This is exactly right.

Double Elvis.

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Disgraceland is a production of Double Elvis.

The stories about Weezer are not supposed to be this insane.

They involve a bass player who predicted his own death.

Another bass player whose wife got into a gunfight with the LAPD.

A frontman who is obsessed with Kurt Cobain and who maybe was Kurt Cobain.

Wait a minute, what? You'll see.

This was a frontman who wasn't your typical rock and roll archetype,

not a burnout or an outlaw or some doomed rock and roll savage.

Now, Rivers Cuomo was more of an analyst than an anarchist.

The type of rock and roller who studied songs like they were calculus and surprisingly,

as a result, made great music.

Unlike that music I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music.

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Kurt Cuomo MK2.

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to Luther by Kendrick Lamar and Siza.

And why would I play you that specific slice of velvet voice adjacent cheese could I afford it?

Because that was the number one song in America on April 8, 2025.

And that was the day that Weezer got dragged closer to a true crime scandal than they ever had been in their 30-plus year history.

On this episode, a death prediction, a gunfight, burnouts, outlaws, savages, the anti-rockstar Rockstar, Rivers Cuomo, and Weiser.

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