It’s cool to see that nowadays, where we can see a range of different people showing up to the shows and everybody knowing the songs and really feeding off that energy,” he said. “A lot of these (bands) have so many fans that span from a lot of ages, people that are older, in their 50s, down to people that are teenagers. He said he’s missed the way music brings people of all walks together. The last show he attended before last night’s was a January 2020 concert at White Oak Music Hall.
It was his second time seeing Weezer and Green Day. “It’s so good to be back amongst fellow humans. He kept his comments on our COVID recovery brief but they came through clearly. “How could you fuck that up, Rivers? I am impressed!” he laughed it off.
“The End of the Game,” and especially “All My Favorite Songs” felt right at home in the band’s catalog among hits like “Hash Pipe,” “Beverly Hills,” “My Name is Jonas,” “Island in the Sun,” and set closer “Buddy Holly.” Showing a little rust, perhaps, Cuomo flubbed the opening lines to “Say It Ain’t So,” one of Weezer’s best-loved songs. Weezer was up next and front man Rivers Cuomo boasted a new guitar, a new hairdo and a couple of new songs for the event. “Especially with the concert scene being gone for like a year, it’s nice to finally be back.” “So yeah, this is our first big event in a while but we feel pretty safe about it, we’ve both been fully vaccinated,” Corinne added. “Yeah, it’s super fun, everybody is just doing their own thing and it’s good to be out with people again, you know, and be able to mingle with others and see what’s really going on in the world,” said Beatrice. She was excited for Fall Out Boy and Corinne was amped for Green Day. Beatrice said Corinne invited her to the show. “How beautiful is it to have live music back in Houston, Texas right now?” she asked.Ī few seats over, Beatrice and Corinne from College Station answered the question. She sang the entire set with chewing gum in her mouth, the ultimate in cool. She sported a GBH T-shirt, black Chucks and white framed sunglasses, even though the retractable roof shielded the sun. They seemed entirely up to the task of starting a much-anticipated night’s music, with anthems like “Take Back the Power,” their breakthrough hit “She’s Kerosene” and a trombone-heavy take on Billie Eilish’s “Bad Guy.” Front woman Aimee Allen’s laid-back presence alone helped relax the crowd. on show day to get a good spot at the foot of the stage - moving to their infectious, upbeat tunes. They bound onto the centerfield stage to their opener, “A Friend Like Me” and got the general admission attendees - who began lining up before 10 a.m. They took the stage to the further irony of The Specials’ “Ghost Town.” It wafted over an actual live audience, one which would grow to the rafters by the end of the night, replacing the specter of an arena once emptied by the pandemic. A tour previously interrupted by COVID-19 concerns kicked off with The Interrupters. So, we listened to the bands tell us how they felt playing once more to the adoring throngs and we asked the throngs how they felt being shoulder to shoulder, maskless (we spotted not one in the crowd from our floor seats) and singing their lungs out to more hits than Minute Maid’s home team puts up during a hot streak. In this case, the former being tour mates Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Weezer and The Interrupters and the latter being a capacity crowd of concert-starved, highly appreciative, slightly nervous live music fans who possibly (hopefully) escaped quarantine's unlocked doors to cautiously return to an awaiting world before masturbation “lost its fun.”Īs much as the night belonged to the performers onstage, it also belonged to the crowd which came to hail them. This is a review of a stadium concert and though it’s been a while since you’ve read one maybe, you’ll recall the premise is to learn what music was performed by the musicians and how that music was received by the audience. As the timeworn meme goes, when Billie Joe Armstrong sang “Twiddle my thumbs just for a bit, I'm sick of all the same old shit, in a house with unlocked doors,” we felt that. When the band summoned it during last night’s Houston stop of the long-awaited Hella Mega Tour at Minute Maid Park, it sounded less like an MTV classic than a flashback to merely a year ago when we were all stir crazy in lockdown. Some time back, Green Day released a song called “Longview,” and despite its name it could not have foreseen a global pandemic nearly 30 years in the future. Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Weezer, The Interrupters
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