Weezer concert: 02/27/2019 (a)
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| Venue | NPR Music Studios | ||||
| Location | Washington, D.C. | ||||
| Date | February 27, 2019 | ||||
| Released | April 1, 2019 | ||||
| Associated album | Weezer (The Black Album) | ||||
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Weezer performed an acoustic set at the NPR Music Studios on February 27, 2019 for the Tiny Desk concert series.
Setlist
| No. | Song | |
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| 1 | "Longtime Sunshine" | |
| 2 | "Living in L.A." | |
| 3 | "Across the Sea" | |
| 4 | "High as a Kite" | |
NPR.com synopsis
This is probably the loosest you'll ever see Weezer. Known for meticulously produced — and electric — live shows, frontman Rivers Cuomo and the rest of the band settled in behind the Tiny Desk for an entirely acoustic set without the in-ear monitors, click track or vocal separation they usually employ to stay locked-in and tight for bigger performances. The result is surprisingly intimate, with songs that feel lived-in and rumpled, like an old flannel shirt from the '90s.
Weezer opened with one of the band's rarer songs: "Longtime Sunshine," a 1994 track that's only appeared as a Rivers Cuomo home recording on bootlegs and compilations, and on the deluxe edition of Pinkerton. Then the band performed a stripped-down version of its electro-pop song "Living in L.A.," from Weezer's new self-titled "Black Album," followed by another deep cut, "Across the Sea." It's a song Cuomo originally wrote in his early 20s, inspired by a fan letter he'd received from a young woman in Japan. While beloved by many Gen-Xers who'd first heard it on 1996's Pinkerton, the song's lyrics haven't aged terribly well.
Weezer returned to its newest material to close the set with "High as a Kite," from the new album. A song of innocence and escapism, Cuomo sings about daydreaming and how he wants to disappear — which is exactly what the band did once the song was over, but not before Cuomo told the crowd, "We are Weezer, from the planet Earth. Have a nice life!"
- —Robin Hilton, Weezer: Tiny Desk Concert, 2019
- —Robin Hilton, Weezer: Tiny Desk Concert, 2019
Video
Personnel
- Rivers Cuomo - guitars, vocals
- Brian Bell - guitars, vocals, piano
- Scott Shriner - bass, vocals
- Patrick Wilson - drums
Production
- Robin Hilton - Producer
- Morgan Noelle Smith - Producer
- Bob Boilen - Creative Director
- Josh Rogosin - Audio Engineer
- Morgan Noelle Smith - Videographer
- Beck Harlan - Videographer
- Kimani Oletu - Videographer
- Bobby Carter - Associate Producer
- Adelaide Sandstrom - Production Assistant
- Amr Alfiky/NPR - Photo
See also
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