Weezer performs at Coachella following incident with police

When Weezer was announced past play arsenic a astonishment summation to this year’s Coachella lineup, fewer apt predicted that the seasoned alt-rock band’s acceptable would beryllium among the festival’s astir intimately watched.

But that was earlier bassist Scott Shriner’s wife, Jillian, was progressive successful a bizarre occurrence successful Los Angeles this week that ended with her being changeable by constabulary officers aft they encountered her with a handgun successful the backyard of a location successful Eagle Rock.

Walking onstage Saturday day successful the Mojave tent, Scott Shriner pumped his fist and drew a immense circular of cheers from the overflow assemblage of respective thousands.

The occurrence betwixt constabulary and writer Jillian Lauren Shriner happened Tuesday during an unrelated manhunt for respective radical suspected of fleeing a hit-and-run connected the 134 Freeway. The hunt led officers to a location adjacent the couple’s, wherever they accidental they recovered Shriner with a weapon that she utilized to occurrence astatine police; the officers fired back, hitting Shriner, who was transported to a infirmary with non-life-threatening injuries and aboriginal arrested connected suspicion of attempted murder. Shriner posted $1 cardinal enslaved and was released from custody precocious Wednesday.

On Thursday, reporters for the New York Post quoted Scott Shriner arsenic saying that his woman was OK arsenic helium walked the couple’s 4 dogs extracurricular their home.

“See you astatine Coachella!” the insubstantial said helium added.

Weezer’s performance, which frontman Rivers Cuomo said served arsenic a invited interruption from the band’s enactment successful L.A. connected a Weezer movie, was packed with oldies including “Hash Pipe,” “Perfect Situation,” “Undone — The Sweater Song” and “Surf Wax America,” during which Cuomo enactment his limb astir Scott Shriner arsenic the second sang a falsetto vocal line. No 1 onstage said thing astir the incidental with the bassist’s wife.

The set besides covered Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” and closed with a one-two punch from its deed self-titled 1994 debut: “Say It Ain’t So” into “Buddy Holly.”