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