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Pre-gaming Bonnaroo with Goose at Legend Valley in Ohio for two nights this weekend. Really glad they came back to this venue this year — such a great site. Being camped here makes me look forward to Bonnaroo for so many reasons, but this weekend is really nice too since it’s family-friendly enough for us to bring our tiny daughters.
Drunken ramblings may or may not ensue. Happy weekend before Roo, y’all.
Credit to livesbydryshampoo for doing the impossible and getting me into a jamband.
Post by livesbydryshampoo on Jun 10, 2022 22:41:54 GMT -5
This camping setup is amazing. We did set 1 in the venue with the kids and came back around 10:30 at the break to put them to sleep. Now we’re sitting in our campsite gazebo next to our sleeping tent and about the same distance from the stage - possibly closer if the Lost Lands dinosaur wasn’t moved - than we sat in a COVID pod last year. It’s like being in the back of the What but with the comfort of your own campsite.
Update from Legend Valley — Goose is doing its daytime soundcheck now, which is amounting to a bonus mini-set. They’re absolutely crushing Herbie Hancock’s Canteloupe Island. I wonder if they’ll play it at Roo as an homage — I hope so.
Last night was fun — lots of new songs. “Butterflies,” which looks to be brand new (?) — the girls loved that one. Little else I knew from the studio albums, but some amazing live versions of Creatures and Red Bird. The recorded versions never grabbed me, but these two stood out last night. I’ll post links if I come across live versions later.
Just editing this post to quickly say that the Dripfield songs translate very well live — they played a lot of them on the second night. (Borne was excellent. I liked Arrow a lot. Dripfield itself was good — was wishing for Hungersite.) It’s worth seeing them tour on this album.
I am also getting way too into this band. I went to the Bonnaroo set sober as a judge, so I fell confident in saying it was one of the best sets I’ve ever seen at Bonnaroo — on par with Caribou 2015 for me.
This was my ninth Goose set so far, just coming off of the more obscure songs in the Legend Valley sets this year. It was amazing to finally get Hot Tea, the best version of Arcadia I’ve ever seen, Arrow, Dripfield, and on and on. Very much a “just play the hits” festival set (as much as a jam band does that), and I loved it all.
excerpt from a new music friday bit i sent to a friend.
im so thankful we get to be here for the rise of Goose, and they do their studio stuff so well. i think that’s going to be key in their growth bc it’s just enough to get a taste of them but incredibly easy to digest and will likely leave more and more people interested
it’s fun to be able to cut this album on and already know the songs but just have them slimmed down and slightly worked on. so damn good
slightly more serious response, i think it's the songwriting. while they have plenty of songs that are fun, few of them suffer from the supposed sins of jamband songwriting, meaning most of them don't sound like children's songs written by young men on drugs (except for "Time to Flee" which my friend's kid loves to sing in the car). But the songs also aren't trying to be higher art or super "progressive rock" like Umphrey's. The songs contain elements of fun groovy dancey bops but with emotional moments that can either be quiet or loud. they don't have any songs that are just "jam vehicles", by which i mean songs that are basically just a cool riff that leads into a big jam, and otherwise doesn't have any redeemable qualities. Looking at you Tweezer. Although sometimes that works (looking at you Tweezer), too many bad jambands think that's all they need, when what they really need are good pop songs. For decades the jam scene has put too much emphasis on the length or variety of jams and not enough on solid pop songwriting.
it's like goose is delivering what's so fun about jambands (long interesting jams, different setlists every night, long shows, fun covers) and delivering them in a package that's actually pleasant to open up and learn about. you don't have to see 10+ shows and listen to 50+ more show recordings before you "get it". you get it right away because it's just good music.
slightly more serious response, i think it's the songwriting. while they have plenty of songs that are fun, few of them suffer from the supposed sins of jamband songwriting, meaning most of them don't sound like children's songs written by young men on drugs (except for "Time to Flee" which my friend's kid loves to sing in the car). But the songs also aren't trying to be higher art or super "progressive rock" like Umphrey's. The songs contain elements of fun groovy dancey bops but with emotional moments that can either be quiet or loud. they don't have any songs that are just "jam vehicles", by which i mean songs that are basically just a cool riff that leads into a big jam, and otherwise doesn't have any redeemable qualities. Looking at you Tweezer. Although sometimes that works (looking at you Tweezer), to many bad jambands think that's all they need, when what they really need are good pop songs. For decades the jam scene has put too much emphasis on the length or variety of jams and not enough on solid pop songwriting.
it's like goose is delivering what's so fun about jambands (long interesting jams, different setlists every night, long shows, fun covers) and delivering them in a package that's actually pleasant to open up and learn about. you don't have to see 10+ shows and listen to 50+ more show recordings before you "get it". you get it right away because it's just good music.
slightly more serious response, i think it's the songwriting. while they have plenty of songs that are fun, few of them suffer from the supposed sins of jamband songwriting, meaning most of them don't sound like children's songs written by young men on drugs (except for "Time to Flee" which my friend's kid loves to sing in the car). But the songs also aren't trying to be higher art or super "progressive rock" like Umphrey's. The songs contain elements of fun groovy dancey bops but with emotional moments that can either be quiet or loud. they don't have any songs that are just "jam vehicles", by which i mean songs that are basically just a cool riff that leads into a big jam, and otherwise doesn't have any redeemable qualities. Looking at you Tweezer. Although sometimes that works (looking at you Tweezer), to many bad jambands think that's all they need, when what they really need are good pop songs. For decades the jam scene has put too much emphasis on the length or variety of jams and not enough on solid pop songwriting.
it's like goose is delivering what's so fun about jambands (long interesting jams, different setlists every night, long shows, fun covers) and delivering them in a package that's actually pleasant to open up and learn about. you don't have to see 10+ shows and listen to 50+ more show recordings before you "get it". you get it right away because it's just good music.
This was actually why I didn't initially like them as much as some of the other jam bands who were offering soaring renditions of whatever - Umphrey's, Lotus, STS9, Phish, Spafford, etc. But now that I've seen them live and realize that it's not really all that packaged once they come out and play, I'll try to catch them whenever they come through town or whenever I'm at a festival which they are playing.
slightly more serious response, i think it's the songwriting. while they have plenty of songs that are fun, few of them suffer from the supposed sins of jamband songwriting, meaning most of them don't sound like children's songs written by young men on drugs (except for "Time to Flee" which my friend's kid loves to sing in the car). But the songs also aren't trying to be higher art or super "progressive rock" like Umphrey's. The songs contain elements of fun groovy dancey bops but with emotional moments that can either be quiet or loud. they don't have any songs that are just "jam vehicles", by which i mean songs that are basically just a cool riff that leads into a big jam, and otherwise doesn't have any redeemable qualities. Looking at you Tweezer. Although sometimes that works (looking at you Tweezer), to many bad jambands think that's all they need, when what they really need are good pop songs. For decades the jam scene has put too much emphasis on the length or variety of jams and not enough on solid pop songwriting.
it's like goose is delivering what's so fun about jambands (long interesting jams, different setlists every night, long shows, fun covers) and delivering them in a package that's actually pleasant to open up and learn about. you don't have to see 10+ shows and listen to 50+ more show recordings before you "get it". you get it right away because it's just good music.
This was actually why I didn't initially like them as much as some of the other jam bands who were offering soring renditions of whatever - Umphrey's, Lotus, STS9, Phish, Spafford, etc. But now that I've seen them live and realize that it's not really all that packaged once they come out and play, I'll try to catch them whenever they come through town or whenever I'm at a festival which they are playing.
yeah i can see someone who already loves jambands listening to Goose and thinking they are almost too slick. but as you note jam fans like you and me can see one show and understand they have the goods.
Absolutely. We see so much jam that it just takes a little bit of a personal live sample to form a reasonable conclusion. Them making my #4 at Roo confirmed for me that I was being judgmental and needed to just step back and see the damn show.
Post by Nathan Fieldcяab on Jun 25, 2022 22:06:14 GMT -5
According to setlist.fm, they did their cover of Father John Misty's I'm Writing a Novel tonight and brought FJM out to do it with them. King shit; hope we get a repeat of that at THING fest (they're both playing it)
Also very much looking forward to hearing their acoustic covers of Wake Up and Atlantic City, really jealous of people who get to be there
According to setlist.fm, they did their cover of Father John Misty's I'm Writing a Novel tonight and brought FJM out to do it with them. King shit; hope we get a repeat of that at THING fest (they're both playing it)
Also very much looking forward to hearing their acoustic covers of Wake Up and Atlantic City, really jealous of people who get to be there
Yeah...it was great
I keep trying to link to the video but it doesn't seem to work
According to setlist.fm, they did their cover of Father John Misty's I'm Writing a Novel tonight and brought FJM out to do it with them. King shit; hope we get a repeat of that at THING fest (they're both playing it)
Also very much looking forward to hearing their acoustic covers of Wake Up and Atlantic City, really jealous of people who get to be there
Yeah...it was great
I keep trying to link to the video but it doesn't seem to work
According to setlist.fm, they did their cover of Father John Misty's I'm Writing a Novel tonight and brought FJM out to do it with them. King shit; hope we get a repeat of that at THING fest (they're both playing it)
Also very much looking forward to hearing their acoustic covers of Wake Up and Atlantic City, really jealous of people who get to be there
I’m was coming here to post about this but you had me beat. Jesus Christ such dopeness
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