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Weezerpedia:Today's featured song/October 20, 2008
"Hold Me" is the fourth track from Make Believe.
Weezer fans first heard "Hold Me" as an acoustic demo, posted by Rivers himself. It was one of the last demos Rivers posted for fans. Rivers wrote the song after a period of fasting. Rivers, in 2005, made himself clear in various interviews that he did not suggest drastic measure to create songwriting opportunities because it could not be sustained. Therefore, he was always somewhat reluctant to share with people how "Hold Me" was written. The song was later heard by fans when a brief SIR clip was posted for fans featuring part of the solo and the final chorus, backed by a whole band. Karl Koch explains,
"There is a (partial) full band electric version of "Hold Me" that was shared with fans by Rivers via a direct-to-fan mp3 sharing, around this time, soon after the acoustic home demo of Hold Me was released (see 3/6/03 above). It does not show up on the known SIR tapes from this period, but there was a lot of confusion and some unfinished/undocumented stuff around this time so it may have slipped away from the cataloging process. according to the talk at the time, the personnel on this recording is Rivers and Scott plus 2 fill in players. This does match what was going on in the SIR sessions at the time." (more...)
