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 {{Missing setlist|status=gone|source=<ref>Setlist missing per: [[Karl Koch|Koch, Karl]] (as Karlophone). (October 6, 2024). Discord message. Archived from the original on Weezerpedia at [[Weezerpedia Discord Q&A with Karl Koch - October 2023]].</ref>}}
-==Historic event==
+==Recollection==
-{{Main|Historic event: 04/01/1994}}
+[[Brian Bell]]'s father Thomas would recount the show in [[1997]]:<ref name=
-{{Karl Koch quote 2|the place was the brave new world, a funky tiny club in the haight-ashbury district (the haven for hippies in the '60s). weezer was to play a show the night before but their van (an old 15 passenger dodge prospector model) broke down in the tehachapis north of los angeles and the repair cost them both money and such a delay that they had to cancel the show that night. but, they agreed to play the next night (april 1st instead). the front of the brave new world was almost completely dominated by older african american men playing cards. they were obviously the "regulars". the back room was set up for bands with a tiny dance floor in front of the stage. the first band to play that night was the abraham lincoln story, a swing-ska band with lots of instruments and lots of members (thank goodness). maybe a "crowd" of 12-15 people total were there. this was several weeks before ol' blue was released and weezer was really only known to their smallish cult following in la. the show absolutely rocked! i knew right then that they would make it big if only their album got the exposure it deserved when it was released. the response from the club owner was to keep the volume level down as it was disturbing the customers in the front bar area. i'm not sure that weezer even got paid that night but it was a beginning...
+BTSTB">[https://web.archive.org/web/20020614131041/http://users.ez2.net/sweater/reviews/thomasbellreview.html Behind the Sweater concert review page]. Archived on 2 December 1998. Internet Archive.</ref>
+{{Quote|I am Brian Bell's father so I have been to more Weezer concerts than anyone else save Mykel and Carli I would bet. The concert I remember the best was in April of 1994 at a funky club called The Brave New World in Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco. They were supposed to play on a Wednesday night but their van (an old Dodge Prospector 15 passenger behemoth) broke down on the I-5 grapevine area in the mountains above LA and they had to cancel that night. They were rescheduled the next night at the same club. In the front of the club were nothing but older African-American men playing cards and probably gambling. In the back room was the set up for the (mostly white) bands that were passing through. This was before the blue album was released I believe, so nobody except those cult followers of the music scene of the LA clubs had ever heard of Weezer. The first band to play that night was a horn band (sort of like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones or Squirrel Nut Zippers) called the Abraham Lincoln Story. If it weren't for them, Brian's then-girlfriend Susan Fox, Susan's brother (who lived in the SF area) and Brian's sister Leia and me (we were in SF for a conference of geographers) there wouldn't have been an audience. The guys played great that night but the only comment from the management of the establishment was for them to keep the volume lower as the people in the front room (i.e., the non-rock and rollers) thought they were way too loud. We were also at the Club Lingerie free show in LA when the album was released a few days later. The place was packed, but then it was free. They were very well received and Brian was a little stressed that night because Jason Cropper (who he replaced) was in the audience. Jason was cool about it.|Thomas Bell|[https://web.archive.org/web/20020617105340/http://users.ez2.net/sweater/reviews/thomasbellreview.html ''Behind the Sweater''], circa 1997}}
--unknown reviewer }}
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