When Ric Ocasek reunited with Weezer in 2014, he showed that he hadn't lost a step in the studio. And that he was really good at drawing
RelatedIn late July 2014, Ocasek was helping Weezer finish some late overdubs for that album at Los Angeles’ Village Studios. He was a low-key presence in the control room, quietly drawing in a notebook while various members of the band went through endless takes at frontman’s direction. Every once in a while, he’d chime in with a wry remark that eased the tension. It was clear that everyone in the band looked up to him, like their cool New Wave dad.
“He’s the best,” drummer Pat Wilson added. “One day as I was walking out of the studio, somebody recognized him, and I actually said, in a hushed voice, ‘I know! That’s Ric Ocasek!'”, Ocasek had spent a year or two at loose ends. “I was pretty much hanging in New York — doing some writing, a couple art shows,” he told me. “I wasn’t really looking for any outside work. Just kind of doing what I felt like. It’s a good time in my life to do that.
Ocasek was happy to get the call in 2013. “I said, ‘Yes, let’s do that!’ It was nice to be asked to do this again.”represented a new level of creative mind-meld with their on-and-off producer. “On the Blue Album, the songs had been demo’d so many times, and played at so many shows, that there wasn’t a heck of a lot left to do by the time we got into the studio with Ric,” he recalled.
Looking back on 20 years of collaboration with Weezer, Ocasek had his own observations. “The technology has changed a lot,” he said. “It was pretty much live [in 1994], and now everybody comes in with laptops and stuff. But that’s kinda cool.”
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