Rivers...Weezer...Pinkerton

Last night, January 8th at the Aragon. If you are not a Weezer fan, you would have seen a lot of geeks rocking out.

to all of Pinkerton, B-sides, newer stuff.

There was an opening act from SF that wasn't very good.
Then there were the boys. Huge back drop of Hurley for the first set. Cardboard cutout of Chewbacca on the left side of the stage. They started with the most recent songs and worked backward to 1995 - Suzanne (also on the motion picture soundtrack of Mallrats), and You Gave Your Love to Me Softly. Rivers is a tiny man. He wore a huge black stetson that almost covered up his head.

Then came the School of Rock kids who played Come Undone & Say It Ain't So. Pretty good. Those kids are so lucky!

Karl of Karl's corner came on stage for Intermission and went through a slideshow from the Pinkerton days and Weezer's early days. Geeked out. Loved it,

THen came Pinkerton. Played in the exact order as the album. There's something amazing about being surrounded by people who know all the words of every song from the 1996 Rolling Stone Mag SECOND Worst Album of the Year. (In 2002, Rolling Stone readers voted it as the 16th greatest album of all-time.)

I used my iPhone as a recording device for the Pinkerton part of the show. You can hear me singing.