CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!? Most coverbands can only dream of playing onstage with the bands whose songs they steal. Well, us old men got to share the stage with those nice boys from Weezer. Here's how it happened....

On Weezer's latest tour, they're having local radio stations round up local musicians to play onstage with them for two songs, so we thought we'd resurrect Geezer for 94.9's auditions. We hadn't done it in a couple of years and only did two shows when we did. We really weren't really thinking about playing with the band, we just thought it'd be fun to crash the auditions, pass out some Worther's and show the youth who's still boss. Our old bassist Kevin "The Kid" Gossett was unavailable (RIP 1871-2007) so Zach "Babyface" Goode stepped in to learn all of the songs we'd forgotten. Then 94.9 called us and asked us to help host and be the backing band for everyone who wanted to audition an hour beforehand. Oy vey!! So, we fudged our way through a verse, chorus and solo of "Island In The Sun" and "Beverly Hills" about 357 times at the House of Blues and saved the day. They were so thankful that they let all four of us be part of the onstage fun with a dozen or so other lucky musicians!! We volunteered to play in their booth at the show and they said they'd be happy to host us as long as we had proof of life insurance. We couldn't get a policy that quickly, so we convinced Zach's young girlfriend Marissa to be our nurse. As shy as she is, she accepted our offer and found a dress the size of a postcard to wear.

So we braved Friday traffic and SDSU parking to meet all of the lucky Weezer Hootenanny folks, which ended up including Kelsey (harp) and Joseph (mandolin) from the Wrong Trousers, Sean (git) and Gorney (cajon) from Fevercrotch and Paul (recently of Rafter's band) on sax. We were ushered downstairs into the womens basketball team's dressing room where we all got in a big circle with the other musicians drafted by 94.9 and 91X. Roadies led us through the two songs and Weezer guitarist Brian Bell came in to join us. He kept looking and smiling at us geezers with our toy pianos and slide whistles or maybe it was our nurse, it's hard to tell with our prescription glasses. It sounded really great with such a crazy combo of marching band & acoustic thingamajigs and Brian said it was the most fun rehearsal they'd had yet. Oh, I bet you say that to all the ladies.

As soon as we got back up to the 94.9 booth, we fired up the Lite Brite with our logo (+pink triangle) and started playing Blue Album classics and random covers (Zep, Clash, Ramones) for anyone that would stop which, by the end of the night, totalled at least 13 young whippersnappers. These young kids today just don't know how to respect their elders! Still, there were a few nice ones and we gave them candy and brand new =G= pins (thanks to Little Devil Buttons for doing them so quick and making them look so great!!!!!). Also a HUGE thanks to everyone from 94.9 for letting us play, watching our stuff, mentioning us on the radio and honoring Pulp's plea to help the aged.

Before we knew it, that Blink 182 lad that sounds like he's got something stuck in his nose was done and it was time for Weezer to warm up the crowd for us. After a little pork, beans and hash, we went downstairs and lined up for our big arenarock debut. We got to watch sidestage as the band did that Pink Floyd song from Wizard of Oz and somehow got separated from Zach and our nurse, who they seemed to want centerstage. I can't imagine why they'd want a six foot blonde in a standard medical profession micromini and heels to be somewhere more visible than a bunch of old men. Kids today!


On we pranced as the crowd roared for us (57 seconds into the above video, someone yells "Adam Gimbel!") and Adam passed out fresh baked cookies in his "such a day i've had had" apron and ovenmitts. While everyone set up, Rivers the singerboy came over to say hello.
Rivers: ...what the heck? Cookies!
Adam: Such a nice boy (pats Rivers on cheek and extends cookie tray)
Rivers: Thank you. (eats) Mmmm!
Adam: Are they alright?
Rivers: Yeah, they're good...delicious! Cookie's gonna inspire me on this next track, I can feel it.
Then (at 2:41 in the above video) he asked our nurse to play her hand accordian too.


Here's another good angle for "Island". So you can find us: Adam points to Scott's hiphip at the very beginning, Nasr is just to his left on the yellow xylophone, Dylan is to his right in the red ballcap on slidewhistle and kazoo and of course Zach is next to Marissa on lead walker and blue toy piano. Check out more pics here (click).

Us Hootenanners sounded great on "Island In The Sun", especially the flute solo, and made their biggest hit sound better than it ever has. In between songs, Rivers came over to interview our friend Matthew from Bad Credit about his cajon hand drum, while Adam switched from slide whistle to lead guitar pinata. Unfortunately, senility had prevented him from tuning down a half step so everyone kept looking at him funny throughout "Beverly Hills". By the end, he was so frustrated that he smashed it at the edge of the stage and tossed it along with the inevitible candy into the crowd. Luckily, a fantastic trombone solo and Rivers' moustache distracted all of the onlookers.

(photo by =V=. Karina Anaya)

The crowd gave us a huge sendoff and the band loved us so much that they decided to come back and do an encore in our honor. As we hobbled outside to play for the exiting masses, the band crooned "Grandma take me home" just for us. Thanks, boys! The only thing that could've made for a better ending would be getting shut down by the coppers outside, which is exactly what happened.

It's a night we'll never.....um, where am I?