Weezer -- Classic or Dud?

The big singles are great, but I have a special fondness for "In The Garage", with its too-honest snapshot of the geek's private retreat: "I've got the Dungeon Master's Guide / I've got a 12-sided die / I've got Kitty Pryde / and Nightcrawler too / Waiting there for me / Yes I do, I do" Weezer wasn't my high school experience, but it sure could have been.

I have big misgivings about the much-hyped comeback though. BIG misgivings.

but. happened to get their album out the library and i'm converted. 'only in dreams' is classic, rest pretty good too.

As for me being Kris and Otis -- I like that. Actually, maybe I'm inventing all of you except Tom to make him feel like he's got a popular forum. ;-)

And I never said my own opinion on the matter -- eh. Unduly worshipped, and the Dream Warriors did the twelve-sided dice thing better anyway.

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This is truly bizarre: "Brian Langel"'s email address is one letter away from being Jamie Ashley and Sarah Hutchings's band ...

Well, that was the idea, anyway :).

However, The Face revealed last year that "Red Shift" (Garner, needless to say; the one with the astonishing Drake / Thompson / Martyn xerox) was the name of a sixth-form band at Sherborne School, which was essentially where I got the idea from. That, and the cultural myth of 70s prog fans being largely middle-class.

I had also forgotten the dead pan way Buddy Holly opens with "What's with these homies dissin' my girl?" which is just great.

excuse me if i fart

Sorry, but I tried to talk about "Friends of P" with Fred one time and he's all, what? I'm all, that song, you know, it goes, "If you're down with P, then you're down with me". That was the best song.

Otis, if you don't take a picture of Ramon's reaction to all that, I will hunt you down and kill you with my bare hands, hello.

especially "weekend woman" and "sweet mary" those are all-time great weezer songs

Really love Precious Metal Girl.

Honestly think Pacific Daydream is pretty excellent once you get past the first three songs. Sweet Mary is one their very best songs imo

i think "mexican fender" is fine too

America hits its limit?

I just learned that our Broadway shows have been cancelled (due to low ticket sales and unbelievably high expenses.) I'm very sorry to be telling you this now after we've already invested so much time, thought, and emotion. Extra apologies to those of you who cleared schedules and made travel plans to be with us. Thanks to @Broadway Producer for all your hard work and great ideas. I loved where we were going and I hope we can find a way to resurrect our vision.

What's with these homies cancelling my show

ha

Lol

Dud. Your annoying younger sibling in band form.

I'm not a Weezer fan, but they could at least do a one-off show and film it for streaming release. Seems pretty reasonable in terms of preserving an endeavor and getting it to a wide audience.

v curious about what the "unbelievably high expenses" could be for a 6-night stand at a single venue

Have 26 often testing years of goodwill from two solitary albums finally starting to run dry?

xpost the world's biggest light-up "W."

America has spoken: "If you're wondering if I want you to...i don't want you to"

my friend wrote "nobody wants to see u cos you're a diddler" in response, who is she referring to? did Weezer get in some trouble?

honest question as I don't follow them anymore

Diddler sounds like it could have been another '90s alt-rock band.

I just did a cursory search and apparently they've been criticized for being misogynist, racist and homophobic, but I haven't turned up any specific accusations.

all that I knew about.

unless she's making fun of Rivers's guitar playing

Maybe she mixed Rivers up for someone else? There's already several other well-known alternative rockers with similar accusations leveled at them.

i just saw them play at a little 600 cap venue here. a secret warm up show for their upcoming "back to their roots!" tour thing. they totally sucked, complete dog shit. rivers' voice and guitar playing are still good, bryan is playing and singing great too. but no heart. they had no amps on stage, i guess they just play through rack units. this totally lessens the power of a rock band in a smaller venue. they play to click track and backing track so its hard to rock out. the times they had no click (only in dreams and paper face) then the ol magic was there. oh well.

they played new stuff off their szns eps and it was all proggy, thrashy, metal and very guitar heavy, but what's the point when it's so subdued by sticking to the click?

What's the point of playing to a click live unless you have a) backing tracks, or b) lots of visuals or idk pyro effects to sync up? Maybe they do once they move on to bigger venues, or maybe they just hate their drummer.

i think they do have backing tracks for some of the newer material lol

'no heart' is completely what i'd expect from them

listened to the white album yesterday. so perfectly suited toward the summer that i once again convinced myself it's my favorite weezer album

I heard Big Dipper's "Ron Klaus Wrecked His House" this past weekend and damn if it isn't "Undone" but seven years earlier and ~135,000,000 less spotify spins. Great song.

Agreed about the white album, I love that record

what the actual fuck

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/local-news/weezer-bassist-scott-shriner-wife-shot-la-police-chase-1236186437/

Weezer bassist Scott Shriner’s wife, Jillian Lauren, was shot by police while officers were pursuing suspects in a hit-and-run in Los Angeles on Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

LAPD officers said they responded to the scene to assist the California Highway Patrol in finding three suspects following a hit-and-run in the Eagle Rock neighborhood. Authorities said they were working to set up a perimeter in the area after the suspects ran into a residential neighborhood near the 134 Freeway and Figueroa Street.

Shortly into their search, officers were checking behind a residence for one of the suspects when they spotted a woman, later identified as Jillian Shriner, outside a neighboring residence and armed with a handgun. Police said they commanded her to drop the gun multiple times, but said that she refused and pointed it at them, and officers shot Shriner.

She went back into her home, but came out later and was taken into custody, according to LAPD. LAFD paramedics took her to a local hospital to be treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Police said Shriner was not involved in the hit-and-run, and she was absentee booked for attempted murder.

She's very lucky she's white.

what could have possibly driven this woman to madness

xpost Yup.

Jillian Lauren stopped by to promote her book, ‘Some Girls: My Life in a Harem,’ and told the crew she got started in the sex industry after dropping out of school at the age of 17: “I was stripping and doing escort work.”

Jillian said she’d been a horrible waitress and “always really wanted something extreme,” but never became a stripper until a customer confronted her, saying: “You’re a horrible waitress. Why don’t you come to the Kit-Kat Club?”
Step 1: Stripping to Prostitute

Jillian said she did some acting work when she wasn’t stripping and met “an interesting, charismatic woman” on the set of a low-budget vampire movie.

The woman invited Jillian to work with her at an escort agency: “I thought it was going to be like ‘The Mayflower Madam.’ Candace Bergen territory.”

Jillian said her first customer was easy, so she stuck with it: “He wanted to look at himself in the mirror and do rush–like amyl nitrates? Poppers? And jerk [himself] off.”

Step 2: Prostitution to Party Guest

Jillian said she enjoyed being an escort: “It felt very powerful to me…to be able to be unaffected…I didn’t feel gross. Like I said, I didn’t feel much.”

After a while, she was approached with yet another opportunity: “I was recruited. I was told–I was tipped off about this audition.”

The ‘audition’ seemed strange: “It’s really just an interview in a hotel room.”

Afterward, she was called and asked to be a ‘personal party guest’ of the Prince of Brunei.

Step 3: Party Guest to Harem Girl

Jillian said her life as the Prince of Brunei’s ‘personal party guest’ started simply enough: “I really was a guest at these parties [in Brunei]…it was weeks before the Prince took a shine to me.”

When she finally banged ‘Prince Jeffrey,’ she was actually kind of into it: “He owned a country. I was fascinated–captivated by him.”

Howard asked if Jillian enjoyed it, so she explained that he was with several women a day: “It was quick.”

Jillian said she was one of 40 or so women in Prince Jeffrey’s harem: “A lot of the women there were teenagers from Thailand.”

Jillian was the Prince’s #2 girl–his #1 was Filipino soap opera actress: “The Western girls were in a separate compound from the girls from Southeast Asia.”

Jillian said she tried to tell her dad she was working as the Prince’s personal assistant: “To which he said, ‘My ass you’re a personal assistant!'”

After a year and a half, Jillian left the harem with a wad of cash: “I had a couple hundred thousand dollars.”

Step 4: Harem Girl to Rockstar Wife

Jillian then revealed that her husband, Weezer bass player, Scott Shriner, was in the green room: “This is the true Prince in the equation.”

Scott came in to say he knew Jillian was a handful when they met (“She looked like trouble.”) but quickly learned he’d found someone with a past that matched his own: “I’ve been going to porno theaters since I was in the 6th grade. I equated love with John Holmes.”

She's very lucky she's white.

― imperial frfr (Steve Shasta)

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/weezer-bassists-jill-shriner-lapd-shooting-eagle-rock/3783162/

The wife of a Weezer band bassist Thursday was granted a two-year mental health diversion program after she was accused of firing her weapon at police officers who were conducting a search in her Eagle Rock neighborhood in April

Jill Shriner, 52, was found to be “eligible and suitable” for mental health diversion, according to an LA County Superior Court judge.

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Entering the mental health diversion program means the two felony charges she is facing from the exchange of gunfire with officers could be dismissed.