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...second half of the evening. Perhaps feeding on the randomness of the whole evening, Guster produced a crowd-pleasing rendition of Aerosmith's "Sweet Emotion," complete with full my-life-is-in-your-hands crowd surfing by Ryan. With Adam Gardener on guitar and vocals and Brian "Thundergod" Rosenworcel at the bongos, the Guster trio played a varied set of songs from all three of their albums--the latest and most well known being _Lost And Gone Forever_. As a recent Guster addict, I would say the B.C. show, like the other two Guster concerts I've attended, further proved...
...explained beforehand to pressmen, "quite in the style of the 17th Century." With amazing virtuosity, his quick fingers manipulated cacophonies; from the tumbled wrack of sound arose the chilled phantoms of dead melodies, smelling still of death-wraiths of Handel, Liszt, Bach, Schumann-jerked on the wires of that thundergod of ghosts, Stravinsky. So far the composer has allowed no one else to play the work in public. Listeners were astounded; critics were baffled. Said Critic Olin Downes (The New York Times) : "An amazing and electrifying development." Said Critic Lawrence Gilman (The New York Herald-Tribune) : "The communings...
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