In a different life, Rivers Cuomo would have led a metal band instead of Weezer.
In an interview with Kerrang, the musician discussed his previous group Sixty Wrong Sausages and how he initially intended to create metal music. “I was always in bands when I was a kid, when I was in school and when I moved to Los Angeles,” he said. “In those days it was almost anti-punk: I didn’t like punk music, or the whole punk aesthetic.” My attitude was almost exclusively metal: I practiced your scales, your arpeggios, you used a metronome and you didn’t play carelessly. He really was anti-nihilistic. “
“Then I got a job at Tower Records where I met a guy named Pat Finn who was 100 percent punk,” he continued. “His head was shaved, he was trying to grab his testicles, he was trying to get the boss to hit him, and he was listening to punk bands like Black Flag, that he knew nothing about.”
Cuomo went on to point out that because he was “exposed” to new types of music, “he gradually became interested in diversifying from heavy music.”
“We all write songs,” he said of his former band. “I completely stylized the boat and tried to do the opposite of everything I had done before. It was this funk and punk accommodation with completely gibberish lyrics. It was very crazy and musically progressive, with strange weather changes and meters and all of that. We played a show and then we parted. Classic history.
Read the full interview here.
