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Post by Larry Farnsworth on Oct 20, 2021 21:03:37 GMT -5
fwiw, tickets to Goosemas were impossible to score in the presale or regular sale, but you can get them for like 30 bucks on stubhub now. If you missed out on today's onsale, just keep an eye on stubhub or whatever
Sigh, for being such a heavily populated state, the bands I want to see never come to Florida. I know its kind of painful for tour routing but swooping down to Jacksonville or Tampa or both wouldn't be too far out of the way especially if they got multiple shows out of it. Not to down Goose specifically, happens with a lot of bands. Atlanta is like 5 hours from me but that's a whole thing. Oh well, maybe they will be on the Roo lineup again!
Edit: oh no Atlanta on that tour anyways. Guess it would be Nashville or bust
Last Edit: Oct 24, 2021 6:12:36 GMT -5 by Jim - Back to Top
Sigh, for being such a heavily populated state, the bands I want to see never come to Florida. I know its kind of painful for tour routing but swooping down to Jacksonville or Tampa or both wouldn't be too far out of the way especially if they got multiple shows out of it. Not to down Goose specifically, happens with a lot of bands. Atlanta is like 5 hours from me but that's a whole thing. Oh well, maybe they will be on the Roo lineup again!
Edit: oh no Atlanta on that tour anyways. Guess it would be Nashville or bust
Goose is in Atlanta in November. It's 5 hours from me too but since it's two nights I think it's worth the drive.
Post by itrainmonkeys on Nov 2, 2021 19:25:12 GMT -5
I've been seeing this band's name pop up the last couple years and all I can tell is that it's maybe a newish (or at least to me newish) jam band?
Someone fill me in on their deal and what is essential to know about them. I just saw an article that they played a whole Halloween show with Austin Powers as the theme and that got me intrigued to finally actually look into them and not just continue to think "I guess they're a new jam band?" and ignore them.
Goose Oct. 31, 2021 Worcester, Mass.
Set I: Soul Bossa Nova {1}, Draggin’ The Line {2}, Earthling or Alien? {3}, My Generation {4} > A Western Sun, I’m A Believer {5} > Earthling Or Alien? > So Ready
Set II: American Woman {6}, The Labyrinth > Magic Carpet Ride {7}, Into The Myst > Whip It {8}, Seekers On The Ridge pt. 2 {9}, Just The Two Of Us {10}, Hot Tea
Enc: All I Need {11}
Coach’s Notes: {1} Quincy Jones, LTP 7.12.18 {2} Tommy James, FTP {3} Dini asked the crowd if they were Earthling or Alien {4} The Who {5} The Monkees, FTP {6} The Guess Who, FTP, Dini started the song from off stage {7} Steppenwolf, FTP {8} DEVO, FTP {9} This was the first time Seekers On The Ridge has been split up. {10} Grover Washing Jr & Bill Withers, FTP, Rick did the Dr. Evil rap {11} Fast & original version of AIN, LTP 12.7.19 Boulder CO, Fox Theater
Honestly start anywhere. Throw on a live set from the past sixteen months and enjoy. Shenanigans Nite Club is fine if you want to start with a particular album, but the more I see of them the more I start to feel like their light show is another instrument of the band - it really pulls everything together. So head to YouTube 🙂 You’ll know before long if they’re your style or not, but I think you’ll like them.
Honestly start anywhere. Throw on a live set from the past sixteen months and enjoy. Shenanigans Nite Club is fine if you want to start with a particular album, but the more I see of them the more I start to feel like their light show is another instrument of the band - it really pulls everything together. So head to YouTube 🙂 You’ll know before long if they’re your style or not, but I think you’ll like them.
but yeah they are a new jamband. they've risen rapidly in popularity since early 2020. they were small enough that even in fall 2020 they could play drive in or small outdoor shows, and people were so eager for a show they sold those well and word spread.
i first heard of them when their 2020 Goosemas show on the roof of 30 Rock popped up in my feed. i ignored it, assuming it was some shitty new jamband, though i was curious how a shitty jamband got on the roof of 30 rock during a pandemic (not the big building one of the side buildings but still). i actually took notice when vampire weekend had them cover 2021, which is one of my favorite songs off FOTB, it's just too damn short, so Goose doing a 20 minute version of it got me interested. went back to that Goosemas show, then went through their stuff on spotify, and I was hooked frighteningly quickly.
i really don't love jambands, not since college. back then i'd listen to any drunky bearded dude wailing on a guitar at the War Eagle Supper Club. i don't need to like a new jamband. i'm 40 and i go see phish a few times a year, that's enough jamband for me. but goose got me, and a lot of other phish fans as well. when i was back at phish shows this summer hanging around the phellowship table everybody was chattering about goose lol. all my sober phish friends will be at goose in atlanta this upcoming weekend.
they can play of course, any band that improvises live has to be able to play and listen to each other. the key is they are talented songwriters as well, which is where most jambands fail. "Shenanigans Nite Club" is a damn good album purely on it's own merits. catchy songs, beautiful production, a real pop sensibility, but without being ashamed of the jamband label.
the jamming is mostly type 1, but they keep it interesting. they don't play like they are in a rush like a lot of young jambands. great tonality. like the jam out of the "draggin the line" at the halloween show you posted, it's just rick playing guitar and everyone playing around him, but it's lush and beautiful and there are all sorts of interesting things happening with the keys and rhythm section. the kind of stuff that can make me stare into the middle distance and just feel good.
also i suspect they have some smart marketing people behind them. or maybe they are just smart marketers themselves. but the logo, the way they release all their shit on bandcamp, and almost all their live shows on youtube, the aforementioned drive in shows during the pandemic. they are just making all the right moves at the right times.
anyway give them a listen, freshen up and head into the scene.
"Type I jamming involves variations on a song's written notes and tempo, whereas Type II jamming involves additional variations on structures and keys."
tahoe tweezer is an easy way to show the difference between type 1 and type 2. it's type 1 until about 9 minutes, if nothing else the rhythm is still distinctly tweezer. then it fades out and trey starts into a whole new thing, type 2. the fade out makes it easy to delineate between the two styles and pinpoint right where type 2 starts (in this example, it's not always that way).
edit: the top comment on the linked video explains it all way better than i can.
tahoe tweezer is an easy way to show the difference between type 1 and type 2. it's type 1 until about 9 minutes, if nothing else the rhythm is still distinctly tweezer. then it fades out and trey starts into a whole new thing, type 2. the fade out makes it easy to delineate between the two styles and pinpoint right where type 2 starts (in this example, it's not always that way).
edit: the top comment on the linked video explains it all way better than i can.
when I get home tonight I'm gonna put on some headphones and follow that comment
tahoe tweezer is an easy way to show the difference between type 1 and type 2. it's type 1 until about 9 minutes, if nothing else the rhythm is still distinctly tweezer. then it fades out and trey starts into a whole new thing, type 2. the fade out makes it easy to delineate between the two styles and pinpoint right where type 2 starts (in this example, it's not always that way).
edit: the top comment on the linked video explains it all way better than i can.
when I get home tonight I'm gonna put on some headphones and follow that comment
The music in and around the 27 mark (the "woos" segment) is my favorite moment of phish since the Hampton fluffhead.
Fully enjoyed that jam and analysis, thanks postjack.
If you like that sort of thing check out this guy that snowmanpJIM turned me onto several months ago when he posted this guy's reaction to a Ween solo.
He's got a couple Goose ones but I'm gonna link the Prince video since it's a solo everyone knows and loves.
Honestly start anywhere. Throw on a live set from the past sixteen months and enjoy. Shenanigans Nite Club is fine if you want to start with a particular album, but the more I see of them the more I start to feel like their light show is another instrument of the band - it really pulls everything together. So head to YouTube 🙂 You’ll know before long if they’re your style or not, but I think you’ll like them.
but yeah they are a new jamband. they've risen rapidly in popularity since early 2020. they were small enough that even in fall 2020 they could play drive in or small outdoor shows, and people were so eager for a show they sold those well and word spread.
i first heard of them when their 2020 Goosemas show on the roof of 30 Rock popped up in my feed. i ignored it, assuming it was some shitty new jamband, though i was curious how a shitty jamband got on the roof of 30 rock during a pandemic (not the big building one of the side buildings but still). i actually took notice when vampire weekend had them cover 2021, which is one of my favorite songs off FOTB, it's just too damn short, so Goose doing a 20 minute version of it got me interested. went back to that Goosemas show, then went through their stuff on spotify, and I was hooked frighteningly quickly.
i really don't love jambands, not since college. back then i'd listen to any drunky bearded dude wailing on a guitar at the War Eagle Supper Club. i don't need to like a new jamband. i'm 40 and i go see phish a few times a year, that's enough jamband for me. but goose got me, and a lot of other phish fans as well. when i was back at phish shows this summer hanging around the phellowship table everybody was chattering about goose lol. all my sober phish friends will be at goose in atlanta this upcoming weekend.
they can play of course, any band that improvises live has to be able to play and listen to each other. the key is they are talented songwriters as well, which is where most jambands fail. "Shenanigans Nite Club" is a damn good album purely on it's own merits. catchy songs, beautiful production, a real pop sensibility, but without being ashamed of the jamband label.
the jamming is mostly type 1, but they keep it interesting. they don't play like they are in a rush like a lot of young jambands. great tonality. like the jam out of the "draggin the line" at the halloween show you posted, it's just rick playing guitar and everyone playing around him, but it's lush and beautiful and there are all sorts of interesting things happening with the keys and rhythm section. the kind of stuff that can make me stare into the middle distance and just feel good.
also i suspect they have some smart marketing people behind them. or maybe they are just smart marketers themselves. but the logo, the way they release all their shit on bandcamp, and almost all their live shows on youtube, the aforementioned drive in shows during the pandemic. they are just making all the right moves at the right times.
anyway give them a listen, freshen up and head into the scene.
the atlanta show posters look sick. from status serigraph and is flippable by 180 can be up.
i've noticed goose does do some type 2 jams. there's a 27 minute All I need from their 11/15/19 show (Alive and Well album on spotify) that gets pretty out there. They don't get as abstract as a phish type 2 but they aren't always locked around a theme.
also, in their 10/30 show from a couple days ago they tease David Bowie during the Ghostbusters Rap, if you wanna check that out. it's really brief and they were clowning on some dude from worcester who is a shizhead, but came at me by surprise.
Post by livesbydryshampoo on Nov 6, 2021 19:04:14 GMT -5
Got Cleveland tickets, hoping the kids are vaxxed and we can relive our Legend Valley experience from this past summer at the show as a family (which, in retrospect, was a stretch for us to squeeze in with the logistics of Roo and various bottled up family travel and thank GOD we did it. One of the most joyful bright spots of the last two years).
Not to derail this thread too much or anything but I would like to point out that while I like it when bands I like jam (see: Kinney, Sleater) I'm not really a big fan of full-on jam bands, but Goose has still somehow improbably won me over. I know I've talked extensively (4-5 times) about how I feel like their use of auto-tune is the secret sauce in most of their performances but honestly I find that unlike a lot of jam bands the quality of their singing/songwriting lends itself very well to songs that become better with extended jams.. To that end, start with any version of "Slow Ready" for a spacier experience or any version of "Creatures" for a more energetic one.
also, I'll eventually get back to postjack on which Goose covers I don't like a whole lot but the I've listened to the version of "Take On Me" from the Buffalo 2019 show on Spotify a few times and I can't pinpoint an exact moment but there's something so off about the way the main keyboard riff is play I find it incredibly distracting.
Set 1: Flopener {1}, W. S. Walcott’s Medicine Show {2}, Life on the Shelf, Indian River > Honeybee > Slow Ready > Arcadia
Set 2: Empress of Organos {3}, Please Forgive Me {4} > Rosewood Heart > Creatures > Dragonfly
Encore: Turned Clouds
Coach’s Notes: {1} Flodown opener {2} The Band {3} Dual Of The Fates tease, from Star Wars Ep 1, by John Williams {4} David Grey
funny story first: I was originally going to both nights, but decided to just catch one night because (a) i miss my wife and want to watch SNL with her tonight, (b) i'm short on vacation days after taking a week off for the funeral etc this summer, and (c) work is busy right now and i'm off for a full week week after next for our sedona trip. anyway i'm pulling out of the hotel in atlanta this morning, waiting at a traffic light, glad i'm going home but also a little sad i'm missing the show tonight. but then i think "goose is a young band and tour a lot and i'll have tons of opportunities to see them in the future". right when i'm thinking that thought Rick Mitarotonda walks in front of my car. I was so stunned and giggly at the coincidence that i didn't have the wherewithal to annoyingly scream at him from my car.
goose also kind of messed up by playing so many of my favorites last night. Flodown is what i named this thread after, so very fitting it's the first song I ever heard them play live. speaking to their youth as a band the light guy hit his cue early. in his defense it was a beautiful long intro/buildup, and it really felt like rick was about to drop into it, but it was a fake out and the buildup lasted for a few more measures after the lights went all colorful and crazy. Slow Ready is incredible and is Goose's best song. One nice touch was Peter left a huge silent gap before the techno-y breakdown which got the crowd all whipped up into a frenzy a la Divided Sky. I thought that would close the set so Arcadia was a nice surprise.
Empress of Organos to open the second set was perfect. I don't have the timings yet but that Rosewood Heart went type 2 and I swear was over half an hour. Probably not but it was awesome! And straight from that into fucking Creatures! With that and Slow Ready it was a great night for autotune, which is incredible live.
Turned Clouds one and done encore, I really love that song.
Atlanta residents should be proud to have The Eastern as a venue. I think it's my favorite venue I've been to of that size. No seats but the balcony area is massive, and the key design element is there are TONS of railings to lean on, with spaces to set your drinks down. Like all over that balcony just loads of railings. I love leaning on a rail during a show. I bought a fancy mezzanine ticket for the show last night just because it was all I could get, and it was worth it, best place to watch the show.
i'm sure they'll crush tonight and i'll be sad i'm not there, but I couldn't be happier with the show I got last night. it's like they asked me for help to write the setlist.
Set 1: Jive II, Doc Brown, Atlas {1}, All I Need > Drive
Set 2: Echo of a Rose, Same Old Shenanigans > Dawn, The Old Man’s Boat > You and Whose Army {2} > Arrow {3} > Tomorrow Never Knows {4} > Doobie Song
Encore: Madhuvan {5}
Coach’s Notes: {1} The Wood Brothers {2} Radiohead {3} Unfinished {4} The Beatles {5} During the jam, the curtain closed while the band continued to shred and Goedde lit up the curtain like a painting
yeah looks like a killer show. SOS > Dawn is my most listened to track off Shenanigans Night Club, beautiful song. Jive II, All I Need, and Madhuvan also on my "want to see live list".
goose is such a young band that if you catch a two night run you'll likely see like 90% of the songs on your wishlist.
the curtain thing in tickmark 5 is cool. the curtain was closed on night one, and opened as "Flodown" was starting. cool to see they closed the run using the curtain to dramatic effect.
anyway this band is great, go see them, "Slow Ready" is their best song.
also before the show saturday i was talking to a guy, super nice, young. told him it was my first show and he got excited and started giving me the lay of the land: "they play a different setlist every night! like they don't close the show with the same big hit every night you know? and the songs don't sound like the albums, they play them different and really jam them, play them longer".
it was really sweet and i let him finish but i had to tell him i'm a phish fan so i know the drill. then we started talking about how good of a vocalist Rick was, and I went on a little monologue discussing the nuances of the various vocal abilities of members of the Dead, John Bell, Phish, etc., and he kind of got a distant look in his eyes.
stark reminder that i'm 40 years old and have been enmeshed in this scene for most of my life, and not every goose fan is showing up with a fully formed knowledge of all the history that preceded them. they just like goose so they go see them live. and that is great.
the crowd was great, i felt very at home. mostly young but some older. minimal chomping in the balcony. at the end of the show Peter asked how many were at their first Goose show, i'm not sang_xcx so not good with counting people but i'd venture it was 50% of the crowd at least.
final observation: trevor (bass) is like an ice sculpture, still and cool, very comforting to focus on if you are feeling anxious. rick has those greasy cool good looks and is a hell of a guitarist but doesn't put out much more charisma then trevor does. then you have peter who is one of the biggest goofballs i've ever seen live. dude is swaying and dancing and grinning, impossible not to smile looking at him.
