A Great Night With A Great Band

So I know Ive been slacking on the whole blog scene, but Christmas break is coming up and I will have a whole month to blog my little heart out. For right now I will bring you to a place that is known as the ULTIMATE WEEZER CONCERT REVIEW!!!

So I went to the Weezer concert a month ago and it was frickin rad! It all went down at the Mad House on McDowell, The Purple Palace, The Cowboy Saddle, The Big Pancake, and formally Veterans Memorial Colliseum... Whatever you want to call it. Now you may be thinking (hmm.... a month ago it was October...) That's right! Weezer made an AZ State Fair appearance. Now at first glance you might think (hmm... Weezer must be all washed up if they're playing at the fair...) Well my poorly mistaken friends Im here to tell you that YOU ARE WRONGO CABONGO!!! That thought couldn't be further from the truth. Over the years the AZ State Fair has been graced with the presence of many a high dollar act. Namely: Depeche Mode, The Gin Blossoms, Live, and most recently, the ever popular, Meatloaf. Those are just a few of the great acts that have made their presence known at said event.

Anyways, back to the Weez. I showed up late so I missed Tokyo Police Club, and caught the tail end of Angels & Airwaves. That was a good thing because they sounded awful! Weezer opened up with the oldie but goody My Name Is Jonas (which was the first song I ever heard from them back in the elementary school days.) They proceeded to rock the crowd's face off while strategically placing a Black Sabbath and Nirvana tune in with their own stellar set list of power ballads. The highlight of the night was when they broke out with the sweet lick from their latest release "The Greatest Man That Ever Lived (Variations on a Shaker Hymn) Leave it to the Weez to take a hymn and turn it in to a face melting rock opera. Now this is not your regular Weezer tune. This masterpiece is filled with freestyle rap from none other than Rivers himself, a quartet choir solo, and the usual face melting Weezer guitar solos. One disappointment was when they had the whiney voiced Tom Delong from Angels & Airwaves sing Undone- The Sweater Song. It almost made my ears bleed.

In the middle of the concert, they brought out 35 contest winners with their own instruments to play a couple songs with the band. They weren't half bad either, and I was pleasantly surprised. One of the 35 was my EFY counselor friend from last summer, Emily, who played violin. It was way cool to get to see her on stage.

All in all it was a rockin concert and I left thoroughly entertained.