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The Memories Tour was a concert tour by Weezer wherein the band played their first two records - Weezer (The Blue Album) and Pinkerton in their entirety. Initially scheduled from November 2010 to January 2011, the tour has been intermittently "revived," with Blue- or Pinkerton-only shows performed as late as September 2015. The tour was named for the lead single from 2010's Hurley.
Most Memories Tour venues were booked for two consecutive nights, with the first being devoted to Blue and the second to Pinkerton. The band opened each show with a setlist of hits and b-sides. The inclusion of "You Gave Your Love To Me Softly," "Susanne," and "Jamie" - all b-sides from the band's 90's output - was notable, as those songs have been performed infrequently by the band both before and after the tour. Karl Koch would host an intermission between this first set and the album-specific set, sharing images and stories from the band's early history.
Despite the fact that Pinkerton songs have been performed live by the band consistently through their career, much mention has been made in the press about Rivers Cuomo's attempts to distance himself from the record upon its initial commercial failure. The band initially considered calling the tour the "Blinkerton Tour," a portmanteau of "Blue" and "Pinkerton," with no apparent connection to Blink-182.
Soundboard recordings from multiple Memories Tour dates were released as official bootlegs dates.
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"Longtime Sunshine" (sometimes rendered as "Long Time Sunshine") is a song written by Rivers Cuomo. It is the seventh track on Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo.
The song was written by Rivers Cuomo in December of 1993 or January of 1994, while visiting his mother for Christmas at her home in Connecticut. The title is borrowed from from a lyric of 1968 song "A Very Cellular Song" by the psychedelic-folk group the Incredible String Band. Cuomo's parents would sing this refrain to him as a lullaby when he was young.
Cuomo later retrofitted "Longtime Sunshine" as a song in consideration for a planned (albeit ultimately unfinished) "rock-opera" concept album, Songs from the Black Hole. Early drafts of SFTBH featured "Longtime Sunshine" as the closing track, intended to be sung by Cuomo as the story's protagonist, Jonas. Though SFTBH would ultimately be scrapped, Karl Koch has noted that "Longtime Sunshine" was originally meant to close Pinkerton. "Butterfly" was recorded on the final day of recording at Sound City in June of 1996 and used instead. Cuomo revisited the song in 1997, recording a home demo in September of that year. During a Memories Tour concert in Austin, Texas on June 7, 2011, Weezer performed the song live for the first time, featuring a new arrangement. The song was played live a number of additional times, including on the Weezer Cruise. The song was brought back for a performance for NPR's Tiny Desk concert series in 2019.
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Featured quote: Brian Bell on the composition and recording process for the background vocals on OK Human, Feb. 2021
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I would sing ideas, like here’s my ideas, and then I didn’t realize how good [producer Jake Sinclair ] was at vocal harmonies. He would come back and three-part almost everything I did. And he wanted the other guys to sing it, meaning Scott and Pat. I’ve always wanted to get Pat to sing a lot more, and I knew it’d be difficult... to get him to do it, and a lot of work was required to hear these parts. So I asked [Sinclair] to send me separate vocals of all of [the recordings], and then I notated them all out... I just really believed in this album and I wanted to push to get it done. Because what else are we gonna do right now [during the COVID-19 pandemic]? ... I love the sound of our human— that human element. It’s three voices, even though they’re low in the mix and I believe they’re mixed in mono, so they’re definitely not featured, but they’re just the right amount of touch to go, “remember humans’ voices?” ... We kind of use the theme of a human-sounding record and that’s how we thought about it.
-Brian Bell, radio interview with Kyle Meredith of WFPK (Louisville, KY)
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