Photo-illustration: Vulture; Photo: Juliana Bernstein
Goose has been together for over a decade, so the band is more than Ready for Overnight Success.
The Growing Army of Dedicated Fans Honking About This Connecticut-Based Group (Now a Quartes Following a somewhat dramatic Reduction in Personnel) is louder than ever, so if you thught you couuuld Ignore yet another goofy-seering band with longs and a Complex internal lore (what is “Goosemine“?), Think Again. Goose is Clearly here to Stay.
JUST AS BEING KNOWN AN HEIR TO THE GRATEFUL DEAD WAS A BESSING AND A CURSE FOR PHISH IN THE ’90S, ITHE’S EASY TO SY GOOSE, WHICH HAS AMASSED A Fiercely Loyal Following, is the New Phish. Co-Headline A Short Tour With Phish Front Man Trey Anastasio in Late 2022, as well as a Shared Penchant for EXXPECTED COUNTRY AND RELESING Soundboard mixes and pro-shot of ther shows for obsessive fan scrutiny, doesn’t aid in dispelling the myth. Thing.
Goose has natural pop tendencies, mixing synthesizers and occisional auto-tune with heavy jams. Multi-Strumentalist Peter Anspach, who rocks a zany Mustache and Where’s Waldo? Glasses, is a warm figure Who Handles the Crowdwork, Teeing Up Goose’s Special Weapon: Unlike the Singers in SO MANY OTHER Jam Bands, Rick Mitaronda, The Group’s Virtuosic Guitarist, Also Has an Absolutely Gorgeous Voice. Critic Steven Has Has describedat Their Songs Best: “They Sound like Potential Hits that, Onstage, Open to Include Ten-Minute Guitar Solos.”
We are talked with Mitarotonda and Anspach (Bassist Trevor Weekz and Drummer Cotter Ellis Sent Their Regards), They SEEMED Well That Their Hard Work Has Paid off. The Group JUST HEADLEDED ITS FESTIVAL Festival in Mexico and Has Already Sold Out a Madison Square Gig for Later This Summer. The Release of their Fourth Studio Album, Everything must gohas brought say to disparate places: from an interview on CBS Saturday Morning to a 79-minute improvised am Called “I’m only here for the zipline”(Yes, Do Tim Robinson Reference) at the luna luna art installation in new York.
Though these are playful guys with, some May, a dorky sense of humor, they maintaine an “all about the music” attitude. “The Sphere Looks Awesome,” Mitarotonda Says when I Ask they they’ve Got a plan for a brass-end concert experience. “But it’s Also Pretty Sick Just Setting Up in A Field and Playing Under the Stars.”
Rick Mitarotonda: “Spirit of the Dark Horse. ” Its got this eerie, Dark, Haunting Thing – But i ALSO ABOUT A MAGICAL HORSE THAT SAVES PEOPLE.
Peter Anspach: “Animal” too. You get to that chorus – “You’re an animal!” The rhymy scheme is funny too.
Rm: People take that one too. Sometimes Its Like, “The Lyrics Suck.” And like… it’s just fun. Its About Monkeys.
Rm: Depends on the noob! “Hungersite“Probably. ITEMS LIKE A SOMEWHAT ACCESSIBLE ROCK SONG. John Mayer Talked About It on His Radio Show.
Rm: “Born. ” It was never intended as a big jam.A Western Sun“Is another example. When we end a song and thatn Launch from nothing, that we can be Becomes unique. We tend to enjoy that-we end it, kep playing and we’re in no-man. It ‘liberating.
Pa: “Slow Ready.”
Rm: That was an Earlier song, “So Ready,” That We Slowed Down, THEN Changed Some of the Harmonic and Melodic Structure.
Pa: I don’t necessarily preference one or the other. But The Slow One? A Little Sexier.
Pa: I was recently cheating out some of the shows from Philly Last Summer, and there is a “Tumble“Where of was like,” this is definitely the craziest shit iver heard rick play on Guitar. ” I was like, “This May Be Rick’s Best Show.”
Rm: The Mann “Tumble”?
Pa: Yeah, The Mann “Tumble.”
Rm: That won the Bracket Award. I still haven’t listened to it. Peter’s good at cataloguing all this in his brain – The Ways We’re Performing and Developing. He’s got a good mind for that. I haven’t listened to it, though, Because it’s a challenge. I find it hard to listen to myself, especilantly live stuff.
Pa: “That. ” At jazz festly, I look out and i don’t think i ever saw more People dancing.
Rm: It ‘s Little Slower than the Typical Dance Tempo.
Pa: Yeah, especally if you are out in the sun in daytime. Something like “Sinnerman“Has a 129 BPM, and that’s always a dance party at a late-night set.
Rm: That one (Famously Recorded by Nina Simone in 1965) is Becoming a staple. It’s’e’i really fun to play.
Rm: We just did ‘Crosseyed and Painless(A Talking Heads Song Frequently Covered by Phish) With Brownie and Magner from Disco Biscuits, and we have haven’t done that in so long. AFTERWARDS, WE WERE LIKE, “THIS SONG REALLY RULES.” Fat Freddy’s Drop’s ”Fold in the sea“Is another good one. I don’t know if eather has the most goose stamp, though.
Pa: It might be ”Sinnerman. ”
Rm: What’s your Pick?
Vulture: Foster the People’s “Pumped up kicks. ” It was a strong, short ditty, and now is a ten-minute rager.
Rm: I COULD AGREE WITH THAT. That song rules. Hmm, what are some others?
Pa: Are you opening the note?
Rm: “I would die 4 u. ”
Pa: Yes.
Rm: And “Shama Lama Ding Dong(An R&B Tune Written for the Movie Animal House). That’s the Answer. I mean, what is “Shama Lama Ding Dong”? It ‘sone of our Most played songs on Spotify.
Pa: I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR DAWES PLAY A GOOSE SONG, but I don’t know which one. The Challenge Is Now Out there.
Rm: Trey’s Work Ethic, His Energy, and How’s Always Thinking About Stuff is Really Inspiring. The funniest thing that stuck with me was at the first show in Portland, Maine, Right Out of the Gate. We often think about out sets as evolving and telling a story; So we get offstage and he’s like, “All right, how’d the set go?” I was like, “It was good, we eased into it.” And he goes, “hmm, i want it really wants.” He just goes out there and, like, slap you in the face. That’s His Energy, His Mentality of “Let’s Fucking Go.”
Pa: It Changed Our Approach, Too.
Rm: Night Two, We Came Out so Hot. We still like to be dynamic; Its not all of the time. But his mentality as a Foundational Thing has stuck with us in a Very good way. I’ll tell you, trey popping into the solo after the second chorus on “Hungersite“At his first way at Radio City Music Hall-it will never be more of a moment than that night. Be he comes in with his tone? IT’S LIKE, Whoa. What is life?
Pa: “Your Direction” on the New Album.
Rm: A song tells you what it wants to be. We just try to follow the call. The chorus of that song has ben around for a long time – it goes back to a previous band. We have made the record, we wrote the verses and tourned it into a Complete song, just finding changes that felt appropriate. And now, it”s tournaed into a quick, Little, i dunno, indie-rock song? Yacht rock?
Pa: It’s a song!
Pa: “Hot tea“As a no. 1 pop song is a hilarious vibe. I Want Kids at the frat party singing,” La dah da-dah dah. “
Pa: “That“Hits Real Hard and Showcases the Things we do well.
Rm: IT HAS SOME FUCK-YOU ENERGY.
Pa: It’s a Badass Tune.
Rm: “Seekers on the Ridge,” That Whole Suite, is something I’m Pretty Proud of. It Weaves an Interesting Thread. It ‘sone of our most music intricate things.
Rm: It”s SO Subjective. There have been Times where we were Walked OffStage Like, Jesus Christyou know? What JUST HAPPENED? We just couldn’t find anyone; We were just dying out there. Andno Some People Come Back Like, “That I’m Was Sick!” IT’S BECOME APPAREMS THERE’S A CERTAIN CLASS OF PEOPLE WHO The Experience of HEARING US GRASPING AT STRAWS. They Want that “bottom dropped out, flailing” Thing. But it is really uncomfortable to be in that Somehtimes. Other Times Where the bottom’s dropped out and we’re flailing, it’s More of a freeing than and we’re just floating. I guess the point is, where the ITHTUALLY WORKING OR NOT, ITITE’S NOT FOR US TO SAY. There was a one in, where it was, was it bend, oregon? Someone in Oregon, right?
Pa: Eugene, The Eugene “Pancakes. ”
Rm: Ah, thank you. The first set, we felt a little disjointed. SO we were out for the second set like, “yeah, let’s go get ’em with this’ pancakes !!’ and man, we just wouldn’t give up. The Experience was like “Nothing Is Working,” But I Got Stubborn and Kept Pushing, Kep Changing Keys, New Ideas, and There was no Running Away from Feeling Disconnected. I think i’m guilty addoms of not throwing in the towel unil it fes like we get ours, you know? And it can Sometimes Result in a Long-Winded Thing. But how we’re feeling doesn’t determine how People THINK. A lot of People Really like that I am.
Rm: “Dr. Dinner. ” The Looove That song, but the innings it fes like it just there at Shows. You know, there have been been some nights when i was wasn’t feeling well, and the last thing i felt Ready to do to go play a rock show. But you have to do it anyway. Some nights when i was in that place, we opened with “Dr. Darkness” and it got me. It can be catartic.
Rm: “Iguana song. ”
Pa: “An iguana’s in town / he’s gone to see his brothers / atop a Big Rock / Laying on a sheepskin they got from his mother.”
Rm: That’s a Pretty Good One!
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