Small showing here too, apparently.

nobody came

Maybe if Weezer sounded more like Bruce Springsteen ...

ParadisePornoTheater: Maybe if Weezer sounded more like Bruce Springsteen ...

Hey, someone gave me "Raditude" recently, and based on that album they could do worse than emulating "The Boss".

/NOT a Springsteen fan. Or Rick Springfield.

I like Weezer, but if they came to my town I don't think I'd bother. I can't see them being interesting enough...

I've seen them twice. Both times during the Green Album era.

Yea, they're not very energetic on stage. They just kind of show up, say "hi", play some songs that sound just like they do on the album, and leave.

saw them with the FF on Dallas and the whole show rocked

I am the biggest Weezer fan on the face of the planet. There is nothing -- but nothing -- I don't know about them.

That said, I've never seen them live. I refuse to spend $100 to see an hour of people stiffly standing like boards, replicating what I've already got at home.

A few years ago, Bad Religion cost me $20, lasted three hours, and they moved and did things and bantered. Obviously I was in the pit so I had to take several painkillers to make it into work the next day, but where I come from they call that "value for money."

havocmike: I've seen them twice. Both times during the Green Album era.

Yea, they're not very energetic on stage. They just kind of show up, say "hi", play some songs that sound just like they do on the album, and leave.

joeyromeo: That said, I've never seen them live. I refuse to spend $100 to see an hour of people stiffly standing like boards, replicating what I've already got at home.

So, either the article is lying, or Weezer's concert style has changed over the course of their career. It maybe, just maybe might be the latter.

"...the best show of its genre at the fair since blink-182 scorched the grandstand in 2001..."

What a depressing statement

IMDWalrus: havocmike: I've seen them twice. Both times during the Green Album era.

Yea, they're not very energetic on stage. They just kind of show up, say "hi", play some songs that sound just like they do on the album, and leave.

joeyromeo: That said, I've never seen them live. I refuse to spend $100 to see an hour of people stiffly standing like boards, replicating what I've already got at home.

So, either the article is lying, or Weezer's concert style has changed over the course of their career. It maybe, just maybe might be the latter.

I saw them in Toronto at the ACC for Jingle Bell Rock (mere hours before the bus crash), and they were off the hook, as the kids say (the kids do say that, don't they?). Ton(ne)s of crowd interaction, props, banter, Rivers visiting the floor and the sections near the stage. They pulled a girl up from the rail to sing a duet of '(...) I Want You To' (she was great, actually!). It was a great time, easily as much (more..?) fun as the Maiden show I saw this summer.

If I recall correctly, Rivers said he would be playing less guitar on that tour (and in the future) and focusing more on being a 'frontman'. One thing I remember vividly was Rivers saying 'I need a guitar!' before tearing up the solo in the Sweater Song (I think it was that song...). He (and the band) were on top of their game (though I was surprised that Pat dumbed down his fills for the stage show; as a drummer, I was a little caught out by that).

So yeah, Weezer puts on a fantastic show, and if you haven't seen them, the best you can do is call yourself "the biggest Weezer fan on the face of the planet who hasn't seen them live." Still nothing to sneeze at, but no longer disservice to fans who've devoted entire days to going to see a show (the girl who sang on stage has driven 8 hours and waited for 12 or something like that to be on the rail... too much for me, but she got her money's/time's worth).

/Mmm.....parentheses!