Weezer's Blue Album is rightly remembered as a '90s alt-rock classic album but its guitar tone would have sounded very different if Rivers Cuomo originally had his way. Indeed, he didn't even want to have an outside producer to begin with but chose The Cars' Ric Ocasek following the realisation he could be a kindred musical spirit.
"The record company said we had to have a producer, I didn't want a producer but they insisted," Cuomo tells Foof Fighters' Chris Shiflett on the latter's Shred With Shifty podcast below. "One day I was in the grocery store and I heard Just What I Needed. I was like, 'Yeah that's kind of what I want the Weezer record to sound like. So let's get that guy."
