Watch: Weezer Teams Up With Jackass Crew For New Video
By Jeffrey Hyatt
Weezer’s latest video for “Memories” finds the band mixing it up with Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O and the rest of the ‘Jackass’ cast of characters.
Filmed on grainy, Super-8 cameras, the video features the band performing poolside while the professional jackasses do what they do best with various skateboard and bike stunts, plus the usual, amusing stupidity.
Watch the video for “Memories” below.
“Memories” might not be the greatest Weezer song ever recorded, but the video is a winner; definitely a nice touch calling in Team Jackass to do what they do best. In fact, I hate the song, but I’ve watched the video six or seven times already because I like the kooky, jackass shit.
Apparently Rivers Cuomo and Knoxville hung out together back in Hollywood in the early ’90s, so there is a slim connection with the ‘Jackass’ theme to the music video — all about remembering the good, old times.
“I had been married for a few months and had been in school for the semester before that, and basically I had been away from the band and the rock world for a while,” Rivers Cuomo told MTV.
“I was really missing it, and just sitting there alone in my room missing the fans and missing my band, so ‘Memories’ is about getting back in there.”
The song shows up on the band’s new album, Hurley, set for release September 14; plus, it appears on the soundtrack of Jackass 3D.
Jackass 3D opens October 15th.
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