{"id":5545,"date":"2026-10-07T09:12:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T05:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5545"},"modified":"2026-10-07T07:22:52","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T03:22:52","slug":"weezer-brings-it-at-cap-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5545","title":{"rendered":"Weezer brings it at Cap One"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve been a fan of the band Weezer for over 30 years (has anyone my age <em>not<\/em> been?), but until this past Friday night I had never seen them perform live. Having the opportunity to partake 20 miles from my house (Capital One Arena in D.C.)&#8230; I took advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They call their shows &#8220;The Gathering,&#8221; sort of epitomizing the anti-establishment mainstream they&#8217;ve occupied for three decades. Big arena shows meant to feel like an intimate house party or better yet a <em>garage<\/em> party. Just a more expensive version. Basically it&#8217;s the &#8220;our fans have money now&#8221; tour, and as one of those fans, I didn&#8217;t mind shelling over a few bucks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did they play a bunch of their &#8220;new&#8221; stuff no one really cared about? Of course. But did they close out with all of their biggest hits? The ones from years starting with 19?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Duh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s what the 45-year-olds were here to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was fun to pretend I was 13 for a night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Except now I&#8217;m 13 with money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been a fan of the band Weezer for over 30 years (has anyone my age not been?), but until this past Friday night I had never seen them perform live. Having the opportunity to partake 20 miles from my &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/?p=5545\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5546,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5545\/revisions\/5546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikeoconnelljr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}