The first
time I heard Guster live was several years ago at WXPN’s XpoNential Music Festival, held every July right across the Delaware River from downtown Philly.
They were the final act Sunday night, but there was a thunderstorm earlier in
the evening, so I adjourned to my hotel and listened to the remainder of the
show on the radio. Suitably impressed, I picked up one of their CDs, and
several more later.
I did
actually see them on October 23, 2010, a date which for other reasons will live
in infamy. (The Phils lost the deciding game of the National League Championship
Series to San Francisco.) The band came on stage at DAR Constitution Hall to
the strains of “Hail to the Chief” (which I thought was cute, given the venue),
and everyone naturally stood up. I was a little surprised that nearly everyone
remained standing after that, for pretty much the entire show. Same thing
(without the fanfare) when I later saw them at Wolf Trap.
They’ve
done a lot of great stuff over the years – it was tough to choose between
“Satellite”, “Careful”, “Amsterdam”, and “One Man Wrecking Machine” (which was
apparently used in the movie Disturbia).
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