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As Alone II: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo made its way into stores this week, Rivers Cuomo celebrated the occasion by corralling a handful of lucky fans into Long Beach, California record shop Fingerprints last night for a small-scale version of the hootenanny/jam session thing Weezer was doing earlier this year.

The superfans who made up the makeshift band helped Rivers pick the night's setlist (see below), largely sticking to the deep cuts and sometimes helping Rivers remember his own lyrics. Highlights included a banjo-and-voice rendition of Pinkerton standout "Butterfly" and a go at Weezer's recent Red Album single "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn)".

We'd like to think Cuomo's chosen costume was a visual pun on the fact that he was "conducting" this rag-tag troupe of musicians, though we're just a little bummed the night didn't include a special live appearance from The Hair. Maybe next time?