Author: jackasspenguins

A musical side project started in 1993 in Riverside, California. Recordings made under the monikers Diskovepher, Dirt Auction, Not A Band, Dumbell Tower, but mainly Jackass Penguins. CEO and founder of Oyitt Records.

This is beginning to hurt – An article on Weezer – Pinkerton (1996)

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The Godfather Part II, Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, Terminator II: Judgement Day, Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo….. Ok scratch the last one, but to enlighten you on the now rambling point that im trying to make, all good sequels are darker than their predecessors, take a direction you maybe don’t…

I remember when this came out at the beginning of my senior year in high school. I was drum major and bought it on cassette at a Wherehouse next to a restaurant the marching band was eating at for lunch. It took me about a month to get into the album, with all the abrupt changes throughout each song, and the general harsh sounds they contain. But like a true rock opera, once the story became apparent, it eventually turned into one of my favorite albums. But the first couple listens were very difficult when you expect the accessible stylings of the blue album.

This is beginning to hurt – An article on Weezer – Pinkerton (1996)

This is what I used to record with.The Emerson on the right was given to me by my neighbor in 1992 or so. I started with this and picked up multi-track recording when I used my parents’ 1970s cassette player (not pictured). It had a metal façade over the speaker that created a distorted sound when played at full volume. I would record with the Emerson, play it back on the 70s machine, play along and record on the Emerson on a second cassette. Sometime around 1995, my parents gave away their old cassette player and in 1996 or 97 I got the other cassette player at Pic N Save. So that partially explains the lack of multi track recordings from late 95 to early 97. I used these two from then until late 2002, when I finally got my Tascam 4-track.