Do you remember BMG?

I can remember an afternoon in my third year of teaching when my concert husband Phil texted me and wondered what I was doing that Saturday. “I scored impromptu tickets to Weezer,” he told me. “Brock’s gonna meet us there.”

Side note: Do you remember BMG? I have no idea what BMG really stands for, but I always referred to that company as the Big Music Guys. I signed up to get, like, thirty CDs for two dollars or something like that. Maybe it was two pennies. I don’t remember, but I still to this day have oh so many albums belonging to one- or two-hit wonders (The Rembrandts, Dead Eye Dick, The Real McCoy, Everything, The Brian Setzer Orchestra…) courtesy of the Big Music Guys. Right before I signed up for BMG, however, I went to K&K Records and purchased my first two albums with my very own money. One was Green Day’s Dookie, the other was Weezer’s Blue Album. I still have both. I still love both. I still feel that both are iconic.

So… okay. Back to Weezer. As much as I’ve always loved them, they’d never been a band I yearned to see in concert. They have since, however, become a band I yearn to see in concert again.

They. Are. Incredible.

Weezer had trampolines on stage. Not huge trampolines, but trampolines that were big enough to bounce the band members onto the tops of their amps, where they then proceeded to rock out to such classics as “Buddy Holly,” “Undone (The Sweater Song),” and “Hash Pipe.”

Unless you count Earth, Wind, and Fire (which I don’t), that Weezer concert (I believe) was the only stadium concert I’ve ever seen. I should have Phil confirm this. And you know what else? I should also talk to him about future tour dates…