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| − | The Allan sisters' impact on the band their fans is inestimable. For several years from the release of the Blue Album, the sisters developed a unique experience for fans, acting as liasons between fans and the band. Fan club get-togethers (sometimes featuring surprise visits from band members) and special mailings to fan club members were the order of the day. One fan even reported that Mykel added his and a friend's names to the guest list at a ''[[Pinkerton]]'' release show at the Whisky A-Go Go in Hollywood, after learning that the fan club members missed out on buying tickets to the show, as they had sold out quickly. | + | The Allan sisters' impact on the band and their fans is inestimable. For several years from the release of the Blue Album, the sisters developed a unique experience for fans, acting as liasons between fans and the band. Fan club get-togethers (sometimes featuring surprise visits from band members) and special mailings to fan club members were the order of the day. One fan even reported that Mykel added his and a friend's names to the guest list at a ''[[Pinkerton]]'' release show at the Whisky A-Go Go in Hollywood, after learning that the fan club members missed out on buying tickets to the show, as they had sold out quickly. |
| − | There was a general consensus among fans at the time that things would never be the same again - and they were right. Their passing was a contributing factor in the band's nearly three-year-long hiatus that ensued. [[Karl Koch]] made a herculean effort to maintain the fan club, but it proved more than he had the time and resources for, and it eventually ceased to exist. The primary reason for this happening was due to the fact that around this time, the internet was exploding, and Karl's involvement with the band's official site more or less supplanted the full necessity of a fan club. | + | There was a general consensus among fans at the time that things would never be the same again - and they were right. Their passing was a contributing factor in the band's nearly three-year-long hiatus that ensued. [[Karl Koch]] made a herculean effort to maintain the fan club, but it proved more than he had the time and resources for, and it eventually ceased to exist. The primary reason for this happening was due to the fact that around this time, the internet was exploding, and Karl's involvement with the band's official site more or less supplanted the full necessity of a fan club. |
==Tributes== | ==Tributes== | ||
Revision as of 07:49, 29 December 2008
Relationship with weezer and their fans
Mykel and Carli Allan were sisters that became scenesters (in the best possible connotation of the word) in the early-90s rock club scene. They were early friends and supporters of weezer as well as several other, mostly Los Angeles-based, unknown or unsigned bands of the time.
After befriending weezer, they were asked to help stuff envelopes full of lyrics and mailing list info for fans who'd written in to the address printed in the Blue Album requesting such info. Their eager help along these lines led to them being the founding members of the Weezer fan club. They would henceforth be considered the band's biggest fans, evidenced by the assignment of membership card numbers 0001 and 0002 to them ad infiniti.
Much like Karl Koch, they were fans of the band who remained very grounded, and never forgot what it was like to be a fan, but who just happened to have a special relationship and duties with the band. As one of them said in an email to a fan club member, they regarded weezer as "friends. They just happened to play music."
Tragedy
In mid-1997, during the latter portions of the Pinkerton tour, the sisters would make a point to show up at as many shows as possible, meeting with fan clubbers. After a show in Colorado, the sisters (along with their younger sister Trysta) died in a car accident. Little has been released in the way of details, likely out of respect for the family's privacy, but it has been suggested that the driver fell asleep at the wheel, or that the Colorado mountains' icy or treacherous roads played a part, or possibly both. The sisters were expected at the next show or two, but when they failed to meet up at the first show, there was a sense of uneasiness among the weezer camp. The band eventually found out on route to the next show.
Impact
The Allan sisters' impact on the band and their fans is inestimable. For several years from the release of the Blue Album, the sisters developed a unique experience for fans, acting as liasons between fans and the band. Fan club get-togethers (sometimes featuring surprise visits from band members) and special mailings to fan club members were the order of the day. One fan even reported that Mykel added his and a friend's names to the guest list at a Pinkerton release show at the Whisky A-Go Go in Hollywood, after learning that the fan club members missed out on buying tickets to the show, as they had sold out quickly.
There was a general consensus among fans at the time that things would never be the same again - and they were right. Their passing was a contributing factor in the band's nearly three-year-long hiatus that ensued. Karl Koch made a herculean effort to maintain the fan club, but it proved more than he had the time and resources for, and it eventually ceased to exist. The primary reason for this happening was due to the fact that around this time, the internet was exploding, and Karl's involvement with the band's official site more or less supplanted the full necessity of a fan club.
Tributes
Several bands have written songs in honor of the sisters Allan, most notably, of course, is weezer's 1994 "Undone B-side, currently available on the deluxe edition of The Blue Album. Black Market Flowers were the first to write a song called "Mykel and Carli", and in 2001 Jimmy Eat World would release the song "Hear You Me".
In late 1997, a tribute album called Hear You Me! A Tribute To Mykel And Carli was released on Vast Records. Featuring songs by many of the sisters' friends and mutual admirers, including both weezer's and Black Market Flowers' aforementioned tributes, plus rare or exclusive tracks by that dog., Ozma, Kara's Flowers (now known as Maroon 5), Shufflepuck, Supersport 2000, and more.
Weezer dedicated 2001's The Green Album to their memory.
