Call me a groupie if you want, but I saw them again.

Friday night, Guster played a phenomenal show at the Beacon Theater, which was an uplifting and pivotal experience in my life. My partner in crime for attending this event was held hostage at work leaving me to attend my first concert flying solo. While I would have liked to have been sharing the experience with someone, I was seeing my all time favorite band and can’t really complain.

They now have so many songs, it makes for a very thrilling show. It is hard to guess just which songs they might play. I was refreshed to hear quite a few songs that they don’t usually have in their set. They also incorporated a good mix of new and old. But no Parachute songs ☹ I was quite thrilled to hear “What you Wish For.” Some of my other favorite moments of the night were “Airport Song” which they mixed up and played in a different fashion than usual, for come downstairs and say hello, a ukulele descended from the sky for Ryan to grab, and they incorporate Billy Joel’s “My life” with “Hang On” which was totally great. Ryan was super into this, put down his guitar and went up to the audience, which is not a usual habit of his. They came back for two encores and ended the night with their acoustic “Jesus on the Radio.”


I was amused because when I saw them today, I thought, you can tell they are dads now. Rather than the usual attire of old shirt of some sort, Adam was wearing a polo, Brian, a polo with sweater vest, and Ryan, a button down. Ryan was also wearing white jeans. He pointed it out himself and said he was trying a new look and thought what better place to try it then the fashion capital. He then proceeded to sing a little tune about it!

Also, the opener was great! It’s been a long time since I have seen a really good opener. It is such a better way to warm up with music you are also digging, then suffering through a painfully bad group. Today’s opener at Jukebox the Ghost who hail from DC. They had a Ben Fold type sound. Immediately when I got home I downloaded their stuff!

So you can feel like you were there with me:
"White Denim"

Easy Wonderful.

Life has been Easy and Wonderful lately. Well at least at moments while I have been listening to the long awaited harmonious new work by Guster.

I have no idea how my life has continued the past four years with a void in new Guster material. The wait has finally ended and because I'm crazy, I had to pre-order their latest which allowed me to receive TWO whole days prior to its release WHAT WHAT! I have now had it in my possession for exactly two weeks and basically it is the only thing that has been coming out of my ear phones. I have listened to the album 21 times in its entirety thus far. Sick?? maybe, but I don't care.

It is a great new album. It has a very breezy lyricalness to it. I feel it is a change in sound with more banjo and just a more "easy" sound. My one and only complaints is that there is a void of the usual crazy awesome drum solos. Where did Brian go? This will make me sad when I see them next. I'm not sure why this has occurred, but perhaps his hand have been wrapped one too many times and just don't want to be put through it anymore??

The song that has pulled ahead of all other in the most listened to category is most definitely "Do what you want." They incorporate synthesizers in this one which is just plain awesome. I also really like "On the Ocean."

Please go buy it for yourself!