Evan Ball: We'll link to that in the show notes. If you can picture that, we actually stayed in one that looked like they had those steel toilets from train spotting, but maybe a little bit less poo. So you'd get there at about five, and you sleep in at hostel. And when we would get to venues, they'd make you wait until after the dinner rush. And we'd have a trailer on the back, and we would be carrying our own PA system. We'd be up front driving with taking turns, the other two of us. And often, Dale and my brother would share the back of the shell. Now you got to put the work in and hit the road and all that." Shaun Morgan: We'll let we used to tour in the drummer's pickup truck, which had a canopy on the back, like a shell, a hard shell, which my brother was doing our sound at the time, didn't know what he was doing. It's like, "Okay, well now." I don't want to say the fun's over, but it becomes almost serious. I think once you do get signed, and have the record deals and everything, then it almost becomes like a job then. And you don't have any money, and you're scrounging for beers and stuff. We're going to have a record deal," and thinking about the future, and hoping for the best. Those were fun days because I think there's something so special about imagining, "Man, one day it's going to be like this, and it's going to be like that. If it was a crappy club, like Shaun said, we played for the bartenders, and your girlfriends and shit. And men, if it was a house party, we'd play it.
We were just we're just excited to be doing it, and playing, and we were just having fun. I'm wondering, what does early Seether look like? I know you actually weren't called Seether yet, but right after the band forms, and in this era you're talking about, are you guys building a following quickly? Are you playing in someone's garage, playing gigs? Dale Stewart: We played anything we could get our hands on. So yeah, a good 20 and a half years ago now. The start of Dale and I playing together was probably, I'd say, January of 2000. And that was, I think, the official joining of, or the official. That's basically how we met, and how we came together. And we played to the drummer's wife, her sister, and I think, the bartender. And we gave it to him and said to him, "Hey man, can you learn these by Friday? Because we have this show to go play to, three people." And he did. We wet him at a little pub, and we took with us a cassette tape of 17 tracks or whatever. So I was like, "Well, I know this one guy." So we called him up. So then, we had a gig coming up, the drummer and I, and we were desperately in search of a bassist. I think he was pretending to have a meltdown. And I say, "Whatever," I'm not trying to make light of it.
So we cut forward to probably five or six months later, and our bassist at the time decided to quit, had some sort of meltdown or whatever. It wasn't like we were buddies or anything, it was just that we were always around each other because of the sibling connection. Yeah, we would see each other and hang out. I don't know if we were friends really at that.
If I think about it, I thought the music was terrible. We hung out a couple of times, and then I played him some stuff from the band that I was in at the time. If we ever ran out, there'd be one close by, and we would not be hurting for a drink. So I went and watched Dale's band a few times and was instantly impressed with his ever present row of ice cold beers to take place. And I was dating this girl, and her brother and Dale were in a band together. I was at Technikon, which is basically an arts and design college. Evan Ball: All right, well, let's start here. But without further ado, ladies and gentlemen, Shaun Morgan and Dale Stewart of Seether. It's obviously a tricky time for musicians. So we talk about the album, and also the realities of releasing an album during a pandemic. Then we talk about their brand new album, which is set to release in one week, that would be August 28th, 2020. So we talk about how they got their initial break on South African radio, then we talk about the next big move, which was getting signed to a US label, and moving the band from South Africa to the United States. We have vocalist and guitarist, Sean Morgan, and bassist, Dale Stewart.
Today on the show we have Seether, or at least two of the members. Welcome to Ernie Balls' Striking A Chord Podcast.
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