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| Live debut = [[May 20]], [[2001]] in [[Weezer concert: 05/20/2001|St. Louis, MO]] | |||
| Producer = Weezer, [[Rod Cervera]], [[Chad Bamford]] | | Producer = Weezer, [[Rod Cervera]], [[Chad Bamford]] | ||
| Status = Released | | Status = Released | ||
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* ''[[We Are All on Drugs]]'' (UK Retail CD - live) (2005) | * ''[[We Are All on Drugs]]'' (UK Retail CD - live) (2005) | ||
==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
"Burndt Jamb" initially debuted as an instrumental. The | "Burndt Jamb" initially debuted as an instrumental. It was first performed live on the [[Hooptie Tour]] only five days after ''[[The Green Album]]'' was released. The band first recorded a demo of it seven days after that, at [[DC Demos|Monster Island Studios in Washington, D.C.]]. This session was booked in hopes of finding a producer for the band's yet-unnamed fourth album. The song was played the following month for the show ''The Evening Session'' for [[BBC Sessions|BBC Radio 1]]. It wasn't until January of 2002 that "Burdnt Jamb" received lyrics, during [[Maladroit Demos#Maladroit sessions|formal demoing sessions for ''Maladroit'']]. These lyrics were scrapped and rewritten before the album's final release. In [[Rolling Stone article - June 20, 2002|a 2002 ''Rolling Stone'' article]] by Jenny Eliscu, Rivers Cuomo alluded to his fascination with a specific goth girl, which may have inspired the "Gothic flavor" lyric: | ||
<blockquote>''His newest obsession, he says, is goth. He holds up his hands to show off black fingernail polish, silver rings and leather wrist cuffs. "I never noticed goth before," he says. "But then I got really fascinated with this one girl. A music style just gets wrapped up with the vision of the girl, and it overtakes your consciousness."''</blockquote> | <blockquote>''His newest obsession, he says, is goth. He holds up his hands to show off black fingernail polish, silver rings and leather wrist cuffs. "I never noticed goth before," he says. "But then I got really fascinated with this one girl. A music style just gets wrapped up with the vision of the girl, and it overtakes your consciousness."''</blockquote> | ||
A live rendition of the song, recorded on [[July 26]], [[2002]] at [[Weezer concert: 07/26/2002 - Camden, NJ|a show in Camden, New Jersey]], appeared as a b-side on the UK retail CD of "[[We Are All on Drugs]]", and as a bonus track on the international release of ''[[Make Believe]]''. | A live rendition of the song, recorded on [[July 26]], [[2002]] at [[Weezer concert: 07/26/2002 - Camden, NJ|a show in Camden, New Jersey]], appeared as a b-side on the UK retail CD of "[[We Are All on Drugs]]", and as a bonus track on the international release of ''[[Make Believe]]''. | ||