The St Halcyon Chronicles: Guster for you!

Where to begin? 2004. While living in Kansas City, I totally missed out on the Guster concert because I had to work. By the time my flight touched down at MCI, the concert was well under way already.

2005. I distinctly remember getting an email the morning waking up at Aarthi's from Guster announcing the availability of fans-only presale concert ticket. That was a brutal night. I passed out thanks to Amy's toxic mix of shots, before midnight! Anyway, I sent out a text message to everybody I cared about that we should all go. But sadly, nobody responded at 9:00 in the morning on Saturday.

Anyway, for months I was sitting on the tickets, and I could not wait to go. Then suddenly, C e r n e r instructed me that I had to go work over the weekend. Even after I have told my manager that I couldn't work that weekend, and have it blocked off months in advance. And Guster was playing at the Riviera Theatre, a cool short distance from where I live. But my buddy Chris, an avid fan of Guster and the first person to introduce the band to my listening pleasure, wanted to come all the way from Iowa and bring his girlfriend there. So he went instead of me, while I was working somewhere on the east coast.

Fast forward to 2006. I have not seen Chris in forever, and in the years he has dated Amber {I think that's her name}, I have not met her. So I tried to get him to come back to Chicago this year, just like the last, and I bought advance tickets. And I could not wait, as usual. That is the one pitfall of pre-sale tickets. But unfortunately, the role got reversed this time. Chris had to go work in northern Michigan over the weekend. So I went to the concert {last night} any way. That is how much I enjoyed their music.

Thinking that I couldn't bring my camera, I just left my Canon SD20 at home. But as I have the new Nokia N91, I used it to capture some videos. So if you like Guster or just want to check out their tunes, then I present to you the next best thing to the live concert from Chicago {below}! =) And I could not believe they opened with my favorite Keep It Together track - Careful. Perfect! {Except they didn't play my Ganging Up On the Sun favorite track - One Man Wrecking Machine. Oh well.} And the whole time they played excellent music. I even left Chris a voicemail with two songs to keep him awake while he worked! So anyway, here are the vids! =)

Careful -