For Posterity

ALBUM TITLE: One Day You'll Understand... Or Not...

TRACKS

1. Plays Poorly with Others
2. I Have A Favorite Airport Now
3. This Hat Is Too Small for My Head
4. Knowing Everyone's Order is My Job
5. The CEO Could Never
6. Done Done Done
7. The Room I Grew Up In Is A Dead Man's Office
8. This Is Happiness
9. Magdalena, Let's Go
10. You Think We Need One More
11. Look! The Constellation In That Galaxy Is Visible From the Observatory
12. You Better Have Kept Your Fucking Promise

Chain Reaction

It's an all ages venue in Anaheim, CA. 

And it's closing. 

I saw about 10 shows there, most of them in the early 2000s when I was neck deep in wanting to be a regularly gigging musician. 

And then I became a regularly gigging musician and it was fun and it was the best and I was so young and didn't know what I had but isn't that the way things go sometimes?

You don't know what you have until it's gone. 

Chain Reaction will be gone in 8 days. 

Present me is bummed, but will survive. 

22 years ago me is gutted, but already survived and is now present me, which is a good thing. 

Here's to great memories and knowing that a building is not what actually contains them. 

Weezer...

8 days ago I saw Weezer's first of two nights at the Gibson Amphitheater.  It was an absolutely amazing show.  I hadn't seen Weezer for 9 years (the last time I saw them was in 2001 down at UC San Diego).  I remember them being very, very boring.  Not this time around, though.  Rivers was non-stop energy.  For their greatest hits set, all four members were up front with Josh Freese drumming... so eggin' food.  And their blue album set was just like being able to worship at the altars of all things I enjoy in an album.  I was transported to 1994, and I didn't want to leave at the end of the night...

Here are some pics from the show:

 Best Coast was great.  Solid set, no frills, just good rockin'...

Rock for the masses

 The crowd in the palm of her hand

 Right before Weezer hit the stage

 Light show, rock show, please no, don't go

 Rivers a couple yards from me.  I shoulda ran up for a high five...

 Making his way back to the stage.  Give the man a hand

 Webmaster and Weezer guru Karl treated everyone to a killer slide show in between sets.  Here's an early Weezer flyer.  Karl explained that Club Dump went on to notoriety as the Viper Room.

Kiss Medallions but for Weezer as made by Mykel and Carli back in the day