92.5 The River 15th Birthday with Guster

Passion for the Art

I got an email from GoodMorningGloucester doing a video about Jon Sarkin a local artist in our hometown, Gloucester.  I really enjoyed watching this. It lead me to Jon’s website and I got to see the makings of the artwork for Guster’s new album “Easy.Wonderful’.  I was totally intrigued. Hence this letter to follow. It is so amazing to me how they do all of this work and then the finished product. I hope you will take time to visit these videos that are being posted. I have to say that seeing all of this brought tears of  joy to my eyes and compelled me to share all of this art with you. Artists and musicians are creators with such passion and I can understand it because I receive it the same way they give it. I hope you enjoy it too.

Jon Sarkin

https://goodmorninggloucester.wordpress.com/2010/09/30/jon-sarkin-interview-at-his-birdseye-building-studio-part-ii/#comment-21277

Art in progress with Jon Sarkin for Guster’s “Easy. Wonderful” Album

http://jsarkin.com/news/concept-for-gusters-do-you-love-me/

The finished product

http://www.guster.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k-VAlIPzKg&feature=player_embedded

p.s. Look at what I got in my email from 92.5 The River

After all of this I submitted a letter to 92.5 The River for the chance to see Guster. Needless to say I did not win the chance to go. A good friend of mine Cynthia Sisco got a call from Irene Collins who works for the river and she invited Cindy to see Guster and to celebrate 92.5 15th Birthday.  Well the rest is history. Cindy told Irene that I was trying to get passes so Irene was kind enough to put me on the list. Now Cindy  is famous for doing kind acts like this. She has also been responsible for getting airtime on The River’s Home Grown segment  http://www.wxrv.com/onair/homegrown.php for musicians such as Chelsea Berry, Fly Amero, Bingo Fridays and Brad Byrd .

The music at this venue performed by Guster was excellent. I mentioned to Cindy at one point  that this has to be the best quality of live music I have ever heard and she said yes they are a very tight band. I mean, what you hear coming through the sound system. Things have stood out to me before like melodious vocals, an awesome bass player, rippin lead guitarists and wild music but all around quality, this show was it. Not blasting your eardrums out, sweet harmony, and no pronounced off key notes any where, that I noticed. The audience was certainly in love with Guster and I can see why. At one point this sweet girl standing in front of me to the left offered to have me get closer to take a photo and she even took my cup to hold to make it more comfortable for me to do so. Now that was sweet. I then asked if she wanted to be my daughter. They have a wholesome happy thing generating out to the fan base and you could certainly feel it with the unity and all. I heard so many people there singing along like they were part of the band, and  that they were. For the last song Guster and his band came onto the floor to be  with their fans. This was different and so intimate.

After all of this  I suddenly realized that I had to have a souvenir of this event so off to to take more pictures and to purchase the special edition of Guster’s new CD  “Easy. Wonderful” It’s so cool to have my own piece of Jon Sarkins art as well as Guster’s music.

Immediately after this I got to meet Irene Collins from 92.5  The River and thank her for this opportunity. Right after this Cindy and I met and talked to Chad Carlberg ( his lovely daughter who is in the Concept Video for Guster’s “Do You Love Me”  and Emile Doucette who were  major in the making of the videos for Guster’s CD.

Here are just a few photos, videos and slide show of the event. It was hard holding the camera up in the air in a dimly lit room to get photos so beware of the imperfections.

Enjoy,

Joanne

Guster

Irene Collins and Cynthia Sisco

Emile Doucette and Chad Carlberg

Guster, Cindy and me.

Signed by Guster

Stay With Me Jesus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DdFCvP_XOQ

Do You Love Me. Just a piece of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Hau2-V128o

The slide show.