Karl's Corner - 06/02/2009

2009/06/02 weather: 55 degrees and heavy pre-sale showers

...another round of presale info has been released, all those on the Weezer Mailing List should be shortly recieving their emails with the presale password and ticket links. Note that the Weezer Mailing List is signed up for simply by clicking on the "Join The Community" link (top right on weezer.com). By registering as a fan (which signs you up for the fan forums), you also automatically are signed up for the email list (unless you click off a box that opts you out of it). Several shows have not yet been added to the presale list, so another round of emails will go out soon.

WEEZER/BLINK-182 TOUR DATES

DATE CITY VENUE
Sun 8/23 Toronto, ON - Molson Amphitheater
Mon 8/24 OFF
Tues 8/25 Wantagh, NY - Nikon Theater @ Jones Beach
Wed 8/26 Holmdel, NJ - PNC Bank Arts Center
Thu 8/27 Camden, PA - Susquehanna Bank Center
Fri 8/28 OFF
Sat 8/29 Hartford, CT - New England Dodge Music Center
Sun 8/30 Washington DC - TBA (venue to be announced)
Mon 8/31 Saratoga, NY - SPAC
Tues 9/1 OFF
Wed 9/2 Cleveland, OH - Blossom
Thu 9/3 St. Louis, MO - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre
Fri 9/4 Kansas City, KS - Sandstone Amphitheatre
Sat 9/5 OFF
Sun 9/6 Denver, CO - Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
Mon 9/7 OFF
Tues 9/8 OFF
Wed 9/9 OFF
Thu 9/10 Seattle, WA - White River Amphitheatre
Fri 9/11 OFF
Sat 9/12 Sacramento, CA - Sleep Train Amphitheatre
Sun 9/13 San Francisco, CA - Shoreline Amphitheatre
Mon 9/14 OFF
Tues 9/15 OFF
Wed 9/16 San Diego, CA - Cricket Amphitheatre
Thu 9/17 Irvine, CA - Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre

...Fuse TV alert! Catch a half hour block of videos from Weezer this week on Fuse’s Loaded: Tuesday 6/9 @ 12:30pm ET

...In case you missed it, Patrick and Scott did a video interview with KROQ, backstage at the Weenie Roast show. It is available for your viewing pleasure here.

...industrious and clever weezer fans make weezer repro guitars for fun and, er, rock profits... check out the great guitars they're showing off here!

..."Waverly Hills" in The Simpsons...Nice! (at 4:07)

...Once again PETA has put Rivers on its nomination list for "sexiest vegetarian".

...Brandon, a fan writes: "I am an employee of Best Buy, and currently they are playing Pink Triangle on the 'Best Buy Radio' and right after they say its from the 'Deluxe Edition' of Weezer's Pinkerton. Do you know anything of Geffen re-releasing Pinkerton as they did with Blue?" Very mysterious, Brandon. We'll look into it.

...Weezer Tribute Band alert #4812297!

* Atlanta, GA: El Scorcho - June 26 at The Masquerade. tickets avail via Ticketmaster, all ages show.

* NYC: The Blue Album Group - at the Music Hall of Williamsburg on June 6th.

* San Diego, CA: Geezer (the oldest, crustiest tribute band in the world) - June 12th at Cane's (Mission Beach) - 3 band cover lineup: Vitalogy doing Ten 11pm
Geezer doing Blue Album 10pm
Penny Royal doing Bleach 9pm

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