Patrick Callahan (Pat) met Seether in 2002 during Ozzfest. He auditioned at Grape Street Club, the same location where One Cold Night would be recorded in 2006.

 

"My band was playing with their band. We hit the bar and they were like 'we need another guitarist, what's up?'. My first show was opening for Jerry Cantrell [Alice in Chains]." - Patrick Callahan

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"It was kinda cool we went back to Grape Street where we kinda met Pat. Where the momentum started taking off. We like to keep going back to places where things started, so you don't become like a big rock-star type of guy" - Shaun Morgan (2006)

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Contributions:

Patrick Callahan contributed to Disclaimer II, Karma and Effect, and One Cold Night as lead guitarist.

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Departure:

About a month before One Cold Night was released, Patrick Callahan's departure from the band was announced on June 15 2006. Seether quickly posted an update on their MySpace page.

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"Seether has since decided not to replace [Callahan] at this time with another guitarist," and will instead "take it back to where it began and keep it running as a three-piece unit. If you have been to the shows over the past few weeks, you have noticed the change. We all think it is a positive one. We hope that the fans will understand and respect this issue without distorting it into a convoluted and nasty misunderstanding, as it wasn't. Seether wishes Pat all the best in his future endeavors."

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When asked about Pat's departure, Shaun Morgan stated:

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"Um... relieved a little... actually a lot. He was the guy in the band that was always our naysayer, and he was the negative energy as far as writing. I personally have no love lost, which is weird for some reason 'cause he was my friend for four years. But when he walked out, it kinda walked out with him. We can now go back to being the concentrated three-piece with three guys that want to be here, and don’t think they’re not getting enough attention, and all that kind of shit.” You’re getting a lot of attention already, I assure him.  He laughs.  ‘We’re getting it, but it’s not something any of us crave,’ he says wisely. ”If you have a group of people and there’s always someone that’s negative, it just brings the whole vibe down.”  So they will be just as strong a unit without him.  No questions there." - Shaun Morgan (2006)

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Shaun was again pressed about the topic in a 2007 interview with aldercast.

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"He just wasn't happy. When he was happy, it was the best times we could ever have. When he wasn't happy it was horrible. We all want to be living a somewhat normal life. He had this girlfriend that he was in love with for years and they had been apart for about four years and they got back together. He was happier than I had ever seen him. I'm really happy that he has found what I guess we couldn't give him. It wasn't my intention for him to leave. My intention was for us to sit down and talk about it, hammer things out. Just didn't work out that way. When he left I was the asshole. It's always that case. Every band member that's left this band thinks I'm a prick. 'Cause I'm the one who has to drop the act, so now I'm the one who has to go 'look dude it's not working out'." - Shaun Morgan

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Broken ft. Amy Lee:

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Its been noted Pat had various disagreements with the bands direction. One example was the band being on the Punisher and Daredevil soundtrack, in which he did not like the lineup of bands they were associated with. In an interview with MetalUnderground, Pat subtly ignored a question about the song.

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"I hated those [Punisher & Daredevil] soundtracks. I was the one guy in the band who said we shouldn't do them, but they don't listen to me" - Patrick Callahan (2015)

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"...we got criticized by him [Pat] for doing the newer version of "Broken," for adding strings to a song, for many things. All along the line, a misconception of what bands have to do. His opinion was, we didn't have any integrity. His opinion was we didn't have any street credibility, which I think in both cases, is the complete opposite." - Shaun Morgan

 

 

Remedy:

 

In the same interview with MetalUnderground, Shaun and Pat were asked about the Remedy music video, Pat said:

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"It sucks when Christina Aguilera is darker than we are." - Patrick Callahan

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The Gift:

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Pat also had disagreements about the song "The Gift". In which Shaun went on a lengthy statement.

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"'The Gift' almost didn't come about because I went and showed the band three times, and all three times I was shot down - by the same person. Eventually, I came back and said, "Look, here's the song. Just check it out." And so it was born. What pissed me off is that I had to ask permission to play one of my songs in the band that I started. It should never have been me saying, "Hey, do you mind if?" It should be like, 'Hey, check this out. Let's do it.' If all of us disagree on something, that's fine. That's a different story. But John and I have spoken about it, and Dale. We're all music fans...fans of heavy music, fans of everything. We're also fans of melody, fans of writing songs. And that's our focus. The stuff we're working on right now, the stuff I've been writing, it's different. There's gonna be some heavy stuff, obviously, because that's still part of who we are. But you know, there's gonna be some stuff where we put some piano in it or some strings or whatever, and in some cases both. I can't see how that's a bad thing. We can add things in to color in a song - that's still the song. Whether or not the other instruments are there is not the point. We don't have someone who has a strong negative opinion about everything. We have three really positive guys in fact and the exact opposite of what we had before. That makes the writing process a hell of a lot easier because, first of all, there's no restrictions anymore. And when I said that before in interviews, that's just smoke and mirrors. You can't say, 'Yeah, this other guy's a douche because I can't play what I want to.'...But the point is, now there is no nay-saying. There's no negativity. There's no, 'You can't do this. You can't do that. That's not a Seether song.' There's none of that. And that is really refreshing because that's why we started this band, to be able to write music and to play it the way you want to play it. Not play it according to some rules of credibility."

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"I've always thought there were two kinds of guitarists. There is the one kind of guitarist that can play rhythm and there's the one that can pretty much shred because shredding doesn't really have timing...it's never been important to me to say, 'Look how fast I can play.'. Pat's shredding was to the point where I would sit there sometimes in awe and go, 'Wow, maybe I should learn how to do that stuff.'. But ultimately, leave that stuff to Yngwie [Swedish Guitarist]. You know, I don't care about it. There are definitely times that I can think back on when that was an issue. What's cool about being a three-piece now is that we've come out as a three-piece and we've played like that for about a month and a half. The first comment has always been, 'Look, I don't want to piss anybody off, but we don't miss Pat.'. First of all, that's not gonna piss us off. It's gonna make us feel better. And secondly, that's kind of cool because a lot of the time my parts are just being doubled. And a lot of the times my parts weren't being doubled like I would double them. That's a tough thing. The guy's a great player, he's a great guy. He just wasn't happy. Sometimes I think some people start believing they're a little better than they are. The point is, we are now much tighter and much more solid because all three of us play the same way. We're all really proud of what we've done. I know that the guy who left wasn't very happy that we didn't replace him because that's even more insulting. You've got to remember that we started off as a three piece and we got signed as a three-piece band...now if someone phones me up and says I need to get another guitarist, I can go tell them exactly what they can do with that idea. We know we've done it and we've said it all along. We've said it now for four-and-a-half, five years. It's amazing. It's great. The first couple of shows, I crapped myself because I had to do all the stuff again. I had to relearn some of the parts I had handed off because I felt like I had to give him something to do. It was very tough giving up those parts originally. It wasn't really tough because of an ego thing. It was just tough because I love playing them. But this is great because it's three of us now. The album comes out tomorrow and it's got Pat on it and that's history." - Shaun Morgan

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Later in 2015, Pat was asked what album he wishes he was a part of.

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"This is gonna be a little of a curveball, I would say Seether's 'Finding Beauty In Negative Spaces' because there were some things that may or may not have made that record. That I may or may have not been a part of. And I definetly liked to have a say in those songs." - Patrick Callahan

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Pat was also asked directly why he left Seether.

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"So. I gotta be a little bit delicate in how I word this. It's not the case now. But at the time, the singer and I just weren't seeing eye-to eye. It wasn't anything musical, it was a little bit of business but more, I'm just going to call it a personality clash. I'm from Philly I'm not the one to roll over and take it so to speak. So I disagree with certain things. If I disagree with something I say it. I don't think he liked that. So it got to the point where, you're on a bus, you wake up, you don't see your brother, or your sister, or your mom. You see dudes in your band, every morning. Two of the guys in the band are great, one of the guys in the band we just couldn't work it out. So I quit man. I was in the middle of Duluth, Montana. Middle of nowhere I just had enough. That's just kind of how I am. I just don't think about things. I don't think them through. I knew it wasn't right and the funny thing is as time goes on oddly enough, time heals all wounds. All the bad stuff [that] happened, I can't talk about everything, the inbetweens, but now Shaun and I are having a pretty good relationship. You know sometimes he says things still about me that I don't like but, what can you do. Sorry I can't give crazy juicy details. You know what, it's not worth it. My mom raised me better than that. I don't want to talk too bad about it. " - Patrick Callahan