Well, I try to be as faithful to my blog as I am with the New York Mets, which is 50-50 at best. As I am sitting here still coming down to reality after seeing one of my bucket list bands last night in Austin, and if you were wondering that would be Weezer. To top it off, they played the Blue Album in its entirety on Monday. Which if I had to choose my top albums of my life, the Blue Album is in the top ten if not top five of all time for me. I can remember getting that album my freshman year of college and I think I still own my first copy that I bought. There aren't many albums I can sing every song to, but that one I can sing word for word every song. I was not alone as this being my most favorite album, you could tell by the 2,000-3,000 people that came to the small venue to see Weezer in Austin at Stubb's BBQ. On Monday was another first for me, as I was standing in line to get in, I was talking to a brother and sister, fellow Weezer fans, and they mentioned they got to see them live in 2005. I thought that was cool, as I was telling them this was my first time to see them, then out of nowhere they felt the need to let me know that they were in 5th grade at the time, and they just started listening to them. The story goes on to let me know that their uncle (I am guessing my age) gave them the Blue Album, and Pinkerton to get them started. At this point I decide to not let them know that I actually bought the Blue Album and Pinkerton when they first were released in 1994 and 1996. I decided to let this one go, as we were getting our tickets scanned and one of them getting an underage wristband on, and me getting called "young man" by the security guard and the "of age" wristband attached to my wrist. Some things are better left unsaid, and this was one of those times to just be happy so many people still love Weezer as much as I do. I have often read many articles about musicians and bands going out to perform famous albums in their entirety for their fans (still hoping Pearl Jam does that with No Code), so I didn't know what to expect. I had read that The Knux was opening for them at some of their shows, but that did not happen last night, it was all Weezer for about two hours. They came out and ran down each album and played their "hits" off of each, and even threw in a cover of Paranoid Android by Radiohead to mix it up; I have to add it was a spot on cover as well. Then a quick intermission, which was cool, because one of their guys that has been with them on tour since they began did a quick slide show/history of Weezer before they came back out. I thought that was a really cool touch to the whole night. Well then they came back out and played every song off the Blue Album, and it sounded amazing, so worth the 106 degree heat, standing in lines, and having to go solo to the show. It was one of the Top 5 shows I have seen in my life, and much of it had to do with me getting to hear them play a great album live. So much fun. My Picks for music for the week
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