Straight Outta Lynwood

And so...the Weird Al Concert....while i highly doubt that any concert that i ever attend in my existence will in any way measure up to the Roger Waters concert, this was - by far - the funniest and the most fun!! This may have been greatly enhanced by the Awesomeness of our seats! We were sitting, as i've mentioned, fourth row on the floor. B-rad was quite excited by the fact that he was sitting in seat 4:20. Our seats were bang on centre, i was directly in line with W.A.'s microphone!! WOOOOT.

He started off the show with the song "Polkarama!" from Straight Outta Lynwood - one of his signature polka medly of current titles on the radio. Here's a tiny clip from that song. I apologize in advance for the screaming, sometimes i just can't contain myself! I LOVE YOU WEIRD AL!!

The next song he played was, of course, "Canadian Idiot" - which is the parody of Green Day's "American Idiot". You can imagine how the stadium erupted into a frenzied fit of screams when he sang the lines: "Eat their weight in Kraft Macaroni...and Dream of driving a Zamboni...all over Sas-Skatch-Chew-WAHN!!!"

I mean, c'mon, if you don't think that Weird Al is pure genius, just go ahead and read the lyrics of this song. Go ahead, i'll wait........

....See!?!??

Some other highlights included "Bob" a song whose lyrics are compiled of random palindromes. Some of my favourites are:

Lisa Bonet ate no basil

May a moody baby doom a yam?

A Toyota's a Toyota

A dog, a panic in a pagoda

Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog

Another high point of the evening was when he played for the crowd his parody of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful". His version, of course, was called "You're Pitiful." and there's a story behind this song. here's the quick version:

Weird Al had recieved the permission to parody the song by the artist - who was thrilled as most artists are - and the song was written and recorded for the Straigh Outta Lynwood album, but at the last minute, James Blunt's label, Atlantic Records, pulled the plug saying they didn't want the song on the album - for the full story go here. in retalliation to their decision, Weird Al put the song up on his website and made the mp3 available for free downloading. Go on, go and get a copy for yourself.

Some of you may ormay not remember Al TV. It was on MTV and featured W.A. "interviewing" various starts like Eminem, Avril Lavigne, Madonna, Michael Stipe, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Celine Dion, and Justin Timberlake...but the best of these is his "interview" with KFed. Ohh Lordy. It was pure gold. you have to see it to believe it.

There is a special place in my heart for Mr. Yankovic. One of my earilest memories is of sitting in my room, i must have been about 6 or 7 with my brother - listening to "George of the Jungle". We were jumping all around the room, on the beds, off the dresser... belting at the top of our lungs. That song, off the cassette tape that we borrowed from some friends, began the long lived love affair! We had many albums memorized, i'd forgotten some of the songs i knew by heart until they were played last night. In fact, when W.A. busted out "Yoda" i freaked out! i leaned over to B-rad and told him that i never knew this was a parody of an actual song until i was at least 13 or 14. i still remember all the words.

Also, back in the fall of 98 (i think) B-rad and i had only just started dating and things were getting 'serious'... W.A. came to Saskatoon - which B-rad informed me was the last concert he went to at TCUPlace, it may have been mine too, now that i think about it... anyway, back in 98 we decided to take my little bitty brother who was about 13 to see his very first concert ever. and it was Weird Al. So when it was announced on the radio in May that the weird man would be returning to Saskatoot, i immediately called up Billiam and said: "We're Going to WEIRD AL! are you in?" and he said yes without even blinking. The best moment for me in last night's concert was when W.A. came out for his encore and sang "Albequerque". I thought Billiam would loooose it! It's only his all time fave W.A. song - it's about 17 minutes of absolute nonsense...and Billiam knows alllll the words. All of 'em. :D Here he with his lovely girlfriend 9 years later, now 6'2", and 200 lbs. My not-so-little Little Brutha.

It was a most excellent evening of laughter, singing, and rocking out.

All photos and videos were actually taken by yours truly from our fantastic seats...with the exception of the K-Fed video.