A few random deep cuts would go a long way for at least the degenerate (read: all of you) Weezer fans. Just bust out a Burndt Jam or The British Are Coming every now and then
"Burndt Jamb" is actually the one left-field cut we got at Key Bank pavilion with The Pixies back in 2018 lol. Great show.
Except his top 10 favorite Weezer songs are literally all singles lmao. He called "Africa" his favorite Weezer song iirc
Haha. Zing! I know Rivers has the “algorithm” for making setlists and has apparently used it for the last couple years, but... it doesn’t really seem to change all that much or make inclusions for later-era stuff. Even singles! ANYTHING off EWBAITE or White!
Best setlist they’ve ever had was the TBA and Pinkerton Memories shows. Getting Jamie, Susanne, You Gave Your Love, and Only in Dreams before all of Pinkerton? I’ll never forget that show.
I've always thought a band should do a tour where they just hit shuffle on their catalogue on an iPod and play whatever comes up Seems like something Weezer would do
Ben Folds did a tour where everyone in the audience wrote their requests on paper airplanes and flew them on stage and he’d pick them up at random and play them. I’d kill for something like that with Weezer.
I think a few bands (Elvis Costello comes to mind) have done a “Spin The Wheel” tour approach which is pretty cool, but obviously you’d uh... need a pretty big wheel here haha. The shuffle idea would be amazing for Weezer! Just hook it up to my veinsssssss, good lord. How many Everybody Needs Salvation planes can I land near Rivers?
Rivers used to decide the set lists by rolling d20s. That might’ve just been that year or two around green tho.
In fairness with a catalog so large, it would probably be really hard to actually shuffle the setlists and have everyone actually remember all of the songs lol. Maybe you make a setlist of 10-15 staples and then have a pool of 20-30 song that you pick ten randomly of every night
I listened to the Green Album + B-Sides at the gym yesterday and that song "Always" was a nice precursor to this Spring SZNZ EP. Sidenote: they really need to re-issue/remaster Green with all the various b-sides as well as some other stuff I assume is sitting on the cutting room floor from that era.
Karl has said he has a deluxe Green ready to go, but Rivers isn’t really interested in revisiting that era, and Geffen owns it all so it’d be a headache dealing with them. It’s too bad, that’s by far my favorite era. I remastered the SS2K songs for my own enjoyment, if anybody’s interested. DM me or whatever
I truly love the seven Green album b-sides that came with all the singles. I Do, Starlight, Oh Lisa, Sugar Booger, Teenage Victory Song, Always, Brightening Day... and that doesn't even take into account the SS2K and other demos, what a great era of the band