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Posted in music | tour dates on July 15, 2009

Guster playing 'Lost & Gone Forever' - 2009 tour dates

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It's been ten years since we released Lost & Gone Forever, the album that put us on peoples' radars, helped us graduate from our van to a bus, and taught me to fill my finger cuts with krazy glue.

To celebrate, we're turning the clock back to 1999 and announcing the Lost & Gone Forever Ten Year Anniversary Tour -- 9 very special evenings with Guster. No opener. Two sets, one of which will be the album in its entirety. Yes, even Two Points for Honesty and Rainy Day. I haven't decided if we should play the album in order or in shuffle mode. Any thoughts? [Guster]

The final date on that tour will be a show at NYC's Beacon Theatre on Friday, November 27th. Tickets are on AmEx presale now. General sale starts Friday, July 17th at noon. More from the band about the album and tour, with all tour dates, below...

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Some facts about the album, mangled together in one chunky paragraph with no flow:

* Produced by Steve Lillywhite, who was our #1, I Can't Believe He Said Yes, dream producer choice. We played Woodstock '99 right before the album came out, well before we were ready to play a show that big, and mere hours before people set the place on fire. The Barenaked Ladies liked the album and brought us on tour with them, thus doubling the size and Canadian-ness of our following. Karl Denson played sax on Fa Fa, one take, that was it. There were no drum sticks used on the album, only hand drums, and I said so in the liner notes -- Ryan would later make fun of me for including this detail in the album package. We recently found another band's album with the same cover photo of the boy throwing the big rock on the piano (first person to reply with the name of the photographer who took that photo gets two free tickets to the Rochester show). Paige from Phish played theremin on All the Way Up to Heaven. We almost didn't put Happier on the record. What You Wish For and Rainy Day were featured in the movie "Life as a House," which is about cancer. When we toured with Ben Folds in the summer of 2004 he made All the Way Up to Heaven sound so good with his piano chops we never played the song again after that.
Some facts about the tour dates:
This will be the only real Guster headlining tour of 2009. There are no west coast dates, or Texas dates. The only shows near the midwest are two dates in Ohio. The only show in the south is in Charlotte NC. For those of you who find this tour appealing but live in places we're not visiting, we feel your pain. We are visiting some venues of historical significance -- Higher Ground in Vermont, though in a new location now, was where we launched the original Lost & Gone Forever tour. The Orpheum, in Boston, was where we put on an epic Halloween show ten years ago where we wore tuxes and pretended it was New Year's Eve, Y2K. The Beacon in New York, while a relatively new venue for us, harkens back to a time when we played Thanksgiving Weekend in NYC five years in a row. We encourage you all to get your tickets early as these shows will probably sell out...

We will all have the same clothes, facial hair, and hair cuts we had ten years ago on this tour. Promise. Even Joe.

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Guster - 2009 Tour Dates
07.19 Denver, CO Mile High Festival
07.25 Bridgeport, CT Gathering of the Vibes
07.26 Camden, NJ XPoNential Music Festival Wiggins Park
07.31 St. Louis, MO St. Louis Riverfront Free Show
08.07 Newport, RI Newport Yachting Center
08.08 Portland, ME Baystock Music Festival Maine State Pier
10.28 Charlotte, NC Neighborhood Theatre #
10.29 Washington DC 9:30 Club #
10.30 Washington DC 9:30 Club #
10.31 Boston, MA Orpheum Theatre #
11.04 Covington, KY Madison Theatre #
11.05 Cleveland, OH House of Blues #
11.06 Rochester, NY The Armory #
11.07 Burlington, VT Higher Ground #
11.27 New York, NY Beacon Theatre #
# Lost & Gone Forever Ten Year Anniversary Tour

Tags: Beacon Theater, Guster
posted at 4:09 PM on July 15, 2009 in music | tour dates | Comments (25)

Comments (25)

jesus christ..what is with every band and their gimmick tours playing an album in full..

what's next, Vivian Girls playing "Everything Goes Wrong" in order?

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 4:24 PM

Without ever having actually heard a note of guster, I can tell you authoritatively that they are one of the worst bands ever. I know this based solely on the type of people I have known through my life that have liked them...the same type of people who loved Barenaked Ladies.

Please discontinue coverage of this tripe.

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 4:26 PM

Guster is such a horrible assault on the ears. They should be put out of their misery for all our sakes.

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 4:27 PM

I am sorry people are FORCING You to listen to guster.

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 4:32 PM

no 'i' in Page from Phish.

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 4:47 PM

Wow, what a bunch of judgmental twats wasting their time commenting about a band that they either hate or *think* they hate because of the people they *knew* who listened to them. To the second poster, I'm sorry that your skanky, ex-girlfriend who blew your best friend was a HUGE fan. Bwaahahahahaha.

Posted by hEyWoOd JaBlOwMe | July 15, 2009 4:47 PM

Yeah Guster's coming to Newport, RI! I'm buying my tickets now!

http://www.newportwaterfrontevents.com/sunset-music-series/guster-sunset-music-series.htm

Posted by Steve | July 15, 2009 4:55 PM

the next one: Vampire Weekend playing VW

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 4:56 PM

dude plays drums with his fingers.

Posted by jan janson | July 15, 2009 4:58 PM

I'm at a loss for words. Usually when I want to say how bad a band is, I say "they're worse than Guster". What do I do now?

They should get Train to open up for them. Train and Guster are the bands I listen to when I want chicks to know that I am sensitive, but I still like backwards baseball hats and raping.

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 5:02 PM

last record wasn't bad. still going to be a fratdouchestravangza

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 5:05 PM

Um ok, so Guster's "Lost & Gone Forever."

The reason that I like this record so much, uh, aside from the fact that it's amazing is, um, I feel like it was kind of overlooked when it actually came out and now it's like this absolute classic record. But, uh, when it was actually reviewed, when it came out, it really didn't do very...I mean it did well, but it didn't do extremely well. Rolling Stone at the time gave it like..I think 2 out of 5 stars or something like that. And then when they re-released it they said it was 5 out of 5 stars, when they did the next review. But it was just a very important record in my formidable years and, um, it's a classic pop record.

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 5:07 PM

Guster is fantastic at writing great 4 minute pop songs. But apparently no one likes those anymore....

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 6:18 PM

guster is a great band, all of you SHADDAP

Posted by Slob | July 15, 2009 7:03 PM

Gusted sucks and blows

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 7:31 PM

guster fans are the fucking meathead yuppie big university types who love their college football. yea fucking cool!

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 10:05 PM

brooklynvegan fans are the fucking meathead yuppie big university types who love their college football. yea fucking cool!

Posted by Anonymous | July 15, 2009 10:09 PM

I would venture to say Guster is better than 75% of the bands that get headlines here...

Posted by Anonymous | July 16, 2009 12:53 PM

c'mon y'all...erase the hate.

Posted by ck | July 17, 2009 1:33 AM

What's with everyone bashing on Guster? If you don't like them...then don't waste your time making yourself feel important by telling everyone so. They're doing something they love to do, which is make music. I'm sure no one is going around on message boards bashing your job are they?

You don't have to listen to a band if you don't like them. Personally, I've been to a lot of Guster shows and they are one of the better bands I've seen live. They're unique and interesting and hilarious. I'm wicked pumped for this show and I'm sure there are a lot of other people who are also pumped! Guster rules!

Posted by Andy Cook | July 17, 2009 1:28 PM

Say what you will about this band, but their first show sold right the fuck out and they added a second. Proving once again that whiny, jobless, angsty commenters really don't amount to much more than a shit pile

Posted by Anonymous | July 17, 2009 2:09 PM

i thought all the commentors were chained to desk jobs?

Posted by Anonymous | July 17, 2009 2:21 PM

i don't understand the hostility.. ? they've got great energy and serious musical talent, all of them on multiple instruments. i also things it's beautiful that they put so much into a non-profit, environmental awareness program.

if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. all the negativity is such a waste of energy!

Posted by anon | July 28, 2009 11:54 AM

GUSTER FUCKIN ROCKS. YEAAAAA

Posted by BOR | September 29, 2009 8:23 PM

Interesting that all the hateful posts were anonymous. Show yourself, pussies.

Posted by Anonymous | September 22, 2010 2:42 PM

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