SWEET WATER 4EVER!

I KEEP ON. . .

2007-06-26T08:27:00.000-07:00

LOSING!

The friday show was way rowdy. Supercool. This video captures exactly how Seattle felt that Friday night at the Croc. Listen to the entire room singing along. Rawk.

"That's RIGHT!"

FRIDAY NIGHT PICS ARE UP!

2007-06-19T16:34:00.001-07:00

http://www.flickr.com/photos/37063624@N00/sets/72157600404089609/
You can also just search sweetwater4ever on Flickr.com. Rawk On!

-SW4E
Thanks again to all those that showed love to SW4E family. We love you.

“Give the People what they want, give them something that makes them feel soooo fine…”

2007-06-16T09:39:00.000-07:00

and so it was.

Would it live up to expectations? With all the hype, the tortured months of anticipation leading up to the most long-awaited show since... 4ever.

Perhaps the question should be: could we have asked for anything more!?! It was as if it were 1994 all over again, the sweaty fans screaming, begging for more. Hit after hit, ringing power cord on top of slashing guitar solo, tenacious drum roll into catchy baseline, gleeful fist pump into outrageous glam rock pose. Two encores including a brilliant Ziggy Stardust cover, which couldn’t have been more fitting (though it was underappreciated by much of the crowd.)

And so they didn’t play “King of ‘79”, or “Can’t Say No”, or “It’s All There”. There is no such thing as perfection. But this was close...

There are some occasions in which there is no choice but to resort to hyperbole… having barely shaken the hangover from the 8 PBR tallboys we consumed we remain all-but speechless. Were it not for the post-show Dicks run, who knows what kind of shape we’d be in right now, the morning after. Now, that magical night seems like a dream... and there isn’t much more to say until we take a deep breath and reflect on the Sweet Water Reunion kick off show that was.

For now, we’ll let the fans speak for us.

Most often heard in the men’s bathroom of the Croc on the night on June 15:

“Sweet Water changed my life” – 7 times

“those guys got robbed... if any seattle band was gonna make it in the 90s it should have been Sweet Water” – 5 times

“I remember the first time I saw them at Rock Candy [Off Ramp/OK Hotel/Paramount]. Blew my f**in mind. Best live band ever! – 4 times

“did you see that chick?... she was totally hot. I think she used to date Layne Staley” - 2 times

“I haven’t been this f**ing hammered since high school! PARTY!” – 2 times

“Hey, There’s Credo! On no, that’s just his stunt double-roadie” - 2 times

STRIPPED DOWN AGAIN

2007-06-16T02:51:00.000-07:00

God Damn. The blaze was blazin'! Uhlir was the drums, not the bass you tap the keg fans, credo shreded, cole was cool and adam skanked his way into the highest strata of rockdom. Thank you sweet water and the 20 meat heads that keep screaming in my face when they noticed I let up on singing along. BTW, I was one of few that sang LOSING word for word, via the OG demo and the great NEW RAGE release which still has the highest itunes plays. Please enjoy the youtube-age... I am back to NY tomorrowm sat, so i will miss the follow up shows. Seattle please let lady rawk rise higher each night. and Bros please come to NY. We love you.... thanks again.... SWEETWATER4EVER! PS... SW4E founder BS was kicked out and snuck back in. Check for play by play video coming soon.

SW4E T-Shirt Poll

2007-06-05T07:17:00.000-07:00

Hey SWEETWATER FANS.

The SW4E staff will make a LIMITED RUN of T shirts to celebrate Sweet Waters return. There area three quotes below. Which do you want to see on the shirt? Let us know... We will try to make some extras for all those fans singing along to every fu##king word.

LYRICS:

"Motor-cross running socks
Half-shirts never been washed"

"We're not like the rest of you stupid people,
We're not like the rest of you slaughter cows"

"They may have my number,
they can't catch what they cant see"

just imagine if these guys were wearing sweetwater4ever shirts...

PS: don't forget your air guitar

Big Rock Show!

2007-05-15T04:40:00.000-07:00

Sweetwater Reunion shows: June 15-16

Comrades, its 1 month away... The biggest rock show to hit Seattle since Metallica brought out the Spinal Tap skull during the "and Justice for All" Tour, since Nirvana and Mudhoney last shared the stage in 1993, since Alice 'n' Chains last played a Christmas show at the Moore that didn't suck.

Do you ever get nostalgic about the good 'ol days of rock music, back when lead guitar players were required to have long hair down to their ass, refused to use conditioner, and manuevered their axe is if it were part of their body (yeah you know which part)?

Well, my friends, there's a Big F**CKIN ROCK SHOW coming up exactly one month from now and you better be there!! The sweetwater4ever crew will be taking that trip down memory lane... and you'll recognize us at the show 'cause we'll be wearing runnning socks and half-shirts that have never been washed. oh yeah, and we'll by selling a few too (shirts, not socks.)

LONG LIVE SWEETWATER!

[btw, we've got a visa, first round's on us...]

KINGS OF '79

2007-04-01T19:52:00.001-07:00

'78-'79 to be exact.

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Adam rocking the championship shirt(photo: chevy orange). Damn they were close in '96.

KEEPIN MY HEAD DOWN!

2007-04-01T19:50:00.000-07:00

Rock Medicine for real.

RAWK ON!

JUNE 15th

See all you self-haters there!

"Who took your faith and replaced it with sanity? . . .

2007-03-20T07:04:00.000-07:00

. . I found a way that we can both be free . ."

June 15th 2007!

RAWK ON!

-SW4E

www.sweetwaterrocks.com

RECENTLY OVERHEARD IN SEATTLE:

" I was in seattle last week getting hyped for the
sweetwater reunion show and as I'm walking out of the bathroom at the burgermaster in
laurelhurst and I hear this guy say to his buddy, "are
you going to get tickets for the sweetwater comeback
show?" and dude replies "Hell Yes!"

enough said.

...AND CHEER THEM ON FAITHFULLY!!

2007-03-12T00:12:00.000-07:00

Superior Rawk Power is back.

June 15th. Get Tickets NOW.... this will sell out!!!

http://www.ticketweb.com/t3/sale/SaleEventDetail?dispatch=loadSelectionData&pl=&eventId=130403

http://www.sweetwaterrocks.com/

Duke, the n.1

2006-10-12T17:28:00.000-07:00

[CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE!]

. . . A jock strap that is far too big for even Tim Tesh. {Orig. Willie Bascus}.

Yes, today's post comes from the notorious, illustrious, b-league famous Bush School Dictionary. This little piece of Bush upper school lore dates back to the late 80. These are the days of Bush before the internet, before cell phones, back when Bush was Bush. These glory days of yester-year gave birth to the very thing we covet on this here ether-blog. SxGxMx. And all that went with it. So to you my Kings of '89-- I salute you. Cool like mutherfuckin Steve McQueen.

-SW4E

Put yo' hands together now!

2006-10-10T13:45:00.000-07:00

Another YouTube 1.65 billion dollar banger. Gracias a RAMiller we have a most shredding montage from the SUPERFRIENDS record [RAWK!]. Love Rawk Awaits You. . More tasty discoveries coming up. . stay tuned and spread the great gospel of Sweet Water.

-Team SW4E

Coming Down on You!

2006-10-09T18:28:00.000-07:00

Lady Rawk Rise!!! Rise!

IF IT'S ILLEGAL TO ROCK AND ROLL....

2006-09-27T10:15:00.001-07:00

THEN THROW MY ASS IN JAIL!

In the 1980s Superior Rawk Power was born. Before
there was Sweet Water, there was Shot Gun Mama. Sadly,
the musical greatness of this legendary band - which
helped usher in the heyday of Seattle music - had
previously been preserved only on scratchy demo tapes
tucked away in your safety deposit box.

Now that has all changed. Thanks to the boys from
Sweet Water, we now have many of the SGM classics
available in digital format, so sit back, turn your
speakers up to 11, and enjoy the raw beauty of this
early incarnation of Seattle rock perfection.

finally, you can write Sweetwater4ever@gmail.com for a
copy of the SGM CD. Donations are welcome; all
procedes go to Sweet Water.

Ladies and Gentlemen, the muthafuckin' hiatus is
over!!

Do you want to be RICH?!

2006-09-15T15:43:00.000-07:00

This was posted as a comment on the Superfriends post but I felt like the story deserved front page status.

"Kempsaydunk?" wrote:

"How about that time when Rich Amaral came into the game against the Yankees and Junior was on 1st and "Do You Want To Be Rich" is playing but they can't figure out how to turn it off -- in fact it only gets LOUDER -- then Rich hits a double and Junior slides in..."

My Brother in Rock

2006-09-07T10:38:00.000-07:00

--Paul Uhlir wrote:

"I like what you got going. we are back rocking
again. Let me know if you
guys want to come to a practice and drink some
beers. We generally practice on Thursday nights up on capitol hill."

email from Paul Uhlir - drummer from Sweet Water
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Thanks Paul. The Sweet Water Forever group is currently based in New York City so we will be at all the sessions in spirit, eagerly awaiting what they yield.

Maintain the rock.

We're not like the rest of you slaughtered cows...

2006-09-04T18:43:00.000-07:00

Superfriends may be the most underrated Sweetwater album ever. Sure, there was dissapointed when "Superstar" never became the #1 radio hit that fans expected it to be, and given its timely release in 1995 during the waning years of grunge, many (this blogger included) expected Superfriends to be the seminal album of the post-grunge era. Listen to the final track on the album, "Win", and remember how you felt the first time you heard "you and me are different from the world..."

oh yeah, and check here for some nice reviews of "Superfriends" and worthy tributes to our heros from Sea-town - Superfriends on Amazon
heck you can even buy the album for 1 cent if it somehow dissapeared from your CD collection over the years...
-BS

I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE NEWS OF THE WORLD..

2006-09-04T13:45:00.000-07:00

. . NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE!"
Keepin' my head down! An awesome display of long hair and electrifying riffs. Rawk On! YouTube is killing.
(note: some bastard removed this video from You Tube, therefore we've replaced it with the equally classic video for "Superstar", cerca 1995 - sweetwater4ever crew

NEW RAGE!!!

2006-08-21T17:28:00.000-07:00

If you have a copy cherish it. I've got two. SUCK ON!

Sweet Water Forever!

2006-07-22T12:20:00.000-07:00

The purpose of this blog is to create an archive of the music, images and memories of Seattle's greatest rock band Sweet Water.

RAWK ON!