My thoughts, which nobody asked for and don’t matter:
1) losing Ben sucks
2) there’s no reason to hold any hostility towards Ben for this, I have no idea what happened and don’t care to know
3) I still support Ben and whatever band he ends up with
4) I still support Goose
Gooses ability to do a fictional set about a mirror planet in which each cover is both about a mirror and self reflection meanwhile intertwining their own written songs about self reflection which are also mirrors of their original version is incredibly creative
Y'all I have some bad news...the rumors were true. Goose has indeed broken up (unwillingly) and has been replaced with a new lineup of all new Grimaces. They will now be touring as Grimoose and playing re-imagined goose songs, such as Purple Bird, Hungrysite, $7.26, and more.
It’s crazy how ahead of his time Jerry Garcia was. Not just musically but also culturally. I’ve always known and understood this but I haven’t had a good reminder until I tumbled upon this while looking through old photos. Jerry was 100% sold
Hey
@goosetheband
just throwing this out there, I love you guys and would never want to be the annoying guy that’s tweets at you constantly to play a song, BUT if you throw in an Elmeg tonight at the Fox I’ll donate $1000 to Conscious Alliance
Dude I’m gonna laugh my ass off if Leo was that first track they previewed that everyone wanted to absolutely shit on the drummer without context. Here’s your context you miserable fucks. First fucking notes ever. CRY
Saw Tyler Childers and Sturgill Simpson play like five days before the country shut down for Covid. Now to see Sturgill playing with some of my favorite musicians four years later blows my mind.
Ok, so this shit that
@peter_anspach
does kills me. I finally got a halfway decent video of it after mentioning it a million times, especially to those around me. Hitting the OB-6 with the guitar head while playing is just *chefs kiss* perfect.
Is anyone else fucking pissed that during Phish's historically groundbreaking Sphere run they decided to play four hours of that guy from Goose trying to get attention on the Sphere's screens
Wow can you believe that we all followed
@goosetheband
around the country waiting to hear the Travelers' Suite played live for the first time post Autumn Crossing only for them to end up playing it for a bunch of high schoolers?
I want to be very clear here moving forward because I have a trillion followers waiting on my every word:
I’m spiking the football now because Goose sounds great from the small sample w/ Cotter.
What this doesn’t mean is ANYTHING against Ben. Ben was awesome. Forever a fan
Had some pretty deep thoughts into a Madhuvan tonight. “If I had it all, what life would leave me satisfied” is just such a profound lyric. And so true. I’ve spent my life chasing money, cars, parties, you name it. But I’ve never been happier in my life now that I’ve let that go
The amount of people I’m seeing come into Goose from all different spectrums of media I follow (none of whom I’ve ever see talk about a jam band besides the Dead) is very telling. Goose had an opportunity on the biggest stage possible, and just like RR and SPAC, they delivered
Fucking amazing week. So blessed to be surrounded by this much love. I cannot thank all of you who have been a part of this before, during, and after enough. We haven’t stopped smiling.
Nobody is talking about the totally real reason Ben left Goose.
What’s Ben’s nickname? Spuds. Why? The man loves potatoes.
What’s Rick’s favorite food? Sweet potatoes.
Ben and Rick couldn’t agree on potatoes. It’s as simple as that. Please stop with the other misinformation.
I must admit, Goose is playing pretty good for a dead band and dying brand. At this point I don’t even need to listen to a show, people are quote tweeting videos of people getting fucking down and trying to say, despite video evidence, that the crowd isn’t having fun.
Holy shit man this second set is officially one for the books. New song bust out, original feel it now, into Madhuvan. Woah. Hold onto your fucking butts
What a beautiful set that was definitely not intentionally set up with very emotional songs about pain, loss, and grief and then to close a song about being so ready for the future
That’s pretty awesome that a community member’s design in collaboration with a community founded charity is being promoted by the band that the community members are fans of. The word to describe this somehow escapes me though…
That was awesome to hear
@peter_anspach
on
@AATGoosePod
. The amount of prep work Peter does before he goes on just to discuss some silly concept us rabid fans have started blows me away. True passion not only for what they do for a living but also for diving deeper with us
You know another funny thing for me was the very subtle dig that those who funded her eurotrip were also Poors. “I’m happy to give ANYONE their $20 or less back”.
Pretty fucking cool after getting engaged at the Louisville Palace Goose show
@goosetheband
decides to dedicate the summer tour to me and play in my hometown EXACTLY one year from the date - 6/23. Y’all are the real MVPs 😎
Dude next to me in Charlotte kept thinking Yeti was called “Betty” and now I can’t help but think if they ever play “Yeti>Pancakes>Hungersite” I’m gonna have to call it Betty Crocker’s revenge and nobody will ever know what I’m referencing. Then again that wouldn’t be a first
Dearest friends of Twitter I am humbly asking for your help or support. A friend’s dog, Tater, got out of his fenced yard and was subsequently shot by a neighbor. The bullet shattered his hip and he requires surgery.
Goose on Frasco is worth listening to for around the 47 min mark alone - Peter talks about how proud his mom is of him and he’s caught her crying at shows. So damn wholesome, I love it
Guys good news!
@KevinJTarHeel
increased the advertising budget for the Goosemas Pre-Party on Dec 7th! We are now advertising on the Sphere! This is gonna be HUGE!!!!!
If you’re a fan of music, people, and goose then this should honestly not be a negative. If there were problems nobody needed it to go further and get to a damaging point. This is probably good for Goose’s direction and Ben’s aspirations. It’s fine to be excited for both of those
This is one of my favorite Goose posters but I can’t bring myself to get one because that caricature of Ben is just so bad. If you told me that’s why he left the band I’d believe you.
Man. I have so much I want to say about tonight. I don’t think I’ve ever heard anything from goose as good as that Madhuvan. It was so amazing to hear the exploration segments click for everyone. That went to so many places and didn’t struggle to any of them. Fucking incredible
With summer winding down, I wanted to share some songs that I’ve been listening to lately – and it wouldn’t be my playlist if it didn’t include an eclectic mix. I hope you find something new to listen to!
So thankful
@lucas_anderton
shared this link. Please friends if you have the capabilities I am once again asking you to lend a hand to someone whose work we all enjoy, Adam Berta.
I can tell goose has had a great start to this tour just by checking twitter. the first two things the wonderful algorithm brought me was 1) another engagement farm attempt to say they aren’t as good as lizard lizard and 2) another article comparing them to phish negatively
So an honest take I have from Daniel donato last night: I never realized how good the entire band was. They all have some serious fucking talent. All I ever see is clips of DD get shared but man can they all play.
Waking up just absolutely beaming at how awesome last night was. The love and support from everyone was off the charts. So many people took time out of having fun to have very deep and heartfelt discussions with me too, I really appreciated that.
I wanted to tell this story at the Night Zero pre-party but that night is a night for us all to celebrate this incredible accomplishment, not to heat me ramble. So I’ll share it here. This is what this whole thing means to me and I want people to know how special this is
I can’t describe properly with the words in my vocabulary how much I needed that emleg in my life right now and how many emotional levels that touched. Keep my hands sewn on, Lord, I need them still. Oh I’m not through…