Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
I know it is a little early in my blogging life to let my geek flag fly. I was doing so well, being a motorcycle rider, talking tough about riding in weather others won’t ride in and all. But now I go and “ruin” it all.
I have been a Weird Al fan since back in his Dr. Demento days. By the time Eat It came out and people starting saying “have you heard this guy?” I had to say, “Yea, I’ve heard that guy. I have bootlegs of him performing live out in LA on cassette I traded by mail with a D&D buddy for.
Since that time I have purchased every album he has released (including “Polka Party!”) I have had the opportunity to see him live more than a dozen times. Which I know for some real tour followers isn’t much but for someone who just goes to concerts when they are there that accounts for a bunch. THEN…. Living in Tulsa, when he was filming VHF here I went down to the Brady every chance I got that I thought I might get to see him, and even was there when they filmed one of the outdoor scenes, which was cool. ALSO… in about 1985 I got to meet Al’s parents when I was on tour with a gospel singing group out in CA.
What was really great though was more recently, when Straight Outta Lynwood came out with the song White & Nerdy. See I have a now 17 year old son. At the time he was about 14 or 15 and he was into the hip hop music. And he thought dad with his Star Trek loving, D&D playing, computer geeking, comic book reading ways was just too much to deal with. THEN… Weird Al comes through to another generation and he comes home telling me about this really cool song he heard on the “you tubes.”
You should have seen the look on his face when I pulled the CD out of the computer where I had been playing it non-stop for over a week and a half because I had pre-purchased it. (OK, geek flag flying a little too high…lowering….) I was cool dad for a moment because the song was blowing up. And the best part was the song was blowing up hottest about the same time Al came to Tulsa for the tour. So what did I do? Bought tickets for both of us of course!!! For about a week I was awesome. (But it didn’t last long. Teenagers are fickle)
I however, am not fickle! I was pleasantly surprised that my starting a Twitter account actually paid off in the 1st week. @alyakovick posted some new tour date heads ups and guess what….. Tulsa is in there!!!!! There will be one butt in one seat for sure.
Thank you Weird Al…. you are a genius among mere mortals….
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I'll be interested to see whether Twitter pays off for Weird Al on this tour. So far it's looking good. There are two cities already where he's booked for two concerts. Twitter ought to do a lot to overcome the awful, awful job of advertising his concerts that local promoters usually do. Now Al can do some of his own concert promotion. ~OE
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