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Karl's Corner - 07/15/2005

...MB '05 Tour: Day 53: day off - travel to Atlanta, GA
today we woke up on the bus which had been driving all night to bridge the huge gap between Atlantic City and Atlanta, passing thru some wicked thunderstorms in the Baltimore area around 3 AM. We rolled into Atlanta around 3PM and took advantage of the free time...
...but hey, check this out! This press release just in!
FOO FIGHTERS & WEEZER UNITE
TO CO-HEADLINE SEPT.-OCT. NORTH AMERICAN ARENA TOUR
Ending months of rumor and speculation, Weezer and Foo Fighters have confirmed plans to co-headline a North American arena tour set to kick off in early September and last through late October.
Confirmed cities for the tour are as follows: Atlanta, Sunrise FL, Tampa, Houston, Austin, Dallas, San Diego, Phoenix, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Champaign IL, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Baltimore, Worcester, New York, Philadelphia, Fresno, Seattle and Portland OR.
Additional cities, exact dates and support acts will be announced shortly.
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...Tour dates...
North America:
7/16/05 - Atlanta, GA - Underground Atlanta - 99x festival with The Bravery, others - free
7/17/05 - Myrtle Beach, SC - House of Blues - with The Fray - tickets
7/19/05 - Orlando, FL - Hard Rock Live - with The Fray - tickets - SOLD OUT! (note: this show will be (partly?) broadcast on 8/3/05 on Mtv)
7/21/05 - Nashville, TN - Nashville Municipal Auditorium - with Ben Folds, The Fray - tickets
7/22/05 - St. Louis, MO - Savvis Center - with Ben Folds, The Fray - tickets
7/23/05 - Chicago, IL - Grant Park - Lollapalooza with The Pixies, The Killers, Death Cab, Dinosaur Jr, etc! - tickets
Japan:
8/13/05 - Osaka, Japan - Summersonic: WTC Open Air and INTEX
8/14/05 - Tokyo, Japan - Summersonic- Marine Stadium
NEW - 8/15/05 - Tokyo, Japan - Zepp - on sale July 23rd - presales: #1: Pia, from 12th July - 19th July. #2: E Plus, from 13th July - 18th July. General tickets onsale 7/23 at 10:00 AM local Japan time.
Europe:
8/18/05 - Salzburg, Austria - Frequency
NEW - 8/19/05 - Munich, Germany - Muffathalle - tickets 1, 2
8/2220/05 - Hohenfelden, Germany - Highfield
8/22/05 - London, UK - Hammersmith Apollo - tickets
8/24/05 - Dublin, Ireland - The Point - tickets onsale July 8th at 9AM
NEW - 8/25/05 - Manchester, UK - The Academy - tickets
8/26/05 - Edinburgh, UK - T in the Fringe Festival @ Corn Exchange - tickets
...possibly more to be added...
September + beyond:
NEW - September + October: Co-headlining tour with the Foo Fighters - North America - details TBA
NEW - 9/24/05 - Curitiba, Brazil - Curitiba Festival - on sale July 25!
...more to come!
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2005
Karl's Corner - 07/15/2010

...today we zipped up the horrifically traffic clogged I-95 enroute to Mashantucket, CT, and the Foxwoods Casino for a rock n roll event starring Weezer, with Rival Schools opening again. The Foxwoods is a large formal theater that looked a bit unsuited to getting crazy with the rock and the roll, but Rivers and the gang managed to pull a very wicked vibe out of thin air. The tough looking dark suited security folks did not seem amused at all by the antics that involved multiple crowd runs, office furnature destruction and general mayhem, but the power of the fans proved strong enough to keep the vibes happy and cool. A fun show in a place that probably wasnt used to so much fun.
Post your show stories here!
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Category:Karl's Corner - July 2010
Karl's Corner - 07/16/2000

Tour starts tommorrow! yeah!! the guys have been rehersing all week, and have some awesome new songs to slip into the set for y'all. everyone is stoked.
got a lot of questions regarding whether "east coast" = "includes the midwest" or not. I think there will be some "inland" shows, but i dont know which cities at all yet.
That little article in Spin w/ Eminem on the cover is a 100% false rumor that Spin foolishly decided to print. So dont worry, there is no rubber ball bouncing going on...
and lastly... GO SEE "THE X-MEN"!! its amazing. 
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2000
Karl's Corner - 07/16/2001

"The weezerfest episode of "The Matt Kissane Show" will air every Friday at
10pm and Sunday at 10:30pm in the month of August on AT&T Cable channel 19 in
the Chicago area. It includes several of the bands videos and fun interviews
with wacky weezer fans!! " -Matt
...I'm currently working on the equipment history (finally!), it should be updated in a day or so, and even more following that as i get pictures ready. Basically I jumped ahead to the guys' current set-ups (which is what most folks are asking about) and will work backwards from there...
...a HUGE pile of your radio reports have come in, so a new update is just around the corner already, mostly with your reports of hearing "Island In The Sun" already! very cool.
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2001
Karl's Corner - 07/16/2010

...It's a steaming hot day today in New York. We drove over the mighty Williamsburg Bridge to the Williamsburg Waterfront, which just might have the nicest view of any venue in the country, the entire Manhattan skyline. Soon the 3 band bill will begin with Awolnation, followed by Rival Schools' 3rd show with us, and then Weezer of course.
Matt Pinfield was there for RXP to do the band introduction in style. Earlier in the day he did an interview with Rivers that is now available on his Pinfield Podcast here.
Todays show also represented a lot of friend and family reunions for the band and crew alike. Backstage was festive and hopping with lil kids and quality chaos much of the day. Big ups to Ami Spishock, Pete Cammarata (weezerisland), Dan Bleed, Ali Mutant, Brians sister Leia for the awesome limited edition silkscreened show posters, and Possum Tom from the Strut!
Comment here if you went, tell your tale!
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Category:Karl's Corner - July 2010
Karl's Corner - 07/16/2011

After the epic second show at Zepp, everyone took a much needed day of rest and frolic in Tokyo (kudos to the crew who had a half day of work to do yesterday getting the gear in place at the Festival site on the day off). Team Weezer reassembles today at Yokohama Arena to play the opening day of the 2 day Nano-Mugen Festival, with Ash, The Rentals, Asian Kung-Fu Generation, We Are Scientists, and many more, over 3 stages. At some point there will be a Nano-Mugen TV special on Japanese TV and several songs from weezer's set tonight will be featured in it. Today is a very rare occurrence, one that has not happened before - Weezer and the Rentals playing at the same event!
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 - July 2011
Karl's Corner - 07/16/2012

2012/07/16 New Cruise Webisode #5
New Webisode up now in our Media Section! Check out "Pinkerton Diaries", the fifth of 6 new Weezer Webisodes featuring thrills, chills, spills and of course the rock AND the roll from the January 2012 Weezer Cruise, which sailed from Miami to Cozumel and back on the Carnival Destiny cruise ship, loaded with 16 bands and thousands of fans. New Cruise Webisodes will roll out each Monday from now till 7/23, Premiering exclusively on weezer.com. The video is also embedded below for your convenience.
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Category:Karl's Corner - July 2012
Karl's Corner - 07/17/2005

...MB '05 Tour: Day 55: Myrtle Beach, SC - House Of Blues
We pulled into Myrtle Beach this morning after an overnight run from Atlanta. What a peaceful town this is. The thick forests and the ocean are really beautiful. Guess thats why people vacation here, its plenty lounge worthy! Now, theres lots of new development out here too, with the big box stores and high rise hotels bumping up against the tarpaper shacks and fading juke joints of the past. One new development blends in quite cleverly, bridging the old school and new school of South Carolina - The House of Blues. This "tin shack" with recycled parts from vintage dwellings of long ago is equipped with a top quality soundsystem, tasty restaurant and some of the too-coldest A/C ever! The sheer contrast in temps from inside to out at this place is enough to give you an instant fever and/or headcold. Mosh all you want, its hard to get that main room hot enough to sweat in! Outside, a whole bunch of huge alligators roam next door in a 'nature park' aka tourist trap. We didnt hang out much in the back parking lot for 2 reasons: one, we slightly preferred the 50 degrees inside to the 95 and humid outside, and two, no one wanted to stumble into a ditch somewhere and end up in the alligator zone! However, post show, with the concept of safety in numbers in mind, both Brian and Rivers headed out for some fan greetings before we rolled, ever mindful of the beasts just next door.
Todays show was very cool in that there was not a single scalped or ebayed ticket sold! This was made possible by the implementation of a 'will call' system for everyone - 2 tickets per customer, and purchased tickets had to be picked up in person with an ID to verify, and ticket holders couldnt leave the venue once they had their tickets in hand. Therefore: only fans got tickets, cuz what scalper would actually want to see the show? This system is very rarely done, and almost never done for venues larger than this one, as the additional personell and time taken to process everyone can be overwhelming. But todays show stands as a great example of how to do it right, and I hope this practice spreads.
We reunited with our buds The Fray today, and they continue to do a great job. They turned in another quality set, this time their longer set that includes the raucous cover of 'Come Together'. Read their tour blog on their site! its cool to read about the tour from another perspective. Weezer continued its current streak of high energy 'kick ass' shows tonight, including their first live rendition of "Why Bother?" since '02, with Brian doing the lead vocals for the first time ever! The set is really fun to watch now, with all sort of sweet guitar solos, rock moves, sing alongs, and general rockery going on.
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props to M____?(sorry! not enough brain today!) at the soundboard.
props to Jason H. coming all the way from Alaska to fufill his '02 Scavenger Hunt tix!
and props to spiffy kimbean and the SC SFS crew!
The current tour merchandise can be seen (updated 7/10/05).
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2005
Karl's Corner - 07/18/2000

We are in Phoenix now. The sheer uninhabitability of today's ridiculously high temperature makes me seriously question the sanity of local residents. But to each his own. Of course, the club added more capacity by moving the stage outside.. d'oh! Well, they say it cools off after dark. Anyway yesterday's show in San Diego was excellent, the band debuted another new song, provisionally titled "Mad Cow". The crowd was wild, chanting along and spazzing out the whole time.
Rocking out at the Spaceland show in LA 6/21... more pix to come ASAP, and video if i can figure out this damn thing...
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2000
Karl's Corner - 07/18/2001

...The Equipment History has just had its first face lift in many months, and I will be doing further tweaks and additions over the next few days, as I sort through a pile of emails and notes pertaining to the guys gear. Right now the new stuff is mostly at the bottom...
...The location of the show on August 25th in LA is The G.H. Blockbuster Pavilion, in Devore, CA. Other details arent yet known, but this is very likely some sort of special show that KROQ is hosting that will feature other bands as well.
...I had forgotten all about TRL till someone told me that "Hash Pipe" was back in the top 10 again!?!? How bizarre. Meanwhile, the "Island" video looks AWESOME, kudos to everyone involved for kicking ass! The guys are having a meeting tomorrow to go over any possible final editing, and after that (if there is any to do), it will be shipped off to Mtv... 
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2001
Karl's Corner - 07/18/2005

..MB '05 Tour: Day 56: travel/off - Orlando, Florida
Drove all night and got to Orlando right when it got hot and sticky. Some opted for Disneyworld. Some opted for hotel creedling. No one opted for waiting a lifetime for a moment like this, at a Sandals Resort.
some new info about the Weez Fighters/Foozer/?? tour in September + October:
Confirmed cities and venues:
Thu. Sept. 8 - Atlanta GA - Gwinnett Arena
Sat. Sept. 10 - Sunrise FL - Office Depot Center
Sun. Sept. 11 - Tampa FL - St. Petersburg Times Forum
Tue. Sept. 13 - Houston TX - Woodlands Arena
Wed. Sept. 14 - Austin TX - Frank Erwin Center
Thu. Sept. 15 - Dallas TX - Smirnoff Center
Other confirmed cities for the tour include: San Diego, Phoenix, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Champaign IL, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Baltimore, Worcester, New York, Philadelphia, Fresno, Seattle and Portland OR.
Additional cities, exact dates and support acts will be announced shortly. Ticket info coming asap...
...see the new MuchMusic interview with Rivers here.
...new article on Weezer in Brazil here.
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2005
Karl's Corner - 07/18/2010

...After an 8 AM border crossing roust from bus-sleep, we rolled on into Northeast Ontario, to the sunny and quite pretty city of Ottawa, the center (centre) of Canada's government, and home of an annual blues festival. Weezer is not a blues band (well, not at first glance anyway), but thats sort of the nature of these festivals nowadays - they take on all sorts of acts. For example, back in Sarnia, the festival's "country night" was headlined by the Black Eyed Peas, which is quite a stretch.
(later...)
Well, this was Weezer's first ever show in Ottawa, so we expected some pent up excitement, but this Bluesfest crowd took things over the edge! It didnt hurt that Rivers was fully in explorer mode, checking out every corner of the facilities as he sang, stoking people up who were nowhere near the stage. Or maybe it was just the fact that it was the closing night of the festival and people were ready to let loose. In any event, that was a fun, wild and crazy show by everyones standards. Good jam!
Big ups to Mike Young, longtime fan and 'SFTBH' researcher at the show tonight. Like the other Ottawa fans, he was waiting a long time for this show.
Comment here if you went, tell your tale!
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Category:Karl's Corner - July 2010
Karl's Corner - 07/19/2013

2013/07/19 Show: San Diego, CA: Walking Dead 10th Anniversary Party
Today's show was an exclusive party/show for the cast and crew of the Walking Dead, in a parking lot near the massive San Diego Comic Con, but we managed to grab some tickets to give out to our fans in San Diego! We only got a handful of tickets, but everyone who got in reported a raging good zombified time. See the fan generated CrowdAlbum page of all the pix and videos taken at the show by the fans and attendees here: http://alpha.crowdalbum.com/gallery/51eae886879ea250b5005769/The-Wa...
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2013
Karl's Corner - 07/20/2005

...MB '05 Tour: Day 58: travel/off - Nashville, TN
rolled into Nashville late morning after the all night drive up from Florida. Another merciful day off to catch up on personal biz and band biz, and a good day to go on walks, despite the heat wave, in search of cool stuff.
...looks like the band will be shooting a new video for "We Are All On Drugs" soon. More info when the hatches are battened down.
current tour info:
North America:
7/21/05 - Nashville, TN - Nashville Municipal Auditorium - with Ben Folds, The Fray - tickets
7/22/05 - St. Louis, MO - Savvis Center - with Ben Folds, The Fray - tickets
7/23/05 - Chicago, IL - Grant Park - Lollapalooza with The Pixies, The Killers, Death Cab, Dinosaur Jr, etc! - tickets
Japan:
8/13/05 - Osaka, Japan - Summersonic: WTC Open Air and INTEX
8/14/05 - Tokyo, Japan - Summersonic - Marine Stadium
NEW - 8/15/05 - Tokyo, Japan - Zepp - on sale July 23rd - presales: #1: Pia, from 12th July - 19th July. #2: E Plus, from 13th July - 18th July. General tickets onsale 7/23 at 10:00 AM local Japan time.
Europe:
8/18/05 - Salzburg, Austria - Frequency
NEW - 8/19/05 - Munich, Germany - Muffathalle - tickets 1, 2
8/20/05 - Hohenfelden, Germany - Highfield
8/22/05 - London, UK - Hammersmith Apollo - tickets
8/24/05 - Dublin, Ireland - The Point - tickets onsale July 8th at 9AM
NEW - 8/25/05 - Manchester, UK - The Academy - tickets
8/26/05 - Edinburgh, UK - T in the Fringe Festival @ Corn Exchange - tickets
...possibly more to be added.....
September+October: Foozer/Weez Fighters North America + Weezer South of the Border...
Thu. Sept. 8 - Atlanta GA - Gwinnett Arena - co-headline w/ Foo Fighters + TBA - tickets TBA
Sat. Sept. 10 - Sunrise FL - Office Depot Center - co-headline w/ Foo Fighters + TBA - tickets TBA
Sun. Sept. 11 - Tampa FL - St. Petersburg Times Forum - co-headline w/ Foo Fighters + TBA - tickets TBA
Tue. Sept. 13 - Houston TX - Woodlands Arena - co-headline w/ Foo Fighters + TBA - tickets TBA
Wed. Sept. 14 - Austin TX - Frank Erwin Center - co-headline w/ Foo Fighters + TBA - tickets TBA
Thu. Sept. 15 - Dallas TX - Smirnoff Center - co-headline w/ Foo Fighters + TBA - tickets TBA
(more Foozer TBA)
9/24/05 - Curitiba, Brazil - Curitiba Festival - on sale July 25!
(more Foozer in North America TBA, incl these onfirmed cities: San Diego, Phoenix, Denver, Minneapolis, Chicago, Champaign IL, Grand Rapids, Detroit, Cleveland, Columbus, Baltimore, Worcester, New York, Philadelphia, Fresno, Seattle and Portland OR.
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2005
Karl's Corner - 07/21/2000

We are currently in an Econo-Lodge in Salt Lake City, washing up after what was a great show. Tonight the band debuted a new song: "Too Late To Try", as well as delivering "Mad Cow", "Preacher's Son", and "Slob". The band was stoked on the crowd and vice versa. Mikey decided to stage dive at the end of the set, which inspired Rivers to let the crowd strum his guitar. Of course, they ended up pulling it out of his grasp, and I had to play bad cop to retrieve it. I think I hurt my hand more than anyone's who I spanked. Then some pushy folks decided to grab Brians mike stand, presumably for the picks on it. i went to grab the microphone and ended up stagediving by accident. This put me into a bit of a mood, so sorry anyone whose ear I barked into.
Most excellently, Wayne and Claudia Allan (Mykel and Carli's parents) came down to the show, along with their sons Kenyan and Tyler. They came bearing homemade chocolate chip cookies and milk, much the way Mykel and Carli would have. Hooray! Also in attendance (as they were at the Las Vegas show) were Brian's mother, and his sister Leia. Also attending the Las Vegas show were both Anuj and Dan, RWA founders and webmasters. In their opinions, my computer has some serious driver problems, and will need some serious tinkering to get these mpegs rocking. I'll keep my fingers crossed... On to Boise... weezer's first show there!
 
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2000
Karl's Corner - 07/21/2001

...Just a quick note... I was working on the equipment history, fan's news reports, and a new video clip (from the "Island" video shoot footage i had shot), but I didnt get any of them quite ready to put up. Hopefully by tomorrow night...Also, there should definately be a new mp3 up within a day, keep checking the "RWA" news for word on when it will be available for your downloading pleasure...
...this coming Monday I fly to NYC to meet up with the gang. Tuesday should be a pretty interesting day, stay tuned...
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2001
Karl's Corner - 07/21/2006

...*UPDATE 7/24* It's online now: Check the media page for a new video clip, "weezer scrapbook '05, vol.1". Some sights, sounds, (and maybe some smells!) from mid summer last year...
...So, drummer man Patrick Wilson has been posting up a storm these days over on thespecialgoodness.com. Go check it oot, and read his take on the ways and means commitee's findings.
...*UPDATE 7/22* Kudos to weerez.com for hepping us all to a 'new' interview we thought had been nixed. Fortunately its finally out (or its finally been found), and as it turns out, its one of the best of the recent "Spring season o' many Rivers interviews".
...There should be a new original video clip up shortly in the media section. Its been uploaded, Im just waiting for it to be encoded into the system, a process that sometimes takes a few days and that I cannot control. Hopefully you'll like it. It aint "the" treat, but we havent had any new video stuff to look at in a long time, so something had to give.
...still waiting on more info re: a live dvd. Not to mention a greatest hits album, and Brian Bells latest musical efforts. It seems we are in a limbo-like state - for now.
...The Rivers interview with Sook-Yin Lee on the CBC "Definitely Not the Opera" radio show was available as a podcast for a while, but then it was taken down. BUT, its now back up for your enjoyment. This was one of the more interesting and enlightening interviews from Rivers this year, and it can now be yours at the click of a mouse. Available here, (or on iTunes), till mid September. (Thanks to Joff at CBC)
...weez fan Craig T. sends scientific video evidence, showing the positive effects of weezer's "Jamie". (vs. some... other music choices, heh heh)
...We arent sure just how many babies have been named after Weezer songs (or members), but we know they exist. This was sent in by Jason K. "His name is Jonas Evan K., born 20 Feb 06. He will one day despise the song, but till then..."
...Large size picture of the statue of a man taking his board to work and thus remaining afloat: .
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2006
Karl's Corner - 07/22/2000

Greetings from Boise, where the inaugural weezer concert here has finally occured, much to the obvious delight of the rabid fans, who were mercilessly pounded upon by the cro-magnon bouncer humanoids. Sorry, kids, that was a bit rough. The set was unchanged from the night before, and continued to rock everyones world.
We have learned that the first 2 shows of the east coast tour will be at the Bowery Ballroom, in New York City. We dont know the dates or anything else at this time. ...Gotta run, Portland calls! 
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2000
Karl's Corner - 07/22/2004

summer recording session, day 1. A fresh start for Album 5. December '03's recordings have been shelved in favor of what starts on this day. Projected completion of recording in about a month's time; mixing, etc to follow.
...check out the audio video page for five new video clips. These clips were all nearly on the Weezer DVD but didn't make it for one reason or another. The reasons (because some are sure to ask) were anything from redundancy (i.e. too many clips fromthe same time period or too similar to each other), picture quality (which didnt stop much from getting on the DVD, but there could only be so much "rough stuff"), sound quality (ditto), and in one case, the piece not actually surfacing untill after the DVD "put to bed". But they were all worthy of fan viewing, so stream and/or download away! 
(reminder: this is on the stands now! read about Pat's car, etc.)
Category:Karl's Corner - July 2004