The Presidents of The United States of America Retire 'Supersonics' - The Showbox, Seattle, 2.12.10

Guitbassist Dave Dederer's the one doing the speech at the beginning, which I managed to catch all of on my 3GS from the VIP...and then completely forget I was filming it. Hence the distortion, shaking, and me yelling 'Blackburn!' ten seconds in. PUSA instantly became one of my favorite live bands, see them if you have the slightest opportunity. This version of 'Supersonics' is slightly different from the one I own and many know because Sarunas Marciulonis gets namedropped [joyously] here and he wasn't on the '96 Finals team that the Sonics ran off a bunch of singles of this for. If you want that version - and you should - go here: http://passiveharassment.com/journal/2010/2/20/supersonics-oh-yeah.html The song they charge into at the end is 'We Are Not Going To Make It' from their '94 self-titled.

Other stuff that happened at this show: The Seahawks' mascot Blitz stagedove, they covered 'Video Killed The Radio Star', they thumped a chord 227 times consecutively, and Ballew jumped on the kit during the first song. And a security guard completely Walter Jonesed someone rushing the stage.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• PUSA
• Supersonics
• Showbox
• seattle supersonics
• nba
• sam perkins
• gary payton
• detlef schrempf
• bob blackburn
• chris ballew
• i ran into DC at this show
• jason finn
• andrew mckeag
• sarunas marciulonis

[lawleylawley]

Best live band, ever!

Miss the Supes...

[cigansky]

I was at this show! Such awesome energy, I had no voice at all by the end of it. And that security guard was awesome, he stuffed like 2 or 3 people at least.

[mattat85]

What a great show. I helped someone out of the crowd who was over heated. I wonder if she is okay?