Seether Geezer

  Just when I think, "This is the best Seether album, ever", I listen to the next one.  Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces is, again, the best Seether album ever.  There is so much pain in the lyrics and in Shaun's vocals that some of the songs are difficult to listen to.  That may be hindsight.  The album, dedicated to Shaun's brother Eugene, was completed before Eugene's death.  Like the music and lyrics on their most recent album, Si Vis Pacem Parabellum which seemed to have a foreshadowing of 2020 even though the recording was finished before we were all sent home, Negative Spaces seem to foreshadow his brother's death.  Although listening to the lyrics, it seems Shaun is talking about himself more often than not.   1) Like Suicide .  The lyrics here are somewhat ambivalent, regret and frustration, anger and pain.  Is she really suicidal or just likes talking about it to torture her loved ones. Not many people are like that but t...

  I was poised to hotly rebuke a post on the Facebook Seether fan page, when I realized the post was 6 years old.  Probably too late to put my two cents in at this point.  But not here.  Before I let these posts go (my apologies to Seether for parodying their album title) I am going to respond to the posts I find most irritating, from mildly unrealistic to NYFB [not your fuckin' business].  There are lots of Facebook posts.  Comments on You Tube videos.  Comments on Reddit.  So here we go. The band and/or Shaun is hot, cute and I am in love  [mildly unrealistic, potentially annoying] Hey, what about Dale, John and Corey?  They are cute too!  I can actually sympathize with these types of  comments.  I was a teenage girl at one time.  I was in love with Pete Townsend.  My hero was cute, so hot, could do no wrong, would choose me if he just knew me because I loved him the most out of anyone!!  Now, YEARS later,...

 Well, I tuned the guitar down a step but it didn't exactly sound like what the You Tube instructor was showing me.  Went to a site that had the tabs down at the bottom.  First snag, I need a quick lesson in tabs.  That was very interesting.  I've encountered tablature in the far distant past as it turned out.  I went to the School of Rock website https://www.schoolofrock.com/resources/guitar/reading-guitar-tabs-for-beginners and learned a whole lot more.  Muting, palm muting, bending strings, hammer notes, sliding notes, strumming; there is a whole 'nother world out there. Well armed, I went back to the tabs for Gasoline.  Here is my report card: _______________________________________________________________________________ Course:      GASOLINE 101 Student: EM 1. Playing on Steel Strings    B-  Student is able to create audible notes without crying or bleeding on the instrument. 2. Learning Gasoline  ...

I  definitely had trouble picking the next album to cover.  Verbally rather than the musical definition of cover.  I have been listening to Disclaimer II, Seether 2002-2013 [greatest hits] and Holdings Onto Strings Better Left to Fray.  And of course Fragile.  The plethora of choices.  The depth of indecision.  And yet, I'm going to pick one so I can procrastinate doing my taxes for a bit longer.  I need to do a correction from a previous post.  The alternate radio station in my state does play Seether!  The afternoon lineup was Trapt, Stone Sour, Collective Soul, 3 Doors Down, Foo Fighters, Tool, Bush and Seether.  Ha! I decided on Seether 2002-2013 , for several reasons, and I'm going to do a different take on it. The first disc starts with Fine Again , Driven Under , Gasoline , and Broken .  Those four and the two on the second disc, Out of My Way and Hang On were previously released on Disclaimer II and Remedy , Tru...

  I wandered away for a minute because I purchased Fragile, the Saron Gas album.  No, just the streaming one from Amazon.  The album is $902.81.  I'm crazy, but not $900 worth of crazy. Does anyone else find the 81 cents sort of random?  Anyway, I was listening to classic Seether, Disclaimer II, and wondered what the Saron Gas versions sounded like by comparison.  That's for another time but was a great several days.  I certainly have a few things to say about Beer [the song].  I don't know why every song says [Explicit] on it.  Only about 3/4 of them are explicit.  If you find the word fuck explicit.  I'll move on. 7) Let Me Heal .  The bass sounds very grumbly at the start, like a throbbing motor.  [If it's not the bass, tell me.]  Almost a military march cadence until it smooths out into the chorus, "Please just let me heal"  The juxtaposition of the what the lyrics are saying, the somewhat passive poetry, an...

I've had a thought about my reaction to these songs I feel compelled to write about. If I connect strongly with the lyrics, I feel them through my heart.  If I can feel the music, I hear them in my soul.  If the connection is that strong for both of those it's just like soaring.  I am watching a video of the Seether Live@RED, Moscow concert.   Wait, I know these are likely unauthorized, but for a Seether newbie like me, it's the only option for seeing them live.  I apologize but it's to incredible to see and hear the live performances of the music I can't help myself.  O.K. I don't want to help myself.  Like I said, I got in late to the Seether Party.  I was watching interviews and the band was talking about the live stream concert in August.  Live and up for a week and then, as Shaun said, gone forever.  I heard this in December.  Aargh!  No DVD? I got money!  Really I do!  Gone forever.  Just stab me thro...

  B ack with part 2 of Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum.  I'm back to Liar again.  I must have listened to this one 5 times today.  It's so achingly beautiful I keep going back again.  The lyrics and Shaun's interpretation of the lyrics get me every time. Sorry to repeat myself.  I left off with Let It Go.  I've listened to this one several more times and like it more with more familiarity.  That first line, "Float down that river of blood you made when you stabbed me in the back"  Damn, tell me how you really feel.  Let It Go is about not letting it go. With a little dollop of hopelessness and a side of hostility. 9) Failure . Brilliant lyrics.  The music has an underlying muddiness, a rumbling, feedback-y sound that goes with what is being sung.  This is exactly how feeling this way feels like.  Cuts sort of close to home, to be honest. 10) Beg .  Oh, yes the Motherfucker song!  O.K.  Scary lyrics on the one hand....