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'''''The Lion and the Witch''''' is a live EP by [[Weezer]]. Recorded in Japan in the Spring of [[2002]] while promoting ''[[Maladroit]]'', released on [[September 24]], [[2002]], exactly six years after the release of ''[[Pinkerton]]''. It was distributed as a limited edition release in independently owned music stores with only 25,000 copies having been made. | '''''The Lion and the Witch''''' is a live EP by [[Weezer]]. Recorded in Japan in the Spring of [[2002]] while promoting ''[[Maladroit]]'', released on [[September 24]], [[2002]], exactly six years after the release of ''[[Pinkerton]]''. It was distributed as a limited edition release in independently owned music stores with only 25,000 copies having been made. | ||
Like ''Maladroit'', the marketing of this EP caused a rift with Weezer's | Like ''Maladroit'', the marketing of this EP caused a rift with Weezer's [[Geffen Records|record label]]. The band wanted an eight-song EP with a unique packaging that wouldn't involve crystal cases. Geffen told the band that the packaging idea was too expensive and the number of songs on the EP needed to be reduced from eight songs to six as to not upset the other retailers who wouldn't be getting the disc. The artwork and packaging stuck but the disc's length was reduced to six songs including a "hidden track." This hidden track was an instrumental track titled "[[Polynesia]]" that opens the disc. | ||
==Recording== | ==Recording== | ||
The live tracks comprising the release were recorded during Weezer's May 2002 Japanese tour. Several outtakes from these recordings later turned up as B-sides to the singles "[[Keep Fishin']]" and "[[We Are All On Drugs]]", on the [[Petra Haden]] tribute double seven-inch, and well as bonus tracks on international editions of ''[[Make Believe]]''. | |||
While recording the EP, the band makes two errors on this live disc. [[Rivers]] accidentally begins singing the third verse of "[[El Scorcho]]" during the second verse and [[Scott Shriner]], who had been in the band for less than a year at the time of this show, forgets the words in the bridge to "[[Holiday]]", causing the other members of the band to crack up. After the performance is through, Cuomo muses "Scott just won a Grammy!" In addition to that error, the last track is thirty seconds shorter than what the band intended and there is a noticeable cut off on the finished disc. None of the music is missing, but there was more after-song commentary that the band wanted on the disc. The full version of this track was released shortly thereafter on the band's website as a free mp3. | While recording the EP, the band makes two errors on this live disc. [[Rivers]] accidentally begins singing the third verse of "[[El Scorcho]]" during the second verse and [[Scott Shriner]], who had been in the band for less than a year at the time of this show, forgets the words in the bridge to "[[Holiday]]", causing the other members of the band to crack up. After the performance is through, Cuomo muses "Scott just won a Grammy!" In addition to that error, the last track is thirty seconds shorter than what the band intended and there is a noticeable cut off on the finished disc. None of the music is missing, but there was more after-song commentary that the band wanted on the disc. The full version of this track was released shortly thereafter on the band's website as a free mp3. | ||
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# "[[El Scorcho]]" (live) | # "[[El Scorcho]]" (live) | ||
# "[[Holiday]]" (live) | # "[[Holiday]]" (live) | ||
==Outtakes== | |||
* "[[Why Bother?]]" | |||
* "[[Burndt Jamb]]" | |||
* "[[Photograph]]" | |||
* "[[Knock-down Drag-out]]" | |||
* "[[Slob]]" | |||
* "[[Island in the Sun]]" (alternate take) | |||
* "[[Death and Destruction]]" (alternate mix) | |||
==Personnel== | ==Personnel== | ||