Mike Comite

Okay.

Okay.

Julia lives in Austin, Texas now. She's still releasing music, but her career has shifted more towards life coaching and guided meditation. Her memories of the Weezer incident were not as vivid as mine. She didn't remember how she and Weezer got in touch. She didn't remember what year it happened. She definitely did not have the email from the road manager about the tuning.

Julia lives in Austin, Texas now. She's still releasing music, but her career has shifted more towards life coaching and guided meditation. Her memories of the Weezer incident were not as vivid as mine. She didn't remember how she and Weezer got in touch. She didn't remember what year it happened. She definitely did not have the email from the road manager about the tuning.

And she never puzzled over why her tuning was off. Because for her, that whole show was a totally different experience. When Rivers was saying all that stuff about her on stage...

And she never puzzled over why her tuning was off. Because for her, that whole show was a totally different experience. When Rivers was saying all that stuff about her on stage...

I feel like I've just been stewing in it for so long. Being like, that dude was an asshole to my friend. Oh!

I feel like I've just been stewing in it for so long. Being like, that dude was an asshole to my friend. Oh!

I watched this video twice. Probably more often than I should. I feel like I'm responsible for it in a way that's like if I had just not said anything in that rehearsal that day, we could have just gone about our days and rehearsed and just had our set at Bonnaroo. And then you would have come to Weezer set and sat in the bleachers with us and we just would have enjoyed Weezer together.

I watched this video twice. Probably more often than I should. I feel like I'm responsible for it in a way that's like if I had just not said anything in that rehearsal that day, we could have just gone about our days and rehearsed and just had our set at Bonnaroo. And then you would have come to Weezer set and sat in the bleachers with us and we just would have enjoyed Weezer together.

Mike, don't you dare. But instead you went on stage with him. And this thing that could have changed your career, in my view, had this effect that this like you seem so sad afterwards and devastated. And I was like, oh, my God, if I had just said nothing, this wouldn't have happened to you.

Mike, don't you dare. But instead you went on stage with him. And this thing that could have changed your career, in my view, had this effect that this like you seem so sad afterwards and devastated. And I was like, oh, my God, if I had just said nothing, this wouldn't have happened to you.

I'm glad. Julia was so much more at peace with the day than I was. She said the band, our band, wasn't sounding good to her anyways. She thought opening for Weezer was a long shot, even if she had been in the right tuning for Trippin' Down the Freeway. But also, the moment Julia remembered most from that performance wasn't the mistake.

I'm glad. Julia was so much more at peace with the day than I was. She said the band, our band, wasn't sounding good to her anyways. She thought opening for Weezer was a long shot, even if she had been in the right tuning for Trippin' Down the Freeway. But also, the moment Julia remembered most from that performance wasn't the mistake.

It was the part of the video that I usually skip over, the moment where it works out, right after Rivers asked Julia if she wants to sing.

It was the part of the video that I usually skip over, the moment where it works out, right after Rivers asked Julia if she wants to sing.

You can't see any of this in the video I'd been replaying all these years. That one was shot from way back, near the bleachers, where I watched the show. I almost couldn't believe what Julia described, but changing up the wording of my YouTube search, I found another video from that day, filmed close to the stage.

You can't see any of this in the video I'd been replaying all these years. That one was shot from way back, near the bleachers, where I watched the show. I almost couldn't believe what Julia described, but changing up the wording of my YouTube search, I found another video from that day, filmed close to the stage.

You can see everyone's faces, and even when the tuning mistake becomes apparent, they're smiling and they're laughing. Julia and Rivers dance. They're having a great time. Watching it, I felt this wave of relief. It's what I was missing all these years. Julia was okay, and I believed her that the band didn't break up because of a tuning mistake.

You can see everyone's faces, and even when the tuning mistake becomes apparent, they're smiling and they're laughing. Julia and Rivers dance. They're having a great time. Watching it, I felt this wave of relief. It's what I was missing all these years. Julia was okay, and I believed her that the band didn't break up because of a tuning mistake.