We talked about 'Rushmore,' the movie, and he was real nervous. "And point at him and go, 'Whisper whisper whisper. "So you pace around him," Vlahakis interjected, "and circle him like a shark." "I was just like, 'Oh, yeah,' 'cause I didn't want to kiss ass too much," he continued, " 'cause you don't want to walk up and go, 'Dude, you're my hero, man.' So I was trying to be too cool." Rivers, Brian Bell, Pat Wilson and their new bass player were rehearsing on Hollywood Boulevard in some rehearsal studio to get their new album ready. "We stayed next when he was staying at the Roosevelt Hotel in L.A.," Morris said reverently. The tour with Weezer is a reunion of sorts, as Dynamite Hack hung out with Weezer's drummer, Pat Wilson, when the revitalized band was rehearsing songs for its new album. Just beautiful, really."ĭynamite Hack will open for Weezer for the next three weeks and later will play dates with Goldfinger. I was in the room, on the couch, sleeping, and she just nailed it.
"She did it in one take," Vlahakis recalled of the session. Then I'd start singing, and she'd go, 'Uh-uh. " sang in the choir," Morris said, "and she was always the soloist in the Christmas play, and she would always walk around the house and rub it in by looking at me and singing. "Yeah, 'Dynamic Hack,' " joked guitarist Mark Vlahakis. "I think we're gonna try and do a video where we the acoustic one," he said, "and then have the rock one come after it to give people an idea of our dynamic range." "We have an acoustic version of the track where I play the piano and my sister sings, and it's the prettiest song and the best song on the record, almost. " is just a straightforward song about losing a girlfriend and being angry about it," Morris said. Morris said he thought the gender differences in the two vocal interpretations of "Anything" would help bring added weight to an otherwise simple breakup song. Two radically different versions of the song appear on the group's Superfast album: a full-tilt punkish workout and, on a hidden track, a piano-driven ballad sung by Emily Kate, sister of Dynamite Hack frontman Mark Morris. The Austin, Texas, band will use the high-profile outing to help push its new single, "Anyway" ( RealAudio excerpt). After scoring a summer hit with a breezy cover of N.W.A's "Boyz-n-the-Hood," Dynamite Hack are getting ready to kick off their opening slot on the Weezer tour on Wednesday (Aug.