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Historic event: 04/09/1995

spring 1995 - shooting the say it ain't so video
spring 1995 - 
shortly after finishing another round of overseas and us dates, and hot off the buzz of the "buddy holly" video, weezer figured it was time for the 3rd video. after working with spike jonze for two videos, the band decided to try a different director, sophie muller, known for videos by blur [song 2], no doubt [don't speak], and the eurithmyics [various]. 
this time, "say it ain't so" was filmed at the Amherst House [in los angeles, california]-- home of the legendary garage pictured in the inset of the blue album. the calm yet rocking tone fits the song well. the video did well on mtv & radio and helped to further introduce the likes of "rock =w= music" to the masses. 
karl koch, roadie supreme, makes an appearance in the video, doing the laundry. also of note: brian's stormtrooper t-shirt is a bootleg from canada. it is, in fact, ocean spray that is drunk at the end of the video by cuomo. the picture on the laundry machine is peter "the cat" criss of 70's rock goliath kiss.
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1995
Category:Super-Chrono - April 1995
Historic event: 04/13/1992

show #4: "No Bozo Jam" night, The Whisky A-Go-Go, Hollywood 
...this was weezer's 4th show. As with the second show on 3/30, it was a short set 'no bozo jam'. There were apparently no flyers for this show, possibly due to the fact that these shows were notoriously difficult to influence the outcome of, there being 10+ bands on the bill on a given night. It was sort of a 'get in, do your set, and get out' vibe. Also due to the show being just $3, people tended to show up without much prodding.
This show was 'bootlegged' by Karl, who used a cheap handheld voice recorder to capture the show.
set list:
undone
lets sew our pants together
theif, youve taken all that was me
the world has turned and left me here 
The Whiskey, today 
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1992
Category:Super-Chrono - April 1992
Historic event: 04/16/1993

weezer show #51: Coconut Teaszer, Hollywood, CA
The Coconut Teaszer was one of the 'big 3' Sunset Strip clubs [the other 2 being the Roxy and the Whiskey] that were the big holdouts of the glam-metal scene of the '80s. It was difficult for a "alternative" band like weezer to break into this scene, and the leather-clad regulars tended to clear out when anyone not dressed in full rock garb hit the stage. And weezer dressed in anything but full rock garb! Teaszer bills were always a bizarre mix of glam bands, bar rock bands, morbid looking gothic type bands, and the occasional pop type band like weezer.
Back to the Teaszer for the 8th and final time! A bit of an 'industry showcase' night, several A+R types in attendance, most notably Nigel Harrison, originally (and later once more) a member of Blondie, who was working for Interscope Records at the time. We hung out with Nigel for a bit, he was nice.
Journal comments: "Wall of low end. Great playing but Coconut Teaszer's sound blows." Other bands on the bill were Wink, Joyride (with Steve Soto, once in the Adolescents), Bigelf, and Boys Named Sue.
setlist: unknown. 
..karl designed mini-poster for the show; a flyer for the next day's Carnival Art show, featuring Brian Bell, who would join Weezer by the fall...
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==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1993
Category:Super-Chrono - April 1993
Historic event: 04/22/1993

weezer show #52: Al's Bar, Downtown L.A., CA
Al's bar is a legendary punk bar/club located in a weird part of downtown L.A., where a lot of cool bands cut their teeth. Its intimidating "no b.s." atmosphere was a good inspiration for weezer to step things up a notch.
This show was touted as a "3 dog night", with that dog, Waldo the Dog Faced Boy (whose line-up included Tom Grimley and Jim Richards, later of The Rentals), Dogstar (not the Keanu Reeves Dogstar, this Dogstar later became Charles Brown Superstar - which included Bobby Hecksher, of C.B.S., The Magic Pacer, and later/currently The Warlocks), and weezer the "bonus non-dog band" on the bill.
setlist: unknown. While a karl 'bootleg' tape exists of the that dog set, no recording exists of weezer's set, likely due to recording malfunction. 
...original show flyer. no weezer-centric flyer exists for this show...
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==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1993
Category:Super-Chrono - April 1993
Historic event: 04/26/1992

weezer show #5: Raji's, Hollywood
Several weeks of rehearsal had paid off with another gig at Raji's in Hollywood. This was only the bands second "full set" that wasnt acoustic, so it was a pretty important show. The other bands on the bill that night were Jacknife, Raw Flower, and Pygmy Love Circus, who were sort of big in L.A. at the time. A smallish but respectable crowd showed up, though it was still mostly comprised of aquaintences of the band. Like most new unknown bands in L.A., the "ignore the opening acts" effect was felt coming from those who werent friends of the group. The setlist for this show is unknown, but it likely included...
lets sew our pants together
theif, youve taken all that was me
the world has turned and left me here
i cant forget the way
undone
the biggest animal
Spiderbitch
colmasheen
there are no [known] photos from this show. but 3 different flyers were made and survive: L: flyer by Rivers, M: flyer by Matt, R: flyer by Patrick Finn
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==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1992
Category:Super-Chrono - April 1992
Historic event: 04/27/1993

weezer records again at Loyola Marymount University, L.A.
Sessions at Loyola Marymount University, (L.A.) Spring 1993
After the first sessions on 4/15 with Dale Johnson, a classmate of Dale's asked the band to come back, for her own final project. The second time, they recorded various takes of "Lullaby for Wayne" and "My Name is Jonas". Once again, the students had to select microphone placement and recording techniques. The music was recorded "live", each microphone assigned to its own track. There were no overdubs.
Dale says: "I hooked them up with another classmate of mine named Sharon when she didn't have a band lined up at the last minute. I tried to get her That Dog (who was the other band I really wanted to record) but they couldn't get it together in time so I figured the Weezer guys would be down with coming back for a second time."
The band decided to try and get 2 songs down on tape. The idea at the time was to pair "Jamie" from 4/15 with the new recording of "Jonas" for a indie 7". Unfortunately, this project never materialized, but it was for a good reason: they didnt need an indie 7" anymore, as of July 1993 they were signed to DGC. 
LMU #2: 4/27/93
My Name Is Jonas 	(number of takes is unknown)
Lullaby For Wayne	(number of takes is unknown)
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1993
Category:Super-Chrono - April 1993
Historic event: 04/29/1993

weezer show #53: Club Dump [The Central], Hollywood
Club Dump was held Thursday nights at the Central, a Sunset Strip club in Hollywood that much later was bought, re-modeled, and reopened as the Viper Room. Way back then it was anything but glamorous, in fact it was pretty skanky! But it was one of the very few clubs that had a booking policy that made any sense, and who actually sort of catered to non-glam/metal bands. The club was run by a curious guy whose name was Yowsah! [including the "!"]. Yowsah! used to be roomates with some members of Wax, and he was originally from Hawaii. He led a sort of dirgy punk band called "Methadone Cocktail", and part of playing his Club Dump shows was often sharing the bill with his band.
Club Dump had a video camera operator who would take overly special effected videos of bands shows, if bands ponied up $10 for the tape. Weezer went for the deal tonight, and the video survives to this day. Tonights show was additionally "bootlegged" by karl with a handheld mono cassette recorder, the tape from which also survives.
setlist:
surf wax america
no one else
the world has turned
my name is jonas
jamie ( 1st time played live)
say it aint so
lullaby for pat finn ("lullaby for wayne" with altered lyrics, as a send off to pat finn, who was moving away)
undone the sweater song
if i fell (Beatles cover. 1st time played live)
Also on the bill was Methadone Cocktail, that dog., El Magnifico, and 12 And Counting.
no photos or flyers known.
Pat Finn commented on this show on an old weezer newsgroup, dated 12/14/1997.
"4/29/93 club dump. pre brian bell. i was moving away [on 5/1] and everybody was getting cheesy. there was a song called lullaby for wayne but they changed the lyrics to lullaby for pat. jason was screaming "pat finn". it was weird to have a tribute from the people i respected the most. all those club dump and coconut teazer shows were real treats, the first time i ever got drunk was at the coconut teazer. weezer at the teazer! lane staley yelled that out when we handed him a flyer, he [was] a doper. -love, p.
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1993
Category:Super-Chrono - April 1993
Historic event: 05/06/1995

spring 1995
the finish of the winter/spring tour brought weezer members 2 months to do as they wished before gearing up for summer touring. the result of which brought some welcomed new material to the hands of fans. 
the first item produced for fans around this time was from the rentals. the rentals appeared on the then upcoming "poop alley tapes", a compilation consisting of tracks from the rentals, that dog., beck, spain, and such. taped in the infamous l.a. poop alley studios, this is the first and only appearence of the song "california". the "poop alley tapes" can be found at the winrecords website. 
this time also proved beneficial for brian bell's band, the spacetwins. The band finished mixing their demo, and started playing shows in los angeles. among songs produced the demo sessions were "no show", "a brief history", and "take my place" which later formed the "no show" 7" single. the "no show" single was the only official release that featured the original spacetwins line up (brian, susan, and mark). the single was also the only (so far) on world domination records. 
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1995
Category:Super-Chrono - May 1995
Historic event: 05/07/1992

weezer show #6: Club Dump [The Central], Hollywood
Club Dump was held Thursday nights at the Central, a Sunset Strip club in Hollywood that much later was bought, re-modeled, and reopened as the Viper Room. Way back then it was anything but glamorous, in fact it was pretty skanky! But it was one of the very few clubs that had a booking policy that made any sense, and who actually sort of catered to non-glam/metal bands. The club was run by a curious guy whose name was Yowsah! [including the "!"]. Yowsah! used to be roomates with some members of Wax, and he was originally from Hawaii. He led a sort of dirgy punk band called "Methadone Cocktail", and part of playing his Club Dump shows was often sharing the bill with his band.
This was weezer's first gig opening for Wax. Wax included guys that Rivers, Pat and Matt had known and in some cases been in bands with in L.A.. [See the Recording History for 1990 mentions of a band called "Bush".] They started gigging in the fall of '91 and by this point were ruling the scene. Weezer took a cue from them and did their best to get on their shows, which were heavily attended by both scenester and industry type people. Most importantly their shows were super high energy, and lots of fun, which was a rarity in the L.A. club scene at that time! Weezer watched carefully as Wax's energetic sets of power-pop-punk won people over. As can be seen in the flyers for this show, Wax had signed a deal with Caroline Records, making them the stars of the new 'non-glam' scene for the moment. They went on to make 2 albums, and did several videos with Spike Jonze. Wax drummer Loomis is often seen in Jackass TV segments and the movie, usually as a referee or bottle rocket administrator.
Club Dump had a video camera operator who would take overly special effected videos of bands shows, if bands ponied up $10 for the tape. Weezer almost always went for the deal. This show was videotaped, but unfortunately the tape went missing not long after the show. It is either truly lost or possibly in the collection of Matt Sharp.
The setlist for this show is unknown. 
there are no [known] photos from this show. 4 flyer variations, L to R: "official" #1, M: "official" #2, R: "weezer style" (rearranged to better suit weezer); and flyer distributed during the show itself, trying to convince people to stay!
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==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1992
Category:Super-Chrono - May 1992
Historic event: 05/10/1993

weezer show #54: Club Lingerie, Hollywood,CA
lub Lingerie was located on Sunset Blvd, a good deal east of the Sunset Strip, more in the center of Hollywood. It was in the rock business for many years before being taken over and is now some sort of gentlemen's club or something. This was one of several Lingerie shows in the '92-'94.
This show was free and was aggressively promoted at an earlier show nearby at The Palace. Apparently it was thought that the crowd would want to come over for more rock after seeing whatever band was playing the Palace.
Other bands on the bill included Dead, White and Blue. Journal entry for this date reflects the mounting interest in weezer that would culminate in the band being signed to DGC (Geffen) in less than 6 weeks' time: " [Show was] spectacular. Good, long, SOLID set, great sound and better performance. 100 people came for weezer. [Labels] Slash, Interscope and Geffen all have made offers at this point, [but] only Geffen's is serious."
setlist:
No One Else
The World Has Turned And Left Me Here
Surf Wax America
Say It Ain't So
Jamie
Lullaby For Wayne
Undone - The Sweater Song
If I Fell (one of the very few times this Beatles cover was performed)
Only In Dreams
...L to R: setlist by Matt, original flyer 4-panel art by karl, Original pasteup art for the poster by karl, karl-painted drum head used for a while by Pat around this period...
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==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1993
Category:Super-Chrono - May 1993
Historic event: 05/10/1994

weezer's first album is released
on what will perhaps go down as the greatest day in the history of rock music [at least as far as weezer fans are concerned] weezer's first album, titled 'weezer' or more affectionately called 'the blue album' was released.
produced by ric ocasek, of cars fame, the album took the world by storm, surgically implanting catchy melodies into the listeners head to help mask the sometimes serious and/or painful subject matter.
the album went on to produce 3 hits of varying degrees: first came 'undone - the sweater song', which introduced the world to weezer. second was 'buddy holly,' which thanks to a clever video by spike jonze took the world by storm and had 12 year olds as well as parents all across the nation humming the catchy tune and calling in radiostations begging to get their daily fix by having them play "that buddy holly song." third came 'say it ain't so,' which is one of the best weezer songs ever released [well, in my opinion at least]
truly a rock 'n roll tour de force. 
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1994
Category:Super-Chrono - May 1994
Historic event: 05/12/1992

wacky Hollywood rock band party!
...This was a going away party for weezer's fellow band Wax, who were embarking on their first tour later that night. This party took place in an apartment at 1443 N. Fuller in L.A. and was an unusual event in that it was attended not only by a big pile of freaks, but also by every member of Weezer and Wax, Pat Finn, Handsome Jack [seen in various Jackass episodes], and P.J. Clapp [AKA Johnny Knoxville in recent times]. It was basically a giant disco dancing party, back before it became unhip to be retro. It is mentioned here mostly due to the fact that video was shot during the party, thus affording us some pretty funny pix. Rivers had a nice premonition when he predicted mid-party: "if nothing else, this is going to be excellent blackmail material!" 
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==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1992
Category:Super-Chrono - May 1992
Historic event: 05/20/1993

weezer show #55: Club Dump [The Central], Hollywood
Club Dump was held Thursday nights at the Central, a Sunset Strip club in Hollywood that much later was bought, re-modeled, and reopened as the Viper Room. Way back then it was anything but glamorous, in fact it was pretty skanky! But it was one of the very few clubs that had a booking policy that made any sense, and who actually sort of catered to non-glam/metal bands. The club was run by a curious guy whose name was Yowsah! [including the "!"]. Yowsah! used to be roomates with some members of Wax, and he was originally from Hawaii. He led a sort of dirgy punk band called "Methadone Cocktail", and part of playing his Club Dump shows was often sharing the bill with his band.
This would be the last time weezer played the Central until years later, after it had been transformed by Johnny Depp into the Viper Room.
The journal entry for this show notes "giddyness prevails", likely referring to the state of mind in the band wherein getting signed was looking more and more likely. Also noted: " 'full on' set again!"
Other bands on the bill included Joyride, 9 Iron (which included Tony Maxwell from that dog.), and Boys Named Sue.
setlist: unknown. 
...original 4 panel flyer art by karl...
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==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1993
Category:Super-Chrono - May 1993
Historic event: 05/21/1992

show #7: acoustic set at 8121 club, Hollywood
...this was the 7th weezer show, and the second of weezer's early acoustic sets. The 8121 club [now called the Crooked Bar], is located underneath the Coconut Teaszer club at 8121 Sunset Blvd. in Hollywood.
Before the show, there were several spontaneous recordings made by the band. First Rivers recorded himself playing and singing My name is Jonas, to test out the recorder. Then, during the car ride to the show, Karl pressed 'record' as a random jam sing-along broke out. The guys plus Patrick Finn all sang various Smiths songs, trying to out-Smith each other. The 'medley' even included Morrissey's solo b-side track "Hairdresser On Fire"!
The set for this show was:
only in dreams
spiderbitch
undone
theif, youve taken all that was me
lets sew our pants together
the world has turned
my name is jonas
the biggest animal (Rivers was heard commenting "this is a Fuzz song...by one of our favorite bands". This refers to the songs original incarnation as a song by the Rivers/Pat band Fuzz, which was active in early 1991. Several Fuzz songs lived on as weezer tracks for awhile but were later dropped.)
This show was 'bootlegged' by Karl, who used a cheap handheld voice recorder to capture the show. the tape used was the same as had captured the pre-show stuff, and all survives today. 
L: Matt designed flyer, M: "night before" flyer, probably handed out at Coconut Teaszer, upstairs, R: Original art from the first weezer flyer designed by Karl.
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==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1992
Category:Super-Chrono - May 1992
Historic event: 05/24/1993

weezer show #56: Jabberjaw, Hollywood, CA
...This was to be weezer's only appearance at the art-rock haunt Jabberjaw [immortalized in an early that dog. lyric]. Jabberjaw was a funky art gallery sorta place on Pico Blvd. in L.A., and they did have periodic troubles with the authorities regarding the legality of having loud music shows there. In its day, Jabberjaw was a huge indie scene hangout, hosting many key early shows by Beck, the Geraldine Fibbers and mucho more.
This show was headlined by Canadian indie rockers Sloan, who had recently signed an american record deal with DGC records, and whose A&R guy was the same Todd Sullivan who was courting Weezer. Todd helped weezer get on the bill and the show was jokingly referred to as "Geffen Night Out". Before the show, Todd asked Sloan to show weezer their tour bus, which would mark the first time anyone in weezer had set foot on one. (It wouldnt be the last). Later there was some sort of weird tension between the 2 bands, but so much time has gone by that no one can remember what was going on that night, outside of several Sloan members being really ill but playing the show anyway.
setlist: unknown. No flyers or pictures known.
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1993
Category:Super-Chrono - May 1993
Historic event: 05/25/1992

first official demo tape recorded
...All the while, the band had been making demo recordings and would continue to do so. These were everything from full band rehearsal tapes to collaborative multitrack demos to demos done by just one bandmember, getting a new song down to show the rest of the guys. [Extensive info on these recordings is found in the Recording History section.]
However, there sometimes arose a need to get a "real" demo recorded, with the whole band playing together, recorded as best as possible, in order to have a tape the band could use to further its goals. This recording session was the band's first attempt to get such a tape made. It was recorded at their practice space, "the garage" at 2226 Amherst Ave in West L.A.. The idea was to give copies to various club owners around L.A. to try and impress them into letting weezer play at places it never got in the door before.
This tape did help the band somewhat, but it was considered problematic from the get go and a better demo or even an independent album was slated to be recorded as soon as possible.
The few copies that were made were recorded on whatever blank cassettes were lying around, so there is no definitive 'look' for this demo tape. Possibly 10 copies were dubbed.
"official" weezer Demo #1
theif, youve taken all that was me
lets sew our pants together
the world has turned and left me here
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1992
Category:Super-Chrono - May 1992
Historic event: 05/27/1993

weezer show #57: Al's Bar, Downtown L.A.
Al's bar is a legendary punk bar/club located in a weird part of downtown L.A., where a lot of cool bands cut their teeth. Its intimidating "no b.s." atmosphere was a good inspiration for weezer to step things up a notch. This was the last time the band ever played this venue.
Weezer was apparently out to bug people on this night. First they wore their matching striped "Beach Boys" shirts (originally acquired for the Blue album photo shoot, pix of which were discarded in favor of the one with regular shirts seen on the cover) to the most notorious punk rock club in L.A. Then they debuted their patented "China Grove jam" as an intro this night, a weird instrumental jam that incorporated parts of the Doobie Brothers "China Grove" as well as some other smokey 70's classic rock elements. The show ended with what is described as a "sludge jam until the P.A. was cut off".
setlist: unknown. 
...these photos date from around the time of this show. L: Matt and Rivers in the middle one of many all out Amherst House "wars", Adam Orth on the floor (losing the war); R: Matt, Justin Fisher (later of Shufflepuck and Psoma), Adam Orth (later of Shufflepuck and Roosevelt,
appears breifly in the 'Say It Ain't So' video), Rivers. (Justin and Rivers dressed for their chorus concert down at SMCC)...
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==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1993
Category:Super-Chrono - May 1993