Comments on: Weezer throws a hootenanny in portland, exclusive video

By: Dawn

Dawn — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:16:15 +0000

It was a fantastic, once in a lifetime, special gig. Unfortunately for some reason I cant make the video play. Really anxious to see it!!!

By: Annie

Annie — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:01:26 +0000

@ashamed:
Haters to the left!

I had a blast.

By: ashamed

ashamed — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:35:14 +0000

Old school Weezer fans will remember the days of small school auditorium Weezer shows, unplugged sets, and intimate moments with the band…yes…even AFTER the release of the ‘Blue Album’. This was Weezer’s style. They didn’t do huge arena shows or have stupid songs about wanting to live in Beverly Hills, etc…So now, here we are and have seemingly come full circle with this cute little gathering. A desperate grasp for the old days or a silly marketing / PR thing? I’m gonna go with silly PR thing. We get it, but it’s too late. You’ve gone down that road. Call it selling out, call it a lack of artistic integrity, call it whatever you want. It’s all usually a perception thing anyway. But to me, it’s goofball tactics to sell records. It used to be a genuine desire to bond with fans and just play good music…I said “GOOD” music. But they ended up all playing a cover of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’….wtf?

The last thing I MUST comment on: what’s with the guitar wielding douchebags who seem to be attempting to look like the current Rivers. (little mustache, second-hand-western’esque-retro-rock thing) There’s like 3 (probably more) of them in the crowd….wow. So the second you saw the new Rivers look you just had to imitate it? That’s just laughable. Rivers looks like a doofus and so do you.

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:40:00 +0000

I think that HOOTenanny is an oblique reference to the line in their new single “Pork and Beans” where Rivers says “I don’t give a HOOT about what you think.”

By: erik.stanfill

erik.stanfill — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:44:15 +0000

yeah, personally i think they could have mixed it up a bit with the wording… “shindig” or “hoedown” come to mind. If that’s the oaks park ballroom/wedding reception area, i can’t even begin to imagine the sound… nay… the sheer force, of 200 guitars in that big wooden space.

By: j ragel

j ragel — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:28:34 +0000

I think Weezer may have just officially over-saturated use of the word ‘hootenanny’. I might need to borrow RC’s thesaurus before my next post now…