He toured with the band from their resurgence in the summer of 2000 and most of the way through tours supporting The Green Album, the only Weezer album he would ever appear on. Welsh was given a co-writing credit for four songs. Instead, he contributed four of these to Juliana Hatfield's 2000 album Juliana's Pony: Total System Failure. He wrote a large number of bass lines in this period, recorded them and sent them to Rivers Cuomo for writing inspiration., although Cuomo never used any of them. During Weezer's hiatus he played with Verbena and the first incarnation of Patrick Wilson's band The Special Goodness. He joined Weezer following the departure of Matt Sharp in 1998. In 1997 he joined the first incarnation of The Rivers Cuomo Band, the side-project of Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo. He was a touring bassist for Juliana Hatfield and Verbena. He began his career as a Boston-area musician, playing in bands such as Heretix, Chevy Heston, Jocobono, Left Nut, and Slower.
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Biography Early musical career and joining Weezer Shortly afterwards, he retired from music to focus on his art career. Welsh played with Weezer from the time that they regrouped in 2000 until August 2001, when he suffered a mental breakdown. Following original bassist Matt Sharp's decision to leave Weezer to focus on his group, The Rentals, Welsh was chosen to take over on bass.
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He played with Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo during Cuomo's time in Boston during the hiatus in the band Homie. Michael Edward "Mikey" Welsh (ApOctober 8, 2011) was an American artist and musician, best known as the former bassist of Weezer.