· Bumbershoot, 1 September 1997 ·
Bands: Hater.Venue: Bumbershoot Festival, Seattle.
Nicholas Boos' review: For the several hundred people that were not seeing Blues Travler on the closing night of the 4 day Bumbershoot festival, they got to see a really good preformance from a Soundgarden side project band called Hater. Before the show, while I was standing in line, I ran across Matt, whom I have talked to on the phone before. We talked for a brief five minutes or so before the show, he said to me, "I heard this band is suppost to be really good." After the doors were opened I went straight to the front of the tiny venue, it was the best attendance the "Bumberclub" had all day. When they walked out onto the stage, many things reminded me of Soundgarden, McBain using a Guild S-100 guitar, Matt in a white muscle shirt that said "Soundgarden" written in crayon. Ben had just had a hair cut and looked like a Nazi roaming around the stage, every thirty seconds or so holding his head up and spitting a huge luge. After two songs, Brian Wood came out and sang about three songs while puffing heavily on a cigerette. Ben came back and sang two songs, then introduced my favorite Hater song, "Sad McBain." Matt sang while beating on his kit, knocking over a cymbol at the end. After many of the songs I would scream "The drummer kicks ass!," or "Ben, you'r my dad!." After a few more songs they left the stage, without an encore. This I heard later to be the last show (on the mailing list of the Unoffical Soundgarden site) by Hater because they were going to break up. For a last show, it was really good for the first time seeing a good band. Funny, after I saw Soundgarden in December of '96 in Seattle, they broke up not long after.
Below are scans of several photos from the event; each photo is copyright its original photographer, noted beside each image. Unauthorized reproduction, distribution, borrowing or lending is strictly prohibited.
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