Say It Ain’t So: Weezer Is Planning A Blue Album & Pinkerton Tour
Monday, August 23rd, 2010Pitchfork — along with seemingly every other music blog of note — is reporting that the distinguished alt. rock all-stars, Weezer, will reprise the band’s first two albums on an upcoming tour.
Rivers Cuomo, the outfit’s primary songwriter and notoriously inscrutable figurehead, told MTV that the band would alternate between their self-titled debut (a.k.a. 1994’s The Blue Album) and the equally beloved follow-up, Pinkerton, which famously tanked at the box office, only to garner an incredible cult cachet in the years following its 1996 release:
We have this really exciting idea to do a tour where we spend two nights in each city, and the first night, we play the entire Blue Album, and the second night, we play the entirety of Pinkerton. We’re just running it by promoters right now to see if there’s sufficient interest in the markets to do something like that, and if they’re on board, it’s gonna happen.
Personal reservations aside — why now? is this an empty ca$h grab? has such a format, that is, the iconic album played in sequence and its entirety, trended itself out? — this is a unique opportunity, especially for younger fans who did not have had the opportunity to catch the quartet during its nostalgia-inducing, early-to-mid 90’s creative peak. Green Album salad days, indeed.
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