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Posted in music | video on June 24, 2008

Weezer & Hootenanny audience covering Radiohead's Creep

Weezer Hootenanny Live 105 2008-06-20 (madrubicon)
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Weezer's Hootenanny Tour rolled into town Saturday at the Vera Project and Ear Candy was fortunate enough to be one of the 200 fans in attendance.

What's the Hootenanny Tour? Well, it involves Weezer playing six acoustic songs, surrounded by 200 fans all singing along while jamming with the band on their own instruments. provided.

To get access to the show, which was hosted by 1077 The End, fans had to apply to be part of the performance by letting the station know what instrument they planned on bringing along. For those who did not bring instruments, maracas, shakers, finger tambourines and kazoos were

This meant for one hour a few hundred people got to be a part of Weezer and take part in a recording session with the band. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention the set was recorded for use on a future Weezer CD.... [seattlepi]

One of the songs Weezer was doing at these West coast-only shows was Radiohead's "Creep". Watch the below video, and do it quick before Prince figures out a way to get all songs he covered first removed from YouTube....

Weezer - "Creep" (live at their Portland Hootenanny)

Weezer played these 2008 tour dates
June 19 - Portland, OR
June 20 - San Francisco, CA
June 21 - Seattle, WA
June 23 - Los Angeles, CA

Tags: Prince, Radiohead, Weezer

Posted on June 24, 2008 10:11 AM

Comments (9)

first? bitches? what?

Posted by Anonymous | June 24, 2008 10:39 AM

you suck. lol.

Posted by Anonymous | June 24, 2008 10:45 AM

The kid on the mandolin looks like he's mentally challenged.

Posted by Anonymous | June 24, 2008 11:06 AM

whoever's playing the tambourine cant keep a beat for shit.

Posted by Anonymous | June 24, 2008 12:12 PM

video is gone.

Posted by Anonymous | June 24, 2008 1:16 PM

"video is gone."

no its not

Posted by Anonymous | June 24, 2008 1:27 PM

god, this is so sad.

Posted by Anonymous | June 24, 2008 2:54 PM

This is the real hootenanny. Roll the video tape, Jim...

http://www.mtv.com/overdrive/?vid=237705

Posted by hans | June 25, 2008 12:58 AM

holy fuck. that sucks even more.

Posted by Anonymous | June 25, 2008 4:10 PM

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