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...What is Guster? Well, combine ping-pong balls, party hats, two guitars, bongos, tuxedos, an improvised rocket ship and the Y2K bug... you just might come close. On Halloween Eve, when the demons were prowling the streets of Boston, a crowd gathered with Guster in the sold-out Orpheum Theater to ring in... the New Year? Let's start at the beginning...
...Guster came into being. Ryan Miller (vocals and guitar), Adam Gardner (vocals and guitar) and Brian Rosenworcel (percussion) discovered each other on the Tufts campus and formed the Boston-area band originally known as Gus. They relied--and still rely--on their reps, fans who volunteer to sell albums and spread the word about their band. Eventually, dissatisfied with the common band name "Gus," the unique band made the switch to "Guster," the band who put on one of the best performances, quite frankly, that I've ever been...
...because it was more than just a concert. After The Push Stars--a mellow-pop Boston-area band on the rise--opened, there was a suspect 20-minute delay, and smoke started to filter out into the audience from backstage. The crowd was getting tense, eager to see what Guster had in store. At last, the three band members, dressed in tuxedos and seated in aluminum space-age chairs, descended to the smoke filled stage to "Also Sprach Zarathustra," the theme to 2001: A Space Odyssey. As I soon learned from the band members, the audience was there to help...
...Okay, it sounds hokey. But it was fun. Guster immediately launched into a rocking "What You Wish For," the first song on their new album. Though Guster played primarily from the newly released Lost and Gone Forever, songs from their previous two records, the debut-album Parachute and GoldFly, also made it into their set list. It's hard to describe exactly what Guster sounds like, but at the concert they played at the full range of their abilities. Essentially, they play everything--the surreal, the real and the ingenious. Brian, the group's backbone, works the bongos with awesome...