Weezer Hootenanny - San Francisco, CA 6/20/08

[S9Dallasoz]

pictures here: http://www.live105.com/pages/2456083.php

This was an event for Weezer fans who sent in videos of themselves playing their instruments to weezer songs and won their way into this event held at a secret location.
The location was a seemingly deserted former marine base in Alameda, CA where Scott used to be stationed.

Winners were required to bring instruments to play a long with the band and this led to some very interesting solos: Accordions & clarinets during "Island in the sun" & trumpets during "Say it ain't so".
The harmonica solo in "Beverly Hills" was also great.
They have done 4 of these I believe - I know at least in LA, Portland, Phoenix & SF.

The 6 songs were recorded for what I'm guessing will be an exclusive EP sometime.
The idea was spawned by Rivers after his mom talked to him about how her & her friends used just sit and play songs they knew.
It worked well & here's the set:

Pork & Beans
Island in the sun - only song that took 2 takes to get right
Creep (Radiohead Cover) - sung by Scott
Say it Ain't so
El Scorcho - sung by Brian
Beverly Hills

[zubinmoosa]

This sounds very interesting.

[thespearkid]

Cool idea.

[SandManTEND13]

This is a great idea! I wish I was there to see it.

[TMS2787]

So much for this coming to Cleveland.

[S9Dallasoz]

Here's the video of "Creep" from this.

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[makeasound]

I was listening to The Woody Show this morning and Menace said at some point during the event there were like 200 people on the stage haha.

That would have been a lot of fun to be a part of.

[stupidtyonparad]

weezer has such good fan-interaction ideas, like when rivers had the fans come up with a song on youtube, with like 20 different parts (title, chord progression, arrangement, lyrics, ect)

[Wildness774]

rivers is quite a character thats for sure
lol