World of Weird Al Yankovic

algonacchick @ Jan 16 2006, 06:26 AM wrote: I dunno, you sound so pessimistic. It kinda makes me sad.

Actually in real life I'm very optimistic, but sometimes on these forums things get put out there and I become more of a realist, if that means pessimistic, so be it But yeah usually I'm not like that.

But since Al is the KING of all music, everyone loves him

Elvis @ Jan 16 2006, 02:35 PM wrote: I also hope he continues the "request" song bit.

I'd like to see that bit continue as well, mainly because by the time they started doing that the tour was nowhere near me, so I kinda missed out on it.

Please come to North Carolina, please, please...

I hope he does. Sadly, I wasnt a fan when he came here last.


Dang.

I also hope he continues the "request" song bit.

Dave


i like that also, but if he knows someone in the audience, he out to call out and say hey ...... u here tonight, and have that person request something, of course that person would know what song to request

fred27 @ Jan 16 2006, 11:30 PM wrote: i like that also, but if he knows someone in the audience, he out to call out and say hey ...... u here tonight, and have that person request something, of course that person would know what song to request

That's of course assuming the "random" person in the audience would play along and not ruin years of building trust with the guys in order to say "I want to hear 'Hardware Store!'"

CatraDhtem @ Jan 17 2006, 01:15 AM wrote: That's of course assuming the "random" person in the audience would play along and not ruin years of building trust with the guys in order to say "I want to hear 'Hardware Store!'"

HAHA! Man, if they did that to me, My mind would totally go blank.

I liked what they did--- they had us all screaming song titles out.

I loved how we all knew he was going to pick Jim, but we just screamed anyway. Got me every time!

In general, how long is the gap between recording and release? I know the gap between release and tour is relatively short...

hasn't it been two months for the last few albums?

I beleive Poodle Hat had its final recording stuff done April 18, and was in stores by May 20. I am not 100% certain what that final recording stuff was, exactly--I used to know. It might have been the last minute mixing.

Jackie

DrSteggy @ Jan 23 2006, 07:51 PM wrote: I beleive Poodle Hat had its final recording stuff done April 18, and was in stores by May 20.  I am not 100% certain what that final recording stuff was, exactly--I used to know.  It might have been the last minute mixing.

Yeah, that final week involved the mixing of the parodies and probably the final mix of the album itself (all of which actually ended on the 17th according to a photo in the Weirdal.com gallery).

So that means there was a gap of thirty-two days between the completion of the album and its release date. That already sounds tight, but then one has to figure that all the shipments of the album to warehouses and stores probably consisted of a week (as a very rough estimation), and most likely those at the plants pressing the discs or producing the cases did not work on the weekends, which takes another eight days out of the remaining span of time. So all that would mean that everyone involved only had about seventeen days after the final mixing to complete the production of the album for retail. Yikes!