January 31, 2021 and October 2021 and November 2022 updates

As you can see I figured out how to put my bitmoji in.  It just looks like crap.   

 Seether Timeline

No, it's not.  Wikipedia has a very nice information page and timeline.  You get my timeline which is a Discover-ography.  Back to June 2020.  Words As Weapons.  Broken. Fine Again--yes, those two are familiar.  More on that later.  I tried to scroll through my YouTube history to see when I first started looking them up.  I think my daughter was on my computer because my cat videos from the mid 20-teens suddenly morph into music videos of all these bands I don't know.  Oh, no, it was me as well.  2012 Martin Clunes, a man and his dog, Dylan Moran and Rowan Atkinson [me] interspersed with Pink "Blow Me" and Taylor Swift [not me].   Seether crops up January of 2012 with the music videos of Driven Under, Rise Above This and Fine Again.  Pretty sure this wasn't me.  But my daughter's usually ahead of me in these things.  I tend to discover new shows either more than half way through or after the show gets cancelled.  Supernatural @ Season 10.  Red Dwarf, Black Adder and Black Books after they were over.  Twilight Zone waaaayyy after it was over.  Oh!  I got one, I actually watched Monty Python's Flying Circus on PBS when it was aired.  Stayed up till 11:00 on a Sunday night to watch it.  Yeah, I was asleep when I went to school the next day, but it was so worth it.  Do my interests seem Brit-o-centric to you?  My first tv was a 12" black and white portable I got for Christmas.  First thing I remember watching was Masterpiece Theatre.  The Possessed.  But I digress.  You're going to get that a lot.  What was I saying?

Very first YouTube video, which I looked up as "UTube" [don't laugh] was Plainsmen Quartet with Rusty Goodman in 2011.  I have no idea why.  Back to Seether.  Evidently I liked Broken well enough to buy the CD of One Fine Night, but as I was into Kate & Anna McGarrigle at the time [again by the time I found them, Kate McGarrigle had passed away] the rest of One Cold Night was just a bunch of noise to me.  I think you appreciate who you need.  This year, 2020, was spectacular in many respects as everyone knows, but if I have to talk about masks and washing my hands one more place, I'm going to throw a fit.  Somehow this year Seether's music and especially the lyrics spoke to me and brought up a lot of stuff I've been stuffing down for years.  So thanks to the speedy response of Amazon I was soon the proud owner of:


An aside note to Dale Stewart. I watched the interview with Sofakingcoolonline from May 6, 2015 where he talks about CD's being all but obsolete.  Not here on my planet.  My daughter said, "Why don't you just listen on Spotify?"  I said it's not the same, I want to listen to the album in the order the band put the songs.  She said, "You can do that on Spotify."  Nope, I don't care.  I want the "real" thing with the liner notes I can pull out and read through and learn the lyrics.  I even read through the "thank you's".  Did it with my albums [Who's next and Sweet Baby James are the first two I remember original vinyl from the record store.  I lie, Who's next came from a family friend who didn't want it anymore and I may have stole the James Taylor from my sister.]  And I'm doing it with my Seether Cd's.  The print is a lot smaller than it was on the vinyl.  Maybe when you guys do your 30 year anniversary album, you can make a Large Print version.  If I ever get to go to a Seether concert, you'll have to tell me which one you'd like to sign and I'll bring it.**

So I bought four at once, because I've been working for 35 years and have some disposable income.  So I had to decide which one to listen to first. I got three out of four on December 29th, all but Isolate and Medicate which didn't come until the 31st.  I'm going to do song reviews according to me and take each one separately in the next few days.  If you get Seether-Saturated or just want some more of my essays, I'm going to be writing an adjacent section.

**October 2021 update: Idaho State Fair, West Valley USANA Amphitheater, Ace of Spades, Sacramento, Aftershock 2021 Sacramento.  No, I didn't bring a CD for them to sign.

**November 2022 update: Dallas, Texas, May 29, 2022.  2022-2023 they appear to be working on a new album.  The only concerts for 2023 at this point are the Download Festival June 8th and a tour in July, all in the United Kingdom.  The last time Seether played in the UK was 2018, so be nice and don't begrudge our friends who are Seether fans overseas.  That actually goes for any fans outside the United States, North and South of the U.S. as well.  


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