Weezer with horns? Maracas? Weezer covering a Radiohead song that Radiohead won't even perform ('Creep' for those keeping score)? Must be a Hootenanny.
A Hootenanny finds Weezer playing shows with a couple hundred of their biggest, musically talented fans. For California fan Jenna Fields, who has loved the band for years (and even had the famous =W= symbol put on her retainer when she was 14), performing with Weezer was a once in a lifetime experience.
Fields explains to Spinner that to be considered to attend, she was instructed to choose a Weezer song, submit a YouTube video of herself playing it and mention which instrument she would bring to the show if chosen. She had a guitar sitting around and a friend in a band who could help teach her how to play it, so she "became extremely ambitious to try and learn 'Island in the Sun' in enough time to be able to video tape it." Her musician friend -- a pizza delivery boy on his band's off-time -- tried to coach her through it all while still, well, delivering pizzas. Despite the effort, Fields failed and resorted to singing the tune acapella for her video audition. Luckily for her, the submission still won her admission to the Los Angeles Hootenanny on June 23.



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