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Drummer Brian Rosenworcel and his Guster bandmates (shown here in 2007) will be in town Saturday to perform their 1999 breakthrough album, “Lost and Gone Forever.’’
(Michael Temchine/The New York Times/File 2007 ) |
G FORCE | GUSTER’S BRIAN ROSENWORCEL
Guster, 10 years after
Ten years ago three guys who formed a pop-rock band at Tufts University released their major label debut album, “Lost and Gone Forever.’’ This Saturday night Guster parties like it’s 1999 - and joins a growing trend - when it celebrates the album’s anniversary by playing it in its entirety at a sold-out Orpheum Theatre. Drummer Brian Rosenworcel, on the phone from Brooklyn, told us last week that he’s looking forward to reacquainting himself with what turned out to be Guster’s breakthrough release, thanks to hits “Barrel of a Gun’’ and “Fa Fa.’’ “There are things I like about those songs and things I don’t, but they’re all very genuine and earnest,’’ he says of “Lost.’’ “It sounds like a band that’s not thinking about it too much, it’s just doing it. So it will be good for us to revisit.’’ The band will return to the recording studio after this tour and expects to have a new album out in 2010.
Q. Why is everyone doing this? You know that everyone is doing this, right?
A. I didn’t know anyone was doing it, I thought we were the first. [Laughs]. And then I heard about Built to Spill and the Pixies.
Q. Plus Van Morrison, Aerosmith, Steely Dan, the Lemonheads, a lot of folks.
A. You’re naming bands that are a lot older than us and a lot more well-known than us so now I’m starting to question where Guster is in our history. Are we old? I just turned 36!
Q. Do you want an honest answer?
A. [Laughs] I know. But we’re still making good music. I’m not saying Aerosmith’s last album wasn’t awesome. I didn’t hear it.
Q. Is there a band you would like to see do this?
A. I’d love to see Uncle Tupelo reform and play “Still Feels Gone.’’ I know those guys will never do it.
Q. I hear there’s a song called “Yacht Rock’’ on the new album. True?
A. Our working titles are often very basic and reflect the overall tone of the song. So we do have a song that is really yacht rocky in the best way possible.
Q. Define “best way’’ - does that mean more “What a Fool Believes’’ and less “Sailing’’?
A. [Laughs] I wouldn’t be lying if I said we had put in a call to Michael McDonald to be a guest falsetto on it.
Q. Will he?
A. I don’t think so, I don’t think we have the connections. [Laughs]
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