Puyallup native and Great Grandpa guitarist Dylan Seawright doesn’t need long to remember his first Bumbershoot experience. “I went once in high school,” he answers quickly, recalling the 35-mile journey as a teenager. “I remember seeing Death Cab.”

His memory, as recounted over the phone from his Tacoma home, is clear enough to remember the exact year—and in doing so, to date himself. “I guess I've technically been going to Bumbershoot for 17 years.”

Based on whatever span of time you pick—Seawright’s first attendance as a fan in 2008, or the first and only time he and Great Grandpa played on a Bumbershoot stage in 2018—a lot has changed. After exploding onto the national scene with 2017’s Plastic Cough, Great Grandpa spent the following years falling into a more acoustic and tuneful gr

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