Ongoing History Daily: Naming Weezer
Weezer was officially formed on Valentine’s Day in 1992 and immediately faced a critical problem: What were they going to call the band? That issue was kicked down the road as the band recorded some material for an indie cassette.
When that tape was released, it was labeled with a bunch of different band names, which underscored the difficulty they had coming up with something. The names included Fuzz, Zoom, Avant-Garde, Sixty Wrong Sausages, Meathead, Outhouse, Hummingbird, The Big Jones, and This Niblet.
By the way, that demo was called The Kitchen Tape because the drums for all the songs were recorded in the kitchen of the house where the band rehearsed.
And the name Weezer? That came from a nickname Rivers Cuomo got from his biological father when he was about four years old.
Yesterday’s post detailed the Alice in Chains calendar mishap.
