Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Harvard's rock connections

I've been a Weezer fan since the blue album, and was lucky enough to see them perform in Taipei in 1997, a year after Pinkerton was released.

It turns out that Rivers Cuomo, Weezer's singer, rhythm guitarist, and songwriter is a Harvard student, according to this Boston.com article. I knew that he attended Harvard College in the 1990s, but I am not sure he has returned to finish that degree or is in a graduate FAS program -- the Boston.com article doesn't make it clear.

Other rock/Harvard connections include Tom Morello, the guitarist for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, Ben Deily of the Lemonheads, Clay Tarver of Chavez, and Jacob Slichter, drummer for Semisonic (and author of So You Wanna Be A Rock Star.).

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