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Featured article: Memories Tour

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.

Soundboard recordings from multiple Memories Tour dates were released as official bootlegs dates.

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Featured song: "Thank God for Girls"

"Thank God for Girls" is the lead single and third track from The White Album. The song was released as a single on October 26, 2015, before the existence of the White Album had yet been announced.

Rivers Cuomo first tweeted the words "Thank God for girls" on January 6, 2010, and was the original title for Cuomo's song "Fun in the Sun" by Scott & Rivers."Thank God for Girls" was co-written by songwriter/producer Alex Goose. Cuomo wrote the songs lyrics and melody around an instrumental demo recorded by Goose. Goose also received an additional production credit on the final song, as the organ from his demo was used for the final version.

The existence of "Thank God for Girls" first became known to fans when the title appeared on the 'Future Releases' section on allaccess.com with a release date of October 27. An e-mail newsletter was sent to Weezer Fan Club members on September 27, wherein Karl Koch confirmed that while new music was indeed being worked on, the aforementioned release date "was totally a guess by that site." Weezer debuted "Thank God for Girls" live in concert on October 20 at iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank, CA. The first music video, wherein actor Galen Howard messily consumes a stack of cannolis, was released on October 25, with the single itself releasing on October 26.

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On this day... October 2

Featured quote: MTV.com article about Homie, March 5, 1998

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While rumors continue to circulate that bassist Matt Sharp is leaving the band, there's news that Weezer will soon be entering a studio to begin work on its next album. Singer Rivers Cuomo is currently writing songs for the album, which the band hopes to start recording in the Spring.

Meanwhile, Sharp and Cuomo turn up on the soundtrack to the upcoming film "Meet the Deedles," which should hit record stores on March 24...The soundtrack features a song called "American Girls" that is credited to Cuomo and Sharp's one-off group "Homie," which features former Cake guitarist Greg Brown and drummer Yuval Gabay and bassist Sebastian Steinberg, both of Soul Coughing.

- MTV.com writer unknown, MTV.com interview with Rivers Cuomo and Matt Sharp - March 5, 1998

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Matt Sharp in Los Angeles, for an interview with buddyhead.com
Photo by: buddyhead.com
November 1999
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