So today...or actually yesterday since it's now 2 AM...was the Weezer concert and....wow. It totally blew away the Municipal concert. I do believe that the fact that HaveSomeSoma and I had 5th row dead center tickets really helped. Of course, we saw The Special Goodness (Pat's band) play on the side stage. After their set we went over to the side in hopes of catching Pat and showing him Soma's homemade I Heart Pat T-shirt. We wait for about 10 minutes and Pat emerges from the dark recesses of the stage and randomly whips a bicycle out of nowhere, hops on it, and whizzes less than a foot past us while we're saying "Pat...Pat....Pat....Pat."

Oh well. On the way to our seats, Chris Carabababababa walked past us. Oh well. Screw Dashboard. Sparta was good, Dashboard was...well I have newfound respect for the guy since he dedicated a song to "selling out" after the wanker behind us kept screaming "Sell out! Suck my balls! You put down the electric guitar!" Weezer rocked out. Rivers had on the coolest purple shirt and tie...Scott was wearing a wife beater (of course). They were so cool and played El Scorcho, Pink Triangle, Butterfly and Keep Fishin'.

Of course the insanity does not stop after the concert. We wander around to the back entrance and meet up with two really nice girls from Iowa who drove all the way to see the Weez. For about 90 minutes we are the sole 5 waiting to meet the band. After we're told to leave the second time, we notice that Brian is walking two 40 year old women out of the backstage area. We mutter "brian" and he waves but the security guy motions for us to keep back...

We survive power-hungry guards and a lot or shirtless white-trash workers and all of a sudden, the inbred floodgates open and about 10 wannabe fans wander up. Darn them. All the dashboard guys (except chris carababababa) come out to sign stuff. Blah blah blah. Then...after discussing how Scott doesn't fit in and how we would settle for Scott, Scott Shriner appears carrying fireworks. He shakes our hands, signs stuff, and is generally a really really really really nice guy (but... I think he has silver plated teeth oddly enough....). What was he doing with fireworks you might ask? Why, shooting them off in the parking lot, that's what!! After the pyrotechnics, Scott goes back in.

We wait some more and we see Pat again but the 10 inbred-fans start chanting Pat Pat Pat which frightened him like a turtle. Darn them!!! Sigh..and then Weezer's bus begins to pull out of the parking lot. As they drive by, Brian waves to us and then jumps out of his seat and runs to the front window and waves some more, and I think he tried to pull alittle cordy thingy to stop the bus but he was too late. I detected a slight "defeat" facial expression. Or I'm just telling myself this to feel better.

This is where us true fans become apparent. Four of us begin to run after the bus. Yes me included. Come on, it was 1 AM! We chase the bus, waving and give the weez sign but alas, it drives off into the night...

And now I'm home, typing this and thinking of how odd it was that I got Scott's autograph.

Long live Weezer.

1. The band, it would appear, sends Scott out to greet the fans/sign autographs because he's the new guy.

2.
Wow.

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 3:34 pm on Jul. 31, 2002)

That could very well be true. When I met Oasis, Andy Bell and Gem stayed outside and signed stuff as soon as they got off the bus while Noel, Liam and Alan went inside for a while. Of course they came out after I left...

this is off topic, but since when has that stopped me?...

when gem and andy first joined oasis, i was scared that gem's name was pronounced like the old girl rock star cartoon of the same name or a gem stone. it would have been a bit queer for my taste. luckily, he was nicknamed for the great scottish footballer archie gemell, who you may have heard mentioned in the movie trainspotting (right after sex). i was relieved to find this out.

yes, it was a great time. the best show i have ever seen. that was the most fun i've do believe i have ever had. and waiting in the back for what seemed like years was fun and worth it i guess. i mean, scott was really nice. even though he was in vanilla ice's rap-metal band, maybe he's making an effort at fitting in to weezer. oh well, for now i will just take advantage of the hilarity that is scott's lone signature on my maladroit cd cover and the memories of the great time.

i had so much fun at this show! not the nest show of all time, but DEF> the best weezer show ive ever seen. it rocked me to no end. when they played el scorcho, i just fucking freaked. the fact that pink triangle and butterfly were also sported made me smile vigorously. good times.

i especially had fun with jordache during DC making fun of all the emno kids and pretending to cry and cut ourselves. of course, we were sinign along all the same i have to admit, i thought they would suck in a big arena, but chris actually rocked out a bit and i was impressed with his musical stylings among the big crowd.

i had so much fun at this show! not the nest show of all time, but DEF> the best weezer show ive ever seen. it rocked me to no end. when they played el scorcho, i just fucking freaked. the fact that pink triangle and butterfly were also sported made me smile vigorously. good times.

i especially had fun with jordache during DC making fun of all the emno kids and pretending to cry and cut ourselves. of course, we were sinign along all the same i have to admit, i thought they would suck in a big arena, but chris actually rocked out a bit and i was impressed with his musical stylings among the big crowd.

i met the members of weezer when they played 328 with ash. they were all nice, though the bass player was annoying. rivers, my old bestfriend annie, and i put safety pins on each other while some of his fans talked to him and stuff. i still have the ticket stub (though i didn't pay to get in) with his autograph on it. actually, he signed it 4 times.

then we hung out with ash and laughed while they talked about sticking a bottle of jack up weezer's bass player's ass. fun times.

Someone met a couple of the members last time they came and the guys said that Rivers didn't like talking to the people. They said he was a big butthole.

Was that over a year ago? Scott just joined September of last year. The bassist prior to him (Mikey Welsh, my personal favorite weezer bassist) was something of a diva. Pat once said that prior to Scott joining there were a lot more arguments. Mikey was a diva.

I don't like talking to people I don't know a whole lot either and I wouldn't call myself a 'butthole' (retard yes...but that's another story). Rivers is just a shy hermit-esque man. As the poet Bobby Brown would say, it's his perogative.

I believe that show was in December of 1996. I'm pretty sure that was the last tour on which weezer played venues as small as 328 Performance Hall (what I refer to as "the good ol' days"). So, the Bassist in question is Matt Sharp who shortly after the tour quit the band to focus his full attention on his newer band The Rentals. (Hmmm, I wonder what *they're* doing now) Losing Matt really sucked because his contributions to the backing vocals are something they're definitely lacking now.

From what I hear, Mikey's a real prick with alcohol and drug issues. Why he was in a band like Weezer in the first place, I just don't know.

Is it the loss of Matt or has Rivers stopped writing harmonies? Thats what I always thought. Rivers seems to expunged himself of everything that went into Pinkerton.

Will

I have always heard that Rivers wrote (and continues to write) all of the vocal harmonies for Weezer songs. What they lost with Matt Sharp is the high (Brian Wilson-esque, if you will) voice in the harmonies. Sharp was the one who used to sing all of the high parts, which aren't there anymore. By the way, Carl, Weezer/Ash @ 328 was in December 1996, and yes, those were the "good 'ol days."

(Edited by jamiecarroll at 1:05 pm on Aug. 4, 2002)

I started actually liking Weezer in 1999 (yes I liked all the singles back in the day but I didn't own Blue until '99). I do agree with Matt adding more harmony etc to the band. It is very apparent that the high voice is lacking on Surf Wax, Undone, etc etc when done live nowadays (I can't imagine anything but a growl coming out of Scott's mouth). I do like the backing vocals that Brian provides nowadays. Keep Fishin' has great backing vocals (but not harmonies).

And I do like Mikey. Maybe not as a person but Mikey had stuch style and the ability to make all the songs off Green actually sound rockin' live. Mikey just seemed to fit in better appearance-wise with the band moreso than Scott does. And I really think Rivers is coming out of the whole "let's act like Pinkerton doesn't exist" thing. I mean, he has played every single song off Pinkerton on this tour which was unheard of since the actual 96 tour. Heck, every night each setlist is dominated by Pinkerton now.

(Edited by DigsySlattery at 11:56 am on Aug. 4, 2002)

i thoguht brian was helping out with that stuff now...