Guster - Lost and Gone Forever

Jenfarr

So I got this e-mail from the band Guster the other day. Theya re so funny, and I'll really looking forward to the Beacon show.

"It's been ten years since we released Lost & Gone
Forever, the album that put us on peoples' radars,
helped us graduate from our van to a bus, and taught me to
fill my finger cuts with krazy glue.

To celebrate, we're turning the clock back to 1999 and
announcing the Lost & Gone Forever Ten Year
Anniversary Tour -- 9 very special evenings with Guster.
No opener. Two sets, one of which will be the album in its
entirety. Yes, even Two Points for Honesty and Rainy Day.
I haven't decided if we should play the album in order
or in shuffle mode. Any thoughts?

Some facts about the album, mangled together in one chunky
paragraph with no flow:
* Produced by Steve Lillywhite, who was our #1, I Can't
Believe He Said Yes, dream producer choice. We played
Woodstock '99 right before the album came out, well
before we were ready to play a show that big, and mere hours
before people set the place on fire. The Barenaked Ladies
liked the album and brought us on tour with them, thus
doubling the size and Canadian-ness of our following. Karl
Denson played sax on Fa Fa, one take, that was it. There
were no drum sticks used on the album, only hand drums, and
I said so in the liner notes -- Ryan would later make fun of
me for including this detail in the album package. We
recently found another band's album with the same cover
photo of the boy throwing the big rock on the piano (first
person to reply with the name of the photographer who took
that photo gets two free tickets to the Rochester show).
Paige from Phish played theremin on All the Way Up to
Heaven. We almost didn't put Happier on the record.
What You Wish For and Rainy Day were featured in the movie
"Life as a House," which is about cancer. When we
toured with Ben Folds in the summer of 2004 he made All the
Way Up to Heaven sound so good with his piano chops we never
played the song again after that.

Tour dates, all lined up in a row:
10/28/09 - Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theater
10/29/09 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
10/30/09 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
10/31/09 - Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theater
11/04/09 - Cincinnati, OH @ Madison Theatre
11/05/09 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues
11/06/09 - Rochester, NY @ Armory
11/07/09 - Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground
11/27/09 - New York, NY @ Beacon Theater

Some facts about the above tour dates:
This will be the only real Guster headlining tour of 2009.
There are no west coast dates, or Texas dates. The only
shows near the midwest are two dates in Ohio. The only show
in the south is in Charlotte NC. For those of you who find
this tour appealing but live in places we're not
visiting, we feel your pain. We are visiting some venues of
historical significance -- Higher Ground in Vermont, though
in a new location now, was where we launched the original
Lost & Gone Forever tour. The Orpheum, in Boston, was where
we put on an epic Halloween show ten years ago where we wore
tuxes and pretended it was New Year's Eve, Y2K. The
Beacon in New York, while a relatively new venue for us,
harkens back to a time when we played Thanksgiving Weekend
in NYC five years in a row. We encourage you all to get
your tickets early as these shows will probably sell out...
you can get tickets here, on sale Friday July 17th."

intodeep

That is pretty cool. I got into them a little bit when i was living in charlotte nc i see that is where they aer kicking the tour off!

Nice email. They played a free festival here a couple weeks ago i did not make, but i wish i would of i heard it was a fun show.