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Post by chroniclurker on Feb 13, 2008 15:57:19 GMT -5
hearyoume said:
ahhh...I love the weez. I have so many good memories attached to that band. I would be so, so happy if they played. I'm just hoping they come to Nashville when they tour in support of album six.
I figured your name was a weezer reference...I saw them in nashville at the municipal auditorium probably around 2001 or so and the sound was some of the worst I've ever heard...and then my alternator went out on the way home just past bowling green, and I sat on the side of 65 for 8 hours...a total nightmare of a roadtrip...
"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
I don't know about Weezer... could you imagine wearing a sweater at Bonnaroo? That'd be like a deathwish. I just imagine a bunch of emo kids littering the ground passed out with heat stroke.
Post by bamadancer on Feb 13, 2008 17:06:58 GMT -5
chroniclurker said:
hearyoume said:
ahhh...I love the weez. I have so many good memories attached to that band. I would be so, so happy if they played. I'm just hoping they come to Nashville when they tour in support of album six.
I figured your name was a weezer reference...I saw them in nashville at the municipal auditorium probably around 2001 or so and the sound was some of the worst I've ever heard...and then my alternator went out on the way home just past bowling green, and I sat on the side of 65 for 8 hours...a total nightmare of a roadtrip...
I was at the Municipal Auditorium show. I have to admit...bad sound I was way up in the top, about 4 rows back. It was my first Weezer show though so I was content Did you make it to the show at the AmSouth Ampitheater (I think that's the name? It may have changed...) the next time they came to Nashville? MUCH better...they even played a bunch of stuff off Pinkerton, even Butterfly!
Post by chroniclurker on Feb 13, 2008 17:27:42 GMT -5
I had a similar spot on the right side of the stage at the municipal auditorium...and no I wasn't at that AmSouth Ampitheater show...I think I may have seen them at the Tweeter Center in Chicago on that same tour...was that like summer 2002? Maladroit tour? The other time I saw them in Chicago was at the Aragon Ballroom which was my second best Weezer experience...my first time in Chicago at all, and Rivers came out and opened with "I Do", the b-side off the "hash pipe" single, which was pretty cool...
"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
I saw Weezer in 2000 at American University...I guess Constitution Hall (some of you DC folk would know better than I)..but I digress, before the show they played Queen "Boheimian Rhapsody" as house music and the whole crowd sang along, it was pretty magical.
Weezer is the only band that has ever put me to sleep during their live show. I dont know if they were just having an off night or what, but I was bored out of my mind. And I was really excited to see them. But I wouldn't be against them being added, It would give me a chance to see them again to change my opinion.
Post by chroniclurker on Feb 16, 2008 5:17:39 GMT -5
adamkm81 said:
I saw Weezer in 2000 at American University...I guess Constitution Hall (some of you DC folk would know better than I)..but I digress, before the show they played Queen "Boheimian Rhapsody" as house music and the whole crowd sang along, it was pretty magical.
The very same thing happened when I saw them in Chicago in 2000...that's funny.
"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
Shaking booty making sweet love all the night! Its time I got back to the good life!
Seriously, though, I saw them on their last tour and I thought they were great although I was disappointed by the Pinkerton to Make Believe ratio (which was like 1:5).
Post by joshuabadillo on Mar 8, 2008 1:21:13 GMT -5
guitardevil said:
i would have LOVED weezer ... if this was 1996 and they never made half of the albums they have made. Unfortunately once Pinkerton got trashed by most people Rivers changed a lot in how he wrote songs. The band also lost Matt Sharp, a founding member, miss that too.
Karma man,I totally agree man...That is just the truth.
Fitting, since Rivers around the time of the green album said "We don't open for nobody... except maybe Metallica." Perhaps we've found our pre-headliner that night?
I've already seen them 14 times, so it would really depend on what else is going on at the time.
I would love to see weezer. I fell asleep to the blue album like every night of my freshman year in high school
Hot damn! So did I. Karma when I can.
I always karma those who karma me. I remember having some crazy dream about construction worker son riding lawnmowers in a parade that I contribute to my name is jonas.
Good old Jonas. I can't deny having the weezer dreams either. Don't think I've had one of those since high school, though. I can only remember two. The first was of them playing in like a clearing of the woods to myself, a couple friends and maybe ten other people and everybody got a pick or a drumstick or whatever after the show. In the other I was channel-surfing, and every station I flipped through was somehow relevant to Say It Ain't So.
I had a Rentals dream, too. Just that them playing at some fest - from the looks of it ACL or Lolla - about six months before the reunion got announced. I did similar things before the Pixies and Smashing Pumpkins came back, too.
The thing about Rivers solo is that he's never really toured, let alone played a festival. All I can remember on live Rivers shows is that he did a few at a club in Boston between pinkerton and green.
I'll have to agree that the Pinkerton era - or perhaps the Matt Sharp era - was the best time to see them. He brought something to the show that's just not there anymore. I'd say the best of the fourteen shows I've seen was the very first - Jan 97 at small venue on the Pinkerton tour. Though the 2k comeback tour was pretty kickass as well - caught that in both Detroit and Milwaukee. I have to give some love to their Chicago show on the Maladroit tour (my 10th) since that was the only one I've attended where they played Holiday and Falling for You, and back-to-back at that.
The thing about Rivers solo is that he's never really toured, let alone played a festival. All I can remember on live Rivers shows is that he did a few at a club in Boston between pinkerton and green.
I'll have to agree that the Pinkerton era - or perhaps the Matt Sharp era - was the best time to see them. He brought something to the show that's just not there anymore. I'd say the best of the fourteen shows I've seen was the very first - Jan 97 at small venue on the Pinkerton tour. Though the 2k comeback tour was pretty kickass as well - caught that in both Detroit and Milwaukee. I have to give some love to their Chicago show on the Maladroit tour (my 10th) since that was the only one I've attended where they played Holiday and Falling for You, and back-to-back at that.
I saw them in 1994 and in 2002.... Very, very, very different shows. The '94 show was so much more raw and visceral and fun, while the 02 was still fun, it was a strikingly different type of performance that felt less emotional, more hyperbolic.
Post by chroniclurker on Mar 13, 2008 21:24:10 GMT -5
iskew said:
kdogg said:
The thing about Rivers solo is that he's never really toured, let alone played a festival. All I can remember on live Rivers shows is that he did a few at a club in Boston between pinkerton and green.
I'll have to agree that the Pinkerton era - or perhaps the Matt Sharp era - was the best time to see them. He brought something to the show that's just not there anymore. I'd say the best of the fourteen shows I've seen was the very first - Jan 97 at small venue on the Pinkerton tour. Though the 2k comeback tour was pretty kickass as well - caught that in both Detroit and Milwaukee. I have to give some love to their Chicago show on the Maladroit tour (my 10th) since that was the only one I've attended where they played Holiday and Falling for You, and back-to-back at that.
I saw them in 1994 and in 2002.... Very, very, very different shows. The '94 show was so much more raw and visceral and fun, while the 02 was still fun, it was a strikingly different type of performance that felt less emotional, more hyperbolic.
very well put...and pinkerton was definitely the era to see them...
"Music has always been a matter of energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio."
Honorable mention to the summer 2000 tour, before the green album tainted everything. Those were some fine shows, and in a lot of the same smaller venues from the Pinkerton tour. But hey - beats opening for No Doubt in ampitheatres.
I was way up in the top, about 4 rows back. It was my first Weezer show though so I was content 
Did you make it to the show at the AmSouth Ampitheater (I think that's the name? It may have changed...) the next time they came to Nashville? MUCH better...they even played a bunch of stuff off Pinkerton, even Butterfly!
