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| seether (whatever that was)

I was about to jump to Veruca Salt's defense, but apparently there was a band called Seether? I must have missed that.

aahhh Seether... loved their song "Remedy", it was on the radio a lot when I was in high school. Saw them live in Portland in 2006, great show.

Back in high school, my buddies and I snuck in to a few Saron Gas (their pre-Seether name) shows at Roxy's in Johannesburg. We were under age, and couldn't afford the R20 cover. They were really talented, and put on a great show (one of the top club shows I can remember).

> The band originally performed under the name Saron Gas until 2002, when they moved to the United States and changed it to Seether to avoid confusion with the deadly chemical known as sarin gas.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seether

One of their guitarists came out of my local scene. I shared a stage with the guy a number of times. After a few years and albums, he left the band and became a teacher. It was one of the events that started taking the air out of the rockstar dream.

As of now Seether has > 1B plays on Spotify - can’t be that obscure or forgotten…

No I just don't remember ever hearing them.

Their first hits were in 2002 and I wasn't listening to the radio by then.

They were named after the Veruca Salt song though.

Thank you for reminding be of the band's name. Hearing that one four times a day was painful. It's stuck in my head now again and I haven't listened to it in twenty years.

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