How Weezer’s 30th Anniversary Of Their Debut Was So Exciting Live

Weezer’s 30^th anniversary arrived, and Voyage To The Blue Planet is one of the most compelling tours I’ve ever seen. It was amazing to see live!

Every moment was extraordinary and I could easily go again and not be bored for a second!

I wasn’t able to attend the Madison Square Garden show, so my wife and I traveled to Philly to see the stop at the Wells Fargo Center.  Weezer had Dinosaur JR and The Flaming Lips open up the cool show.  Both bands sounded awesome and were better than I even expected.

Now what made this intriguing was the fact that there was a story to this stage show.  I was unsure how Weezer was going to do this.  Would they play the album and then do several other big hits?  Would they break it up and not play it in order?  There were many routes they could have gone, but here’s what they did.

Let me start by saying, that I should have figured it out because the tour name says it all “Voyage To The Blue Planet.”  Regardless, video screens were showing that Weezer were astronauts headed out into Space to look for the Blue Planet. However, on their way, they get attacked by an alien (which happens while they start playing).  The ship takes damage and they land on a different planet. 

But as they’re traveling through space and seeing different planets and areas, Weezer is playing amazing tunes from some of their most popular albums.  At one point the ship falls apart and as they need to collect parts to get it working again, frontman Rivers Cuomo cleverly says, “This place looks familiar, what is it?”  And the ship’s command system responds “You’re in the Pinkerton Asteroid Belt.”  With that, the crowd went crazy as Weezer played about 5 songs from the cult classic album.

After the hits are done and Weezer has their ship in working order they realize that they need to still get to the Blue Planet.  Once they arrive, it looks bleak, and damaged, like something is wrong.  Then it hits them…….this planet needs to hear the Blue album.

Then it starts!!  The first few notes of “My Name IS Jonas” got people fired up.  They played the whole album note for note after that and we didn’t leave our seats until the closing note was done ringing out.

It was a good time.   Hopefully, they’ll extend this tour with more dates and if they're somewhat local again, you should go.  It was tremendous!!

We saw the Linkin Park countdown and then counted up. And now we are waiting for a Linkin Park special event on YouTube This Thursday.

The event will take place at 6pm EST on Youtube Thursday. More waiting , I know, but at least we know something is definitely coming. Or at least we think!

I was hoping that Linkin Park would be announcing either a tour with rotating vocalists or maybe even an album of new music starring guest vocalists throughout the album.  I thought that would be something really fun and not take away from Chester Bennington’s legacy.

A tour would be fun to see the rest of the band.  They are super talented and play so well live.  I thought it’d be cool to have a tour with revolving singers at different locations or something like that.  An album of new music would be tremendous as well, however instead of announcing one new singer, I thought they could just have different guests on each track.

What makes Linkin Park so special is their ability to craft songs that are all over the map sound and no two songs sound alike.  There’s always a unique spin and they could go from ballad to in-your-face, loud, and heavy guitars in a matter of minutes.  But of course, to me, the band was and always will be Chester Bennington.  His voice was so extraordinary.  He went from melodic, soft singing to near screams in just seconds.  And live, he always sounded flawless.

The Linkin Park sound couldn’t be defined.  It had elements of hip hop sure, but it was straight-up hard rock at moments - trippy, experimental tribal anthem the next.  You really got a good mix that was so interesting!

What a cool, interesting vibe. It's got a lot going on in this tune, with some cool drums and a relatable lyrical theme from Chester. Really cool stuff!

Such a dark sounding song.  Yet it's hopeful and intriguing, and emotional all at once.  A real masetrpiece.

This one pumps me up.  From the album that left fans divided "A Thousand Suns".  There's no denying that this song is filled with hope and passion in Chester's voice.

This is really a rare example of hip hop - metal.  It's got elements from both genres and is so angst ridden, that it fuels and pumps you up.  Such great screams towards the end!

A really nice ballad that just has a lot of heart and emotion.  Really a cool laid back vibe with a nice melodic hook!