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Karl's Corner - 08/06/2011

2011/08/06 Del Mar, CA: Del Mar Racetrack
Today we return to the Del Mar Racetrack, a year older, a year wiser, a year more laser-like in rock precision! The Racetrack setup is an unusual one, where bands play once the horses have stopped racing for the day, in an environment that resembles a county fair, only surrounded by a mile long oval of equestrian glory.
Last year everyone reported massive traffic issues on the I-5, so allow plenty of time to get down there if you are going - Weezer is scheduled to start the rock at 7 PM!
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 - 08/07/2000

We didn't fly to Okinawa, the flights were all cancelled due to the raging typhoon...We might go in the morning if the typhoon goes away. If we can't go, there is talk of setting up a second Tokyo show, but no one knows if this is possible yet. So... today ended up being a full day off in wonderful (not to mention muggy) Tokyo. Wandering, shopping and eating were the orders of the day. All of Weezer, Weezer's crew, Green Day, and Green Day's crew had dinner together in this crazy restauraunt on the 52nd floor of some skyscraper. At this restaurant, they had a special open flame pit built into each table, onto which you put the food they brought. Tasty! It was nice having time to actually chill with Green Day, usually its a 3 minuite pseudo-conversation right before one band or the other goes onstage. 
...Tons of people are asking me when tickets go on sale for one show or another, and other practical details about the upcoming dates. Unfortunately, I dont know this stuff, nor do I ever usually know this kind of stuff till we're actually on the tour (by which time the info comes too late to help you.) So, I'm sorry, but I'm unable to answer most of those questions... 
...Well, it seems I'm asking for it again! Here's the new question, direct from the band to you: On the upcoming "east coast" tour, how many new songs would you like the guys to play in their set? They have been doing about 4 new ones out of 16 or 17 total, and are wondering if that's too many, not enough, or just right for you. as before , e-mail me with your opinion!...If you just have a number for your answer, its ok to just put the number in your subject header and leave the text portion blank. Thanks! The band awaits your input... 
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2000
Karl's Corner - 08/07/2004

summer recording session, day 15. More bass overdubs today. This should continue to Monday, by which time Scott will have gotten 8 or 9 of the 12 songs nailed. It has been decided that 3 or 4 of the existing songs need to be re-done for one reason or another, so Scott wont be working on those, as the band will be re-starting those together next week. 
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2004
Karl's Corner - 08/07/2008

People, there are two things going on now, where your vote of support is needed for the good of all things Weez. Here is a thing to do.
#1. Mtv Video Music Award nomination voting. This year the VMA Nominees are all chosen by the viewers. Coming up this friday on FNMTV (Mtv's Friday night show), Weezer is eligible for nomination for Best Rock Video & Video of the Year. The categories are listed by video & will be under: WEEZER – PORK AND BEANS.
Voting opens at 8pm EST this Friday, 08/08 and closes Wednesday, 08/13 at 11 AM EST. Help "Pork And Beans" get nominated in these 2 categories! More info here on Mtv.com.
#2. Weezer’s Pork & Beans has been nominated for Best Video at the Kerrang Awards 2008, taking place on August 21, in London.
You can vote online for Pork and Beans HERE. Your vote counts!! Help us show Kerrang whats what!
...If you havent tuned in in the last few days, you REALLY need to scroll down and check out the news from 8/4 and 8/2, all sorts of stuff is going on including the North American tour dates.
...more Weezer tribute band alerts:
Multi-band Weezer Tribute Show/Benefit in Morgantown, WV, on August 27. At (?) on 123 Pleasant St. "Guaranteed to be a fun night with a bunch of local WV area bands paying tribute to one of our generation's greatest artists."
Tweezer (NYC area) will be playing The Crossroads (Garwood, NJ) Friday Aug 8th at 10 pm, and at Marita's Cantina (New Brunswick, NJ) Saturday Aug 16th at 10pm: "An all acoustic show, featuring our acoustic version of Dreamin'".
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2008
Karl's Corner - 08/07/2009

...Today there was more work done on the guitar tracks needed to whip a couple of pesky songs into their final shape for mixing. Rich and Pat dug in the garden of tone and found the thick rich blends and wholesome earthy ancient grains needed to get the job done. Now Rich gets down to the brass tacks o' mixing. 
...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. 
...weezer tribute band alert!
Atlanta's El Scorcho is playing at Vinyl on 8/22 at 9PM; with 'Soaked in Bleach' Nirvana tribute.
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2009
Karl's Corner - 08/07/2010

Today is the free show down on the beach where the US Open Of Surfing is happening. Today is Day 8 - the grand finale of all the competitions and the music - and after our buddies Hot Hot Heat do their thing, Weezer will take the stage for the final slot!
...Sadly I (karl) cannot be there today to document the craziness. So once again, I'm putting out the call to you the fans to help out! Please by all means add your story to this post and/or start up a thread on our message boards and let the world know how the day went - for you and in general! And If you got some good pix (of the Weez in action or anything cool), please send your best 1-3 to me - karl (at) weezer (dot) com, and I'll put the best of the best up here and give you a shout out in this 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!
(later...)
WOW. Thanks people, you nailed it! Piles of great pix came in from so many people, its been hard trimming it down! Clearly everyone from the band and the audience thought it was a great day today. Scott called it "epic" and while thats a word that gets tossed around lightly these days, in this case... I think he hit it on the head! Location, location, location, they say, and who could argue with a late afternoon rock set from weezer beachside in Huntington Beach, directly after the US Open Of Surfing finals? The answer is none, none could argue with it. Many thanks to todays guest photographers:
Christopher Truong
Dandy Noel
Cinthia Velasquez
Ivette Orenos
Chris Storment
Matthew Gilmore
Scott Colson
Natalie Tran
Gary Deocampo
Eddie Calderon
Ivette Orenos
Jonathan Elizalde
Lori
Michael Nguyen
Edison V
Dylan from Thousand Oaks
Alex Delgado
Eric Cwiertny 
(click on any photo for a full size version)
...REMINDER:Folks, 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 unprecedented feat for the weez that's reminiscent 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.
...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 - 08/08/2000

This is starting to feel like a Spinal Tap tour! We were woken at 7:30 and told to assemble in the lobby. Everyone from both Weezer and Green Day stumble out of the elevators and start babbling incoherently at one another while the Japanese interpreters whisper into their cell phones with very tense expressions on their faces. We check out and are told to "stand by". After about 20 minuites of total dementia, we are all then instructed to go back to bed, Okinawa is now completely closed to the airlines and there will be no show today. Bah! Everyone now must check right back in to the hotel and are free to go for another day in Tokyo. Just about everyone mumbles incoherently and marches back to bed.... Except Pat, Jennifer, Adam (drum tech), Tim (Brian's guitar tech) and I, who go on a 6 hour walking tour to the sacred and very peaceful Meiji Shrine, plus a bunch more crazy shopping districts. An entire store devoted to Snoopy stuff!?! ...We need a rock show badly!
...Thank you for your instantaneous, multitudinous and informative responses to yesterday's question. Most of you said "4-5", by the way, and there were a lot of interesting comments that the band is definately giving serious consideration to. Thanks again. There will be another (related) question for you coming soon... 
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2000
Karl's Corner - 08/08/2011

2011/08/08 Show Announcement: Doheny Days at Dana Point, Sept 11!
Another addition to the 2011 Weezer concert calendar folks - Weezer is playing on Sunday September 11 at the Doheny Days Festival in Dana Point, CA! We'll be on the Main Stage, located right on Doheny State Beach! Heres the Ticket info. Hope to see you there!
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2011
Karl's Corner - 08/09/2004

summer recording session, day 17. Today Rivers did guitar overdubs on a number of tracks, as well as some tambourine overdubbing and some vocal work. Later Scott came in and tackled another song with bass overdubs. Depending on who is asked, anywhere from 4 to 8 of the songs will end up being re-done soon. As the songs start to come together with the overdubs, their nature changes, and it doesnt always feel like it was predicted to feel when 'fleshed out'. This is a common occurance and has been the case on all weezer records to date (for example, note the chart in the recording history showing the numerous new takes that happened of the same songs while making the green album.) The only trick this time around is to get all the work done with some efficiency, as there is only so many days to work with before Rivers breaks for his fall semester. Everyone is working really hard and doing an amazing job so far, so the word is "steady on, lads"! 
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2004
Karl's Corner - 08/09/2005

...time has flown. The "We Are All On Drugs" video (2.0) has been shot and is in the editing room, and the band has taken a short break to recharge the ol' batteries. On Wednesday we all fly to Osaka, Japan to start the next round of The Make Believe Tour! Things are gonna be hot for a while now. The rest of August will be spent in Japan and Europe, and then after a short break at the end of August, The Weezer/Foo Fighters/Foozer/Wee Fighters Tour gets underway for most of September and October, aside from a week in September where weezer will be visiting Mexico and Brazil for the very first time!
...Foozer ticket presales are continuing, those of you on the weezer mailing list should be getting the info for San Diego and Phoenix shows late Tuesday night.
...The We Are All On Drugs cd single will be in stores on...
UK - August 15th
Int'l - August 22nd
the UK cd single will contain:
1. We Are All On Drugs
2. Beverly Hills - Urbanix Mix
3. Burndt Jamb - Live
4. We Are All On Drugs - CD-Rom Video
...Here is the iTunes Podcast that Brian and Scott did with Josh Abraham. Check it out!
...don't forget to check out this Weezer/The Fray contest!
...over at weezerdayz, they've been running a "Make Believe Survivor" poll, and its coming down to the wire...
...crazy Halo 2/Beverly Hills video here.
...Speaking of the Beverly Hills video, its been nominated for the Best Rock Video category in this year's Mtv VMA's.
...Weezer's "Island In The Sun" video has been nominated in FUSE TV's "F-List" show - this week the category is "best video with animals". To vote for weezer on fuse.tv, navigate to 'tv shows' then to 'f-list'!
...and finally, whoah...
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2005
Karl's Corner - 08/10/2000

Wow! Tonight's show at Tokyo's Club Quattro was intense! The guys raged though a blistering set as the temperature and humidity soared with the crowd's craziness. In tonight's set they busted out with "No Other One", a Pinkerton song that is seeing the light of day again after a long absence. The show ended with a freaky combination of Rivers stage diving (the first time that has happened in many years), Mikey shoving his bass into the rafters (and then stage diving), Brian exploring some feedback techniques, and Pat jumping down from the drums to add a spastic guitar solo to the mix. Rivers's glasses were lost in the stage dive and subsequent pulling back up to the stage, and he scanned the crowd in hopes of seeing those glasses. All seemed lost when suddednly a kind Japanese fan raised the battered things up over his head and into Rivers's hands! Amazing, lucky, and very cool of that person to give them back so honestly. This ended the Japan Tour, and we then retired to a sushi restaurant for a small celebration. There was much regret that some shows were cancelled, and much talk of coming back to do many more shows. But first... some buisness in America...
....New question for you to answer: In the upcoming "east coast " shows, which old songs (if any) do you NOT want to hear? In other words, which old songs are you tired of, and would rather see replaced with something else in the set? e-mail me with your suggested songs to avoid!...Thanks again for your participation! 
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2000
Karl's Corner - 08/10/2005

...MB '05 Tour: Day 63: fly to Japan
Today we boarded a 747 and flew from Los Angeles to Osaka, Japan to start the next round of The Make Believe Tour! Actually Brian and Rivers went over a few days early to acclimate and spend a few vacation days before the tour started. The flight is about 12 hours, broken up into little segments of computing, reading, napping, snacking, computing, stretching, reading, napping, computing, etc. Although it never gets dark, we cross the International Date Line and thus lose a day, landing on Thursday instead of Wednesday. Mid-flight, I switched my computer's time zone over, and thereby suddenly went from 7:38 pm Wed August 10 to 11:38 am Thursday August 11. Whew! Later in the tour we fly west, to Europe and later to LA, so I believe we somehow make up the lost day that way. I hope so...I want my day back! 
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2005
Karl's Corner - 08/11/2005

...MB '05 Tour: Day 64: arrive in Japan
back in Japan again! We landed at Kansai Int'l and cruised to the hotel in a pair of these tidy vans they seem to use for everything over here. Soon there was a search for Mos Burger,which was deliciously successful. Then, fun with jet lag.
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...here's an Mtv article with more info on what to expect from the upcoming US "We Are All On Drugs" video.
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2005
Karl's Corner - 08/11/2012

2012/08/11 Show: Washington, D.C.: Warner Theater
Today Team Weezer assembled in Washington D.C. at the Warner Theater, for a special free show. The free tickets were only available to people who lined up at the grand opening of the new Microsoft Store in Pentagon City, VA, across the Potomac River. They got wristbands that got them into the show today, which was an early afternoon thing...
Photos courtesy The Microsoft Store, Eric Wenger, Audlilia, Lydia Russo, sharksplz, and Trevor Holst.
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2012
Karl's Corner - 08/12/2002

...L.A. day "off" #2 of 3: mucho mas work
Today was a twofold day of work for the karl. First was a meeting at Geffen with the "New Media" [web, dvds, etc] department, wherein I turned in a whole bunch of completed clips prepared especially for the DVD, and we talked menu details and such. I still have a chunk of more clips to prepare and turn in, but Im starting to finally feel that the mountaintop has been reached, and the trail is finally starting to angle downhill. Currently the plan calls for an October release, but any number of delays could still occur. In any event, the stuff I'm solely responsible for should be turned in throughout the rest of this month, and then its down to the serious tweaking and fine tuning.
The second part of the day was spent with weez cronie/Psoma + Nerf Herder member Justin, as we tackled the massive labor intensive project of re-doing Rivers' home studio. The bulk of the work was cleaning out some huge and packed to the gills storage areas, which were filled to overflowing with everything from forgotten steel body guitars, to bags of totally unnecessary cement mix. What a mess! In the end, the studio was bereft of all nasty junk and useless extra furnature, and started to resemble a place one could make music again. And Justin had a van extremely overloaded with heavy junk!
...pic #7: rediscovered, strangely still unerased dry-erase board with recording notes from the Cole demos era (July 2000)... 
Keep Fishin': 
lots of news has been piling in, thanks to all who have sent some in. Report tomorrow.
...hey, check this out! The WMA is now launched! The WMA is the "Weezer Media Archive", a fantastic new website devoted to compiling in text format, ALL known weezer press articles! It currently has *836* articles about weezer: interviews, album reviews, miscellaneous references, news items and more. Browse through the archive to learn everything you ever wanted to learn and more about weezer!!!
...Magazine update: The August 2002 Mix magazine (not "The Mix " or "Mixmag" but "Mix") which has a big room with a piano on the cover, is finally out, and does indeed have a pretty long article on the making of Maladroit, including comments from both Pat Wilson and engineer Chad Bamford. The October ish of Modern Drummer magazine has a short but interesting blurb on Maladroit on page 153.
...thanks again for all the tabs, troubleshooting, and news items youve been sending in. This week should see quite a few updates all over weezer.com. 
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2002
Karl's Corner - 08/12/2004

summer recording session, day 20. Yet another day of Rivers recording vocals, followed by an evening session wherein Pat, Scott and Brian re-recorded their parts for a song that had beed determined to be done with the wrong 'feel'. After several takes of that, Pat did further work on some drum fills for the song's somewhat dramatic ending section, with Scott and Brian coaching him on from the control room. Everyone was very satisfied and excited over the improvements that were made. In the ensuing review of where we're at with the album, there was renewed confidence that the goal of a completed album could be reached in time, so long as everyone continues to remain focused and work hard. 
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2004
Karl's Corner - 08/12/2005

...MB '05 Tour: Day 65: Summersonic Osaka Soundcheck/rehearsal
Today, after some more wandering around and getting lost in the city (and a repeat visit to Mos Burger for those so inclined), we got back into the tidy little vans and went over to the Osaka World Trade Center site, the annual home of the Summersonic Festival in Osaka. Everything was in a frenzied state of last minute preparation, but they seemed to have it under control as usual, with armies of tech dudes and workers scurrying about. The band had about an hours worht of soundcheck time, which was good because it gave them a chance to get back in the groove after 2 weeks of no shows.
Everyone is pretty stoked to be playing with Oasis for the next 2 days, for the first time in Weezer's career. After the fortuitous weez/Oasis meeting back in June in Paris, its doubly exciting to actually share the stage now...and to get stuck with their breakfast bills at the hotel!
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The current tour merchandise can be seen (updated 7/10/05).
...Alright, here's a contest you may wish to check out, especially if you are looking for free tickets to the 10/3 Foozer/Wee Fighter/Kaiser Cheifs show in Chicago!
...Weezer has been nominated for a Kerrang! Award, for Best Video for 'Beverly Hills'.
...On the XFM Radio's 2005 'X List 2005 mega-poll', "Buddy Holly" has made the top 104 song 'short list'. Vote here for the weez - each vote sent in goes into a prize draw to win a color iPod and iTunes vouchers.
...Weezer's 7/21 Nashville, TN concert was reviewd in the latest Concert Blast! podcast. Check out show #10 here, it starts about 10 minutes into the podcast.
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2005
Karl's Corner - 08/12/2006

...and rolls and rolls. Things are still quiet on the Weez-stern front (oof, bad pun alert), with question marks still floating around the potential Greatest Hits album, Live DVD, new server (again) for weezer.com (and what potential good changes that could bring) and the general plans of the band.
Theres a small list of for sure items, however. The first thing is that a new interview with Rivers has been published, this time by the Buhddist/meditation oriented magazine Tricycle. Although alert fans will be familiar with some of the material covered, its still a really good piece that sums up how Rivers (and Weezer) arrived at their current state, and how that state is one of positivity and growth. Tricycle is a cool non-profit mag thats available at select newstands including some Barnes and Nobles. (To help you look for it - the cover looks like .) But if you can't find it, the article is available on the website to subscribers.
Another for sure item is that there will be a 'Volume 2' in the '“Weezer Scrapbook '05” video clip series on the media page. Its still in the preliminary stages, but once these things are up in the video editing stage, they temd to come together quickly.
...And finally, Here's something you dont see everyday - weezer fandom at Sent in by Ryan D., the skydiver in question.
Category:Karl's Corner - August 2006