{"id":468391,"date":"2026-09-18T22:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468391\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T22:42:11","slug":"the-kids-yearn-for-weezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/468391\/","title":{"rendered":"The kids yearn for Weezer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Original fans of Weezer <\/a>are all grown up. But despite possessing more grey hair than when they first started listening to the \u201990s alt-rock band, their youthful spirits live on at the group\u2019s shows, including the sold-out \u201cGathering Tour\u201d stop at the Chase Center<\/a> on September 9, celebrating latest release The Gold Album, Weezer\u2019s 20th LP. <\/p>\n

But what might surprise many was the preponderance of younger people on the floor: Preteens, teenagers, and young adults joined OG fans, a generational melange of colorful hair, all-black outfits, and vintage Weezer merch, many sporting Weezer\u2019s iconic W written on their hands and\/or foreheads. And all singing along in unison. <\/p>\n

Teenager Sebastian Ramos and his mom Felicia Ramos traveled from San Jose, California to see their first ever Weezer concert. Sebastian, 14, said, \u201cThis is my first Weezer concert and it was amazing!\u201d Sebastian introduced his mom to Weezer when she\u2019d allowed him to take over aux in the car during their drives, \u201cI just play whatever is on my playlist, and I always love a little good Weezer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite Sebastian being born way before Weezer blew up, he said that he has always enjoyed older music, and got into Weezer through his friends. The most surprising part of the night for him was all the effects the concert had with smoke machines, flames shooting out of the stage, and the confetti canons.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Felicia said she really enjoyed the concert and the bonding time with her growing teen, so when her son brought up wanting to see Weezer she couldn\u2019t refuse the opportunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWith a teenager you gotta take them where you can [chuckles]. These are his first concerts so it\u2019s nice to be able to go out and be able to spend this time with my son. He is already going to be 15 years old, and be off to college soon. We gotta do a lot of first and hang out\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Lifelong San Franciscans and Weezer fans Regan Dayton, 49, her husband Todd Dayton, 54, and 14-year-old daughter Evelynn Dayton attended the concert together.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been listening to Weezer for way too many decades to mention, probably since the Blue Album,\u201d\u00a0 said Regan who has seen the band live three times.\u00a0For Evelynn, this was her first ever Weezer concert. She said since her mom was listening to Weezer for so long it led her to discover her love for the band, \u201cI really like their style of music, it\u2019s not something you find a lot.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Todd has seen Weezer live three times, but this show held a special spot in his heart, \u201cI came to see Weezer because it crosses generations between me and my daughter. We both have music we like from the same band.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Regan said her Evelynn knew some of Weezer\u2019s new songs that she hasn\u2019t listened to yet, but she and her husband got to introduce Evelynn to the older hidden gem songs of Weezer. \u201cThis is just one more thing where she knew songs we didn\u2019t and we knew songs she didn\u2019t. It bridges the [generational] gap. It\u2019s amazing.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Evelynn described how much she loved the crowds vibe at the concert because of how people weren\u2019t afraid to get excited, sing and dance to \u201cSay it Ain\u2019t So\u201d and \u201cBuddy Holly.\u201d She also really appreciated the diverse range of instruments the band used during their set.\u00a0<\/p>\n

If the Dayton family could say anything to Weezer their biggest emphasis was for the band to keep playing.\u00a0\u201cPlease keep doing shows. It\u2019s absolutely amazing live music that is an experience that you just can\u2019t get, and the band is willing to do it,\u201d said Regan.<\/p>\n

Evelynn wanted to thank the band for their music because of how she found it so comforting as she finds her footing in life as a teen. \u201cA lot of their songs are about being a little different, and are really good to grow up with especially in your teenage years, because I can really relate. So I hope they can keep that up even though they\u2019re not teenagers anymore.\u201d \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Original fans of Weezer are all grown up. But despite possessing more grey hair than when they first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-468391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}