SuperNostalgic Packed the Pier

Wednesday's Concerts on the Pier was the biggest crowd I've seen out there all summer. SuperNostalgic played and it felt like the whole town showed up.

It was warm, it was sunny, and there was nowhere left to put a chair. People had folding chairs staked out well back from the stage, then more chairs behind those. A few tourists wandered in and stayed. Kids were blowing bubbles that drifted out over the crowd. All ages, dancing, the whole two hours.

SuperNostalgic is a 90s rock cover band out of Sequim and Port Angeles, built around Jeremy Pederson and Sadie Sprenger trading off lead vocals, with Branden Bettger and Jeff Thaxton on guitar, Adam Bettger on bass, and Michael Echternkamp on drums. They stick to one decade and clearly know exactly which songs from it land live. Pederson and Sprenger spent the whole set working the crowd, back and forth across the stage, pulling people in instead of just performing at them.

They covered Alice in Chains' "Man in the Box," and I got the whole thing on video. Their "Creep" was the standout of the night though. Everyone knows that Radiohead riff, and the second it started the crowd's energy jumped and stayed up for the rest of the set.

I don't love a crowd that size, honestly, but it's hard to argue with a Wednesday night that pulls out every chair in Port Angeles. If SuperNostalgic is back on the pier again this summer, get there early.

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