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| {{Featured article headline|[[Rivers Cuomo concert: 11/25/2008|Alone II Hootenanny]]}} | | {{Featured article headline|[[Weezine Issue 1 - Winter 1994]]}} |
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| The '''Alone II hootenanny''' (also known as the '''Alone II jam session''' or '''Jam Session with Rivers''') was the album release concert for ''[[Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo]]''. In place of a traditional concert, [[Rivers Cuomo]] invited fans to learn any song from his and {{PN|Weezer}} catalogue, then created a setlist from crowd suggestions at the beginning of the night. Fans played instruments of all kinds along with Cuomo. The show took place on [[November 25]], [[2008]] at Fingerprints Records in Long Beach, California, with roughly 150 guests in attendance. Many of them were [[Weezerpedia]] users and [[Albumsix]] boardies.
| | '''''Weezine Issue #1 - Winter 1994''''' is the first issue of ''[[Weezine]]'', the quarterly magazine released through the [[Weezer Fan Club]]. It was compiled by [[Mykel and Carli Allan]] alongside [[Karl Koch]], and released in [[1994]]. Below is a letter from [[Rivers Cuomo]] to fans, excerpted from the issue: |
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| | ''<blockquote>Merry Christmas,<br><br>I'm really tired. We just finished our [[Blue Album Tour|"Global Domination" tour]]: 7 months of driving around this wonderful country, mostly in a [[Betsy|crappy little van]]. Now I'm going back to Connecticut to spend Christmas with [[Beverly Shoenberger|my mom]] and [[Leaves Cuomo|brother]]. I plan to read, play piano, take long walks in the snow, and hopefully write some songs.<Br><br>Thanks for being such nice people. Weezer has the coolest fans of any band. I hope you all get lots of cool presents.<br><br>Love,<br>Rivers</blockquote>'' |
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| The [[hootenanny]] was first announced in an [[Pitchfork Media interview with Rivers Cuomo - October 27, 2008|October 2008 interview]] with [[Pitchfork]], with Cuomo explaining how the evening would go:<br>
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| <blockquote>"I want to do a really cool event to promote ''Alone II'' on the day of release. It's basically another Hootenanny, but it's a little different. Anyone can come, you don't have to bring an instrument, but if you want to, you can bring an instrument, and you the audience will pick the songs we play, and it can be anything.</blockquote>
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| Notable performances at the show included the freshly released "[[Can't Stop Partying]]," a banjo-led rendition of "[[Butterfly]]," and "[[Getting Up and Leaving]]," which had only been released to fans via [[Getting Up and Leaving#Sheet music|sheet music]] at the time.
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| A [[Not Alone: Rivers Cuomo & Friends Live at Fingerprints|CD and DVD]] of this event was released on [[May 5]], [[2009]].
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