Weezer - Say It Ain't So - Demo for Geffen

Weezer Demo Say it ain't so for geffen records 1993

[@deadeyes2803]

the best lo fi ive ever heard

[@runnersdialzero1244]

There's been a higher-quality source for this track/tape for ages, even before OP's upload. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/eH2VdKGEqrF-j7M

[@officialFredDurstfanclub]

@@runnersdialzero1244 dang, but this sounds better

[@runnersdialzero1244]

@@officialFredDurstfanclub ehhh can't say I agree.

[@ELSTINKO.]

​@@officialFredDurstfanclubFr love that texture this lofi version has. Both are cool

[@Kekistani_Insurgent]

. . .interesting. . . I love hearing demos like this, it's fun to hear the concepts they were considering.

[@jeremiahsmith6946]

Good take from a Kekistani

[@Josephryanbanks]

I’d say this is a case of more is less, like it’s heavier, but it actually feels like there’s less soul than in the album release. The album version was slower and really had some dynamics, so everything could breath and the tension could really build unlike in this where it’s flat angry all the way through.

[@likeyoung524]

Yeah but this version would rock live

[@imrippingthefuckingheadoff]

Yeah I think demos like these more just serve to demonstrate general song structure etc. Ric Ocasek really did a great job producing the final album.

[@Malkmusianful]

I didn't know 311 first covered "Say It Ain't So."

[@ToneSherpa]

man that snare sure is tuned tight.

[@sam8404]

Investigate 311.

[@AlexKintner1986]

Such a different sound! This is most likely recorded with the original guitar player Jason Cropper on guitar and backing vocals as well as the original bass player Matt Sharp. The story goes that Cropper's guitar and vocals were erased from the blue album recording and dubbed over with Rivers guitar and Brian Bells vocals last minute before mixing and mastering.

[@ChrisPBacon-xn9up]

Shane Valcich Well, Matt Sharp did sing on the final release of the album

[@Iemonzinger]

Matt was in the band until 1997/8

[@SpaceTravel1776]

Matt Sharp died of an overdose in his Chicago hotel room I thought a few years after replacing the original drummer.

[@jrutt0722]

@@SpaceTravel1776 Mikey Welsh died of an overdose in Chicago and Pat Wilson is and will always be Weezer's drummer

[@runnersdialzero1244]

This isn't the take done for the blue album, though, it's a totally different recording.

[@samfraley]

Drum tone is awesome

[@BuIIet]

Weezer Trivia This track comes off what is known as the "Third Demo" tape, recorded in November 1992 with 4 other songs from The Blue Album on it. About 275 tapes were made and circulated. The studio album was released in 1995, 3 years after this was recorded.

[@SlushTV]

It was released in 1994 actually

[@thedude-sp8po]

where's the 275 from?

[@TheRenegade...]

It was also called the Real Demo

[@ghostninja5035]

This sounds like what would happen if Ween covered Weezer

[@JimmyJangy]

Haha weener

[@fuzzydunlop7928]

​@@JimmyJangy My god, this needs to be a thing. Like a Weezer/Ween cover band. I need to see Weener on a marquee.

[@benfranklinklulz]

My life will never be the same again :O

[@stevecho]

i'm eargasming right now~ one of my favorite songs just got better

[@weezerfanatic5320]

heavy... incredible

[@gryffindork567]

You can hear the bass better in this version which is cool

[@maxlegault2588]

Just got this in my recommandations; this is epic. Love that raw energy!

[@123legodude]

i love this solo but i think the solo that is on the cd and everywhere else has way more passion to it. my opinion

[@tomdanielson9204]

just a different perspective. I love the loudness and busyness

[@MegaCokamo]

loving that lo fi.

[@HauntedWarehouse]

I like this versions solo much more.

[@Bankaicaptain]

This is pure gold. Absolutley perfect.

[@_trashvis_]

good version, my favourite one would have to be the black sessions version

[@dl1932ZZ]

Best version.

[@SuperComplexGames]

Thanks! I've been wondering whether this came from Kitchen Tapes or the third demo. Also, The Blue Album came out in 1994.

[@sebastiancho5687]

SuperComplex Games but this demo for Geffen was in 1993

[@anoriginalname8695]

Its either from the third demo, or it was this was a one song demo for Geffen but def not the kitchen tape one.

[@Rangerswincup]

I think this sounds a lot better after hearing the original. If I heard this one first, I think this would sound absolutely horrible.

[@weezerfanatic5320]

yes. totally agree.

[@ELSTINKO.]

Rangerswincup That's a good way to put a lot of demos they aren't really better just fun listens after you're used to the first one

[@ELSTINKO.]

Rangerswincup unless the demo is legitimately better like with "can't stop partying" a decent song turned into... Well what it is. Let's not think about those times

[@jap6676]

Here’s a better version: kzbin.info/www/bejne/eH2VdKGEqrF-j7M it’s higher quality, and I think it better shows how good this song is.

[@lazrpo]

Saying this isn't produced is a bit of a falacy, since there's no record saying that this was or wasn't produced in some way. Since Rivers had experience in media recording previously (and even took a class in it) it's safe to say that there was some attention to detail put in recording the guitars and bass. The drums, however, seem to be a different story, but whatever.

[@TheXLTE]

wow!

[@villanasantoyo]

Patrick on the drums were way intense and it kinda sounds the same with Brian bell instead of Jason cropper and rivers might’ve been in the performance.

[@plf74]

Jason Cropper rocks!

[@wumbol0gy]

I like the album version a lot better though this is still pretty cool

[@lazrpo]

@MetalGearSunny Well, part of that's because this video is (for some reason) slower than the actual recording of the song.

[@prabhatbhandari]

Sounds so raspy.

[@zachrembrandt1978]

@MetalGearSunny ha ha ha unfortunatly nearly every male rock singer sang like that in the 90s,and fortunatley most of the good ones STOPPED singing like that!

[@tootoot123]

album version was stripped of the emotion, this version is amazing and powerful

[@sam8404]

Not that this isn't great but I think the album version had more emotion. This version is a bit too fast and has too much going on in comparison.

[@MetalGearSunny]

His vocals sound like a Creed song towards the end.

[@netrioter]

this sounds slowed down a tad...to keep Geffen off you?

[@tootoot123]

@MetalGearSunny not at all, like what the actual fuck.

[@TouringFunkBand1]

If anything this is sped up

[@ashleygayming]

god the cover for this single is really just depressing. rivers was really that desperate for his fathers attentionn

[@daxware603]

This version > original

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