David Marks and Peter Best

[adamghost]

Jason Cropper...Weezer's original guitarist.  Booted during sessions for the first album, all tracks he recorded on erased.

[Paulos]

I thought he played on My Name Is Jonas? Or perhaps I imagined that he did for some reason, I'm not sure.

Off topic I know but the first two Weezer albums are immense, Blue Album especially - a near perfect pop album. It's a pity that after Pinkerton most of their albums and songs aren't very good, bar The Greatest Man That Ever Lived from the Red Album, that song is immense with all the different styles bledning in to each other and also has some very Wilsonian moments too.

[Jonas]

Paulos, we have similar tastes!

Cropper's name stayed on Jonas cause he wrote the acoustic intro that they kept. He recorded some tracks, but not all...didnt matter cause Rivers recorded EVERYTHING in a couple of days.

RIP Weezer.

[SurfRiderHawaii]

For a twist, consider Randy Meisner.  He quit Poco during the first album; and ended up joining the Eagles.