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Karl's Corner - 04/29/2001

...well, contrary to some accounts, I was NOT at Coachella sporting an orange mowhawk! I will be rejoining the guys in about 2 weeks, right around the time of the moment we've all been waiting for since August '97: the album release! In the meantime, I will continue to cobble together my reports and do some "behind the scenes" weez-work that will all be made public ASAP! I apologize for the lack of fresh pix and movie clips. Rest assured, you will be swimming in cool "content" soon! Big changes are afoot for weezer.com, and there are some very cool projects in the works! Well, today you get a tiny treat. click here for a very brief "movie" that Mikey must have shot of himself in an airport. It looks like he had the camera set on "still image" or something!
...Anyway, by all accounts, from band crew and fans, weezer rocked the Coachella stage hard, and won over the mixed crowd, not to mention Jane's Addiction! Pat says Jane's were "great" and employed an unknown bass player. A fan writes:
"Weezer got the crowd rockin' at coachella. The fans were totally ecstatic and the new songs Photograph and Island in the sun became instant hits, I kept hearing people say "wow the new album is going to kick ass when it comes out!" The crowd was so into the songs that when it came time for only in dreams people literally had no energy left what so ever but they still somehow mannaged to find more and kept on rockin. It was a great concert! I drove 8 hours to see weezer and it was totally worth it, well accept when I got my wallet stollen in the crowd of weezer fans, that really sucked. One guy was taking wallets out of peoples pockets and tossing them backwards in to the sea of people. It really sucks how one jackass can ruin the whole day but I knew that there was nothing I could do but just forget about it and enjoy the rest of the show. No weezer shirt though since I didn't have any money to get one." --Taylor
...the word is on the street that the "Hash Pipe" video is to make its first MTV appearence on May 7th. I cannot confirm this yet, but as soon as I can I'll post the news. Meanwhile, people have reported no luck in getting it played on Canada's Much Music TV Station. Perhaps MM is waiting to see what MTV does. As I understand it though, they have the video in their hands now.
...This week the guys are hunkering down in L.A., taking care of a bunch of interviews and photo shoots and band business. The next "out of town" appearence is in San Diego on May 8th. I should have full details on these upcoming appearences and stuff very very soon.
Category:Karl's Corner - April 2001
Karl's Corner - 04/29/2005

...The Warfield is just a great place to see a show, and a fun place to host one. Kudos to the very helpful staff making it all happen with a smile. Also kudos to the experienced security staff keeping things safe around the backstage doors when all kinds of wild characters (not the fans, but troublemakers and roughnecks) seem to zero in on the block the Warfield is situated on!
Tonight was a hometown show of sorts for Ringside as several members are from the Bay Area, and their response from the crowd was appropriately kicked up a notch. They do seem to be winning many people over so far this tour, which is cool because they are doing a great job.
Weezer is working harder than ever this tour, doing all they can to dial in the songs as tight as possible. The spirit of cooperation and professionalism is alive and kicking, and each show so far has sounded better to me than the one before, and it wasnt too shabby to start with. we'll see how the sudden shift to a massive outdoor show setting (Coachella) is handled tomorrow.
setlist:
Hash Pipe
Tired Of Sex
Slob
Buddy Holly
This Is Such A Pity
The Good Life
Say It Ain't So
My Name Is Jonas
Island In The Sun
In The Garage
Beverly Hills
No One Else
We Are All On Drugs
Getchoo
Hold Me
Haunt You Every Day
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Pardon Me
Undone - The Sweater Song
the after show scene downstairs was packed with guests and VIPs, including weezer's 2000 tour manager/soundman Neil Young (the other Neil Young!) and AM Radio/Food leadman Kevin Ridel.
Bus DVDs (Bus #2 - Brian, Scott + others) so far: 'Waiting For Guffman' (required), SCTV box set (big thumbs up), 'Million Dollar Hotel' (thumbs mostly down), 'White Chicks' (ejected before the halfway mark.) Coming up: Rolling Stones Rock N Roll Circus!
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Category:Karl's Corner - April 2005
2005/04/29
Karl's Corner - 04/29/2009

...OK folks, first of all, for anyone searching for the new Rivers "Not Alone" DVD and CD yesterday and today, only to not find it, our apologies. There was a release date change to next Tuesday, 5/5. But we weren't informed about the change until too late. So you will have to wait a few more days. Again, apologies for any confusion or inconvienience.
In The meantime, here's an exclusive 'Not Alone' video over on Entertainment Weekly - "El Scorcho"!
... the tour dates people have found over on Buzznet are NOT correct. Real tour info is in fact coming, but has not yet been finalized for release to the public. Stay tuned for bona-fide announcements via weezer.com, weezer myspace, and the weezer mailing list.
...Rentals update! Folks, you may be aware of former weezer bass man Matt's band, The Rentals. But you may not have been aware that they are releasing a new album this year, titled "Songs About Time". And you also may not have known that they are releasing it in 3 stages, and the first 4 songs are available now! Its great stuff folks, check it out - and now you know.
...Weezer Tribute band special edition! Jose and Ryen from Ozma (with some dudes from the band Teaneck) are doing a special one-off show May 16th at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood. They will be playing the Green Album in its entirety! ("Including 'I Do'", says Jose. "The Green Album came out may 15 in 2001 so its a true 8 year anniversary celebration.")
...todays photo of the adorable 'Weezer Pup' courtesy of Nick H.
Category:Karl's Corner - April 2009
Karl's Corner - 04/29/2010

A day of planes, no trains, and automobiles moves us northward, towards our goal of The University of Maryland's Byrd Stadium on the 30th. Some lucky DC wandering gets us into several invite-only cocktail parties, to the further embarrasment of the secret service. Ok, so thats a bit of an exaggeration. But good times and tasty treats nonetheless.
...new interview with Brian.
...details of the upcoming Shreck 4 soundtrack including Weezer's contribution.
Category:Karl's Corner - April 2010
Karl's Corner - 04/29/2011

...As anyone watching the news knows, much of Alabama was devastated by the recent mega tornado wave that rolled thru 2 days ago. We had no idea what to expect when this news hit right before our scheduled departures to Birmingham to play the Crawfish Boil. But word came through soon enough that the Boil was on! And so Team Weezer, band, crew and otherwise, have assembled like the Avengers in the storm ravaged state, hoping to spread some good cheer and smiles with the rock and the roll. Rock and Roll is a healing force, and we hope to help get the healing started!
Weezer is happy to learn that Red Mountain Entertainment and Schaeffer Eye Center are donating a portion of the proceeds of this year's event to the mid-Alabama chapter of the American Red Cross for direct relief to the tornado victims. If you are able to help out, consider the most direct way: donating to the Red Cross. The mid-Alabama Red Cross donation page is here: http://www.alredcross.org 
Category:Karl's Corner - April 2011
Karl's Corner - 04/30/2001

...I've recieved word of two upcoming Weezer "Green Album" Pre-Release Listening Parties in the S.F. Bay area. Both are at very cool indie record shops, and at both you can purchase the new CD in advance (you pick it up upon its official release on the 15th), and by doing so you get a bunch of cool stuff for free. Here's the details...
May 4th - Rasputin Music, 2401 Telegraph (@ Channing), Berkeley, CA; 5:00pm - 6:00pm
details: listen to the album in its entirety, enter to win an autographed framed poster, and if you pre-purchase the cd, you'll receive a weezer goody bag filled with music and other promotional items.
May 5th - Streetlight Records, 980 South Bascome Ave., San Jose, CA, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
details: listen to the album in its entirety, enter to win an autographed framed poster, and if you pre-purchase the cd, you'll receive a weezer goody bag filled with music and other promotional items.
...another fan's Coachella report: 
I attended the Coachella Festival yesterday, and Weezer was the best part of the entire day!!! Sometimes it really stinks to be short. All of the really tall people seem to always stand right in front of me. Oh well. There was also a naked man standing 2 ft. away from me that was quite distracting. One of those things where you know you shouldn't be looking, but you just can't help it. Anyway, loved all of the new songs I heard and can't wait for the new album's release. "Island in the Sun" was one of my faves. Oh yes, and the glorious glowsticks that went flying towards the stage. Did any of them make it there? Was anyone hit? Hope not. -Michelle Nakata
Category:Karl's Corner - April 2001
Karl's Corner - 04/30/2005

...Having attended last years Coachella, I can say the crowd that gathered for the Weezer set was comparable to the monster crowds that assembled for the Pixies and Radiohead sets last year. An amazing SEA of humanity, soaking in the weez. Some familiar weezer fan faces right in the front row too, waiting all day thru all the earlier bands to ensure their front row experience! As weezer took the stage I jostled into the 100+ strong pit of photographers down front looking for fresh angles on what was clearly emerging as an epic night, before escaping to the stage where another crowd was gathered, this time of VIPs geting a close view from the side of the stage, (as VIPs will do), digging the show and providing challenges to a too-polite photographer! Rick Rubin was there, loving every minute of the set, which was actually his first ever weezer show, despite having been working with the band for over 2 years. He was particularly stoked on "Hold Me." Standing nearby and taking it in were Anthony Keidis of RHCP, Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion/Epitaph Records, and Chris Katan of SNL fame (?!). From the soundboard area came the report that Cameron Diaz was watching the set, and reporting to her friends that "Weezer is a heavy metal band!" (?!?)
Earlier in the day Perry Farrel stopped by weezers dressing room and said hello and that he was looking forward to the set. Spotted when we first drove into the Coachella grounds was Jason Lee, just chilling out with some budrows. And back at the hotel checking in when we were checking out was Peter Hook of New Order. ("Hook. Aytch Dubble-oh Kay.")
Circling overhead for most of the day was a small plane trailing the letters "WEEZER MAKE BELIEVE NEW ALBUM MAY 10" (see pic). Sweet!
Setlist:
Say It Ain't So
Photograph
Undone
Peace
Pity
Garage
Hold Me
Island
Drugs
Beverly Hills
Hash Pipe
Buddy Holly
...Listening Party Fan Report!
Saturday April 30th - Rock-A-Billy's, Utica, MI.
"Well, we went to the to the Listening Party in Utica, MI. WHAT A BLAST!!! Steve won 2 tickets to the Detroit show (that he couldn't go to due to money issues but now is going!) by playing a weezer trivia game (which everyone was impressed that both we knew all the answers) and Steve also won the Weezer Lunchbox in the a balloon raffle. We got a couple of the Make Believe shirts which are pretty rad." ---Bigweez16 (owner of the old Shriner Central) and Foiler from the message boards/JONAS street team.
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Category:Karl's Corner - April 2005
2005/04/30
Karl's Corner - 04/30/2010

...Todays show was at the glorious University of Maryland campus in College Park, filled with glorious University of Maryland students who were mostly not from College Park. This show was part of the "Art Attack" annual arts and music festival that the University puts on each year. While improv comedy troupes did 24 hour marathons in the grassy commons, others, more inclined to rock and roll, proceeded to the Capitol One Field at Byrd Stadium to witness 3 bands play. First was Ivy Rose, a group of local high school girls who won a battle of the bands contest to be able to open the show. They rocked out in a punk pop style. Then came Ben Folds, without the "5", just him and his piano and great tunes. Then came weezer, and the crowd was more than ready for them. Massive waes of energy came off the crowd, and Rivers and the men dealt it back in spades. Fun times for all.
...Prior to the show, I went over to the studios of WMUC, the local college station, and did a strange blend of weezer-related interview and extremely freeform DJ-ing that included on the fly remixes of James Gang, Osmonds, Lighnin Hopkins and Etta James, pulled from the stations massive vinyl LP library. All blended with absolutely no plan or technique. It was a lot of fun, and thant Adam and all the WMUC kidz for a great time.
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...new interview with Brian.
...details of the upcoming Shreck 4 soundtrack including Weezer's contribution.
Category:Karl's Corner - April 2010
Karl's Corner - 04/30/2011

...The day started with an early rise in Birmingham to get to the airport and fly to Dallas. Two of our bags went missing but were retrieved from the void due to the Sherlock Holmes-like detective work of our tour manager. Pizza Hut Park is where the Dallas FC (US soccer league) play, and its a massive arena out in what you might think is the middle of nowhere, but in fact is just another corner of the impossibly huge Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. So we vanned it out here and got into the show day rituals, in anticipation of tonights 8 PM set. Prior to weezer Social Distortion is playing, not to mention Seether and Neon Trees. After Weezer, its Jane's Addiction, which should be pretty great. The last time weezer shared a bill with them was back in the UK at (i think) the 2002 Reading Festival.
Its hot here - not nearly as hot as it gets here in the summer, but hot enough to feel like were in summer already. Also, large weird bugs are scuttling about.
Did you go? Comment here and/or in our message boards, tell your tale! Post your show pix on our photo page! 
Category:Karl's Corner - April 2011
Karl's Corner - 05/01/2001

...another fans report from the Coachella show...
"Weezer rocked at Coachella, no doubt. I actually enjoyed them more at Coachella than when I saw them in Los Angeles at the Palladium. The drummer from the Roots said that Weezer was his favorite band of the day. I would be lying if I said they were, although Weezer is one of my all-time favorite band, it really sucked that they had to follow up the Roots. Now, I don't mean that Weezer didn't rock, but (in my opinion) the Roots were the best part of the whole day. I think Weezer was a very close second, but the Roots were brilliant. To answer the other fans question, Brian got hit with a glow stick during Surf Wax America (which is not one of my favorite weezer songs, but they did it AWESOME!!!) and it was funny because Brian freaked out Woody Allen style."
Category:Karl's Corner - May 2001
Karl's Corner - 05/01/2005

...total day o' rest for all, save the drivers who are well into a 2000 mile run from L.A. to Minneapolis by now. Heres a roundup of some recent tidbits...
...Small contest here to win a promo Beverly Hills CD single. Only 3 winners, this wont last!
...Small interview with me (in German) about Make Believe and such here.
...Weezer is currently featured in the 'Our Music' section of this website.
...visit bellbrothers.net for a Weezer "dance revolution" type game that some fans have been enjoying.
...Still no word on what the UK version of Make Believe will have for its 2 bonus tracks. The Japanese version is currently listed as having the 12 songs of the USA edition followed by Butterfly (live), Island In The Sun (Live), and TBA(unknown) (Live).
...some fresh 'Beverly Hills' love:
JAPAN: used in Japanese TV programs "Pu*Sma" and "SmapXSmap"; video mentioned on ESPN's "Cold Pizza."; Video airing on IMF's "World's Greatest Videos", Sirius 21 (Alt Nation) + Underground Garage, Faction, the Spectrum, Maxim Radio 145 and now Sirius 1 - Sirius Hits!; X96.3 Salt Lake City KXRK ("ten songs that don't suck" #3); WBZX, 99.7 The Blitz Columbus; IRAQ (heard on US base radio); WMFS 93X Memphis; 105.7 Alfa Rock San Juan, Puerto Rico; 97 Rock (97.1) Tri-Cities Washington; 106.5 Charlotte NC; 99.9 thebuzz (#1 on the top 9 at 9 in its first week, 4/1); UK Kerrang radio, NORWAY NRK P3 (on their B-list), BELGIUM 107.7 Rock FM (#2!); 91X KXUL Monroe Louisiana, 92KQRS Minnesota classic rock - featured on "Homegrown" show.
Category:Karl's Corner - May 2005
Karl's Corner - 05/01/2010

...In the mini-tour mix tonight: a headliner show, with Philly's Mewithoutyou opening. Another big energy show, totally sold out Friday night New Jersey craziness! Weezer has played several times at the Borgata, a casino/hotel complex located in the swampy outskirts of Atlantic City. Its a strange place for rock, but the children and adults of southern NJ need access to the weez, and the Borgata was built for exactly this purpose, and no other.
In the house tonight, beetle from allthingsweezer.com, who noted the presence of Rivers' "legendary" 2001 brown vest jacket in the wardrobe case backstage.
Apparently also in the house was RC's budrow Jermane Dupri, doing some sort of DJ set somewhere. But somehow the weez and Dupri paths never crossed! Well, the Borgata complex is enormous, so who knows. 
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If you were there, post your story here!
Category:Karl's Corner - May 2010
Karl's Corner - 05/02/2005

...travel day, flying from L.A. to Minneapolis.
...Meet the crew!
Stuart - Tour Manager. Has worked with weezer before, from 2001-2002. A very good man to have on your side, and always ready with a copy of 'Waiting For Guffman' for those critical moments!
Arthur - Production Manager. First time with weezer, an exceptionally organized fellow who keeps the stage and crew running smoothly. And owns tigers.
Craig - Front Of House sound - Returning to the weez again, Craig runs the mixing board out front to ensure good sound for the audience. Owns small cute dogs instead of tigers.
Dan (the lighting man) - Back again for another set of shows, the gifted-est lighting guy around.
Kevin - Monitor engineer. In charge of the sound for the band on stage, what they get in their in-ear monitors. New to weezer, rocking it right.
Dwayne - Sound system. Dwayne sets up all the speakers and monitors and such, and works with Craig and Kevin to ensure everythings working, and working right.
Bobby - Guitar Tech. We thought we'd lost him to Green Day, but he's back, and helping the band out with some second guitar duties during the show on top of his guitar tuning duties.
Aron - Bass and Drums tech. Another standby from '02, Aron is the glue of the bottom end! He and Bobby also team up to keep Brians keyboard rigs in order.
Hal - Merchandise (Captian Computation) - Hal's all about getting he shirts in, set up, sold, and packed away, and keeping track of everything while running quite possibly the oldest laptop still in use on a tour in America today.
Jim - Band bus driver. Steady n' sure!
Charlie - Band bus driver. Sure n' steady!
Mike - crew bus driver. Steady, not sweaty.
Kevin J.- truck driver. Big Rig Captain of the night.
Category:Karl's Corner - May 2005
Karl's Corner - 05/02/2010

**BREAKING NEWS** 2 more shows added!
#1 September 18th, in Phoenix - the X103.9 Fall Frenzy festival show! Devo also on that bill! Presale starts tomorrow, mailing list members have the password by now.
#2 July 16th, Williamsburg Waterfront (Brooklyn), NY!
...on the scene at Bamboozle - bands coming out of our ears, from Ke$ha to Mute Math! ... looking forward to MGMT. We go on at 9PM...
(Later) Well, that was a night to remember, and a fitting end to this micro tour week we've now wrapped up. The Bamboozle Festival takes place in one of the largest parking lots in the world, in the heart of New Jersey. And if that wasnt enough to get you to come down, then dig this: there were about 9 million bands playing, including Mute Math, MGMT, Ke$ha, OK Go, Dear Hunter, and Girl Talk. And then weezer of course! Weezer went big like they know how to do, rocking the giant outdoor festival crowd the right way, with bombast and panache. And a wig. Surreal moment of the evening: watching MGMT watching Weezer playing MGMT's song - about an hour after MGMT played it themselves. Pretty cool!
Big ups to Pete C. the original weezerisland.com webmeister, and of course BleedOrange and the A6 Krew, in the house getting moshed on in the true weezer spirit!
...now all quiet for a while? Not quite! May has a few weez surprises up its sleeve; we will reveal them when its kosher to do so.
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...Weezer tribute band alert!
PINK PINK PINK Floyd/Pinkerton/Burlesque Breast Cancer Benefit Friday, May 14, 2010 9:00 p.m.
Soundwave Music Hall, 3147 Mission Blvd, San Diego, CA 92109
PINKEST.....NIGHT.....EVER. Pink Floyd coverband Have A Cigar does all of the classic album Dark Side Of The Moon with Geezer's encore presentation of Weezer's fan favorite LP Pinkerton mixed up with the pinkest songs of all-time PLUS a special early performance by Sultry Savage Burlesque's pink lady peepshow! ALL FOR JUST TEN DOLLARS - A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Keep A Breast Foundation.
Category:Karl's Corner - May 2010
Karl's Corner - 05/03/2001

...today L.A. area weezer fans reported hearing "Photograph" on KROQ-FM, as DJ Jed The Fish's "Catch of the Day". This is KROQ's way of previewing upcoming singles, so its a good sign!
...here's a little home grown album promotion: "My friend and I went to Borders tonight to look through some magazines for Weezer stuff. We found some stuff in the new SPIN magazine along with a page promoting the new album. So we turned all the magazines to that page with the advertisment and covered the magazine racks with them. It was a great sight to see from afar, all those Green Albums staring right at you. It was great! -Eric"
...my cousin Abe stopped by today... 
Category:Karl's Corner - May 2001