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City: Boston
State: MASSACHUSETTS
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Monday, October 26, 2009 
Here's a new/old local commercial we made for a driving range/mini golf joint in Columbia, MO:




You can read the rest of the road journal RIGHT HERE

More soon,
Team g
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Monday, October 19, 2009 
We've given Reverb a bunch of stuff to auction off to help support their cause.  You can bid on VIP tickets with meet & greets for each show on the upcoming tour (even the sold out ones), a signed acoustic guitar, and LAGF framed album cover rejects from 10 years ago.  Here's where to do your bidding:  www.charityfolks.com/guster09
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Friday, October 16, 2009 
Back in 1999 when Lost & Gone Forever came out, our tour manager was a former Guster bootlegger (he made "tapes") named Pasty.  Well, Pasty's all grows up and just had a (10 pound) baby named Max.  He's turned over his vast bootleg vaults to us and we're releasing them on our slightly redesigned website, a new one every month or two, free to download or stream.  Right now, he's got one from April 2000 in Portsmouth NH up there. Enjoy...


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Thursday, October 15, 2009 
We're getting in game shape for our Lost & Gone Forever Ten Year Anniversary Tour. If you like that album and want to see this show, we recommend a trip to Cincinnati OH or Rochester NY. The other shows on the tour have all sold out! Cinci Tix: http://bit.ly/48xlab / Rochester Tix: http://bit.ly/1o9M5H Team g

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Wednesday, September 23, 2009 
Billboard recently interviewed Adam Gardner about the upcoming "Lost and Gone Forever" tour and the new Guster songs. Here's the link for you: Billboard.com.

Enjoy!

Team G

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Friday, August 14, 2009 
Willie Nelson and the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance recognize environmental visionaries Adam Gardner & Lauren Sullivan of Reverb by presenting them with the 2009 SBA Visionary Award.  

Since 2008 the SBA has honored an individual and an organization for their efforts in the field of sustainability, through biodiesel.  Last year's recipients were the City of Portland, OR and City Commissioner Randy Leonard.  This year's award was presented to Adam and Lauren for their work with their environmental non-profit Reverb.  A visionary award was also presented to www.nearbio.com.  

The SBA is a non-profit organization that was founded in 2006 to develop standards for sustainability in the biodiesel industry and for public education on how sustainable biodiesel can help the US move towards a sustainable energy future.  

Reverb educates and engages musicians and their fans alike to take action toward a more sustainable future, through their website reverbrock.org and through work with music tours, like Guster's Campus Consciousness Tour.  To date Reverb has helped tours source over 376,000 gallons of biodiesel and prevented over 62,000 tons of carbon from being released into the atmosphere.  Since 2004, Reverb has worked on over 70 major tours and 1,100 events, helped artists and fans reduce or eliminate over 62,000 tons of CO2, fueled trucks and buses with over 375,000 gallons of biodiesel fuel, hosted 1,700 environmental groups in their interactive Eco-Village, and reached over 8 million fans.  

Nice work, Adam and Lauren!!
For more about Reverb go to: reverbrock.org






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Friday, July 24, 2009 
Gusterrhoids.



We have five more festival dates this summer before we go back into the studio and finish our album once and for all.  This weekend we're playing before Levon Helm in Connecticut and after Peter Bjorn & John and Aimee Mann in Philly.  Come out and say hi.  Here are the remaining summer dates:



July 25th in Bridgeport CT

Gathering of the Vibes
Tickets



July 26th in Camden NJ

XPoNential Music Fest
Tickets



July 31st in St Louis MO

Live on the Levee (FREE)



August 7th in Newport RI

Newport Yachting Center
Tickets



August 8th in Portland ME

Baystock Music Festival
Tickets




And thanks for the great response to the Lost & Gone Forever Ten Year Anniversary Tour.  You have spoken and we'll be playing the album in order.  It will be weird to see Fa Fa batting clean-up but it's the right thing to do.  The show at the Beacon Theater in NYC sold out right away so we've added a second night (Saturday, November 28th) and tickets are available now.



Those of you who want to attend the Halloween show in Boston at the Orpheum Theater should note that you can get tickets without a surcharge if you visit the Orpheum Theater Box Office between the hours of 10AM to 5PM Monday through Saturday.



Much love,



g

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Tuesday, July 14, 2009 
Gusterrhoids. 

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?

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. 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.

Tour dates, all lined up in a row:

10/28/09 - Charlotte, NC @ Neighborhood Theater / Tix / Facebook Event
10/29/09 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club / Tix / Facebook Event
10/30/09 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club / Tix / Facebook Event
10/31/09 - Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theater / Tix / Facebook Event
11/04/09 - Cincinnati, OH @ Madison Theatre / Tix / Facebook Event
11/05/09 - Cleveland, OH @ House of Blues / Tix / Facebook Event
11/06/09 - Rochester, NY @ Armory / Tix / Facebook Event
11/07/09 - Burlington, VT @ Higher Ground / Tix / Facebook Event
11/27/09 - New York, NY @ Beacon Theater / Tix / Facebook Event

Some facts about the above 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... you can get tickets here, on sale Friday July 17th:

http://www.ticketmaster.com/Guster-tickets/artist/781894

http://www.livenation.com/artist/guster-tickets/

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

g





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Thursday, June 18, 2009 
It's festival season, Gusterrhoids!

That means we're playing with Skynyrd and the Doobie Brothers on Sunday in Alabama (no kidding).  And playing a free set after Rusted Root in Atlanta this Saturday night (wait, are *we* a nostalgia band too?) ... and playing in Mississippi for the first time in ten years on Friday.

So come on and out and see us.  And Lynyrd Skynyrd.  By the way, anyone know the over/under on how long "Sweet Home Alabama" runs when it's actually played *in* Alabama?  I said twelve minutes, but other people tell me fifteen's a safe bet.  I know when we play "Ramona" in the state of Oklahoma we jam that shit out for twenty sometimes.

Other summer festivals are in the cards too, including a new FREE SHOW IN ST LOUIS JULY 31st.  See the whole list below.

6/19/09 – Jackson, MS @ Jubilee Jam Festival...TIX
6/20/09 – Atlanta, GA @ MidSummer Music Fest...FREE SHOW
6/21/09 – Birmingham, AL @ City Stages...TIX
7/02/09 – Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest...TIX
7/04/09 – Chicago, IL @ Taste of Chicago @ Grant Park...FREE SHOW
7/05/09 – Rothbury, MI @ Rothbury Festival...TIX
7/19/09 – Denver, CO @ Mile High Fest...TIX 
7/25/09 – Bridgeport, CT @ Gathering of the Vibes...TIX
7/26/09 – Camden, NJ @ XPoNential Music Festival...TIX
7/31/09 – St. Louis, MO @ St. Louis Riverfront...FREE SHOW
8/07/09 – Newport, RI @ Newport Yachting Center...TIX
8/08/09 – Portland, ME @ Baystock Music Festival...TIX


And inbetween those shows we're going to be working on our album.  Promise.  Much love.

g
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Monday, April 13, 2009 
Here's our summer schedule, for now, Gusterrhoids... yes, that's a Mississippi date on top!



6/19/09 - Jackson, MS @ Jubilee Jam Festival...Tix TBA / Facebook

6/20/09 - Atlanta, GA @ MidSummer Music Fest at Candler Park...Free / Facebook

6/21/09 - Birmingham, AL @ City Stages...Free / Facebook

7/02/09 - Milwaukee, WI @ Summerfest...Tix / Facebook

7/04/09 - Chicago, IL @ Taste of Chicago...Free / Facebook

7/05/09 - Rothbury, MI @ Rothbury Music Festival (exact show date TBA)...Facebook

7/19/09 - Denver, CO @ Mile High Fest...Tix / Facebook

7/25/09 - Bridgeport, CT @ Gathering of the Vibes...Tix / Facebook

8/07/09 - Newport, RI @ Newport Yachting Center...Tix / Facebook

8/08/09 - Portland, ME @ Baystock Festival...Tix on sale 4/22 / Facebook



They're all weekend festivals, as far as I can tell. Levon Helm of The Band goes on after us in Bridgeport, and we'll be the ones obnoxiously pushing our way through the crowd to get to the front row for his set, stepping on heels and spilling beers if necessary to get there.



Right now we're on the road, however, writing in the road journal, tweeting, and playing in the pocket. If you're planning to come see us over the next few weeks, be sure to participate in the clothing drives and check out Reverb's daytime schedules for campus activities.



Much love,



g


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