Weezer shows L.A. a good 'Time' -- the Pink Floyd kind
Early into Weezer's Tuesday night show at the Forum, the band slow-jammed its way into crowd favorite "Say It Ain't So." And the audience settled in for an evening that would pleasantly look back on the act's 15-year career.
But when Weezer covered Pink Floyd's "Time" -- beautifully and perfectly, by the way -- with Rivers Cuomo on drums and Patrick Wilson on lead guitar and vox, it turned a fun-but-average show into something quite special.
Granted, any Weezer concert is going to be a glorified Rivers Cuomo Show. And the formerly bespectacled, and now mustachioed, King of All Geeks has been able to walk the tightrope between the earnestness of emo and the arena-ready hooks need for pop stardom as well as anyone, especially live.
So when Rivers got behind the drums for "Time," it was no surprise that he capably handled the intro. But once the song kicked in, the spotlight and attention was firmly placed on someone other than Mr. Cuomo, as Wilson held the near-capacity Forum crowd captive as he nailed the vocals and David Gilmour solo.
Video of the performance after the jump...
video by reflexcomp
Leave it to Weezer. The band took Gen-X irony to a higher level by perfectly mastering the art of the cover song. Doing it in a legendary Los Angeles rock concert venue was simultaneously ridiculous and wonderful.
As for why the band chose to use the cover art of "Animals" as its background image (as seen in the photo up top) instead of the iconic prism cover art of "Dark Side of the Moon" (from whence "Time" came from) is beyond me.
But maybe that mystery will be resolved in due time.
-- Photo and post by Tony Pierce
