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Herzog on Waldo
If you've ever seen Grizzly Man, Encounters at the End of the World, or any other of Werner Herzog's documentaries, his irritating voice-over narration may either make you ponder about life's depths or make you want to cover your ears. Here's a spoof:
Guster!
Describing Guster is a difficult task. The group with 3 core members who met in university can be called a college band, an alternative rock band, but that categorizes them with much much less worthy bands.
With most indie-type bands I can tell you the story of how I "discovered" them but with Guster I totally forget. I know it was during the last few years of high school though.
A few nights ago I went to the Phoenix concert theatre in Toronto (a venue I dislike very much) expecting to hear some good ol' songs. Well, it turned out to be one of the top 5 concerts I've ever been to. The best concerts plaster a smile to my face and at the end of this one I had a huge grin and was skipping down the street to the subway station.
In another post I mentioned that concerts aren't just for hearing music - if I wanted that I could just listen to it at home or on an ipod (and, in the case of bad artists, I wouldn't have to put up with off-key singing either) - they have to be entertaining. Let me list the things that Guster performed to entertain:
1. They had a guy come out in a hot dog costume in the middle of the thing.
2. They didn't bother with an encore the first time. Adam Gardner said something along the lines of "Goodnight!" signifying that the concert was over. He then turned his back to the crowd, then turned around again and said into the mic, "Okay, we're back."
3. The harmonic singing. Wow, it's so refreshing to not hear only one voice.
4. Luke Reynolds recently joined the band, so a whole crowd shouting 'Luke!' sounded like 'Boo!' (Adam Gardner pointed this out)
5. Brian (the drummer's) perfectly horrible rendition of Under the Bridge as a final encore.
6. The switching of many guitars. Banjos. Trumpets.
7. Brian plays crazy drums with his hands.
8. The crowd. There were some really excited fans. The last two concerts I went to there, the crowd was really snobby (it was probably because of the artists who were playing there). Since Guster have been around for quite a while, there was a good mixture of old and young fans.
I didn't take any photos or videos but I'm sure you can search for them :)
