May 14, 2021
River Cuomo tells Guitar World that in 2000 Ozzy asked if I had any songs for him, and I just happened to have written ‘Hash Pipe. I sent it to him, but he didn’t end up using it. In another reality, it might have been interesting to hear him singing that song. There s an Ozzy connection on Weezer s new album Van Weezer check Weezer riffin Crazy Train on Blue Dream, with total approval from Ozzy s camp. The songwriting credit for the song is Cuomo, Osbourne Bob Daisley and Randy Rhoads (going into the hall of fame this year!) who are on Blizzard of Oz. Cuomo says, It’s kind of like a sample, really. But we played it.
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Weezer Wish Eddie Van Halen Could Hear Their Tribute Album
Weezer frontman River Cuomo lamented the fact that their upcoming album
Van Weezer was delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, meaning that Eddie Van Halen didn’t get to hear it.
The record was originally set for release in May 2020, five months before Van Halen’s death in October. Weezer later announced a new arrival date of May 7, 2021, noting that the record would be dedicated to the late guitarist.
“I guess for us, just from a self centered perspective … we’re disappointed,” Cuomo said in a new episode of
The Strombo Show. “It would have been cool if he could have heard the record. And I don’t know if it would have meant anything to him. But he could have seen his influence bearing fruit decades later and in this modern record of 2021.”
Taylor Swift issued a surprise ninth studio album last week called “evermore”, which debuts at No.1 on this week’s ARIA Albums Chart, giving her a second chart-topping album for 2020.
The new Taylor set “evermore” becomes the 901st No.1 Album in Australia (1965 to 2020), the 751st for ARIA (1983 to 2020), the 39th No.1 for the year (2020), the 538th album to debut at No.1 (1976 to 2020), the 16th No.1 for record label for Republic (Universal) and the seventh No.1 for Taylor Swift, plus she has now achieved the smallest gap between No.1 albums at five months and three weeks (3-Aug-2020 to 21-Dec-2020), the previous holder was Ariana Grande with “Sweetener” (27-Aug-18) to “thank u, next” (18-Feb-2019), just on six months.