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Karl's Corner - 08/02/2000 (b)

A quick update before we go back to the airport... The other day (on 8/1) the guys finished up the demo cd they had been recording during soundchecks on the west coast tour, and now copies are being prepared to go out to the producers on the list that you folks helped come up with. The band has 16 tracks ready to go, but have now been told to just send out 4 of them. Here's where you folks come in again! Email me your 4 choices from the list below, and the 4 songs with the most votes will be on the tapes! (apologies to anyone who hasn't heard the new stuff at shows or on show mp3's.)
#Late To Try
#Superstar
#Slob
#Dope Nose
#Preacher's Son
#Modern Dukes
#Disappointments
#Mad Kow
#Hash Pipe
#Yer Fun To Play With
#My Brain
#My Best Freinds
#Yore Sister
#O-Girl
#Ev'ry Nite
#Torture
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2000
Karl's Corner - 08/02/2001

...tommorrow the guys are scheduled to join Rivers in the rehearsal space, to start going over all the brand new songs that Rivers has been coming up with recently. In a few weeks there should be a whole new pile of weezer demos!
I'll be getting some reports from the guys (and hopefully some pictures) as the rehearsals go on, and as ever any band news will go here.
..."so when are they going back on tour?" Well, the planning is underway, and as soon as there is some concrete info, we will post it. At this point, it looks like both September and October will be completely filled with tour dates, and likely a lot more after that too!
...there are some weezer TV appearences coming up, thanks to the various fans who clued in and helped spread the word:
...I'm a little late with this info, (hopefully there will be a repeat?) In the UK, on MTV2, a show called
"Weezer Choose" is on this Friday Aug, 3rd, (today in the UK already!) in which Weezer will be selecting their favorite videos. Now, I was in the UK with them, and I dont remember them taping this, but that could just be me. It will definately be a pre-taped thing because theyre in LA right now.
...For European fans, on CNBC Europe, The Tonight Show with Weezer's performance of "Island In The Sun" will be broadcast this Saturday, August 4, at 8.30pm CET.
...On "Much Music USA" (...I assume also in Canada?) on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:00 pm EST, there will be a "Spotlight Episode" on Weezer.
...I'm getting a lot of people writing in about their local "weezerfest" activity planning. A LOT of new cities have been added, and some of the events (like in NYC for example) are getting prertty complex. Please check out the weezerfest website for details. Please note thats these "weezerfests" are NOT concerts, Weezer will NOT be there. These are cool fan-organized fan-attended gatherings. Some will be like an informal party, some will have raffles and prizes. Some may have cover band(s) playing some weezer songs. A lot of it is up to you, so contact your local weezerfest organizer if your interested (list of email addresses of organizers is on the site...). I think its all pretty darn cool, as its a 100 percent "grass roots" effort!
...to answer a lot of peoples question about the "Pat and Karl at Interscope" video clip (over in the Audio Video section), the music in the backround is "So Cocksure", by a band called Smarty Pants, from Oklahoma. they have a website (smartypantsmusic.com), where theres a stream of "that song".
...another Green Album Vinyl sighting! In New York City at Tower Records (1961 Broadway, around 66th St), there are about 10 copies of the green album on vinyl left. They're $11.99. (thanks Heathie!)
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2001
Karl's Corner - 08/02/2008

Okay people, as the summertime rolls on, heres where we're at!
"Pork and Beans" just ended its 11 week stint at number one on the Modern Rock charts, and now we're rolling out Red Album single #2: Troublemaker! Listen for it on a station near you, and dont be shy, request it if you want to freshen up your airwaves.
Troublemaker is also the new single in Japan - is the very cool Japanese digital single artwork.
Meanwhile the Weezer men are finally all back in one city (Los Angeles, where else?) and revving things up. They start a month of rehearsals on Monday for the upcoming shows in Japan and North America, starting in September! Watch this space for details from the band shortly!
And coming up even sooner than all that is the Los Angeles Hootenanny, taking place on August 11th [**OR POSSIBLY AUG 18th DETAILS TO COME ASAP**]! Check back here very soon for details!
Speaking of Japan, the following two shows have been announced and are on sale now (provided you can figure out how to get tickets, cuz I sure can't):
* September 13 - Osaka - Intex Hall
* September 15 - Tokyo - Yoyogi Arena
Speaking even more of Japan, we are awaiting final details on the Japanese Red Album Deluxe Edition - Rumors have been swirling about whats on this, but so far there is no confirmation on any details. Stand by!
And (USA) Deluxe Vinyl Edition hopefuls, do not give up hope! Info coming soon about this hotly anticipated item!
...Founding member of Weezer Jason Cropper is playing his first show in 8 years at The Masquerade in Atlanta on Friday, August 15th. This will be an acoustic set of his new material. With Buffalo Alice. Best wishes for a good show!
...Weezer tribute band alert: So Many Dynamos is playing a weezer tribute show entitled "In the Garage: A Tribute to Weezer" on August 28 at Off Broadway in St. Louis.
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2008
Karl's Corner - 08/02/2013 (a)

2013/08/02 Show: Seoul, South Korea: Jisan World Rock Festival
photo courtesy Doyoung Oh
Today (Friday Aug 2, which it already is over there), Weezer plays the Jisan World Rock Festival in a huge forested ski resort about an hour outside of Seoul. The 3 day festival has a ton of cool bands playing including our old '96 USA tour mates Placebo, and legendary rapper Nas. Oh, and Jamiroquai too. We are playing the first night, headlining the main stage to get the weekend party started. We played this festival (although it had a slightly different name I believe) back in 2009 and it was a blast, and our first time in Korea as well. The company that brought us over and the record label people were super nice to us last time, and the fans were nuts! We've been looking forward to returning, and finally we are here.
Todays show includes a special treat for the Korean fans, which Rivers was hinting about online and in soundchecks this past week on the west coast. The guys will be playing a well known (in Korea) song in their set, (no not a Psy song, something a little more 'deep', namely "Monjiga Dweeo" by the revered and tragically short lived Korean folk rock hero Kwang Seok Kim). The way the band was handling it, it sounded like a giant epic track laden with emotion... kind of a Korean 'Tragic Girl' in a sense... we'll see how it goes!
http://jisanworldrockfestival.com/
CrowdAlbum photo and video gallery (includes bands from the whole Friday festival day):
http://alpha.crowdalbum.com/gallery/51fcadbf879ea2cf0d0001bb/Jisan-...
Fan video: Weezer's cover of 'Monjiga Dweeo' at Jisan:
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Category:Karl's Corner - August 2013
Karl's Corner - 08/02/2023

weezer T O K Y O ! Such a pleasure to be back once again! Thank you to all the fans, the Zepp staff, and our tireless crew! 📸: Sophie O’Keefe, Thomas O’Keefe, @im_ri0 (Rio WFC#8334), @dustinwperry (Dustin WFC#5635), and Miri (WFC#4758)! #karlscorner #weezerfanclub @zepp_divercitytokyo
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2023
Karl's Corner - 08/03/2000

Here's Rivers as seen in the September issue of Teen People, in an article about the Warped Tour. 
I write this on the 747, enroute to Japan, 8/3-4. We cross the international date line soon, and suddenly it wont be Thursday anymore, it will be Friday... A show in Osaka's Club Quattro beckons...
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2000
Karl's Corner - 08/03/2001

...some of you may have seen some recent online articles regarding a lawsuit that has been brought against the band by their managment company. This being a legal matter, I can't go too in depth about this issue. Now, you might remember back in the Hooptie Tour when the news broke that the band had broken with their manager and now had to manage themselves, which significantly increased the stress and work involved with doing the recent tours, and all the band's business. At first we didn't know what was going to happen, and had really hoped it wouldnt come to this. Now, with the lawsuit, the stress level has reached new heights, but at the same time the band is working together like never before, in efforts to work towards the future with new songs, new tours, and new records, in spite of all the additional work and worry!
...Lawsuits are never pretty, but fans shouldn't have to worry too much for now, because in spite of all the scary talk and threats, nothing actually prevents the guys from doing what they love to do: play music, write music, record demos, make albums and tour. So rehearse they do, whilst many lawyers work behind the scenes. And in fact its not all bad news, just today there was apparently a small victory won on the side of the band. One small battle in what will (unfortunately) likely be a rather drawn out war...
...On another note, at last I've gotten the old archives of Karls Corner back in order. Below are links to review everything that was on the page from January 2000 till May 2001, when we switched to the current format. These links are all pop up windows, and will soon be placed at the bottom of the page along with the current archive searching feature, (which only goes back to May). Eventually , all the old news will be integrated into the search feature, which will be modified so you can look up a specific month without having to wait for tons of unwanted data to load... 
Archive Page 1: January - July 2000
Archive Page 2: July - August 2000
Archive Page 3: September - October 2000
Archive Page 4: October - November 2000
Archive Page 5: November 2000
Archive Page 6: November - December 2000
Archive Page 7: December 2000 - January 2001
Archive Page 8: January - February 2001
Archive Page 9: February - March 2001
Archive Page 10: March 2001
Archive Page 11: March - April 2001
Archive Page 12: April - May 2001
Archive Page 13: May 2001
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2001
Karl's Corner - 08/04/2004

summer recording session, day 12. Probably the last day of 'basic tracking', wherein the band plays together and records everything, with the goal of getting 'perfect' (in style and quality) drum takes out of Pat for each song. They think they've got all 12 nailed now, but time will tell.
...rising new fansite: "the weezer picture archive"...see! contribute! enjoy!
...some more reviews: DVD review here, Blue Deluxe reviews here and here.
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2004
Karl's Corner - 08/04/2005

...tour update!
Heres another leg of the Weezer/Foo Fighters/Foozer/Weez Fighters co-headlining tour. The Kaiser Chiefs will join the bands on these four new dates. Confirmed US cities, venues, and on-sale details are:
9/27 San Diego, CA - Cox Arena. On sale: Saturday, August 13th
9/28 Phoenix, AZ - America West Arena. On sale: Saturday, August 13th
10/2 Minneapolis, MN - Xcel Arena. On sale: Saturday, August 20th
10/3 Chicago, IL - Allstate Arena. On Sale: Saturday, August 20th
In addition, starting August 5th tickets will be available for:
9/15 Dallas, TX - Smirnoff Center. On sale Aug. 5th at 4pm CST. Tickets available at www.hob.com, www.ticketmaster.com, Ticketmaster outlets including Foley's, Fiesta, & Tower Records, and the Smirnoff Music Center box office or by phone (214) 373-8000 or (972) 647-5700.
Tickets for the six previously announced shows - 9/8 Atlanta, GA; 9/10 Sunrise, FL; 9/11 Tampa, FL; 9/13 Houston, TX; 9/14 Austin, TX; and 9/20 Denver, CO - went on-sale last weekend.
Other confirmed cities for the tour include: Champaign, IL; Grand Rapids, MI; Detroit, MI; Cleveland, OH; Columbus, OH; Baltimore, MD; Worcester, MA; New York, NY; Philadelphia, PA; Fresno, CA; Seattle, WA; and Portland OR.
More tour information will be announced shortly. Presale info, when its known, will go out on the weezer mailing list.
...also, some international updates -
tickets for the show in Munich Germany on 8/19 are available online here.
Mexico City tickets for the 9/21 show: here.
...and dont forget to check out this Weezer/The Fray contest!
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2005
Karl's Corner - 08/04/2009

...Today and yesterday there was more work done in the studio with Rivers and Brian sorting out some vocals and guitar stuff. In theory this was the last of the recording sessions for the 7th Album, but there may be more bits and pieces to do in the coming days. Soon mixing the new and revised material will be underway. And meanwhile the band will shortly be starting their rehearsals for the upcoming tour with Blink-182!
...now, folks, here's a cool new contest, in which you can make your own custom remix of the Rivers Cuomo track "My Brain Is Working Overtime", on Indaba.com! "...Rivers is now offering the Indaba community the accapella and instrumental tracks for the song "My Brain Is Working Overtime" and wants to hear you complete, reimagine, and fully-realize the potential of this home recording..."
And here's Rivers talking about the new Session Console software (on which you can do your remix!):
<youtube>HIk-tBrj67s</youtube>
...Check out Weezer's "Why Bother?" in the upcoming Guitar Hero 5 game coming on September 1st! For more on GH5 click here. 
...Todays photo is from the 7/24 Jisan Valley Rock Festival in Korea - that photo and the following photos are (C)Yellow 9, by Robyn Kim. Thanks Robyn!
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2009
Karl's Corner - 08/04/2011

2011/08/04 Costa Mesa, CA: Orange County Fair: Pacific Amphitheater
Team Weezer has re-assembled back in its homeland of SoCal for the first time since last November, for a good old fashioned outdoor rock extravaganza at the Pacific Amphitheater, which is located on the Orange County fairgrounds. Of course the OC Fair itself is going strong right now, so it will be a full on cotton candy, sideshow, corn dog, Ferris wheel vibe tonight!
Photos later - are you going? Did you go? Comment here and/or in our message boards, tell your tale! Post your show pix on our photo page! Same goes for video clips if you got em!
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2011
Karl's Corner - 08/05/2004

summer recording session, day 13. After some band pow-wow action, it was decided that it was time to start bass overdubs. In other words, the 12 songs worked on to date have all gotten a tentatave stamp of approval as 'the finished basic tracks', on which bass, guitar, vocals, and other instruments can now be layered (or re-layered). Scott got to work, essentially replaying his bass parts over the existing drum recordings, while making decisions on how exactly to play, and/or tightening and fixing up any 'already mostly good' bass tracks laid down to date during the basic tracking. Scott was verbally assisted by Rivers, who as the writer of the songs had good suggestions and ideas to toss in the ring. This process will continue for an unknown number of days until all 12 songs are deemed 'ready for the guitars'. 
...click here for Meanstreet mag's 15th anniversary article about the "top 15 bands in the past 15 years", which includes weezer as one of the 15.
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2004
Karl's Corner - 08/05/2010

...Folks, you may have seen the Twitter chatter by now, but yes its official: Weezer has completed a new album, entitled "Hurley", and it will be out on September 14th on Epitaph Records! This is the 3rd new Weezer album in 3 years, an unprecidented feat for the weez thats reminicent of the olden days in the '60s when bands released new stuff on a tight schedule. In our case its more a matter of striking when the creative iron is hot - and people, its pretty hot!
More info will be revealed soon, but for now here's a new Rolling Stone article with comments on "Hurley" from Rivers. And here's another new interview, this time with Brian.
...As everyone from Tijuana to Sacramento to Vegas to Phoenix knows, this coming Saturday is the FREE weezer show in Huntington Beach, CA at the (Hurley!) US Open Of Surfing, and like the Pasa Robles show last week, I (karl) sadly cannot be there. So once again, Im putting out the call to you the fans to help document this epic show! When the show post goes up here on Saturday, please by all means add your story to it and/or start up a thread on our message boards and let the world know how the day went! And If you got some good pix, please send your best 1-3 to me - karl (at) weezer (dot) com, and ill put the best of the best up and give you a shout out in the news story. You guys really came through with some great stuff at Pasa Robles, let's do it once more for the team! Thank you!
...REMINDER: Our brohiems at HP and Reuters have posted some videos from the epic Times Square performance a few weeks back in NYC, when the band played the Reuters Studios and was up on the NASDAQ and Reuters screens overlooking the Square: "Beverly Hills" | Behind "Trippin" with mixer Rich Costey.
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2010
Karl's Corner - 08/05/2011

2011/08/05 Las Vegas, CA: Red Rock Casino
After a fast flight up on a shiny and tiny little jet, we stepped into the 103 degree heat of Vegas and said, "yeah... but its a dry heat!" and jumped in the car. Fifteen minutes later we were at the Red Rock Hotel Resort and Casino, which is off the beaten path of the Vegas strip, up where the natural beauty of the desert resumes. Except on the casino floor where its pretty much a casino through and through, complete with a tasty buffet.
Tonight weezer is playing a sold out show at the back lawn/pool area of the hotel, a really pretty area of water, trees, people swimming in well fitting bathing suits, and a giant rock stage. Its pretty much a no-lose situation!
Photos later - are you going? Did you go? Comment here and/or in our message boards, tell your tale! Post your show pix on our photo page! Same goes for video clips if you got em!
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2011
Karl's Corner - 08/06/2000 (a)

Now we're on a bus after the Osaka Summersonic festival. Everyone is eating sushi. Except me. Today's show was awesome, the huge crowd (20,000) freaked out and sang along as best they could. The guys played a 50 minute set, including 2 new songs, "Too late to try" and "Superstar". The entire set was filmed for a Japanese TV program...Rivers did his best to communicate with the crowd, having learned several handy phrases in Japanese, such as "Okini" (Osakan Dialect for "Thanks") and "genki?"("how are you?")...
The guys had a fun day wandering around at a nearby crazy shopping center, and doing interviews with various wild TV personalities. Mikey was spotted chatting with the guys from Ween, and we all watched Green Day's set before hopping on this bus. We go to Mt. Fuji, to do another Summersonic festival tomorrow... 
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2000
Karl's Corner - 08/06/2000 (b)

Today was the second Summersonic Festival date, located in the Fujikyu Conifer Forest grounds... Basically a giant amusement park zone located in the shadow of Mt. Fuji, about 50 miles south of Tokyo. And the boys rocked out, and on live television to boot! Today they added "Slob" to the setlist, and it was received well by the insane crowd of 15,000. Tomorrow we are supposed to fly to Okinawa to do a different festival, also with Green Day. There is apparently a typhoon (hurricane) bearing down on Okinawa right now, so we will learn in the morning if the plan is still on or not...
...Well, after receiving a TON of emails with your song choices to send to producers, I've tallied the results and here are the top 4 vote getters.
#Slob
#Preacher's Son
#Hash Pipe
#O-Girl
Tomorrow the guys will meet with their manager (who is also here in Japan right now), and will make the final decision on which songs to send out, based on your votes and their opinions. I'll post the "final cut" tomorrow, assuming I can get online (its not so easy over here!)......and thanks for your participation!!!
...note: I received over 350 e-mails in the last 2 days, so I have basically been using all my time just catching up and tallying votes. I did read the many comments and questions regarding the upcoming east coast shows, but I have very little time to answer these recent letters. I'm very sorry that some folks were "screwed" or otherwise missed out on tickets, but please understand that there is almost nothing I can do to help... especially 3000 miles away. ...so I guess I'm saying please dont be upset if your email isn't answered. This "vote" thing really gummed up the works! 
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2000
Karl's Corner - 08/06/2001

...there will be some new goodies in Audio Video pretty soon, keep an eye out...
...still awaiting word on whats goin' down in the rehearsal space, and also still awaiting any word on whats up with the tour planning. Several people have written me with rumors they've heard regarding opening acts and such, but so far I have gotten NO official word about anything tour related. But we should have some solid dates and info pretty soon though!
...a confirmation that the Much Music "Spotlight" thing (august 14 at 5:00pm and 10:00pm (EST)) will indeed be on both "O.G." (Canadian) as well as the USA Much Music channel.
...more of where to find your Green wax! Vinyl Green Albums (also) available at...
1)Brea, (CA?) at Hot Topic
2)Chicago, IL at Hi-Fi (2570 North Clark) ...also Hash Pipe 7"s
3)Chicago, IL at (store next to the Metro)
4)Downers Grove, IL at Muzik Wurkz ... Hash Pipe 7", (but no LPs).
5)Fords, NJ at Vintage Vinyl. ...also have Japanese Green CD, UK Hashpipe Single on CD, European Hashpipe
single on CD, The US Hashpipe 7", and Japanese Photograph single.
6)Linden, NJ at Izzys Records
7)Milwaukee, at Atomic Records...$15.99 (sold out, ordering more)
8)Ronkonkoma (Long Island), NY, Record Stop...for $13
9)Online at cdnow.com!
10)San Diego, CA, at Off The Record....also Hash Pipe 7"
11)Quebec City, Quebec, at Platine le disquaire, 849 rue st-jean, for $22.99 Canadian ($15.03 US)....also US Hash 7" for $3.99 canadian ( $2.60 US)
12)Portland OR, at Django Records (#1 in vinyl sales there!)
13)Portland OR, at 2nd Avenue records (#2 in vinyl sales there!) ...either $11.99 or $12.99.
14)online at recordbreakersusa.com!...15$ or so not including shipping
15)Chicago, at Virgin Megastore (US Hash Pipe 7" only, no LP)
16)Austin, TX at Waterloo Records...$11.99
(some more stores listed below in earlier posts last week...) 
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2001
Karl's Corner - 08/06/2009

...Today the mixing of Album 7 started, or rather picked up where it left off back in the Spring. Rich Costey is back on hand again, in L.A. this time. Theres a bit of unorthodox technique in the works as things get started, as Pat works on some additional guitar on certain tracks in the same studio where Rich is mixing. This process just got underway today and should continue tomorrow. Once Pat gets these bits and pieces added, Rich will then be flying solo till the mixes are all done. 
...Reminder: new contest, in which you can make your own custom remix of the Rivers Cuomo track "My Brain Is Working Overtime", on Indaba.com! "...Rivers is now offering the Indaba community the accapella and instrumental tracks for the song "My Brain Is Working Overtime" and wants to hear you complete, reimagine, and fully-realize the potential of this home recording..."
...Reminder: check out Weezer's "Why Bother?" in the upcoming Guitar Hero 5 game coming on September 1st! For more on GH5 click here. 
...in todays pix, a guest photo by Adam Orth (guitar shred), some wild fan art from Nico, and a nice "Only In Dreams" themed poster by Jennifer G.
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2009