Seether Geezer

  H ow many Seether concerts am I going to this year?   You may well ask that, but I originally started with just Idaho and Sacramento.  I booked those and then they announced the West Valley concert and I had to go to that one, it's practically in my back yard (compared to Idaho).  You got to remember, I've only been enjoying this Seether-Obsession since last fall, and I have 20 years of concerts to make up for.   Speaking of backyards, I took the day off, thinking my daughter and I would go to the concert early.  Didn't really need to, as the gates didn't open until 7.  But I did get some writing done and I mowed the back lawn.  Well, lawn is overselling it.  I mowed the back weed, dirt and crabgrass.  Since I forgot to put on a mask until I was half-way through and had to stop and wait because I couldn't get the mower started again.  Flooded the engine, evidently.  So after spitting up dirt and blowing it out of my...

  I went to my first Seether concert ever Friday, August 27, 2021.  My husband and I drove up to Idaho to the Western Idaho State Fair.  (Did you know there is an Eastern and a Northern Idaho State Fair?).  We arrived at the fair at 12:00, Friday's opening time and drove around until we found a parking spot close to the old race track which is where the concert was to be held.  We wandered around the fair.  I found out the wrist bands I got were for the rides, which we don't do, except for the sky ride which evidently was not part of the "wrist band" rides.  Oh, well.  We checked out the fair food which is varied and plentiful.  We walked through the barns and I got scolded (rightly so) for getting too close to the cows, missed the fancy chickens but did see the pigs.  The pigs made me think of Shaun talking about his dad raising pigs.  I find them quite lovely.  Though taking care of them, smelling them and hearing them on a d...

  I   was listening to an interview with Shaun the other day and he said Dale asked him why "She had Bill's Toupee".  Gasoline. Bills to pay.  This is my kind of humor.  I hear and read interesting things that turn out to be NOT what I was supposed to hear and read.  Bill's Toupee.  You can't unhear that!  The next time I listened to Gasoline, I cracked up.  Sorry, Shaun! Well, I thought, why stop there?  I certainly can't.  With homage to the king and master of parody songs, Weird Al Yankovic, I decided Bill's Toupee could be a song in and of itself.  After all, I'm the kid who was singing, "Marsie dotes and Dosie dotes and little lambsie dydies."  I didn't learn the correct lyrics until I was twenty-three. Bill's Toupee  Sung to the tune of Gasoline by Seether  (Music by Shaun and Dale, lyrics, unfortunately for Shaun, by me) She used to be a beauty queen, runs a wig and nail shop   I saw it in a magazine,...

  O.K., so I changed my mind.  I want to say a few words about Disclaimer II, but I will not run my dagger through Seether's lyrics as I would not spear a Shakespeare sonnet.  Too over the top?   1) Gasoline .  See the post from February 28, 2021 Classic Seether Gasoline - A New Adventure.  2) 69 Tea .  The more I listen to this, the more I want to listen to it.  What is it telling me? At this point I've been listening to so many interviews that Shaun's own interpretation is interwoven in my own.  From him, it's about being in pain and having organized religion do nothing but tell you to have faith and believe in something you can't see.  The lyrics are very interesting.  Being part of an organized religion compared to being in a mental health facility.  People in an organized religion being fake "trendsetters".  Some of those people who are religious would likely listen to the "Save me smiling Jesus, get off tha...

M y title is not all that accurate since I continue to enjoy my "gateway drug" the most, but their music has lead to other music and musicians. Amazon Music and Spotify have Seether Radio which gives you Seether songs plus related music by other bands.  This is not perfect, of course.  The Seether songs played are the most well know selections, that is mostly those played on the radio as singles such as Fake It, so the music played by the other bands are often the same ones, but I get a taste of music I may want to hear more of.  I've also found music I have heard before, in the past.  In listening to interviews with Seether, one of the questions often asked is their musical influences and who they listen to.  Shaun has mentioned Nirvana, of course, Rage Against the Machine and both Shaun and Dale mentioned Pantera.  Bands they've become fans of through hearing them during tours and those they listen to before a show to get them going include Chevelle, Seve...

Undaunted by my less than stellar performance of Gasoline I picked Remedy which has a slower guitar part.  Not that I'm ready to give up on Gasoline, but I don't think I could convincingly sing, "I wanna waste her monthly blood, wanna get some on my love."  I don't have the parts for either activity. So I started with Remedy taught by Guitar Smith who plays it re-e-eally slow.  I got the first part sounding like the actual song so I got brave, since everyone else was out of the house, and plugged the electric guitar into the amp and switched it on.  I actually might learn this one!   I went back to learn the next part and hit my cup of tea with the headstock of the guitar and tipped it onto my desk and laptop.  The guitar was in the clear but my mouse is a little damp and my mousepad is sticky.  No sparks or fire from the laptop, so I think I'm good.  Not particularly coordinated, but good. March 13th.  Anyone want a mediocre rock guitar...

  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...