So, in review....
The concert as amazing. Even though there was this 'alright' stand up comic who took up the first 30 minutes of the show and then a 20 minute intermission so Weird Al could setup, the two hours he was on were simply amazing. He covered every hit and fan favorite song that anyone could imagine, all the rest of his songs, or at least a good 3/4 of them, were covered in two 10-minute long compilation songs that covered about 9-10 songs in each one. The audience was filled with die hard Weird Al fans room, people knowing every verse, every chorus, every line....everything! They swayed lights, cell phones, lighters...all too his music.
My favorite parts though were when Weird Al was at his peak of both energy and humor, which was in some of his greatest songs. First of all him and his four man band did Amish Paradise in full Amish regalia, and the audience loved it. Every time he hit the chorus the audience raised their hands and swayed in beat and started singing along with Al, just seeing an audience full of screaming Weird Al fans chanting along and swinging their arms like they were in some type of rock concert was hysterical. Even I, since I love that song, could not help but start swinging and swaying like everyone around me (Except for Jared and Lee though, that song never hit it with them) and start cheering and screaming every time the chorus came around.
Another great moment was when he did his 80’s classic that really pulled a lot of fans into his type of music, Fat. Not only did he perform it, but he did it in full fat suit with full fat face and movements. From bouncing on the floor, rolling on the floor to just plain jumping around like a fat man gone wild….not a single person in the audience was in their seats when he finished that song. Truly a fan favorite.
He also did one of my favorites, Horoscope for Today which is not one of his biggest hits, or a major crowd favorite, but is one of the ones that I really love.
This man had more costume changes than a Broadway musical, in-between all of the numbers for ¾ of the concert he would run off stage and change into some absurdly wonderful creation depicting the song and parody he was doing. (Fat suit for Fat, Amish hat and beard of Amish Paradise, Sci-fi gear for All About the Pentiums, smoking jacket for One More Minute etc.) But when he and his band changed, they changed about every time Al did, the five or so TV screens played everything Weird Al had ever done from cameos on the Simpsons, the movie Naked Gun with Leslie Nealson, name and picture drops on many TV shows, his hosting of MTV’s sexiest video award (Priceless!) to interviews that he conducted (That were staged) with M&M, Celine Dion, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and even his being a guest on Space Ghost.
I’m still amazed that Weird Al, who must be in his late thirties to early forties now, has more energy, stage presence and just plain craziness that most people I know who are decades younger (Myself included) It always amazes me how he can go for two hours straight singing, dancing, moving, playing the piano-guitar, harmonica, accordion while never loosing that insane glint in his eyes that has gathered scores of devoted followers to his name.
Back to the show, Al also did another cult hit All About the Pentiums which was one of our favorites given that we are all so computer crazy. Him and his crew were dressed in shiny silver outfits all while some of them wore pocket protectors and thick black rimmed glasses with tape in the middle, a classic scene right out of the music video.
After nearly two hours of playing he and his band walked off stage to a standing ovation and cheers. That wasn’t it though; the crowd began to chat "We want Al! We want Al!" and continued to do so, for almost a full minute until a band member came out dressed as what appeared to be death, conducting the lights as lightning.But he was not death, he was Darth Sidious.Weird Al walked on dressed as Obi-Wan Kenobi, the rest of the band as Jedi and Sith and played American Jedi and Yoda parodies one after the other....it was great.
Jared and his superior driving skills managed to get us out of there without incident and in record time too. Heh….I’m just glad Lee got the tickets, wouldn’t have missed it for anything.
My favorite parts though were when Weird Al was at his peak of both energy and humor, which was in some of his greatest songs. First of all him and his four man band did Amish Paradise in full Amish regalia, and the audience loved it. Every time he hit the chorus the audience raised their hands and swayed in beat and started singing along with Al, just seeing an audience full of screaming Weird Al fans chanting along and swinging their arms like they were in some type of rock concert was hysterical. Even I, since I love that song, could not help but start swinging and swaying like everyone around me (Except for Jared and Lee though, that song never hit it with them) and start cheering and screaming every time the chorus came around.
Another great moment was when he did his 80’s classic that really pulled a lot of fans into his type of music, Fat. Not only did he perform it, but he did it in full fat suit with full fat face and movements. From bouncing on the floor, rolling on the floor to just plain jumping around like a fat man gone wild….not a single person in the audience was in their seats when he finished that song. Truly a fan favorite.
He also did one of my favorites, Horoscope for Today which is not one of his biggest hits, or a major crowd favorite, but is one of the ones that I really love.
This man had more costume changes than a Broadway musical, in-between all of the numbers for ¾ of the concert he would run off stage and change into some absurdly wonderful creation depicting the song and parody he was doing. (Fat suit for Fat, Amish hat and beard of Amish Paradise, Sci-fi gear for All About the Pentiums, smoking jacket for One More Minute etc.) But when he and his band changed, they changed about every time Al did, the five or so TV screens played everything Weird Al had ever done from cameos on the Simpsons, the movie Naked Gun with Leslie Nealson, name and picture drops on many TV shows, his hosting of MTV’s sexiest video award (Priceless!) to interviews that he conducted (That were staged) with M&M, Celine Dion, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears and even his being a guest on Space Ghost.
I’m still amazed that Weird Al, who must be in his late thirties to early forties now, has more energy, stage presence and just plain craziness that most people I know who are decades younger (Myself included) It always amazes me how he can go for two hours straight singing, dancing, moving, playing the piano-guitar, harmonica, accordion while never loosing that insane glint in his eyes that has gathered scores of devoted followers to his name.
Back to the show, Al also did another cult hit All About the Pentiums which was one of our favorites given that we are all so computer crazy. Him and his crew were dressed in shiny silver outfits all while some of them wore pocket protectors and thick black rimmed glasses with tape in the middle, a classic scene right out of the music video.
After nearly two hours of playing he and his band walked off stage to a standing ovation and cheers. That wasn’t it though; the crowd began to chat "We want Al! We want Al!" and continued to do so, for almost a full minute until a band member came out dressed as what appeared to be death, conducting the lights as lightning.But he was not death, he was Darth Sidious.Weird Al walked on dressed as Obi-Wan Kenobi, the rest of the band as Jedi and Sith and played American Jedi and Yoda parodies one after the other....it was great.
Jared and his superior driving skills managed to get us out of there without incident and in record time too. Heh….I’m just glad Lee got the tickets, wouldn’t have missed it for anything.