Great article on a great jam band - Goose - in The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2024/06/goose-jam-band-dead-and-company/678742/?utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
THE IMPROBABLE, UNSTOPPABLE RISE OF GOOSE
Meet the jam band that just might persuade you to love a jam band.
By Charlie Warzel
JUNE 22, 2024, 7 AM ET
For the sake of brevity, lets skip the first verse and the chorus. Lets jump over some ambient noodling and the gradual building of musical tension. Lets begin, in jam-band parlance, on a peak, a moment of sonic culmination. Lets begin at Radio City Music Hall on June 25, 2022. Specifically, were two hours and 12 minutes into the evening when the house lights come up, a red-haired 57-year-old man with a guitar walks onstage, and all 6,000 people in attendance collectively lose their minds as they realize what they are witnessing.
The redhead is the Phish front man Trey Anastasio. But this isnt a Phish show. The headliner tonight is Goose, a band of five 30-somethings in the midst of a meteoric rise. This is Gooses second-straight sold-out show at Radio City; just three years and three days earlier, the band was playing at Kennys Westside Pub, in Peoria, Illinois.
In his first song with the band, Anastasio, one of the best guitarists of his or any era, holds back, letting Gooses guitarist, Rick Mitarotonda, lead complex improvisations. As the pair continue to trade riffs, a grin appears on Anastasios face. Typically, a visitor of his stature would play just a couple of songs before taking a bow. But after two, he leans into Mitarotonda to whisper a few words the audience cant hear. When the huddle breaks, Mitarotonda smiles wryly. Hes gonna stay, he tells the ecstatic crowd. They play together for another hour.
If you dont know much about Phish, Goose, or the jam scene, the significance of Anastasios presence might be hard to parse. The Radio City show was a landmark moment for Goosea signal to anyone with a passing interest in the genre that it was time to take the band seriously.
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A couple of my earlier threads about Goose:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/103471347
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1034103686