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Well, it was really a date with Brilliant Husband, but Weird Al was there! We attended a Weird Al concert last night! Longtime friends will remember this entry, when I used the excuse of Weird Al's birthday in 2007 to post the story of my first Weird Al concert, where he sat in my lap. Yes, he sat in my lap (go read the old entry now; this one will still be here when you get back).
I'm sorry to say he didn't sit in my lap again, but he didn't sit in anyone else's lap either, so I had no major cause for jealousy.
I can hardly believe I forgot the Weird Al entry from 2007 when I posted links to my favorite LJ entries, because that's a very happy memory. (I didn't have LJ at the time, or I'd have recorded it at once. That experience actually helped persuade me to get LJ, because I wanted to tell everyone! Well, except my students. I don't think they'd understand.)
Last night's concert was actually a lot like the concert nearly three years ago. Most of the Al TV clips were the same, though he did have some new clips from shows and movies that made reference to him (or where he made cameos) mixed in. He and his band use the clips for costume changes, because certain songs require certain costumes. This concert wasn't as long as the one in 2007 (Weird Al is fifty now!), but it was still two and a quarter hours, and there was no intermission.
Reproducing a set list is hopeless, but here are a few great moments from last night:
They started with "You Make Me."
"White & Nerdy" began with Al riding his Segway out onto the stage. He's an old hand on the Segway now.
Al wore a sort of tiger-striped black on red lounge suit for "Wanna B Ur Lovr." He had a harder time getting off the stage in Mahaffey than back at Cypress Gardens, but he managed to deposit himself in the first row and climb over a good bit of the front of the audience, center and stage left. He's still screamingly funny, even if he didn't get too close to me this time. :-(
Yes, he wore the fat suit for "Fat."
I think it was for "You're Pitiful" that he stripped one shirt after another, including one shirt that read "Atlantic Records Still Sucks" (see the Wikipedia article on Al and find on page 'Atlantic' to learn what that's about). He ended with a Spongebob Squarepants t-shirt.
Al played the accordion several times, which is always great.
The whole band wore plastic, bright yellow outfits for "Dare to Be Stupid"; two of them wore red, rather Devo-like hats. They all dressed as Amish for "Amish Paradise."
They did "Another One Rides the Bus," and we all clapped along. I haven't heard that in years!
They also performed "Good Old Days," "eBay," and "Craig's List" (that last as the Doors), as well as "Canadian Idiot," "Let Me Be Your Hog," and "Beverly Hillbillies."
Al did "Smells Like Nirvana" as Kurt Cobain, of course. They had two cheerleaders for that song.
They did a long medley in the middle with about a minute each of a lot of songs that I strangely can't remember now. Brilliant Husband says, "Drive Thru," "Confessions Part III," "Ode to a Superhero," "Eat It," "Bedrock Anthem," and "Gump."
Of course, when they finally left the stage, we had to clap and scream for a long time because they had to come back; they hadn't done the Star Wars songs! But they all had to get into costume, and Al had to get out of the fat suit, so it took forever.
It was worth the wait. Al and the band came back on in their Jedi robes, and behind them were a row of stormtroopers, a bounty hunter—and Darth Vader in the middle. They started with "The Saga Begins" and finished with "Yoda," and by the end of Yoda all the stormtroopers were waving their blasters, and Vader his light saber, back and forth with the audience waving their arms. Near the end of "Yoda," the band went into an incredibly long and well-rehearsed riff of largely nonsense; at one point, Al shouted, "Now you!" As far as I know, Brilliant Husband was the only member of the audience to repeat the nonsense back.
I am so lucky!
I'm sorry to say he didn't sit in my lap again, but he didn't sit in anyone else's lap either, so I had no major cause for jealousy.
I can hardly believe I forgot the Weird Al entry from 2007 when I posted links to my favorite LJ entries, because that's a very happy memory. (I didn't have LJ at the time, or I'd have recorded it at once. That experience actually helped persuade me to get LJ, because I wanted to tell everyone! Well, except my students. I don't think they'd understand.)
Last night's concert was actually a lot like the concert nearly three years ago. Most of the Al TV clips were the same, though he did have some new clips from shows and movies that made reference to him (or where he made cameos) mixed in. He and his band use the clips for costume changes, because certain songs require certain costumes. This concert wasn't as long as the one in 2007 (Weird Al is fifty now!), but it was still two and a quarter hours, and there was no intermission.
Reproducing a set list is hopeless, but here are a few great moments from last night:
They started with "You Make Me."
"White & Nerdy" began with Al riding his Segway out onto the stage. He's an old hand on the Segway now.
Al wore a sort of tiger-striped black on red lounge suit for "Wanna B Ur Lovr." He had a harder time getting off the stage in Mahaffey than back at Cypress Gardens, but he managed to deposit himself in the first row and climb over a good bit of the front of the audience, center and stage left. He's still screamingly funny, even if he didn't get too close to me this time. :-(
Yes, he wore the fat suit for "Fat."
I think it was for "You're Pitiful" that he stripped one shirt after another, including one shirt that read "Atlantic Records Still Sucks" (see the Wikipedia article on Al and find on page 'Atlantic' to learn what that's about). He ended with a Spongebob Squarepants t-shirt.
Al played the accordion several times, which is always great.
The whole band wore plastic, bright yellow outfits for "Dare to Be Stupid"; two of them wore red, rather Devo-like hats. They all dressed as Amish for "Amish Paradise."
They did "Another One Rides the Bus," and we all clapped along. I haven't heard that in years!
They also performed "Good Old Days," "eBay," and "Craig's List" (that last as the Doors), as well as "Canadian Idiot," "Let Me Be Your Hog," and "Beverly Hillbillies."
Al did "Smells Like Nirvana" as Kurt Cobain, of course. They had two cheerleaders for that song.
They did a long medley in the middle with about a minute each of a lot of songs that I strangely can't remember now. Brilliant Husband says, "Drive Thru," "Confessions Part III," "Ode to a Superhero," "Eat It," "Bedrock Anthem," and "Gump."
Of course, when they finally left the stage, we had to clap and scream for a long time because they had to come back; they hadn't done the Star Wars songs! But they all had to get into costume, and Al had to get out of the fat suit, so it took forever.
It was worth the wait. Al and the band came back on in their Jedi robes, and behind them were a row of stormtroopers, a bounty hunter—and Darth Vader in the middle. They started with "The Saga Begins" and finished with "Yoda," and by the end of Yoda all the stormtroopers were waving their blasters, and Vader his light saber, back and forth with the audience waving their arms. Near the end of "Yoda," the band went into an incredibly long and well-rehearsed riff of largely nonsense; at one point, Al shouted, "Now you!" As far as I know, Brilliant Husband was the only member of the audience to repeat the nonsense back.
I am so lucky!
