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Karl's Corner - 02/17/2001

...the total flurry of activity continues. Yesterday there was a very long photo shoot, wherein photos were taken for everything from the album cover to various publicity shots. Later, the band went to a recording studio and worked on some of the b-sides till very late. Also, I worked much of the day in an editing suite, working with Dan our lighting guy preparing special video segments for the tour. Today we all jumped right into the frying pan again, with a full band rehearsal, polishing up some old favorites, dusting off some hidden gems, and getting down with some new stuff!
...speaking of new stuff, you've been waiting and waiting, but finally we've got our online merchandise store back in action! With an ever-expanding line of classic shirts that you just cant find anywhere else, and brand new designs to boot, it's what youve been looking for!
...act fast! Yahoo! tells us that they just released a limited number of tickets for the NYC show. They will be available on-line only through the outloud and ticketmaster websites. I hope you can get some!
...Well, the moment of truth has come and gone. A few hours ago, our meeting with the record company went down, about how they feel about the (99 percent) finished weezer record...
...and we have received the word, finally. I think it best for me to just present the facts and let you guys mull it over, because were not exactly sure how to take this. First of all, the record company told weezer that they LOVE the record, and had nothing but supportive and excited things to say about it. All the comments and talk being spoken tonight was positive and definitely the kind of things we were hoping they would say. And these were thoughtful and insightful comments, not just empty enthusiasm. It seems that all the late night recording and mixing and countless hours of detail work to the point of total exhaustion have paid off. While it is of course YOUR opinions that matter most to weezer, getting the record company on weezer's side is simply essential to the process...so, right on! However...at the same time, we were told that they no longer wish to release the album on April 17th, as we were originally told. In fact, they would not even supply us with a replacement date, which effectively throws the release date into thin air. When will they let weezer release this album? From their excited talk, we had figured that they would have wanted to put it out "yesterday".... But now, its become a total mystery...
 
 
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2001
Karl's Corner - 02/17/2002

...Hyper Extended Midget Tour Show #9: Pepsi Arena, Albany, New York:
...The Albany people were pumped. This was their first weez show in a year and they were ready and willing to go nuts! Tonight was a "heavy moshing" night, with tons of crowd surfers tumbling over the line during almost every song. Also, the extremely dangerous "ripping up the ice-covering floorboards and riding them on the crowd" thing happened again tonight, and these werent just wooden boards! They were ultra dense heavy synthetic boards, like high density plastic or something. I really hope no one was hit by one of those...(I wasnt hit this time, I was staying far away from those things!) ...Chaos!
"The Good life" made it into the set tonight, the first time that's happened since May 2001 during the Hooptie Tour. Overall this was a really solid show, good sounding, and good vibes all around. 
...Ozma and Saves The Day, both being weird in a nice way...
...Maladroit Action!
*Q101 Chicago: playing "Dope Nose"! its "weezer weekend" on Q101, people can call in to win a weezer cd pack and the grand prize is a trip to see weezer in London!
*the EDGE 102.1, Dallas/Ft. Worth: "Dope Nose" getting played!
*99x, Atlanta: played on the "sunday school" rare track program: a fan writes: "...tonight (feb 17) the dj said that he downloaded 2 weezer tracks from weezer.com, and played both of them during the show ("dope nose" and "keep fishin")..." 
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2002
Karl's Corner - 02/17/2006

...some articles to report: The New York Times ran an article on Thursday about Rivers as he returns to school for his final undergraduate semester. The article was in the print edition (with 3 photos) and online (with a different photo). It remains online, but you have to sign up to see the NYT's content pages.
Also, There is a 1 page article on Rivers in the Feb 2006 issue of Boston Magazine, also about his return to school. It's in the print edition, but I don't think it's online.
And finally, the latest edition of the Harvard Crimson has an interview with Rivers, again focusing on his return to school but also with a nod to Valentine's day. It's in the print edition and online.
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2006
Karl's Corner - 02/17/2009

Update 2/21
There is a new interview with everyone's favorite Brian Bell up now on Stereokill. Brian talks about various things, with a focus on his other band The Relationship. Check it out!
People, as we celebrate an amazing 17 (seventeen!) years of weezer as of this past weekend, the battle is on. We've gotten "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived" on some stations, but to hold on to 'em, they need to know you want to keep hearing it! And that in turn may get other stations to pick it up as well. Do good music a favor, and let them know what you want to hear. Here's a list of the stations that are currently playing "Greatest Man". Give em a buzz!
STATION ....LOCATION ................PHONE NUMBER
WCYY .........Portland, ME .............207.792.WCYY
WBRU ........Boston, MA ................401.272.9555
WFNX .........Boston, MA ................781.595.WFNX
WEQX .........Vermont ....................802-362-1027
WRRV ........Hudson Valley, NY ...845.452.WRRV
WZNE ........Rochester, NY ..........(585) 222-1941
WRFF ........Philadelphia, PA .......Text: 91045
WJSE ........Atlantic City .................609-653-1400
WWDC...... Washington D.C. ......(202) 432-1101
WROX .......Norfolk, VA ..................757-622-9696
WARZ .......Columbia, SC .............803-695-9935
WTZB .......Sarasota, FL ................(800) 820-BUZZ
WRXS .......Columbus, OH ............614.487.3318
WLUM .......Milwaukee, WI ............414.799.1021
KRBZ ........Kansas City, KS ..........www.965thebuzz.com
KCCQ .......Des Moines, IA ............515-232-0105
KROX ........Austin, TX .....................(512) 836-KROX
KITS ..........San Francisco, CA ......1800.696.1053
KROQ .......Los Angeles .................1800 520-1067
KYSR ........Los Angeles .................1-800-782-7987
KXTE .........Las Vegas ....................702.791.1075
KFMA ........Tuscon, AZ ....................520.880.5362
Sirius 21 ...Satellite..........................www.sirius.com/altnation
And if you don't live in those areas, there's no harm in telling your own local station to get with it - they might just listen to you...
...in case you missed it, a new interview with yours truly is now up on the Popular Sounds music blog. I tried to make sense, honest!
...remaining airtimes of the Weezer Live In Japan concert footage from 12/05, on the Palladia cable channel:
02/18/2009 02:00:00 PM Wednesday
02/25/2009 09:00:00 AM Wednesday
(Palladia is the HD channel of MTV, and is ch. 332 on Direct TV, and channel 369 on Dish Network)
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2009
Karl's Corner - 02/18/2002

...Hyper Extended Midget Tour Show #10: Mellon Arena, Pittsburgh, PA:
...well, me and Pat heard rumor of some good 'challenge' ramps and whatnot in the Mellon, but Pat was delayed in getting to the venue, so he had to go right into soundcheck, and we were forced to do our wheeled exploring after the doors opened to the crowd. This went fine at first till we reached the upper deck, where we spied the first ramp, up to level 3. We ran up and located the next ramp back down to level 2, and away we went....right into a heavy clutch of security guards and tons of confused looking fans! Of course security reacted poorly so we had to cut our losses and retreat back to the bottom lands. Better luck next time...
...good rock for the absolutely rabid Pittburgh folks, who havent had a weezer show in a looong time... 
...Maladroit Action!
*106.7 KROQ, L.A.: "Dope Nose" is #3 on KROQ's furious five at 9! ..."Dope Nose by Weezer, hmmmm? What does that SMELL like?" --DJ Jed the Fish
*104.9 Chicago: "Dope Nose" getting played at least once a night. "They haven't told me to stop airing it, yet." - 104.9 DJ
*WGBK 88.5, Chicago: "Dope Nose" in heavy rotation. debuting a new maladroit song once a week!
*(unknown local college station), Brownwood, TX: played entire Maladroit album!
*POWER 97, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada: "...announced their power 97 power trip. Around the world in 9.7 days. The first stop, Tokyo to see Weezer...."
...Interesting note: The Entertainment and Sports Arena at Raleigh has a live webcam. Its located here on the web. What is unclear is whether it will indeed be showing anything during the show on the 22nd... but its worth a look!
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2002
Karl's Corner - 02/18/2005

...a few new tour dates have filtered in. More to come!
June 3 - Rock am Ring - Nurburgring, Germany
June 4 - Rock im Park - Nurnberg, Germany
...so hey, thanks to all who wrote in with their congrats on weezer turning 13 (on 2/14/05)! The pix of 'weezer days' with the cookies, shirts and artwork were swell. Here's some "Weezer Day" pictures from 'leen (katfox14) at William Patterson college. And via albinoblacksheep.com, an 'Island In The Sun' Valentine's Day flash video.
...coming up on Feb 21 (fan announcements)...
1. "The Lolz Show" with The Moog Magician and MadonnaSurprise. Lame Name, Good Music.
When: Monday, 2/21/05 8:00-10:00 PM Eastern (5-7 Pacific)
Where: Northern AZ University's KJACK Radio, kjack.org
What: Weezer Tribute Show. Songs from their entire career, including demos, b-sides, related bands, etc... We'll also be taking calls.
2. The Weezer cover band "El Scorcho" will performing at Georgia Tech's 'Under The Couch' ton the 21st at 8pm. The cover charge is free for students and tickets will be available at the door for others. update - another =w= tribute band, say it ain't Weezer will be playing their first show on Thursday, Feb 24th at BYU campus in Provo, Utah.
...there's a funny weezer reference in the 1/28 edition of the online comic catandgirl.com.
..."I just got home from seeing the documentery "DIG!" about the Dandy Warhols and Scott Shriner makes [a cameo appearance] that takes place back stage at the Reading festival [2002]. He says "That was great" about the Dandy's performance." -chad
...note! this myspace profile page is NOT the band's, nor done by anyone who has any affiliation to the band! We have no idea who is doing it and the "info" listed there about the 5th album ranges from erroneous to just plain silly and incorrect. We repeat: it is not an official weezer page whatsoever.
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2005
Karl's Corner - 02/19/2001

...mastering day. Mastering is the last step in the production of an album (well, the music part anyway.) The songs are sequenced in the order they will be on the album, and the length of the spaces between songs are decided on. Also, the "EQ" is balanced out for the songs as a package, to make sure one song next to another doesn't sound too bass-y or treble-y. The rest of the guys flew on to Austin, TX today to join the crew, who have been getting everything ready there. Rivers is overseeing the mastering, and he and I will join everyone in Texas tomorrow morning.
...Yesterday was yet another day of photo shoots, including some out on the streets of Hollywood, for yet another upcoming magazine cover and article. After that hub-bub died down, it was back into last minuite recording mode till the wee hours, getting everything sorted out for today's mastering.
...wow, tomorrow we will be on tour! I must admit that it feels weird to shift gears into touring after flying through the recording process. Everything has gone very very well, but there just isn't very much time to adapt! Gotta think fast around here...but I'm sure everything will fall into place once we get this touring beast on the road. See you out there, and a sincere thanks for your support and enthusiasm! 
 
 
 
 
 
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2001
Karl's Corner - 02/20/2001

...today marked the first official day of the tour, where everyone from weezer and Yahoo got together under one roof for the first time, to run through the songs, lighting, video, interactive stuff, and virtually endless amounts of details. Everyone scrambled about, taking care of more stuff than any one person alone could hope to understand. I can safely report that the system and songs sound and look fantastic, and there should be no problem with a full frontal rock delivery from the weezer boys!
...also today was the live online chat with the band, where something like 5000 people sent in questions and comments, with the guys answering live to video, as a speed typist wrote in the bands answers for those reading along in the chat room. Of course they couldnt get to all of them in the allotted time, but they did their best! We sincerely thank everyone for participating, and apologize to those whose questions were not addressed...
...insider info! 4 sold out shows are getting a limited extra release of tickets, going on sale to the public anytime from the time you read this up till the morning of the 21st. The shows that are selling more tickets are:
*Columbia MO
*Kansas City
*Denver
*San Diego
...so if any of those shows you got "shut out" of, get on the ball quick, there are only a limited number of tickets being added, and they are sure to go pretty fast...
 
 
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2001
Karl's Corner - 02/20/2002

...photo courtesy 'VArivers804', who says his mom is "pissed!"...
...more wild Maladroit Action!
While literally every track from "Maladroit", the barely finished new Weezer album, has gotten play on both commercial and college stations around the country, it is "Dope Nose" that is breaking away from the pack big-time now. In addition to this weeks official adds at KROQ Los Angeles and 94.7 Chicago, and the unofficial play on big stations like Q101 WKQX Chicago; WPGU 107.1, IL; 102.1 Dallas; 99x Atlanta; Live 105.3 San Francisco; and 107.7 The End, Seattle; "Dope Nose" is starting to get a lot more play all of a sudden in...
*92.3 K-ROCK in New York City
*104.9 in San Francisco
*91x in San Diego
*99.1 WHFS Baltimore/Washington ("number 2 on Most Wanted")
*102.1 The Edge, Toronto Canada
*DC101 Washington DC
...international action!
*the France Report, from Pascal:
:::"...i can see all the world is playing some Maladroit stuff, but France only [now] starts discovering the Green Album! Indeed, the "island in the sun" single is #24 (1st rock single) and is the most popular rock song of the moment: it is aired on every god***n radio station, BUT, what makes it a clasical rock song, is the constant airing on the [program] called "laugh and songs"! They only play old songs or, if new, songs that are about to turn to classical ranking! So, if your song is played there, [then] it's [considered] a classic....the green album has reached its highest position in the charts this week! it's the #5 rock album! i think it's not about to stop here, and maladroit is out in 2 months!! they may get 2 albums in the charts and that's cool. also the whole press is backing the band :the intellectual press are fans and Rocksound [major music magazine] said it was the "album of the year"
:::it's cool!..."
:::--pascal
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2002
Karl's Corner - 02/21/2001

Outloud Tour Day 2: Austin Music Hall, Austin, TX
...first show of the tour! We got off to a great start, with only a few minor technical glitches that promise to be cleared up as everyone settles into things and gets into a groove. Man, I really loved the set. The guys were rocking old favorites hard, as well as pulling out some choice seldom-seen stuff, not to mention debuting 3 new songs! The crew did an excellent job as well, getting things running remarkably smooth considering its the first day. Overall the effect of the show was fantastic, and many of you told me so after the show, too!
...I whipped together a new video clip for you all from today's footage. Either go to the "wfo" page or just click here to check it out!
...also, click here for pictures and pricing for all the merchandise thats currently available on tour at these shows! 
 
 
 
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2001
Karl's Corner - 02/21/2012

2012/02/21 Rock Music News for Tuesday
Several items in todays roundup of the known, unknown, and known to some, starting with a show announcement - the first "post Cruise" confirmed weezer show of 2012 is the Bunbury Music Festival in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Saturday July 14. Tickets are on sale now! More info on the Bunbury Festival website, here.
...Brians band The Relationship is going on tour in March. They will be opening up for Rooney's Robert Schwartzman, who is doing a solo thang. The tour kicks off in San Francisco on March 15th! See The Relationship's website for all the dates and details!
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...Weez fan and Cruise goer Travis posted up a great article with pix of "10 Pieces Of Homemade Weezer Swag Spotted On The Weezer Cruise". Check it out, its got some pretty epic fashion statements and clever stuff in it... 
...Mikala Taylor, known as @backstagerider on Twitter, is pretty close to the Sebadoh camp and attended the Weezer Cruise. She wrote an extensive and pretty funny 4 part diary of her experience on the Cruise. While its somewhat Barlow and party oriented, its a fun read and has plenty of good Weezer observations in it. Check it out.
...Also see her Cruise review on NME.com, as well as her photo gallery on Consequence Of Sound.
...and while were talking Cruise reviews, here's the Guardian's. And the latest issue of Kerrang has a review too.
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2012
Karl's Corner - 02/22/2001

Outloud Tour Day 3: Arial Theater, Houston, TX
...Well, we made it to Houston, for Show #2, at the Arial Theater. Okay, we're starting to work out the kinks of the show now. Things ran a lot smoother and there were far less little moments of confusion onstage. The crowd (you) were doing an amazing job being stoked, there was total electricity in the air! Good work! Earlier, during Ozma's set, a whole bunch of people somehow got pushed over and it took several scary minutes for everyone to get back up in the mayhem. I hope no one was hurt... Click here for tonights setlist. Before the show, the band was photographed and then interviewed by the Japanese magazine "Crossbeat". I think it will be a cover story! Meanwhile I did an interview with a certain online magazine whose name I wont reveal until they have the feature prepared on their site. They asked some good questions, and I hope I gave good answers, so I'll let you all know when they tell me it's ready.
...There is an article on weezer in the latest Thrasher skateboard magazine, I havent seen it yet so I cant remember if its an interview or not. More articles are coming in different mags, between my page and the RWA news page, you will find out about all of them.
...Tonight's video clip: Either go to the "wfo" page or just click here to check it out!
 
...the towers of Houston.......our buddy DJ Handsome Jack...
 
 
 
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2001
Karl's Corner - 02/22/2011 (b)

Folks, heres a special taste of the recent Memories Tour shows, the encore from the Las Vegas show in January, wherein Rachel Haden, the original lead singer on Pinkerton B-Side "I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams" came out and sang it with weezer for the first time since 1995!
Webisode #46: I Just Threw Out The Love Of My Dreams...
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Category:Karl's Corner - February 2011
Karl's Corner - 02/23/2001

Outloud Tour Day 4: Drive/Fly Day, Houston to Ft. Lauderdale
...today the crew and band went in 3 separate groups to Florida. The crew were in bus #1, Pat and I in bus #2, and the rest of the band plus Atom and Gus the tour manager in a plane. (Also there were 3 busloads of Yahoo people somewhere, but I cant keep track of them all...) This was a good day to catch up on paperwork, loose ends and sleep, 3 areas sorely neglected in the rush to finish the album last week. Rivers was happy to get to Florida early, because he wanted to start recording some new demos of some brand new songs he's been writing. Right before we left L.A. I picked out a portable 16 track hard disk recorder for him to do demos on, and he and Atom had a special room at the hotel ready to make some noise. Meanwhile me and Pat were computer geeks on the bus all day (see pic)
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2001
Karl's Corner - 02/23/2002

...more weez-mobiles, from (L to R) Stella, Jessica, and Troy (none of whose mothers are upset)... 
...day off in Tampa, where the much needed rain came in slow and steady. No runs to the mall, no walking around. Everyones laying low, either recovering from the nasty illness or (such as in my case), catching up on tons of work. It feels really odd to say that the tour's practically over! It feels like we're just getting in the swing of things here, but thats the nature of the beast- as soon as everyone gets used to being back on the road, the tour is over. This "Hyper" leg is a pretty short tour anyway. So we've got these 2 shows in Florida coming up, and then a quick flight to L.A. to play the sold out show in Long Beach with No Doubt and The Offspring... Then some recording and practicing in L.A., and then off to Europe!
...Maladroit Action!
*106.7 KROQ, LA: "Dope Nose" has been in the "Furious Five at Nine" for several nights now, and is now #18 on their Most Played list!
*89X Detroit: playing both Dope Nose and Take Control
*101.1 Real Rock, Orlando: now playing "Dope Nose"
*107.7 Birmingham, AL: has played dope nose, slave, and take control
*100.5 WUMF, Farmington, ME. DJ sez: "...I am going to add Dope Nose to the rotation computer [next week].."
*99.1 WHFS Baltimore/Wash D.C.: "Dope Nose" is the #2 requested song.
...random action!
*a fan writes: "...on the new Sports Illustrated Swimsuit special on mtv, they asked the models what they like to listen to, on the runway or in general. Josie Maran (sp?), who is David Blaine's girlfriend, says she loves weezer. they played a clip of 'hash pipe'..."
...Here is a new article/interview about Rivers and Harvard U. Note: Rivers points out that there is a typo: "it was Professor Stewart, not Fisher."
...there are some more pix from the Continental Arena show at RollingStone.com. The link to the new photo gallery is at top right on their main page.
...interesting note re: the Raleigh Show "floor tickets controversy": a fan writes: "...the guys who complained about the entertainment and sports arena seating were all [misinformed]... All you had to do was ask some dude in guest services, and he would give you floor tickets for free. Just wait in line, show him your ticket, and he wraps this thing around your wrist. Noone saw anything about floor tickets when ordering because they were free." 
Category:Karl's Corner - February 2002