Goose

Yeah.

Well, Goose is back.

You're back.

You know, we had a lot of... criticisms uh at the end of summer tour i think and a lot of pain points uh with with a lot of the shows and at least for me big picture you know watching last night and listening back today it feels as though there there was an effort in last night's show and an energy in last night's show that i don't think we saw very much of in august

Because it just feels, like, well-crafted.

If this was kind of just thrown together, I would be shocked.

Although, you know, it is Goose, after all.

Generally, they don't follow the set list.

Yep, that is actually one of the things that we're going to cover today.

But more than anything, I think we're going to cover a really, really exciting time in Goose's history.

I think there were lots of, it was all kind of happening at this point.

You know, there was a sense of wonder from the band.

Anyway, so we talked about in May how some of the ideas that started to kind of germinate in fall 2020 were starting to come to fruition, and there was the introduction of that Ted Tapes jamming style.

And so this June tour is like the next step in that evolution.

So an important thing, at least, that we want to illustrate here is the period from, I think – fall 2019 through march 2022 every tour was like stepping forward stepping forward expanding the palette in terms of improv like what can we do differently how can we build on what we did in the in the previous tour so what we see over this run in june which was also to note their last socially distanced tour so all these shows were still drive-ins and pods um is just those ideas from May coming to fruition and the introduction of new, very pivotal moments for Goose.

Yeah, so setting the stage a little bit, what they're thinking about when they're looking out at this crowd They have arenas on the horizon.

Some of the biggest names in jam band music right now.

You have Rick from Goose.

You have Taylor and Griffin Goldsmith of Dawes.

Plus you have people from bands like Soul Live, Phil and Friends, and Circles Around the Sun.

They never seem to add up to the sum of the parts.

But I feel like this group actually does deliver on what you would want from these musicians if you are fans of these musicians.

Goose in particular is a band that I think...

It has really functioned well in the studio, contrary to what jam bands normally do.

Having their own experiences?

I always think about it with like, The band Geese, for example.

Yeah.

Everyone in my world, my little world, is like, Geese, man.

Right? And when you look at their monthly listeners...

You're like, that's a lot of monthly listeners, I guess.

up.

Dude, Goose is one of my favorite bands in the world.

You gotta listen to them.

No, my best friend Scott loves them, but I haven't listened to them

And all of the jam bands do it at this point.

You know, I got to imagine that there's thousands and thousands of goose fans out there who go to the show and hear cotter playing four on the floor at you know for the second half of the second set they call it goons you know it's uns in our scene but over there they call it goons um and i've just got to imagine that 95 of the people that are there who are who are you know a lot of them are younger kids and a lot of them are kind of gen x you know dudes who weren't into the jam band scene.

They're kind of more into Dave Matthews, which is a huge influence for Goose.

And here they are playing this kind of style that we invented, which is four on the floor, house beats with shredding guitar over the top of it and kind of looping synths and stuff.

and they're out there doing it at msg and you know spac and and all these massive venues and so i gotta assume that there's just thousands and thousands of people out there who are hearing this style of music that we invented and not aware of where not connecting it yeah right but but um you know it's like that's that's our legacy and you know i think part of being a part of that being our legacy is you know us still being here and still spreading that you know it's like we're my one of my goals um over the next bunch of years is that all of those people do find out.

They do connect it eventually.

Where Goose got that from.

And it's happening.