Usually there’s warning signs when someone is a milkshake duck
Al has been a known quantity for decades and by all accounts of anybody who ever met him, he’s the real deal and a super nice human being
I actually met the man! His Vanity tour came through my turn and I sprung for the"VIP" pass which involved getting to play "Weird Al Trivia" before the show and a meet and greet afterwards.
The trivia was a disaster as the questions were super niche and honestly, like I'm a fan. I own the records. But I'm not like...to a trivia level fan.
Anyway after the show he took a picture with everyone and would sign one piece of merchandise. I had gone on eBay and found an old movie poster of UHF. He laughed when he saw it and showed me that I somehow found one of the original runs they made in his garage at the time. He showed me all the imperfections and color screw ups.
Anyway, really nice guy and that Vanity Tour is available on Stitcher Premium and the swing medley of Dare to be Stupid is great. The whole show really demonstrates his range.
Man I'm not a big memorabilia guy but having an autographed poster that he made in his garage is pretty fucking cool
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UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
For me one of the most telling signs of what a genuinely kind person Al appears to be is the fact that when someone joins his band, they simply never leave. With the exception of Rick Derringer (who had his own career and was Al's first producer and session guitarist rather than a full touring member), everyone else has stuck with Al for literal decades.
It was a whole plot point in his episode of Behind the Music that "yeah we actually don't have ANY drama about the guy, literally no one on the show will say a bad thing about him"
It was a whole plot point in his episode of Behind the Music that "yeah we actually don't have ANY drama about the guy, literally no one on the show will say a bad thing about him"
There better be some turning and spitting in this thread regardless.
What?
I figured this was some kind of variant on "knocking on wood" or "throwing salt over your shoulder" to ward off consequences when you tempt fate or bad luck.
Turning and spitting seems to make as much sense to me.
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It was a whole plot point in his episode of Behind the Music that "yeah we actually don't have ANY drama about the guy, literally no one on the show will say a bad thing about him"
For me one of the most telling signs of what a genuinely kind person Al appears to be is the fact that when someone joins his band, they simply never leave. With the exception of Rick Derringer (who had his own career and was Al's first producer and session guitarist rather than a full touring member), everyone else has stuck with Al for literal decades.
I like how among certain groups Millennial is still code for a "young, naively idealistic person" when most of us are now, like, in our 30's.
You're telling me man, I'm thirty five with two kids, a mortgage, and retirement investing. But sure, it's because I have a problem with the treatment of vulnerable groups that I'm the asshole.
For me one of the most telling signs of what a genuinely kind person Al appears to be is the fact that when someone joins his band, they simply never leave. With the exception of Rick Derringer (who had his own career and was Al's first producer and session guitarist rather than a full touring member), everyone else has stuck with Al for literal decades.
This is completely blowing my mind.
The best part is that his dummer, Bermuda, was just a dude who was at the Dr. Demento studio when Al was there to do a new song. He offered to bang on Al's accordion case as a drum and they stuck together ever since. The song that was played for the first time live on the air that day was Another One Rides the Bus and the recording of that song on the spot is the very one that ended up on the album.
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During the Running With Scissors tour, I was able to get autographs from the band on the liner notes for my CD. Ruben, the keyboardist, said he'd sign it over his dead body. Which he did.
(I don't have a pic of my own signed copy on hand, but here's the liner for reference. Please note Ruben's dead body at the bottom right.)
During the Running With Scissors tour, I was able to get autographs from the band on the liner notes for my CD. Ruben, the keyboardist, said he'd sign it over his dead body. Which he did.
How Is Ruben a zombie
Children's rights are human rights.
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UnbrokenEvaHIGH ON THE WIREBUT I WON'T TRIP ITRegistered Userregular
During the Running With Scissors tour, I was able to get autographs from the band on the liner notes for my CD. Ruben, the keyboardist, said he'd sign it over his dead body. Which he did.
How Is Ruben a zombie
look, when we say people who join Al's band stick with him forever, we're not joking
During the Running With Scissors tour, I was able to get autographs from the band on the liner notes for my CD. Ruben, the keyboardist, said he'd sign it over his dead body. Which he did.
How Is Ruben a zombie
look, when we say people who join Al's band stick with him forever, we're not joking
Al claims that he is 60+ years old.
Is it possible he's a liche and has raised his band from the grave to tour forever? Weird Al Yankoliche?
During the Running With Scissors tour, I was able to get autographs from the band on the liner notes for my CD. Ruben, the keyboardist, said he'd sign it over his dead body. Which he did.
How Is Ruben a zombie
look, when we say people who join Al's band stick with him forever, we're not joking
Al claims that he is 60+ years old.
Is it possible he's a liche and has raised his band from the grave to tour forever? Weird Al Yankoliche?
That doesn't feel like a claim if you do some quick math. MJ's "Beat It" came out in 1982 .That was nearly 40 years ago. If Al was in his early 20s then...
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During the Running With Scissors tour, I was able to get autographs from the band on the liner notes for my CD. Ruben, the keyboardist, said he'd sign it over his dead body. Which he did.
How Is Ruben a zombie
look, when we say people who join Al's band stick with him forever, we're not joking
Al claims that he is 60+ years old.
Is it possible he's a liche and has raised his band from the grave to tour forever? Weird Al Yankoliche?
Fuck, I'm stealing that for the next time I run a Retroverse game.
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I'm almost pedantic enough to get mad at that play on his name because of being fairly irritated how many people mispronounce the last syllable of his name as "vich" instead of "vic".
For me one of the most telling signs of what a genuinely kind person Al appears to be is the fact that when someone joins his band, they simply never leave. With the exception of Rick Derringer (who had his own career and was Al's first producer and session guitarist rather than a full touring member), everyone else has stuck with Al for literal decades.
His parody of The Force in Spaceballs as The Schwartz was an homage to a band mate.
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The GeekOh-Two Crew, OmeganautRegistered User, ClubPAregular
For me one of the most telling signs of what a genuinely kind person Al appears to be is the fact that when someone joins his band, they simply never leave. With the exception of Rick Derringer (who had his own career and was Al's first producer and session guitarist rather than a full touring member), everyone else has stuck with Al for literal decades.
His parody of The Force in Spaceballs as The Schwartz was an homage to a band mate.
What are you talking about? I can't tell if you're joking or if you actually don't know Weird Al had nothing to do with Spaceballs.
For me one of the most telling signs of what a genuinely kind person Al appears to be is the fact that when someone joins his band, they simply never leave. With the exception of Rick Derringer (who had his own career and was Al's first producer and session guitarist rather than a full touring member), everyone else has stuck with Al for literal decades.
His parody of The Force in Spaceballs as The Schwartz was an homage to a band mate.
What are you talking about? I can't tell if you're joking or if you actually don't know Weird Al had nothing to do with Spaceballs.
If kazaa taught me anything, all parodys are by Weird Al.
I'm almost pedantic enough to get mad at that play on his name because of being fairly irritated how many people mispronounce the last syllable of his name as "vich" instead of "vic".
to be fair, there are actual people who pronounce lich as lick as well. theyre wrong but they exist.
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Al has been a known quantity for decades and by all accounts of anybody who ever met him, he’s the real deal and a super nice human being
Honestly, tempting fate like this...
I actually met the man! His Vanity tour came through my turn and I sprung for the"VIP" pass which involved getting to play "Weird Al Trivia" before the show and a meet and greet afterwards.
The trivia was a disaster as the questions were super niche and honestly, like I'm a fan. I own the records. But I'm not like...to a trivia level fan.
Anyway after the show he took a picture with everyone and would sign one piece of merchandise. I had gone on eBay and found an old movie poster of UHF. He laughed when he saw it and showed me that I somehow found one of the original runs they made in his garage at the time. He showed me all the imperfections and color screw ups.
Anyway, really nice guy and that Vanity Tour is available on Stitcher Premium and the swing medley of Dare to be Stupid is great. The whole show really demonstrates his range.
Well, nobody but Mark Mothersbaugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4Y6zimxi-Q
What?
I figured this was some kind of variant on "knocking on wood" or "throwing salt over your shoulder" to ward off consequences when you tempt fate or bad luck.
Turning and spitting seems to make as much sense to me.
Turns out this happened back in the time when 15% was the expected tipping percentage.
It used to pop up in older political threads back in the day, so I thought it was universally acknowledged here.
You know what? I absolutely don't want to know.
oh my God I was driving home today and I was just thinking about thi sclip and how to find it
wild
This is completely blowing my mind.
I won't torture you with the details, but his new song is called "Don't Tell Me How To Live" and is aimed at "wokeness" and "cancel culture"
You can imagine the ways and degrees that it sucks on your own
(As a teaser, his goatee is almost certainly dyed and I'm pretty sure he's wearing a wig)
I jumped to a random time in the video and was greeted with such biting lyrics as
"Every opinion has a millennial offended."
It did not improve from there.
Such naïveté
Much idealism
Wow
You're telling me man, I'm thirty five with two kids, a mortgage, and retirement investing. But sure, it's because I have a problem with the treatment of vulnerable groups that I'm the asshole.
The few who could afford to have children, at least.
The best part is that his dummer, Bermuda, was just a dude who was at the Dr. Demento studio when Al was there to do a new song. He offered to bang on Al's accordion case as a drum and they stuck together ever since. The song that was played for the first time live on the air that day was Another One Rides the Bus and the recording of that song on the spot is the very one that ended up on the album.
that is amazing
(I don't have a pic of my own signed copy on hand, but here's the liner for reference. Please note Ruben's dead body at the bottom right.)
How
Is Ruben a zombie
look, when we say people who join Al's band stick with him forever, we're not joking
Al claims that he is 60+ years old.
Is it possible he's a liche and has raised his band from the grave to tour forever? Weird Al Yankoliche?
That doesn't feel like a claim if you do some quick math. MJ's "Beat It" came out in 1982 .That was nearly 40 years ago. If Al was in his early 20s then...
Fuck, I'm stealing that for the next time I run a Retroverse game.
His parody of The Force in Spaceballs as The Schwartz was an homage to a band mate.
What are you talking about? I can't tell if you're joking or if you actually don't know Weird Al had nothing to do with Spaceballs.
If kazaa taught me anything, all parodys are by Weird Al.
to be fair, there are actual people who pronounce lich as lick as well. theyre wrong but they exist.
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