Hash Pipe

This song title was originally "CRACK PIPE" but the record label would not put it out under that name so they changed it to a more socially acceptable name "HASH PIPE". Also this song is about male prostitution in West Hollywood on the famous Santa Monica Blvd. and the trials and tribulations of being a prostitute.

Gwen's song "What You Waiting For" isn't a ripoff of Hash Pipe, people. It's not even close. Weezer takes the chords down and walks them into the chorus. Gwen's song beats the chords repeatedly then pushes to the chorus. Different keys, dynamics, and even solos. Both songs are great, but Hash Pipe makes Gwen's song ride in the back seat.

The Italian words really mean: ""Let us return to old times and that will be progress".

This song, as Rivers told me at a party with GNR, was about how big business, corporate powers, goverments, and anyone in power takes advantage of those "beneath them". As in citizens and workers for the machine. The "rape" of the supposed boy prostitute represents all of us in our struggle to make ends meet. The song then says we have our drugs to fight the frustration and pain that those in power bring us. The lyrics say:
Come on and kick me
Youve got your problems (dealing with keeping the populace stupid)
Ive got my ass wipe (those who figure it out and say F*ck you)
Youve got your big cheese (power has money and people that their money buys to beat you down)
Ive got my hash pipe (we have our answers, whether its dropout from drugs, or fight back within the system)
It's a brilliant song.

The opening riff is VERY similar to Lick It Up by KISS

The line "I can't help my feelings, I'll go out of my mind" also appears in "You Can't Do That" by the Beatles.

rivers wrote this song, along with 'dope nose' when he woke up one moring with a killer hangover caused by multiple shots of tequila and ritalin pills... who knows what either song is about...

Okay Gwen Stefani's song doesn't rip off Hash Pipe, I never even noticed a resemblance. This song is awesome, and the video cracks me up with all the sumos.

tis wierd the reference to gwen stefani... in '97 weezer toured with no doubt

Gwen's song's not called 'Tick Tock' it's called 'What You Waiting For?'

this song is awesome.. but i would have never guess it was about that.. i thught it was about like a guy who only needed to make him happy like whne hes like i got my h*** pipe... kinda odd.. <3

And apparently an underage homosexual transvestite prostitute, at that. [I can't help my business if I can't get a drink...]

Listen to Gwen stefanis new song (Tick Tock) It blatantly rips off the hash pipe melody!!

This my friends, is how pop should be

extended midget tour does not refer to Rivers' operation. The tour was dubbed 'the midget tour' as it originally had only 12 tour dates, and, as momentum grew, more tour dates were added, thus becoming the "extended midget tour" and finally, after more dates, the "hyper extended midget tour" The operation took place between their debut album('94) and pinkerton('96) while Rivers was attending harvard. The operation had nothing to do with the 5 year wait for the green album(may, 2001), Rivers came within a semester of graduation and moved back to LA to get the wheels rolling again on the weezer tour bus.

*note* the first tour to promote the album was dubbed the "hooptie tour" and took place in record store, abandon wharehouses, boxing rings, and roller skating rinks, the midget tour did not take place until after demo's for Maladroit had begun.

i like thier other albums much bettter

there was a nine year difference between the blue and green albums. the three years was between the blue album and pinkerton.

extend midget refers to the operation that rivers had to extend his leg as it was shorter than the other. this explains the 3 year absence between the blue and green albums.