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Historic event: 01/21/1993

weezer show #38: 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 almost always went for the deal....but not this time, for unknown reasons [possibly no one had $10 to their name!]
setlist: unknown.
Also on the bill was Loungefly, other acts unknown.
karl flyer original 4-flyer layout art
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==Today in Weezer History post==
Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer History" series on January 22, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 1/21/1993 - On this day in 1993, Weezer played at Club Dump in Los Angeles. Club Dump was a weekly club held at The Central, which had been an establishment of the Sunset Strip for many years but by the early 90s was looking pretty ragged. A few years later it was transformed into The Viper Room, thanks to Johnny Depp and several million bucks.
Not much is known about this show - no setlist survives, the only other band known to play the show for sure is Loungefly, and the band inexplicably didn't pony up the $10 to buy a video of their performance, which Club Dump offered to bands. (Several other times at Club Dump they did buy the tape, though not all the tapes they bought remain in existence today. "Jamie" on Video Capture Device DVD is from one of these Club Dump tapes).
Today's photo shows the original artwork for the flyers made by me (Karl). I made flyers and/or posters for most of the early '92-'94 LA shows (prior to the Blue Album coming out). These flyers were left in stacks at record shops and clubs, and passed out on the Sunset Strip. Posters were put up on fences and temporary walls at construction sites, or wherever we thought we could get away with it. This was a dying art by the mid 90's, but it was the only way to promote a gig for the glam metal bands back in the 80's, whose well entrenched scene was still hanging on in the early 90's - even if you weren't trying to be the next Motley Crue, you still had to pass out flyers on the corner like the guys in "Lixx Array". The rise of the "alternative nation" and the failure of any Sunset Strip glam/hard rock/metal band to really make it after Guns N' Roses, combined with the rise of the internet, drove the spike into the coffin of L.A. style "street promotion".
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1993
Category:Super-Chrono - January 1993
Historic event: 01/22/1997

Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer History" series on January 22, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 1/22/1997 - On this day in 1997, Weezer played at in Columbus, OH at the Newport Music Hall in support of Pinkerton, with Nerf Herder opening. While the few surviving fan accounts all agree this was a rocking if somewhat chaotic show, journalist Bill Eichenberger of the Columbus Dispatch newspaper strongly disagreed, and said so in his somewhat hilarious review published the next day. Some choice quotes include, "The band couldn't rock. The band had zero stage presence. The band couldn't pop. The band couldn't sing in tune. The band couldn't play much."; "...1695 people who stood like statues throughout the show, and five people - strategically placed there by the band? - who pogo-ed on rare, celebratory occasions."; "So how did Weezer sell out Newport Music hall? That is one of the universe's great questions, ranking right up there with "Who built the pyramids?""; and "A band should offer something in addition to whimsy and a name that's fun to say. Shouldn't it?". (...How does a band "pop" anyway? and isnt it pretty clear the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids? And this may be the one and only review accusing Weezer of being "whimsical".) Photo also shows two signed ticket stubs from the show. #nerfherder #columbus #ohio #whimsy #pyramids #Newport #journalism #1997 #pinkerton
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1997
Category:Super-Chrono - January 1997
1997/01
Historic event: 01/23/1997

Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer History" series on January 23, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 1/23/1997 - On this day in 1997, Weezer played in Milwaukee, WI at the Rave Hall, one of the several concert venues in the massive Rave/Eagle's Ballroom complex, with Nerf Herder opening. On this day, the Weezer Fanclub leaders Mykel and Carli flew in from Portland, joining the band for 2 nights and doing special fan meet-ups. The weather was brutally cold and snowy, but the shows were crazy and fun. Tonight the band played Pinkerton b-side "Devotion" live for the first time. Fan Bryan F. wrote years later: "...My friends and I got there quite a few hours early and we had nowhere to go. We ended up sneaking in the venue (the doors were UNLOCKED because of soundcheck). We ordered a pizza, it came, and minutes later Weezer arrived! Pat asked me, "Is that pizza for us?" I said "no" I'm an idiot. Then Nerf Herder showed up in a van and started carrying stuff in. I asked if I could help and they said yes. I carried some road cases in and stood right on the side of the stage as WEEZER WAS SOUNDCHECKING!! I heard them play Devotion! It was awesome. BUT THE BEST PART IS STILL COMING. One of my friends named Jeremy was a friend of Mykel and Carli and had set it up where we had back stage passes! After the show, we kicked it with [Mykel and Carli], they were wonderful and sweet and awesome, God rest their souls. Then Rivers, Brian, and Pat came out..."
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1997
Category:Super-Chrono - January 1997
1997/01
Historic event: 01/25/2001

Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer history" series on January 25, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 1/25/2001 - On this day in 2001, weezer was in Los Angeles at work on the Green Album. "...recording day 28...the army marches on...today the day started with Brian laying down another batch of backing vocal tracks. This was followed by several hours of some more random overdubs and minor patches and fixes and stuff. Then some parts of "O Girlfriend" got some last minute re-working, so the bass and guitars had to be changed one more time on that track. Finally Rivers recorded some more lead guitar tracks. Rivers's terrible sore throat got no better today. He continues to be barely able to speak, and singing is totally out of the question. Various lead vocal parts remain unfinished, so this really puts the completion of the album in jeopardy. He is taking medicine, but so far no improvement. the waiting continues. More business meetings and such were peppered throughout the day as well. Not to mention some strange photography, including the Mikey and Rivers "High School Science Teacher" series..." - karl, writing in weezer.com
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 2001
==External links==
*Facebook post
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Category:Super-Chrono - January 2001
2001/01
Historic event: 01/26/2008

Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer History" series on January 26, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 1/26/2008 - On this day in 2008, Rivers played in the Mia Hamm & Nomar Garciaparra Celebrity Soccer Challenge, scoring the first goal. Footage from this game was later edited with footage of Rivers training in the rain and old family photos to make the video for "Lover In The Snow", a demo that was released on the "Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo" album on 12/18/2007. Rivers recorded a voice over that told the story of his love of soccer, his inability to play it in adolescence due to his leg condition, and his difficult surgery after weezer's success that corrected his leg and allowed him to play soccer and other sports again. Rivers felt very honored to be invited to play in the game with his soccer heroes including Landon Donovan and celebrities like Tony Hawk. Scoring a goal for his team was the icing on the cake, and fortunately the moment was captured on video, and became the "Lover" video's climactic moment. -karl (@karlophone), 'Lover' video editor. (View at this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMiLwwjK-0w). 
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 2008
Category:Super-Chrono - January 2008
2008/01
Historic event: 01/27/2001

Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer history" series on January 27, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 1/27/2001 - On this day in 2001, weezer was in Los Angeles at work on the Green Album. "...recording day 30...Today was similar to yesterday in that it started out with Brian singing a bunch more back up vocal parts, and continued with a grab bag of changes, fixes and overdubs. Included in todays "icing on the cake" type activity were some Rivers vocal fixes (his throat is finally starting to improve), more lead guitar parts and changes, and some more "gang vocals" on "Gimmie Some Love" and "Starlight", where Mikey teamed up with a cast of characters including the bands' manager Pat, myself, guitar tech Bobby, Ransom Comfort (the bands' Guitar Center rep), and Rivers' high school friends/Avant-Garde bandmates Michael Stanton and Justin Fisher who just happened to be visiting the studio at the time. (No one gets away with just watching, Rivers puts everyone to work). Later, it was "gang handclap" time, led by Mikey and Atom the drum doctor. Guitar tech Bobby and another visiting friend (Adam Orth, formerly of Shufflepuck) joined in and clapped away on "Starlight"..." -karl, writing on weezer.com. #gangvocals #greenalbum #cellostudios #ricocasek #2001 #mikeywelsh #avantgarde #guitarcenter
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 2001
==External links==
*Facebook post
*Instagram post
Category:Super-Chrono - January 2001
2001/01
Historic event: 01/29/1993

weezer show #39: The Alligator Lounge, Los Angeles
Not much info survives about this show. The Alligator Lounge was located on Pico Blvd on the West Side of L.A., not far from the "Amherst House". One cool fact is that this show was the debut performance of a new song "Lullabye For Wayne", which would never quite make it on to the Blue Album many months later. It is also known that this show was attended by fellow L.A. band Black Market Flowers.
Setlist: unknown, aside from "Lullabye For Wayne".
there are no [known] photos or flyers from this show. 
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1993
Category:Super-Chrono - January 1993
Historic event: 01/29/2001

Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer history" series on January 29, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 1/29/2001 - On this day in 2001, weezer was in Los Angeles at work on the Green Album. "...recording day 32...LAST DAY IN THE BIG STUDIO...I write this in a state of exhaustion, after a very long last "official" recording day. As I wrote before, more bits and pieces will be worked on as the record is mixed in Miami, but the bulk of the work is done! Mixed into today's frantic last minute changes (and yet another handclap session) was a photo shoot for a magazine. Later the band's equipment had to be all packed up and gotten ready for its next public appearance, [The Yahoo! Tour]..." -karl, writing in weezer.com. #greenalbum #cellostudios #riverscuomo #mikeywelsh #beff
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 2001
==External links==
*Facebook post
*Instagram post
Category:Super-Chrono - January 2001
2001/01
Historic event: 01/31/2005

Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer History" series on January 31, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 1/31/2005 - On this day in 2005, Weezer had an all day photo shoot in Los Angeles with Sean Murphy, to shoot promotional photos for the upcoming release of Make Believe. Several well known shots came from this session, including the very color coordinated cover to the "We Are All On Drugs" single, the "blue" band photo by a slanted grey diagonal wall, the "downtown diner" photo seen in Make Believe, and the "hedge" photo (shooting of which shown here - photo credit Sarah C. Kim). Sean Murphy has shot the band several times over the years, and it also responsible for the scooter photos used on the "Pork n' Beans" singles, amongst many others. At the time of today's shoot, "Make Beleive" itself wasn't quite finished, with the band doing some final sessions with Rick Rubin at Jim Henson Studios and elsewhere, after a mid January meeting where it was decided the album wasn't finished and needed some changes to its tracklist. However, a May '05 release was already decided upon, so the Geffen promotional machine got into gear, under the assumption that the album would be finished in time - which it was. -karl
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 2005
Category:Super-Chrono - January 2005
2005/01
Historic event: 02/01/1969

Patrick George Wilson is born in Buffalo, New York.
==Today in Weezer History post==
Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer History" series on February 1, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 2/1/1969 - On this day in 1969, Weezer drummer Patrick Wilson was born, in Buffalo, NY. Happy Birthday, Pat!!! The Special Goodness
==External links==
* Facebook post
* Instagram post
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1965-1990
Category:Super-Chrono - February 1969
1969/02
Historic event: 02/01/1993

weezer show #40: Club Lingerie, Hollywood
Club 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 the band promoted it at the nearby Palace earlier that night, in an attempt to gather showgoers by tempting them with more rock, nearby, for free. Somehow this seemed to work, as by all accounts the crowd was quite full. The jjournal entry notes that the crowd included "many [label] executives" [read: junior A&R guys] as well as the members of Black Market Flowers, and Joe Sib of Wax.
Other bands on the bill included Wink.
setlist: unknown, except that its is known that the new tune "Wayne" was NOT played, citing "Rivers's voice" [?].
...original 4-flyer variation art, and an 11x17 poster, both by karl...
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==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1993
Category:Super-Chrono - February 1993
Historic event: 02/02/1995

whattsamatta you? - buddy holly single released
the buddy holly single was weezer's largest commercial success to date. a rad song, a rad video, attracted a lot of rad people to the band. the song received *enormous* radio play during its release and single's were primarily released in the uk and one in the usa. the uk single features the lp version of "buddy holly", live versions (from rochester, ny by bobby bell [no relation] of "my name is jonas" & "surf wax america", and the dgc rarities vol.1 version of "jamie". as shown above, the single cover features rivers with his brother leaves. 
because the song did so well, australia commenced in releasing a single as well. the cover has a pic of lil' rivers and a childhood friend who could not be found to "ok" use of the picture. the uk version used its own version so as to not confront legal issues, where with the australian version they just plain didn't bother with legalities and pressed it using the picture below. the cd features lp versions of "buddy holly" and "jamie" from their respective releases.
==Today in Weezer History post==
Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer History" series on February 2, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 2/2/1995 - On this day in 1995, Weezer played a show in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, at the Nighttown club. This was their third show of their first ever tour in the UK and Europe, after playing a tiny show in London at the Splash Club (with Mick Jones of The Clash in attendance), and the previous day's show on 2/1 in Den Haag. Scraps of this tour were videotaped, and can be seen in the "Video Capture Device" segment "Saction". No known photos and setlist unclear, but this large promotional poster of the 5 dates in Holland survives. Also on this date, the "Buddy Holly" single was released in the UK. This CD single features the lp version of "buddy holly", live versions (from Rochester, NY's Horizontal Boogie Bar show in late '94) of "My Name Is Jonas" & "Surf Wax America", and the DGC Rarities vol.1 version of "Jamie". The single's cover features a childhood photo of Rivers with his brother Leaves. The US Promo and the Australian version featured a different photo, of Rivers and an unnamed childhood friend. -karl
==External links==
* Facebook post
* Instagram post
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1995
Category:Super-Chrono - February 1995
1995/02
Historic event: 02/03/2002

Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer History" series on February 3, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 2/3/2002 - On this day in 2002, Rivers was in Capitol Studios in Hollywood, making some last minute changes to some "Maladroit" songs. The Hyper Extended Midget Tour was set to begin the next day in North Carolina, but Rivers had some changes he needed to make after having listened to the semi-completed album mixes for a few weeks. On this day the very short proto-webisode "The Quiet Storm" was shot, edited and released, consisting of random shots of Rivers solo on piano and drums in Capitol's Studio A. Around this time, the band had independently (and to Geffen Records dismay and confusion) sent CDs of 8 songs off of Maladroit, including "Dope Nose" and "Keep Fishin'" to a number of radio stations, and on weezer.com, the subsequent "battle" of radio response to see which song would become Maladroit's first single was kept track of. -Karl
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 2002
==External links==
*Facebook post
*Instagram post
Category:Super-Chrono - February 2002
2002/02
Historic event: 02/05/1995

Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Weezer Memories dispatch" series on November 24, 2011. (Please note that the date in this post is incorrect)
Weezer Memories Dispatch #1:
heres an original silkscreened poster for the Feb 23 1995 show at Vera in Gronigen, The Netherlands. (http://www.vera-groningen.nl/) I believe this was Weezer's 1st or 2nd show on the continent of Europe. This remains one of the coolest ever weezer posters, I had to have mine framed. the other copy i grabbed went to Todd Sullivan at geffen, where they framed it andf it hung on the wall in the geffen offices. i wonder what happened to that one. I also think Brian snagged a few. Imagine my disappointment when I soon realized that it was the exception when a Euro club did this, not the rule. Vera was super cool, not just a club, it was like an artist's co-op. At least we got this one - I love it. -Karl
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1995
==External links==
*Facebook post
*Instagram post (Facebook only)
Category:Super-Chrono - February 1995
1995/02
Historic event: 02/05/2001

Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer history" series on February 5, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 2/5/2001 - On this day in 2001, Weezer was in Miami, FL, mixing and putting final touches on The Green Album. "...recording day 38 (mixing day 6)...today Tom Lord-Alge did a new mix of "O Girlfriend" and then tackled "Island In The Sun", the unusual song that has always taken the most time and effort to get right. Tom worked all day and the results were satisfying. It feels great to find the "answers" for that song and say "wow, it's finished". In the smaller side studio, The remaining unmixed songs were carefully analyzed to determine if there were any minor bass fixes, and as it turns out, none are needed. So Mikey gets a small break and will be heading north to visit family tomorrow. But he was certainly needed tonight. Rivers was working on multiple aspects of "Teenage Victory Song", doing various guitar and vocal overdubs and fixes, and he determined that some good "gang vocals" were needed. We had Mikey, myself, and Carlos the engineer on hand, but Rivers was really hoping for a true gang, and went outside looking for some fans. There was a small group out front earlier in the day, but unfortunately the area was deserted by the time Rivers went hunting for guest vocalists. Fortunately we were able to make do with the "gang" already on hand, and the part turned out fine..." -karl, writing on weezer.com.
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 2001
==External links==
*Facebook post
*Instagram post
Category:Super-Chrono - February 2001
2001/02
Historic event: 02/06/2001

Posted on Weezer's official Facebook page as part of the "Today in Weezer history" series on February 6, 2014.
Today in Weezer History: 2/6/2001 - On this day in 2001, Weezer was in Miami, FL, mixing and putting final touches on The Green Album. "...recording day 39 (mixing day 7)...today Tom [Lord-Alge] mixed "If You Want It" [to be renamed "Photograph", and got almost done with "Sugar Booger", which will be finished first thing tomorrow. Meanwhile Rivers and I continued our 'business attack', getting details sorted out over the phone for all kinds of upcoming stuff, from merchandise designs to album art photo shoots. There is going to be a ton of stuff to take care of over the next few weeks, but the ball is rolling... ...today's little golf match was a big improvement, so we actually kept score this time. We hit the driving range for a while too, just to prove that we still stink... ...Later, Rivers worked extensively on the two "mellow" songs, "Always", and the untitled "New Song" [later titled "I Do"], singing multiple new takes of the lead vocals and various other finishing touches. "Always" is basically almost ready for Tom, but Rivers still isn't satisfied with how "New Song" sounds. Hopefully tomorrow..." -karl, writing on weezer.com.
==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 2001
==External links==
*Facebook post
*Instagram post
Category:Super-Chrono - February 2001
2001/02
Historic event: 02/14/1992

weezer's first practice
valentine's day 1992 marked the first time rivers, matt, pat, and jason cropper [playing acoustic guitar] practiced together as weezer. Rehearsals continued for 3 days straight at TK productions in West L.A.. At this point the band did not have a name, and debate over the name had started. The third day's rehearsal was taped, becoming the earliest "live" performance recording of the band. The third day was also the day that the group was visited by Karl and Patrick Finn, who were curious to see what this new band made up of their buddies was sounding like after 3 days solid playing together. They arrived to a very hot sweaty room, containing 3 clothed people and one [Jason] who had inexplicably decided to strip down to nothing halfway thru rehearsal. Fortunately for the rest of the people in the room, his acoustic guitar afforded him some modesty. 
L to R: 1.Matt and Pat in usual clown mode, taken at 1711 Stoner Ave Apt 1, West L.A., around the time of the first weezer rehearsals; 2. 1711 Stoner Ave, home of Patrick Wilson, Jason Cropper, Pat Finn, Karl Koch, and numerous others from spring '91- spring '92. the bushy'
patio at R was where photo #1 was shot. 3. 2914 Urban Ave, where Rivers rented a small back room and recorded many early weezer demos, this address is mentioned in his demo of the 60 Wrong Sausages song "Tennis Ball"; 4. yes, Stoner Ave!
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==See also==
*Super-Chrono - 1992
Category:Super-Chrono - February 1992