records on June 17.
Also recorded was "Juice Dawg", which appeared on the Dig and Blue Food & Black Sparks EPs, and "No Thanks to Eve", which appeared on the Dig EP as a live recording before being included on the "Wrestling Swamis" single as a studio version.
== July-December 1991 ==
=== Pat et al. demos, spring-summer 1991 ===
Most of these, if not all, were recorded on Finn's 4-track recorder at 1711 Stoner Ave.
=== "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella", 1991 ===
At some point in 1991, Carnival Art records a cover of "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" for the Christmas compilation album A Lump of Coal. This was recorded at Sweaty Elvis Studios with co-producer and engineer Tracy Chisholm.
=== The Dum Dums ===
The Dum Dums were a glam punk band formed by friends of later members of Wax, whom Wilson and Finn had become acquainted with through Gardocki, formerly of Bush. The band's purpose was to steal audience from the area's "real" glam bands by performing very silly material. The Dum Dums consisted of Bob Hnilo and Von Lono, who would later become part of the "Stoner Ave. crew", as well as people known as Sanford and Lance. Wilson, Finn, and Sharp would frequently come on stage, playing roles such as Wilson and Sharp's "fat men" characters, where they would come on stage wearing clothes stuffed with pillows. After the band lost two members, Wilson and Finn were asked to fill in as their drummer and bassist respectively, where they would play several shows from the summer of 1991 to the summer of 1992. No demos were recorded with Wilson and Finn, although a demo tape was recorded before they joined, and at least one show with the two was videotaped.
==== United Dirt, late 1990-early 1991 ====
This was a side project of the Dum Dums, which included Wilson and Finn alongside most members of the Dum Dums, and which might have led to the two eventually joining the Dum Dums. United Dirt's music was very silly, offensive, and heavy, and featured both Lono and Wilson playing drums at the same time. The group's only performance was in late 1990 as an encore to the Dum Dums. Around the same time, a practice tape was recorded, which is now lost. A demo was also recorded and still exists, which was recorded with a drum machine.
Some known United Dirt songs out of the 6 "cohesive" ones include:
*Master of the Long Boats
*Mary, Slut of Bethlehem
*Pope John Paul, Suck My Cock
=== Bad Attitude, No Apologies, June 1991-December 1992===
Left Nut was a band from Boston, Massachusetts, that was active from 1988 to 1992. The band had multiple bass players with their last, Mikey Welsh, joining in June 1991.Archive.org archive of the October 22 - 28, 1993 Boston Phoenix At some point after Welsh joined the band they recorded with the label One Way Productions who had done multiple releases for local bands in the past, however the songs went unreleased and eventually the label shut down. 
In the summer of 1999, one of the founders of the label (Brooks Whelan) resurrected it to release unheard recordings made during the time of the original label's run, including Bad Attitude, No Apologies.Archive.org archive of the August 27 - September 2, 1999 Boston Phoenix
=== Rivers et al. 8-track demos, summer 1991 ===
=== Jason 4-track recordings, summer 1991 ===
Cropper recorded several untitled guitar instrumentals with Finn's 4-track recorder at Stoner Ave. Out of these recordings, there are two "actual" songs:
=== Left Nut concert, August 29, 1991 ===
Left Nut played at The Middle East on August 29, 1991. Video of the performance was shot by Francis DiMenno.
=== 60 Wrong Sausages, August-December 1991 ===
The frequent collaborations between Cuomo, Wilson, Cropper, and Finn led to Cuomo joining the then-unnamed band of Wilson, Cropper, and Finn, later to be called 60 Wrong Sausages. The catalog of the band had expanded to include Cuomo's own compositions, as well as his collaborations with Wilson. The band name came about in a spur of the moment discussion. Someone suggested "Sausage", then "The Wrong Sausage", and finally: "No, it cant just be one wrong sausage! It needs to be, like, SIXTY Wrong Sausages!"
The line-up was:
*Finn: bass and vocals on about 1/2 of the songs, backup vocals on the rest
*Cuomo: lead guitar on about 2/3 of the songs, vocals on about 1/3 of the songs, rhythm guitar everywhere else, occasional drums
*Cropper: lead guitar on about 1/3 of the songs, rhythm guitar everywhere else, some backup vocals
*Wilson: drums on almost everything, vocals on several songs, lead guitar and vocals on a few songs
==== Pat and Rivers 8-tracks, summer 1991 ====
The "actual" songs from this collection would end up being played by 60 Wrong Sausages.
==== Cholesterol EP, November 1, 1991 ====
After the band came to fruition, they decided to record a demo tape before rehearsing and playing shows. The drums were recorded on Wilson's Octapad, as there was no room for drums in the Urban Ave. apartment. The demo was recorded throughout several weeks and wasn't finished until they decided to practice at a rehearsal space in October. The master tapes have been destroyed.
==== Rehearsals ====
60 Wrong Sausages practiced 7 times. All practices were videotaped, and two were audiotaped.
===== Practice #1: October 20, 1991 =====
*Practice #2 - October 26, 1991
===== Practice #3: October 30, 1991 =====
*Practice #4: November 3, 1991
*Practice #5: November 9, 1991
*Practice #6: November 13, 1991
*Practice #7: November 20, 1991
On November 29, 60 Wrong Sausages played their first and only ever show at the Phoenix Theatre in Petaluma, California opening for Nuisance alongside Monsula and One Man Running, which was videotaped. The band broke up shortly after, with Karl Koch writing around the time of the show "band breakup seems inevitable."
=== The Truth, summer-winter 1991 ===
The Truth was a Christian rock band formed by Kevin Ridel in the summer of 1991. Cuomo helped Ridel record the band's first and only demo, doing engineering, backing vocals, and possibly guitar.
Ridel got a band together to play live shows as The Truth, but when he noticed some gaps in his lineup, he got Cuomo to play bass and Finn to play guitar. The other members of the band were Jeffrey Urbach and 3 unknown backing singers. The band played at least one show at the Whiskey a Go Go in Hollywood, California after several rehearsals. "My Salvation", "With You In Heaven", and "I Belong To God" are known to have been performed at this show.
=== Rivers et al. 4 and 8-track demos, summer-fall 1991 ===
=== The 50 Song Project, December 1991-March 1992 ===
After 60 Wrong Sausages dissolved, Cuomo was starting to find more excitement in his newer writing. At the same time, Cuomo and Wilson both expressed interest in writing songs like The Pixies and Nirvana. They, along with Cropper, soon started writing with the intent of writing 50 songs for a future new group and lineup. Fuzz material was considered sufficient material, however Bush and 60 Wrong Sausages material was deemed too different. They didn't quite make it to 50.
=== Rivers demos, December 1991 ===
In December 1991, Rivers recorded a set of demos onto a tape entitled Rivers's Opera.
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