Questions often asked of us:

Q: Do you guys have any pre-show rituals?

A: Yes.

Q: How do you guys write your songs?

A: We write about what we know. We're stenographers...we transcribe life and put a little melody under it.*

Q: Are you guys a Christian band?

A:Rather than answer this one with a simple yes/no, we suggest you check the following sources for clues: 1) Brian's last name -- "Rosenworcel." 2) Any photo of Ryan where you can see his profile. 3) The Guster Backstage Contract Rider, where we stipify that "the dressing room must be furnished with plenty of borscht, noodle kugels, potato latkes, gefilte fish and homemade rugulah for dessert."

Q: do you guys name your instruments?

A: yes

Q: You guys seem to be on the road all the time. What do the insides of your refrigerators look like?

A: Thankfully, we maintain digital fridge-cams so we can check the progress of our perishables from the bus and know what we're coming home to. Click here to take a peek inside Guster's personal refrigerators

Q: Okay, say you guys are on the road and you finish playing a show and your shirt is drenched with sweat. Where do you put that shirt? Please give individual answers.

A: Adam will hang the shirt in the dressing room or the hotel room until it dries. Sometimes he clips it in the window of the van and leaves it flapping as we drive. Ryan will wear the shirt to bed and when he wakes up in the morning it is usually dry, and good to wear again that night. If it has been a particularly sweaty show, Ryan might shove the wet shirt into his laundry bag and worry about it later. Unable to come up with a suitable solution for this problem, Brian will begin playing gigs topless this fall.

Q: What kind of music do you guys listen to while on the road?

A:There are very few records that all three of us agree on. But here are some selections currently in the collective Guster CD player:

Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life
Lambchop: What Another Man Spills
Tortoise: TNT
The Smiths: Meat Is Murder
Grandaddy: The Sophtware Slump

Q: How can I get my hands on some classic "GUS" merchandise?

A: For those of you confused here, our band used to be called GUS, while we were in college at Tufts University, but we changed it in 1995. There are some GUS stickers and shirts locked away in the Guster archives basement in Somerville, Massachusetts, but you can't have any of them. Now and then a GUS - 'Parachute' disc makes an appearance at Disc Diggers (used records) in Somerville for a respectable $3.99.

* Coincidentally, this is also how Tenacious D writes their songs.



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