Guster
January 14th, 2017
Paradise Rock Club, Boston, MA

Master:
Elation KM201's>Lunatec V3>Microtrack II (24-bit/48kHz)
Clamped to underside of balcony, dead center
by Dave Mallick

Conversion:
WAV>Sound Studio 4.8.4>xACT 2.38>FLAC
by Dave Mallick

01. What You Wish For                          [05:51.416]
02. Beginning Of The End                       [03:43.293]
03. Expectation                                [03:27.184]
04. One Man Wrecking Machine                   [04:00.214]
05. Bad Bad World                              [04:37.042]
06. setlist wheel unveiling/explanation        [07:08.901]
07. Melanie (first half)                       [03:35.829]
08. Melanie (first half, double-speed)         [01:45.953]
09. Keep It Together                           [05:51.094]
10. Eden                                       [07:16.455]
11. So Long*                                   [04:07.621]
12. Keep It Together (first half, half-speed)  [03:50.657]
13. Demons#                                    [06:14.381]
14. All The Way Up To Heaven                   [07:16.596]
15. Great Escape                               [05:02.977]
16. I Hope Tomorrow Is Like Today              [07:21.842]
17. The Captain$                               [05:25.213]
18. The Prize                                  [04:12.930]
19. Cheers theme song%                         [02:04.554]
20. Patriots score                             [02:39.311]
21. (Nothing But) Flowers                      [07:49.676]
22. Bury Me^                                   [05:07.513]
23. Mona Lisa                                  [06:58.858]
24. E: Happier                                 [04:49.658]
25.    This Could All Be Yours                 [04:11.701]
                                       Total: [124:30.871]
 
* with Ashley Larracuente and Anna Rosati on vocals
# with Jeremy Wolf on vocals
$ with Spencer Ayscue on guitar and vocals
% with Brian on vocals
^ with Tim Gammel on vocals

Notes:
- The third show of Guster's four-night run at the Paradise in honor of
  their 25th anniversary as a band and the 40th anniversary of the club.
- After Bad Bad World, the band unveiled a giant wheel with song titles
  written on it, as well as several bonus spaces labeled Viv's Choice,
  Karaoke, Patriots Score, Brian Sings, etc. They then proceeded to spin
  the wheel and true to their word, they played every single space they
  landed on.
- Songs labeled above with a symbol (except Cheers) were from karaoke
  spots, where they chose slips from a bucket that people had put in
  before the show.
- First Melanie since 12/20/03, first Great Escape since 01/31/08.

Brief personal review:

This show was extra-special for a number of reasons - chief among them
the incredible acknowledgment that the band showed by granting my wife a
space on the setlist wheel. Although it never landed on that section,
the tantalizing "what-if" every time the wheel spun was tremendous fun.

But the evening was not without a familiar face getting some time in the
spotlight. Spencer Ayscue works at the same place as Viv and me, and
when he mentioned to a mutual friend that he was going to the show, the
reply was "Oh, you should meet Viv & Dave." During our ride to and from
the first show, he talked about the friends back home that he played
Guster tunes with, and the two shows he had managed to make it to from
his hometown in North Carolina. Shows three and four were fun enough,
but when his name came up in the third karaoke spot, he seized the
opportunity and made the most of it. A moment none of us will forget.

Finally, the show hearkened back to the only other setlist wheel show
the band had ever played, in Providence, in February of 1998. As Ryan
said at that show, most of us in the room had seen the band so many
times that they wanted to shake things up. Nearly 19 years after that,
the band is still experimenting, still having fun on stage, and still
delighting their fans. Thank you, guys.