SOUNDTRACK: GUSTER-Lost and Gone Forever Live (2014).
In 2014, Guster released three CDs of them playing their early CDs live in their entirety (excluding for some reason their second disc Goldfly). This is their third CD ‘Lost and Gone Forever’ recorded live in concert, ten years after its release.
I’m not sure why they don’t say what show it is from, unless they picked the best recordings from a tour? He does mention Boston at one point, but not sure if the whole show was recorded there.
As with the other two releases, the sound is great. On “Barrel of a Gun” you can really hear the bongos.
There are a few more guests, which again, makes me think it’s different shows. Ryan says “We’re inviting a bunch of people to help with instrumentation. Donnie and Amy are going to play strings” [on “Either Way”]. And later, “Fa Fa” has an amazing horn section.
For “All the Way Up to Heaven,” Ryan introduces, “Alright snow kitty bring up the children. It’s 10 o’clock. It’s late. Did you teach them the big rock move at the end? That’s the most important part of the song.”
Like the other discs, they thank everyone for coming out and supporting this album. He talks about how when they first started playing in 1991 they were all skinnier and had more hair. They had no idea that so many years later they would still be together and be selling out shows. “It’s a humbling experience.”
Incidentally when they announced this tenth anniversary tour, they made a video announcement.
[READ: May 31, 2018] “Silver Tiger”
This story involves realism and magical realism.
The narrator Ah Yang, is an adult looking back on his childhood when he lived with Deaf Granny. He was sent to her early and only rarely saw his parents.
He first saw the titular Silver Tiger near a well pond by Deaf Granny’s house. Well ponds are an ancient water storage system in China. They are shaped like pools but are the depth of wells. It was always off-limits to him Deaf Granny feared that if he fell in there’d be no saving him (not unreasonable). But that’s all he wanted to do after he first saw it.
It became even more enticing when a local boy found a turtle in a neighbor’s well pond. Oh how the narrator wanted his own turtle. (more…)
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