The Weezer recording history: Page 9
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Live show bootleg tape, 8/17/1996: Koln/Cologne, Germany : Bizarre Festival
Undone - the Sweater song
My name is Jonas
pink triangle
No one else
el Scorcho
In the garage
why bother?
Say it ain't so
Buddy Holly
Surf Wax America
an excellent quality bootleg, both in audio and video formats, because the show was broadcast live to German radio, and later that night
there was also a video re-broadcast on German TV.
The TV and Radio stations were one and the same, "Westdeutscher
Rundfunk", in short "WDR", a regional station
that nonetheless reaches millions of people. WDR is owned
by the state, so the quality was superb, on radio and on tv.
note: this set +2 tracks from the Japan show on 10/22 (below) became the "Good Life" CD bootleg
Live show bootleg tape, 8/18/96: St Malo, France : "La route du Rock" Festival
taped off the mixing board
(tracklist unavailable)
Live show bootleg tape, 8/23/96:Reading, England : Reading Festival
Say it aint so Buddy Holly Surf Wax America
note: broadcast live on the radio, good quality
Radio station performance, ?/?/96 Melbourne, Australia: Triple R radio - acoustic
"triple r" radio show acoustic set , unknown date, tracklist, and location 1996
(please email karl if you know the date of this one)
Live show bootleg tape, 10/19/96: Osaka, Japan : Club Quattro
(tracklist unavailable)
Live show bootleg tape, 10/22/96: Toyko, Japan : Liquid Room
el Scorcho Buddy Holly
note: These comprise the last 2 songs on the "Good Life!" Bootleg CD. high quality recording.
Radio station performance, 10/27/96 Los Angeles: Modern Rock Live
I beleive this is just Matt and Pat.... consists of live interviews, call ins, and possibly some acoustic songs(?) ...or probably just some impromptu goofiness with a casio keyboard...
(This is likely the time of infamous "crack baby" incident)
professional quality master tape exists, as well as copies taped off the radio by fans
Live show bootleg tape, 11/2/96: San Francisco, California : The Fillmore
tired of sex
getchoo My name is Jonas pink triangle No one else
The World has turned and left me here
why bother? In the garage
You gave your love to me softly falling for youSay it ain't so the good life
Undone - the Sweater song butterfly across the sea el Scorcho Buddy Holly
Surf Wax America
note, quality rather poor, taped from the audience by someone who was not in a very good spot!
Live show bootleg tape, 11/6/96: Seattle(?), Washington : Shorecrest High School
Undone - the Sweater song
no one else
the good life
el scorcho
pink triangle
buddy holly
pro quality audio, acoustic performance
note: a professional video tape exists, it is edited and features opening shots of the kids pouring into the gymnasium/arena . This exists as a geffen promotional tape, but it is unclear what its purpose was or if it was ever distributed anywhere. "Pink Triangle" from this video (with its audio synced and enhanced from the audio recording) was included on the Weezer DVD.
Live show bootleg tape, 11/6/96: Seattle, Washington : DV8
tired of sex getchoo My name is Jonas No one else no other one why bother?
In the garage You have your love to me softly
The World has turned and left me here Say it ain't so the good life
Undone - the Sweater song butterfly across the sea el Scorcho Buddy Holly
Surf Wax America
note: taped off the mixing board, high quality audio
also note, this is later the same day of the high school show above
Live show bootleg tape, 11/7/96: Vancouver, British Columbia : Hellenic Hall
tired of sex getchoo My name is Jonas pink triangle No one else no other one
why bother? In the garage You gave your love to me softly falling for you
Say it aint so the good life Undone - the Sweater song butterfly across the sea
el Scorcho Buddy Holly Surf Wax America
note: poor quality audience recording
11/9/96: "the good life" video shoot
all too brief home movie of the day's action, shot by karl. Fragments were used in the weezer DVD as parts of the "Good Life B-Roll" segment.
Live show bootleg tape, 11/16/96: Chicago, IL - The Riviera
01. Tired Of Sex
02. Getchoo
03. My Name Is Jonas
04. Pink Triangle
05. No One Else
06. No Other One
07. Why Bother
08. In The Garage
09. You Gave Your Love To Me Softly
10. Falling For You
11. Say It Ain't So
12. The Good Life
13. Undone (The Sweater Song)
14. Butterfly
15. Across The Sea
16. El Scorcho
17. Buddy Holly
18. Surfwax America
Live show bootleg tape, 11/17/96: Cincinnati, Ohio : Bogarts
(tracklist and quality unknown)
Radio station performance, 11/22/96 Toronto, Canada: The Edge 102.1- acoustic
the good life pink triangle butterfly
Live performance on TV, 11/22/96 - Much Music, Toronto, Canada
Undone - the Sweater song Buddy Holly Say it ain't so el Scorcho the good life
included interviews
note: was re-broadcast on 3/13/97, as part of a "Muchmusic Spotlight" where they showcase a band by presenting the audience with the music videos that have been produced to date, accompanied
by specific interviews - in this case, from 11/22/96.
note 2: many fans have noted that audible in the broadcast of this show, the band can be heard in the background rehearsing as the VJ person babbles. They are heard running through "Devotion" acoustically, and there is much speculation that they actually performed the song but that it was somehow never aired. Extensive reaserch has confirmed that the broadcast was complete as shown, and that no other footage exists - the band did not perform it for the cameras, so there is no recording besides what is heard in the background. Either they ran out of time or decided not to play that one at the last minute. No one has ever come forth who witnessed the show and claimed to see them performing anything aside from what was shown on TV.
Live show bootleg tape, 11/25/96: Rochester, NY: Harro East
tired of sex getchoo My name is Jonas pink triangle No one else no other one
why bother? In the garage You gave your love to me softly falling for you
Say it ain't so the good life Undone - the Sweater song butterfly across the sea
el Scorcho Buddy Holly Surf Wax America
note : good sounding audience tape
Live show bootleg tape, 11/26/96: Boston, MA : The Avalon
tired of sex getchoo My name is Jonas pink triangle No one else no other one
In the garage why bother? Jamie falling for you Say it ain't sothe good life
Undone - the Sweater song butterfly across the sea el Scorcho Buddy Holly
Surf Wax America
note : good sounding audience tape
Live show bootleg tape, 12/08/96: West Palm Beach, FL - In-store Acoustic
01. Undone (The Sweater Song)
02. No One Else
03. The Good Life
04. Pink Triangle
05. El Scorcho
06. Buddy Holly
audience recording. store name unknown.
Live show bootleg tape, 12/15/96: New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
01. Tired of Sex
02. Getchoo
03. My Name is Jonas
04. Pink Triangle
05. No One Else
06. No Other One
07. Why Bother
08. In The Garage
09. You Gave Your Love To Me Softly
10. Falling for You
11. Say It Ain't So
12. The Good Life
13. Undone (The Sweater Song)
14. Butterfly
15. Across the Sea
16. El Scorcho
17. Buddy Holly
18. Surf Wax America
audience recording.
Live show bootleg tape, 12/18/96: Dallas, TX : Deep Ellum
tired of sex getchoo My name is Jonas pink triangle No one else no other one
why bother? In the garage You gave your love to me softly falling for you
Say it aint so the good life Undone - the Sweater song butterfly across the sea
el Scorcho Buddy Holly Surf Wax America
taped off the mixing board, nice quality
late 1996 During the tour with Ash :
Somehow Tim Wheeler of Ash taped Brian Bell's phone message to him at a hotel in LA, Ash later put this on their fanclub-only "Barbie Record" as "Devils Haircut". Brian was referring Tim to various barbers that he was partial to in LA...I know, very weird....
Live show bootleg tape, 1/21/97: Louisville, KY : The Brewery
tired of sex getchoo My name is Jonas pink triangle No one else no other one
Susanne intro why bother? In the garage You gave your love to me softly
falling for you Say it ain't so the good life Undone - the Sweater song
Only in dreams el Scorcho Buddy Holly Surf Wax America
note : fair sounding audience tape
more rentals recordings in london feb 1997- late spring 1997
Matt played me rough mixes of this stuff when the band re-conviened in May in the USA. There were several songs that I recall never made it to "7 More Minutes", such as "The Great Train Robbery". Unfortunately, I have no copies nor notes regarding this material, except i am quite sure that a number of the mixes i heard were in fact early versions of tracks that did make it to the album.
Spring 1997 Space Twins cd demo
About 4 or 5 songs put onto a small number of cd-r's. I cant recall what was on this disc. I do recall saxophones and other wild instumentation. Brian worked on this in the spring, in LA
Spring 1997 - Boston, MA - Pink Triangle single session.
Weezer wasnt sure if they were going to get Matt back from his extensive U.K. Rentals sessions in time to play the summer tour with No Doubt, plus there was a new single coming out and it wasnt radio-ready.
The problem was that Geffen Records and the bands management felt strongly that if "Pink Triangle" was going to get radio play, it needed a serious cleaning up. Rivers had switched from holding firm to being flexable about what was necessary to get a Pinkerton song on the radio, after the fair-at-best national performance of 'The Good Life' back in the winter. Additionally, there were no b-sides ready to go for the international retail single, With "I Swear Its True" and "Getting Up And Leaving" never having been finished the previous summer during the L.A. Pinkerton sessions.
Rivers was still in Harvard doing his Spring semester, but scheduled a session at Fort Apache for his spring break to get the new single ready for the summer tour. In the absence of Matt, 2 bass players were auditioned, Scott Riebling (formerly of Letters To Cleo) and another guy who no one can recall. Scott got the job.
On the task of shaping Pink Triangle up, Scott re-cut the bassline, making it cleaner and tighter. Rivers did some additional subtle work, and the track was sent to Miami, to be re-mixed by Tom Lord-Alge.
Then the b-sides were tackled. Though they were essentially done and needed only a mix, Scott was asked to re-cut the bass on both, as it was decided that the summer '96 Matt bass work was rushed and incomplete. Rivers then decided to make some lyric changes to "Getting Up And Leaving", and worked on vocals for both the songs for some time. Its not known exactly what happened at this point, but the final result was that the 2 songs were never given a final mix, and to date remain in rough mix form, unreleased.
In the end, Matt indeed returned in time to start the tour, and the Pink Triangle single was given a radio only promo release (backed with the acoustic Pink Triangle version from the fall '96 Shorecrest High show). The word from Geffen was that the single would be gauged at radio to determine if it had the strength to get a retail release and a video, but the odds were against the 'lesbian' themed song, and releasing it as a promo single only belied Geffen's lack of confidence in the song to do well.
Pink Triangle (re-cut bass, other minor elements, re-mixed)
I Swear It's True (re-cut bass, vocals, no final mix)
Getting Up And Leaving (re-cut bass, vocals, new lyrics, no final mix)
Radio station performance: 5/21/97 Seattle, WA: KNDD 107.7 The End
Acoustic set , the "7:30 spotlight"
pink triangle Undone - the Sweater song why bother? el Scorcho the good life
Buddy Holly
Live show bootleg tape, 5/30/97: Mountain View, CA : Shoreline Amphitheater
My name is Jonas getchoo No one else the good life Say it ain't so
why bother? Undone - the Sweater song pink triangle Buddy Holly
el Scorcho Surf Wax America
note, fair quality audience tape
Note there is also a pro quality vhs video tape of this show.
Radio Station performance, 6/5/97: X96 Salt Lake City
The Good Life (live, acoustic)
This recording later appeared on the X96 benefit CD "X96 More Cheap Live".
Live show video tape, 6/10/97: kansas city, MO : Sandstone Amphitheater
tracklist unknown. pro quality video.
Radio station performance: 6/20/97 "Sonic Session" Y-100 Philadelphia PA
the good life pink triangle Undone - the Sweater song
buddy holly el scorcho "dukes of hazzard" theme
Note: Tim "Speed" Levitch , Matts weird buddy, guest vocals on "Undone" (rent the movie "The Cruise" for more info on that dude)
Audio bootlegs exist containing the whole thing.
There are 2 different Y-100 compilation CD'S that feature songs from this. One has "undone", the other has "the good life"
The y100 sonic session was not broadcast live. The sonic sessions are always aired the following sunday morning. An interesting side note is that 4 weeks after the sonic session aired on the radio, a local WB-owned station WPHL 17 aired the video version which showed undone, good life, pink triangle, and el scorcho, as well as interviews of the fans by a local dj. "Undone" from this video version (featuring the avant-weird poetry raps of Tim Levitch) appeared on the Weezer DVD.
Live show audio bootleg, 6/28/97: Cuyahoga Falls, OH - Blossom Music Center
01. Intro
02. My Name is Jonas
03. Getchoo
04. No One Else
05. The Good Life
06. Say It Ain't So
07. Why Bother
08. Undone (The Sweater Song)
09. Pine Triangle
10. The Dukes of Hazzard Theme Song
11. Buddy Holly
12. El Scorcho
13. Surf Wax America
Live show bootleg tape, 7/9/97: Salt Lake City, UT : Club Dv8
My name is Jonas Dukes of Hazzard getchoo No one else no other one
the good life Holiday Buddy Holly pink triangleSusanne why bother?
across the sea Say it ain't so Undone - the Sweater song
note: fairly poor sounding audience tape
Live show bootleg tape, 7/29/97: Osaka, Japan : Club Quattro
My name is Jonas getchoo No one else no other one the good life Holiday
Buddy Holly pink triangle Susanne why bother? across the sea Say it ain't so
Undone - the Sweater song Only in dreams el Scorcho Surf Wax America
note: decent quality audience recording
Live performance Videotaped for MTV, 8/15/97 - Los Angeles CA, The Palace
The memorial show for Mykel Carli and Trysta was taped nearly in full by MTV, although only small parts were shown during "the week in rock", Additionally, MTV taped 3 full length interviews with Matt and Rivers, Pat and Karl, the Allan family, and various weezer fans, as well as most of opener That Dog's performance.
(tracklist coming)
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