Weird Al In Concert: Stockton

Dawn and I traveled to the San Joaquin County Fair on Friday to see Weird Al. Sat down in great seats (free admission after paying Fair entrance price of $8) around 5:45 with umbrella for shade, plenty of water, funnel cake, lemonade, and Clif bars. The place filled up completely by showtime.

Sequence:

1. Intro--Fun Zone (song)
2. Live action video sequence on tri-screen
3. Polkarama! from Straight Outta Lynwood (bubbles screensaver video on tri-screen, black shirt and pants with red tie)
4. Canadian Idiot from Straight Outta Lynwood (maple leaf screensaver video and nuclear explosion on tri-screen at end of song; exploding streamers into crowd timed with bomb)
5. Drum solo--drummer hits drum once
6. Close But No Cigar from Straight Outta Lynwood (loses red tie, wears hat, plays vibraslap)
7. Why Does This Always Happen To Me? from Poodle Hat (loses hat; gets drink and reads paper during bridge)
8. Jessica Simpson interview from Weird Al TV on tri-screen
9. It's All About The Pentiums from Running With Scissors (outfit from video; band members have white shirts and black ties; sparkly screensaver video on tri-screen)
10. Mariah Carey interview from Weird Al TV; Celine Dion interview from Weird Al TV; Crimes of Carelessness retro movie short on tri-screen
11. You're Pitiful exclusive online single (Al starts with black coat and pants and rips off sequence of clothing: removing black coat reveals gold sequin shirt; removing gold sequin shirt reveals white tee with red accordion; removing accordion tee reveals yellow Atlantic Records Sucks tee; removing Atlantic Records Sucks tee reveals white Spongebob Squarepants tee; removing black pants reveals pink tutu over white boxers with red hearts)
12. Madonna interview from Weird Al TV; Weird Al TV sketch of Al throwing fruit off of high building
13. Wanna B Ur Lovr from Poodle Hat (red suit with black and white tie; Al went into the crowd and up and down the aisles)
14. Eminem interview from Weird Al TV
15. Begins song medley:
1. Couch Potato from Poodle Hat (red hoodie and blue coat with blue shorts)
2. Do I Creep You Out? from Straight Outta Lynwood (loses blue coat and red hoodie, revealing red shirt)
3. I'm In Love With The Skipper exclusive live medley song (puts on white hat with red shirt; Gilligan video on tri-screen)
4. Headline News from Permanent Record: Al In The Box (loses red shirt and hat revealing ?)
5. Confessions Part III from Straight Outta Lynwood
6. A Complicated Story from Poodle Hat
7. eBay from Poodle Hat
8. Bedrock Anthem from Alapalooza (Flintstones video on tri-screen)
9. Ode To A Superhero from Poodle Hat (plays accordion and harmonica)
10. Pretty Fly For A Rabbi from Running With Scissors
11. Trapped In The Drive-Thru from Straight Outta Lynwood (song video animation on tri-screen; Weird Al interrupts and says No need to play this song; radio radio)
12. Radio, Radio a "rescue" song that seems to be a rip off of Elvis Costello's SNL performance. Forum discussion.
13. Gump from Bad Hair Day (Forrest Gump on tri-screen)
14. Eat It from In 3-D (puts on red jacket)
16. Sexiest video sequence from Weird Al TV; Keith Richards interview from Weird Al TV; Gandhi II from UHF--on tri-screen
17. I'll Sue Ya from Straight Outta Lynwood (dreads, camo jacket with red star on arm; green smoke screensaver on tri-screen; song ends with explosion of money confetti (Yanko Dollars) over the crowd)
18. Paul McCartney interview from Weird Al TV; King of the Hill cartoon bit featuring Al reference; Snoop Dog interview from Weird Al TV; Leslie Nielsen bit featuring Al from The Naked Gun
19. The Saga Begins from Running With Scissors (robes outfit from video)
20. Yoda from Dare To Be Stupid (ragtime piano intro; bubble screensaver video on tri-screen; removes brown robe; Yoda Chant half-way through, then finishes)
21. Cher interview from Weird Al TV; Barber video from Weird Al TV; Justin Timberlake interview from Weird Al TV
22. Weasel Stomping Day video on tri-screen from Straight Outta Lynwood
23. Smells Like Nirvana from Off The Deep End (Kurt Kobain wig, black short-sleeved tee with yellow stripes over white long-sleeved tee; song video playing on tri-screen; two cheerleaders in black outfits with red poms upstage; gargles water and throws rest of water in cup on front rows)
24. Michael Stipe interview from Weird Al TV; cartoon; Avril Lavigne interview from Weird Al TV
25. Amish Paradise from Bad Hair Day (song video costumes; video on tri-screen)
26. Kevin Federline interview from Weird Al TV
27. White & Nerdy from Straight Outta Lynwood (enters on Segway, black hoodie with "White & Nerdy" in red letters, silver sparkly chain)
28. Weird AL changes his look segment from Weird Al TV--plays Unplugged
29. Fat from Even Worse (black fat suit with red belts, grommets, silver chains; says Hoe! and stage manager comes out with hoe, wearing skirt and platinum wig--lifts up skirt as exits stage)
30. Encore: We All Have Cell Phones, So C'Mon Let's Get Real exclusive live single from Weird Al TV Michael Stipe interview
31. Albuquerque from Running With Scissors (red, yellow, and blue pattern shirt, black pants; words of final bits on tri-screen; explosions of small confetti squares over the crowd at the end)

Show lasted from 8:32-10:47 (scheduled start was 8PM but technical problems with projectors delayed the start)

Great show.

Songs by album:

Straight Outta Lynwood: 9
Poodle Hat: 6
Running With Scissors: 4
Dare To Be Stupid: 1
Alapalooza: 1
Bad Hair Day: 2
In 3-D: 1
Off The Deep End: 1
Unreleased songs: 6
Total songs: 31

Al didn't come out for autographs after the show, though a crowd of about thirty or more waited for about 15 minutes. The bassist came out and broke the news.