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Community => Watto's Junk Yard => Topic started by: Angry Ewok on June 20, 2003, 07:46 PM
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Anyone a fan of Weird Al's latest?
Im listenin to angry whitey polka right now.
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Getting to a Best Buy for me is non-existant, so I've not picked it up yet, but while I don't buy many CD's anymore I will DEFINATELY be getting PH as soon as I can drag myself into a BB.
I'm just lazy I guess... I've downloaded a song or two though and they're classic Al. There's a guy that doesn't lose a step... Thank god SOMEONE can stay consistently good.
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Weird Al's actually one of our clients, oddly enough. We've done several audits for him. Even got to go check him out several years ago at one of his concerts here in L.A. (on his dime) - great seats and back stage passes to hang out with him after the show and everything! 8) What made it extra cool, was that it was just a month or two before the premiere of Ep. 1, and he was singing his The Saga Begins song (parody of "American Pie" by Don McLean), and wouldn't you know it, young Jake Lloyd wanders out on stage and sings along with him for the last half of the song. Very cool!
I know that JoshEEE is a very big fan of his as well...
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That's definately a cool story Matt. I see there's some fringe benefits to your job!
I've got my tickets to his concert here in Pitt, wanna hook me up with backstage passes? ;D j/k
It'd be great to meet him though... They say he's one interesting person to talk to, and one of the more intelligent people to have a discussion with. I could imagine that being completely true, and I somehow can't picture him being someone who wouldn't fraternize with the fans regularly.
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I've got my tickets to his concert here in Pitt, wanna hook me up with backstage passes? ;D j/k
I could try... When's his Pitt concert?
Unfortunately for us, Weird Al is one of the very few artists that that we do work for who really goes out of his way to thank us for our hard work. Usually it's just "Thanks for my couple million bucks. See ya'!" ::)
I didn't chat with him for too long, but for the 5 minutes or so, he was a very cool, and genuine fella. I've got a nice picture of us together, so when I finally get a scanner, I'll put it up in here. I'm not even wearing my "famous sweater" in it either... :P
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Hey Matt,
July 25th is the concert... Of course if it's a problem at all don't tax yourself with it, but if getting passes is really easy that would simply rock all! That would definately be appreciated. :)
Thanks for the offer if nothing else... I can't wait to tell my friends that I know Weird Al's auditor who can get backstage passes, haha... The one guy going with us is a HUGE Weird Al fan from way back too, he'd just find the story interesting if nothing else. :)
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Hey Matt,
July 25th is the concert... Of course if it's a problem at all don't tax yourself with it, but if getting passes is really easy that would simply rock all! That would definately be appreciated. :)
Well, I'm not sure it'll be easy, or actually happen, but it's definitely worth a shot! I'll try to hit up that partner who manages his audits and see if I can work something out. I'd be surprised if it actually happened, but it would be pretty cool on the off chance that it did! I'll keep you posted J... ;)
Maybe you'd settle for a copy of one of his audit reports? Signed by one of his auditors, no less... ;D
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haha, hey, I don't mind...
I just think it's funny you actually have the ability to get them sometimes. :) Either way no problem. If you get them though, that would rock all... His concerts are legendary though so I'll have fun either way.
Thanks for offering to try Matt, it's appreciated.
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Poodle Hat is a great album, and I highly recommend you go pick it up. It's got some good parodies of Eminem and Nelly. The Avril Lavigne, Backstreet Boys and Billy Joel songs are excellent. The polka medley is comprised of just about every Alt-rock band on the charts last year and this year, and the originals are great too. Track 2, "Hardware Store" is among my favorite Weird Al songs of all time already. There are also some style parodies of both Prince and Bob Dylan. I think this album will please both the casual and die hard Weird Al fans out there, and is definitely worth your 15 bucks.
By the way...if you BUY it, instead of downloading it....you'll get 8 alternate tracks which are remixes, instrumentals and vocal mixes of the original tracks on the album. VERY fun for Karoake. Plus you get some Home movies of Al's childhood, which he changes around with his narration.
And Matt...I am SO jealous. That's AWESOME. I've been to dozens of concerts, but never scored the elusive backstage passes. I did manage to meet him a few times outside the shows and get autographs, but it's always been in a crowd of autograph and picture seekers.
So...don't forget to ask his people for tickets for me at the Seattle leg of the tour too.....Hehehe. (Yeah Right).
Either way, I've got my tickets and I'm headed there in September. So far, his only date anywhere near Seattle is a fair 60 miles south of here. The grandstand tickets are free with fair admission, or you can buy the closer ones (which of course I did). Weird Al concerts are definitely my favorite concerts out of any artist I go see. I'd go so far as to trade Weird Al tickets for Pearl Jam (or any other lesser artist) tickets in a heartbeat.
One year, we followed his band around on tour like they were the Dead (I think I saw them 9 times that year).
So, in summary....while my opinion may be biased, I highly recommend Poodle Hat to all of you.
GO BUY IT!
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I caught Al on The Simpsons last night, it was a great episode which I had not seen yet. "Did you get those parodies I sent you?"
I was huge into Al back around the Fat era, I kind of moved on but have always felt he was comic genius and immensly enjoyed the Saga Begins
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If you liked the Saga Begins, you'll probably love his new parody of Billy Joel's piano man, which gives the same treatment to the Spider Man movie.
It was great to hear him FINALLY do a Billy Joel song. :)
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/11/yankovic.parents.ap/index.html
Just read about it, sucks to go out like that.
Al found out I guess right after/during a concert.
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http://www.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Music/04/11/yankovic.parents.ap/index.html
Just read about it, sucks to go out like that.
Al found out I guess right after/during a concert.
You might think about changing the title of this thread--lest anyone think that "Weird Al" himself is dead, and freak out. . .
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Oh thank God Al's okay.
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You might think about changing the title of this thread--lest anyone think that "Weird Al" himself is dead, and freak out. . .
Ha, too late. :P
Poor Al, though... :-\
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That's terrible... :'(
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Yeah, it was very sad news this morning.
He has 4 or 5 concerts scheduled for the next week (and many more beyond). I wonder if the shows will go on?
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Very sad news...poor bloke :(
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Yeah, that's sad. I saw it on CNN when I was channel surfing yesterday.
RIP
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Yeah, after reading this I felt pretty bad for Al and his family. He always seems like such a nice guy, and an accidental death's always tragic.
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They were featured prominently on his Behind the Music episode...RIP Al's Parents
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Very sad. (http://adwoff.com/ubb/graemlins/tombstone.gif) :'(
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Hi! i discover this artist with the star trek raphsody parody, i downloaded all his cds and i like it!
no one in Spain knows about this artist.
Regards from Spain
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I love Weird Al. His music always makes me laugh.
Kevin
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Hey Kailos, welcome to JediDefender! There's indeed some Weird Al fans in the house, first and foremost would probably be JoshEEE, who has actually performed on stage with him. Of course, that's 'cause Al's one of my company's clients and I hooked Josh up with him. 8)
I'll see if I can find our Weird Al thread somewhere in this forum, and merge your post into it, so you can enjoy the rest of our prior conversation on it, along with some awesome pix of Josh and Weird Al...
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I don't know too many of his songs, but The Saga Begins is just SO funny!
"But their respone, it didn't thrill us....they locked the doors and tried to kill us" ;D
I know it's pretty lame to post in a thread like this when you only know one of the guy's famous tracks, but there you go....I just think that song so great.
It's a shame that it's several times more entertaining than the movie itself ::)
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Hey Kailos,
My first Casette I ever bought, I swear, was Weird Al Yankovich's "Dare to be Stupid". Been a fan ever since!
I have seen him in concert when he's at Pittsburgh... One of the truly great artists of our time, though many would disagree. I think they can't see past the humor to see the incredibly intelligent, talented, musician that Weird Al actually is.
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Anyone in the forum i visit every day in Spanish knows about him.
I hope go this September to the states, the ticket costs a lot, from my island i have to take 2 planes, one to go to Spain (2:30h) and another to go to Miami (9:00h), its a long way and very expensive.
Someone please give me 800 bucks plz xDDD
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Let me find my checkbook...
Oh wait, the bank took it off me. :-\
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Well this summer i will work in the local cinema and i suposse will earn for the ticket.
this summer its gonna be crazy, shooting my short movie in the morning and in the evening in the cinema working.
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I'll see if I can find our Weird Al thread somewhere in this forum, and merge your post into it, so you can enjoy the rest of our prior conversation on it, along with some awesome pix of Josh and Weird Al...
Ah yes, I found it, and merged you guys up. Unfortunately, Josh's awesome pix are in the Concert Thread here, so here's a copy of what he posted in there:
And yes, two days later...I have some pics to share.
Several members of the local 501st chapter (including myself) got to participate in the Weird Al Concert near Seattle on Tuesday night. We came out on stage during the 1st part of the encore for the Star Wars songs during "The Saga Begins".
We worked out a little routine where we were very "trooper-like" during the slow parts of the song, and then we all danced during the chorus, only to go back to being statues again. Everyone had their own little dance to do. I think mine was the cabbage patch, and Vader was doing the "Staying alive" thing.
It was a lot of fun, and the band was great. The crowd loved it, and I'm sure 10,000 is the largest crowd we've ever been in front of. I have to give very special thanks to a certain member of this board for helping to get me in touch with the right people to set this gig up.
I'm quite sure this will go down in history as the best concert I've ever been to.
(http://www.garrisontitan.com/gallery/weird_al/images/209.20.153.12-DSCN5075.jpg)
(http://www.garrisontitan.com/gallery/weird_al/images/209.20.153.12-DSCN5079.jpg)
(http://www.garrisontitan.com/gallery/weird_al/images/209.20.153.12-DSCN5102.jpg)
I have to give very special thanks to a certain member of this board for helping to get me in touch with the right people to set this gig up.
My pleasure! It was a lot of fun helping make that happen for Josh and his Seattle crew. I passed those pix around the office here to show everyone too, so they got a big kick out of seeing our client mixed with my hobby in such a cool way (though I'm still in the closet as a SW fan 'round the workplace, for the most part). Just stoked that all worked out so well for Josh. Looks like they had a blast hanging with Al! 8)
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That's priceless. Josh, you lucky, lucky bastard. I mean that in the absolute nicest, most sincere, jealousy enraged way possible.