Weezer’s ‘Hash Pipe’ was almost an Ozzy Osbourne song

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Weezer’s ‘Hash Pipe’ was almost an Ozzy Osbourne song instead, according to the band’s frontman Rivers Cuomo.The LA band released the track as a single in 2001 and included it on the tracklist of their third album, ‘The Green Album’.Speaking to Guitar World, Cuomo said that the song nearly had a very different home. “Once, I think it was in 2000, [Ozzy Osbourne] asked if I had any songs for him and I just happened to have written ‘Hash Pipe.’”Instead of keeping the track for his own band, Cuomo first offered it to the Black Sabbath legend. “He didn’t end up using it,” the Weezer star explained. “In another reality, it might be interesting to hear him singing that song.”While Osbourne might not have recorded a song penned by Cuomo, Weezer.