Weezer concert: 04/01/1994

Weezer concert: 04/01/1994
Tour	Pre-Blue Album club dates
Venue	Brave New World
Location	San Francisco, California
Date	April 1, 1994
Other band(s)	The Abe Lincoln Story
Attendance	12-15
Weezer live show chronology
03/28/1994 - Los Angeles, CA 04/01/1994 - San Francisco, CA 04/02/1994 - Berkeley, CA

Weezer performed at the Brave New World in San Francisco, California on April 1, 1994 as part of the Pre-Blue Album club dates. The Abe Lincoln Story also performed. This show was done to make up for a show on March 31, which was cancelled due to their van Betsy breaking down.

Fan recollection

Brian Bell's father Thomas would recount the show in 1997:

I am Brian Bell's father so I have been to more Weezer concerts than anyone else save Mykel and Carli I would bet. The concert I remember the best was in April of 1994 at a funky club called The Brave New World in Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco. They were supposed to play on a Wednesday night but their van (an old Dodge Prospector 15 passenger behemoth) broke down on the I-5 grapevine area in the mountains above LA and they had to cancel that night. They were rescheduled the next night at the same club. In the front of the club were nothing but older African-American men playing cards and probably gambling. In the back room was the set up for the (mostly white) bands that were passing through. This was before the blue album was released I believe, so nobody except those cult followers of the music scene of the LA clubs had ever heard of Weezer. The first band to play that night was a horn band (sort of like the Mighty Mighty Bosstones or Squirrel Nut Zippers) called the Abraham Lincoln Story. If it weren't for them, Brian's then-girlfriend Susan Fox, Susan's brother (who lived in the SF area) and Brian's sister Leia and me (we were in SF for a conference of geographers) there wouldn't have been an audience. The guys played great that night but the only comment from the management of the establishment was for them to keep the volume lower as the people in the front room (i.e., the non-rock and rollers) thought they were way too loud. We were also at the Club Lingerie free show in LA when the album was released a few days later. The place was packed, but then it was free. They were very well received and Brian was a little stressed that night because Jason Cropper (who he replaced) was in the audience. Jason was cool about it.

—Thomas Bell, Behind the Sweater, circa 1997

See also

• List of Weezer concerts
• Pre-Blue Album club dates