Guster Between Two Ferns
The Acoustic Tour has begun. If you follow Ryan on Twitter you know we’ve been promising aftershow passes to people who bring certain requested items to the show. We started with plants in Salt Lake...
View ArticleBongos & Blizzards, Baby!
After days and days of blue skies, temperatures in the 60s, and spring skiing at the Crested Butte Resort in Colorado, we showed up and played a concert outside during a ferocious blizzard on Sunday....
View ArticleGirl Energy
The other night in a pleasant little suburban village north of Philly our opener finished at 8:30 and the stage was set and ready to go soon after that, so we thought, being a weeknight, we’d go on at...
View ArticleMichael Landon / Squid / Billy Corgan
Last night at the Sheldon Theater in St Louis Ryan asked people to bring “framed art” to help decorate the stage. As it turns out, the people who read Ryan’s Twitter feed and bring these items end up...
View ArticleGarlin
Jeff Garlin only lasted a few nights on the bus before he decided he was taking planes and trains to the rest of the shows on the tour, but he still got a little adventurous last night in DC and went...
View ArticleWelcome, twin Rosenworcel sons of mine
I don’t know how to make the stupid iPhoto gray frame go away — my mom emailed it to me like that. Twin boys! My sons, Marshal and Nico, arrived last week. 7 pounds and 3 ounces apiece. They are...
View ArticleJosh is eating a microwaved bagel at the Johnson City TN airport
The title pretty much says it all. We played a show to like 300 people last night in a giant arena at ETSU (that’s Eastern Tennessee State University). We hadn’t been to Johnson City since we opened...
View ArticleEverything Is Big in Texas
Big cars! Big slices of white bread with your bbq! Big 116 ounce sodas at gas stations! Even the cross that hangs over the church pulpit where a band of Jews are performing songs about Jesus is big....
View ArticleGeorgia Is for Lovers
The morning after our first Atlanta show I found myself in the quaint mountain town of Dahlonega GA, which is only about an hour from downtown Atlanta (six hours with traffic). Home to North Georgia...
View ArticleBloomington (Indiana)
I remember seeing this tweet from Ryan at some point on Monday… Then I went to Google Maps and did the math — we had a 9pm show in Bloomington Indiana that night, it was 5:30, and he was 3 hours and...
View ArticleGrand Rapids Is For Lovers
We just had a nice run of four shows to get ready for the summer, including a giant show with Dispatch in a Chicago arena where our vocals were distorting the whole night and there was nothing we could...
View ArticleAmarillo TX: Just For Men (Part 1)
Our first proper day off on this tour and it’s in Amarillo TX, which is the halfway point between Dallas and Denver, and a city I’ve never been to. I set off to explore on foot this morning but don’t...
View ArticleAmarillo TX: Just For Men (Part 2)
Where did we leave off? Ryan borrowed a truck from a guy named Jesse in Amarillo who answered his tweet. Jesse will get a care package of GUSTER bumper stickers, road journal books from 2003,...
View ArticleThe year was 1974.
The year was 1974. Ryan Miller was wearing the same shirt and pants he’d worn the night before at the Greek Theater. One of those statements is true, anyway. Thanks to Charlene and April, our...
View ArticleMontana
O port o pottyWhat lies beneath — discover!Your sunken treasures (that is a haiku because the syllables go 5 then 7 then 5) (let me explain) This is my 11th road journal about port o potties. I am...
View ArticleBaby, I’m a Firework
We will let @KariPizza, a Milwaukee native and a bartender at Summerfest, narrate this road journal: Not every show, @KariPizza, just the important ones. And it’s no secret we are huge fans of...
View ArticleToronto
I went home for a couple days while the bus rolled on to Canada for two days off this week. Look at this picture of the flooding that occurred in Toronto right before the band arrived: It made getting...
View ArticleSailing the Seas of Cheese
Last night in Charleston SC, Ryan told the story of how members of Guster joined members of BNL on a boat that day, singing along to a mix of yacht rock favorites and enjoying the view of the city from...
View ArticleOil-spotted
This might be the last road journal for a little while. Let’s go out with a bang. Everyone remembers rule #1 of tour bus living, right? No dropping #2′s on the bus. That is, unless you poop in a bag...
View ArticleLessons from Parachute @ 20… by Brian “Thundergod” Rosenworcel
On Sunday we played our college album Parachute from start to finish, live at a bowling alley in Brooklyn. Twice. It’d been 20 years since we recorded those eleven tunes while earning incompletes...
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