Rivers Cuomo has recalled the time he tried to start a metal band before finding fame with Weezer.Speaking in a recent interview, the frontman revisited his pre-Weezer band Sixty Wrong Sausages and how his initial vision was to form a metal band.“I was always in bands growing up, when I was in school and when I first moved to LA,” he told Kerrang. “In those days I was almost anti-punk: I did not like punk music, or the whole punk aesthetic.
My attitude was pretty much exclusively metal: practice your scales, your arpeggios, use a metronome and don’t play sloppy. I was anti-nihilist, really.“Then I got a job at Tower Records where I met this guy named Pat Finn who was 100 percent punk.
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