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Bottom Line fused pop-punk energy with genre-bending ambition.
In the wake of their 2002 full-length debut, 2005’s Eloquence defined their sound—leading to Warped Tour runs, major label sessions, and lasting underground impact.
Happy Day to all who celebrate! If you’re seeing this, I’m sure you already are! Go wish Dan, Bottom Line’s resident “Yeah!” man, a Happy Birthday today and follow it up with spinning some of his greatest moments on Eloquence. Dan’s “Dorm Room Demo” of False Alarm was one of our favorite rarities that we included on the Anniversary Deluxe recently. One of my favorite parts of being in a band with him was building unnecessary 15-part harmonies together (that hardly anyone can hear in the final mixes 😆). He remains a formidable beast of guitar and vocal, nonetheless!
“Couldn’t ask for a BETTER ONE if we tried!” IYKYK 😆
Even when we wanted to pull our hair out, we still managed to have fun with it. I was tempted to put the whole compilation of takes on here from our old website blogs, but we’ll save that for a rainy day.
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01/07/2026
January 7, 2006 - Seattle, WA @ Showbox w/ Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, & Zebrahead
I had an emergency root canal 🦷 in Portland two days prior to this, which happened hours before we hit the stage for the first show of the Deep Freeze Tour. I’m sure this set pictured here in Seattle was noticeably more rockin’ since I was on 100% less pain killers, but I still have zero recollection of it 😅. I remember bumming around the fish market, though! - Ben
Who remembers the nascent podcasting days, where legends like would platform complete unknowns like ? We were having a very confusing year, primarily because our label at the time was cock-blocking our every move, but getting a phone call from one of our musical heroes—and hearing him tell the world our song Nothing Is Real is cool—was definitely a major highlight of 2006! Thanks, Mark!
Of course, shoutout to for connecting the dots to make this happen in the first place and .zachwiler for making this rad video!
Spicy chicken sandwiches at 12:45am cured many a hair-pulling-out meltdown over our tech limitations back in the day! Drove us absolutely batty, but at least we could laugh about it 😅
Bottom Line’s Eloquence 20th Anniversary Deluxe is streaming wherever music exists for you these days!
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