playing for keeps

Sometimes it’s just not as easy as it seems. Esp today in Washington, DC. There’s nothing like playing a show in the middle of a parking lot when the only bathroom you have is an outhouse, baking in the hot sun, that you have to share with other people that have been eating chili all day.

Glamorous? Nope! Humorous? Depends on how you look at it. Speaking of looking at it – one thing I suggest is not looking at the bottom of the outhouse. It still looks like chili. But if that’s your thing I’m not here to judge- I just don’t think we will have much in common.

So did you guys buy the album on Tuesday? I hope so. I did but on Thursday. Apparently there is no such thing as a record store in Manhattan.

If you’re bored check out this link. I get a great shout out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDuAhiNYhtk

Hot Bubbles

Duck stepping it all the way to the bathroom. Man it was one of those mornings for all of us. I don’t know what was in the food at catering in Omaha, but man this morning wasn’t pleasant at all in Milwaukee.

Speaking of Bubbles you ever see Trailer Park Boys? Man those guys are funny. I hear the other two guys own pizza joints in Halifax, Nova Scotia. We are gonna be doing what appears to be a rad show there this summer. That concert will be cool and all but going to J.R. Capone’s is what I’m looking forward to. Unless I’m wrong and they are completely somewhere else. Which the later is probably right.

Anyways we are out of the sweaty rock clubs and into some super cold weather. I’m not sure what happened but I kinda like it. I can wear the same close for more than one day.

Hey the album comes out on Tuesday and if you were one of the great ones that came out to Milwaukee tonight you could actually buy it today. Regarding my last post I naively wanted a gold record. Who am I kidding I want a multi-platinum record!! Speaking of platinum I heard Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces just went platinum. Way to go guys! Keep it up. Daddy’s little buddy likes to be out on tour. 

In the topsy-turvy world of rock having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful

But not in the morning, unless you course you have socks on and you are in your bunk trying not to distract yourself while writing a blog.

Well we’ve just played two of the sweatiest clubs ever. The best part of doing shows like that is the stink that comes with it. Oh and the lack of showers. It’s a glamorous lifestyle I gotta tell ya. I fell like the swamp man super hero. But these past two shows where also recorded live and sold as soon as the band got off stage. Well about 10 mins after they got off stage.

Things that help class up a rather dismal dressing room, like the past two, is this bad ass entertainment system we built for this tour. It’s pretty rad. The recent Mortal Combat took Dale and Shaun about 6 hours a day for a week to beat the last guy. Sorry to all those who waited for them to show up to the meet and greet. Oopsies.

Besides the game playing we got to watch two of the BEST documentaries ever; The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia and This is Spinal Tap. I can’t wait until the show in Parkersburg, WV. I wanna see them there in the front row. Speaking of Spinal Tap tomorrow is our last day off until Toronto. That’s 2 weeks away. Nothing like the excitement and press around release week! One week away. So you better go buy it. I need another gold record to store in my closet to gather dust. Also we’ll be doing a surprise show in Greenwich Village at the Electric Banana.

Four Easy Payments of $19.95

Hey Buds!

What’s going on? I’m gonna try pumping these out more often then I have been. Before I was paid off in Wampum, which was extremely hard to cash at Chase, now I just don’t get paid. So the pressure is on. But there is always that book deal and you guys to look forward to. Notice how you can comment on the blog posts now? Cool right? Especially when I sign myself up for 42 different accounts so I can troll on it and maybe pick fights with myself.

Enough about Bob for the moment, don’t worry that moment will be brief. Anyways we have been out now for a while now. Flying back and forth from here to there. The guys gotta do a lot of press and stuff before the album comes out. Which is a lot of fun and a lot of time at the airport. My last flight, told you it would be brief, to Nashville made an emergency landing because the lady next to me had a stroke. Don’t worry. She lived.

So we decided to do pre-production in Nashville, we built and designed a whole set. It looks pretty cool. If you haven’t seen the show yet, I gotta ask why haven’t you gone? It’s pretty amazing. Pretty much gutted every Good Will and thrift store in Nashville. But I think we misunderstood the sound guy when he said he wanted to make sure the band sounded huge as a 3 piece. You’ll get that joke if you come to the show. So buy a ticket already. But you better hurry up because they are selling fast.

Seether played their 20^th show last night in Jacksonville, FL for this album that isn’t even out yet. Hopefully we’ll hit over 400 before they stop (HINT HINT… keep booking those shows, like Europe, all of Europe, not just western Europe, Russia would be cool, South America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, maybe some more USO shows) before they write the next one.

Alright bye-bye Greenville, SC see ya tomorrow Cincinnati.

What ever happened to Bob?

What ever happened to Bob you ask? Well I’ve been super busy sitting on the couch in front of the TV playing Black Ops and taking care of my mail order bride. Both things I’m terrible at but I do destroy at Words with Friends.

I think it’s been over two years since I last made an attempt at humiliating myself and the people that I’m surrounded by everyday. Well anyways we arefinally starting to hit the road after they finished up their studio time. The band is currently in the process of finishing a techno album. Strange I know. Remember that post I did a long time ago where I said the next album should be written by Bob? Well don’t worry if you don’t. No one does. So you guys are gonna get a Seether techno album in the near future. So get your glow sticks and vicks vapor rub ready. It’s not the first(or the last time) that I’ll be ignored. But I’m serious….. I’m listening to it now.

I’d like to try and recap where I left off oh so long ago. Let’s see…. I totally skipped over our tour with Nickelback. Oopsies They were loads of fun.

Then we did a USO tour in Japan. That tour was bananas! Yeah I just said that. So what? Well guess you had to be there. Habu Saki and bananas I’ll never look at the same… or karaoke. Or machine guns or attack dogs. Or the fact that I’m not as tough as I thought I was.

Then we also did 2 mini runs last year in the spring and the fall. Those were fun for the most part. I did miss the smell of morning gas coming from the bunks. Then we went to Guam! I’d love to go there again. By myself.

But now we are here back out for what will be the greatest tour ever. We are currently in Pittsburgh, PA playing a show with a bunch of bands. You may have noticed that Seether is a three piece. Well the hologram machine we had before broke and we didn’t feel like fixing it.