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...ping-pong game) ever since their coffee shop days. The band was obviously enjoying themselves and even invited several of their friends from other Boston-area bands to join them on stage. When the clock struck "midnight" at 11:00 real time, the band celebrated the "New Millennium" complete with falling balloons and a "power outage" courtesy of Y2K. But it would take far more than that to stop Guster. In a daring move, they played "Mona Lisa" completely unplugged in the hushed theater and even got half the audience to sing along with them. Guster ended the performance appropriately...
...flavor to an already strange night.What were probably hired actors stood outside the venue with sandwich boards proclaiming "America Will Burn" and handing out humorous pamphlets declaring that God does not play the bongos. The theme of the concert I was to discover later was the end of the millennium. I knew that my friend and I, two newcomers to Guster, might as well settle in for the duration...
Seth: "The Orpheum contained all of the usual signs of the apocalypse: a costumed, junk-tossing and young crowd stranger than one would find at the Rocky Horror Picture Show; a countdown to the end of the millennium-cum-doomsday-inspired Y2K electrical blackout; and the three members of Guster--bedecked in black tie---descending to the stage in special chairs while Richard Strauss' "Also Sprach Zarathustra" whipped the crowd into a frenzy...
...Jimmy: "By the end of the night, New Year's had passed, and the special quality of the turn of the millennium had ended. My feet were tired from a long night of standing. As my friend and I left, I scanned the crowd once more. They too had lost something; their faces once more became the familiar high-school mix of invincibility and vulnerability...
...boys provided solid entertainment, but a multitude of flaws and a dearth of energy marred the show. What will come next for Guster? Will Keezer's sponsor the next tour? We weren't given any new songs on Saturday night; is Guster reaching its creative limit? Will the millennium finally render the video cameras useless and prevent the swarm of cameramen from attacking the band at the next show? Until their next return to town, we can only speculate...