Goldfly (album)
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Goldfly is an album by rock band Guster
Guster
Guster is an American alternative rock band from Boston, Massachusetts. Formed in 1991, the group is known for its live performances and humor, founding members Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller, and Brian Rosenworcel came about to begin practice sessions while attending Tufts University in Medford,...

, released in 1997. The album was recorded in December, 1996 at the House of Blues Studios in Encino, California. As of 2011, this album is out of print.

Track listing

  1. "Great Escape"
  2. "Demons
    Demons (Guster song)
    Demons is Guster's second single released off the Goldfly album. It is also on the live CD and DVD Guster on Ice.The song was also featured on the 1998 charity album Live in the X Lounge....

    "
  3. "Perfect"
  4. "Airport Song
    Airport Song
    Airport Song is Guster's first single released off the Goldfly album. It is also on the live CD and DVD Guster on Ice."Airport Song" received modest radio airplay, peaking at #35 on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart.- Live Performance :...

    "
  5. "Medicine"
  6. "X-Ray Eyes"
  7. "Grin"
  8. "Getting Even"
  9. "Bury Me"
  10. "Rocketship"
  11. Untitled ("Melanie")

Guster:

  • Ryan Miller
    Ryan Miller (musician)
    Ryan Matthew Miller is an American musician. He is the lead singer and guitarist for the alternative rock band, Guster. He also occasionally plays bass and piano.-Biography:...

     - guitar, lead vocals
  • Adam Gardner
    Adam Gardner
    Adam Seth Gardner is a guitarist and vocalist of the band Guster and a member of the Tufts University Beelzebubs...

     - guitar, lead vocals
  • Brian Rosenworcel
    Brian Rosenworcel
    Brian Andrew Rosenworcel is the drummer for the band Guster. For many years, Rosenworcel, the youngest member of the band, played a combination of bongos, congas, djembe, hand snares and cymbals instead of using a traditional drumset. He now alternates between hand percussion and drum set, and he...

     - percussion, background vocals

Additional musicians:

  • Davey Faragher
    Davey Faragher
    Davey Faragher is an American bass guitarist from Redlands, California. Faragher's career took off and received critical notice as a founding member of the nineties band, Cracker, and his following work with The Imposters, the backing band for Elvis Costello since 2001.Faragher is an accomplished...

     - bass guitar
  • John Ferraro - drums
  • Steve Lindsey - Hammond
    Hammond
    -Canada:*Hammond River, a small river in New Brunswick*Upper Hammonds Plains, Nova Scotia*Hammond, Ontario, Canada, now Clarence-Rockland, Ontario.*Port Hammond, British Columbia, also known as Hammond or Hammond's Landing-United States of America:...

     Organ and Nord
    Nord (Clavia)
    Nord is a Swedish virtual analog synthesizer and organ manufacturer. Nord keyboards are handmade in Sweden by Clavia DMI AB.-The company:Clavia was founded in 1983 by Hans Nordelius together with Mikael Carlsson in Stockholm, Sweden...

  • Andy Happel - violin
  • Rudy DiCello - cello

Miscellanea

  • There are two versions of the album. The original, rare, independently-released version which features the hidden song "Melanie" before the first song and the one released on Hybrid/Sire Records
    Sire Records
    Sire Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records.-Beginnings:The label was founded in 1966 as Sire Productions by Seymour Stein and Richard Gottehrer, each investing ten thousand dollars into the new company. Its early releases as a...

     in which the hidden song is the 11th track on the album.
  • Due to the limited budget of the album, no b-sides were recorded besides a song called "Happy Birthday Ken" which was a gift to Ken Goldman, who had housed the band in California when they were recording.
  • In concert, it is a tradition for fans to throw ping-pong balls onto the stage at the end of "Airport Song
    Airport Song
    Airport Song is Guster's first single released off the Goldfly album. It is also on the live CD and DVD Guster on Ice."Airport Song" received modest radio airplay, peaking at #35 on the Billboard Modern Rock Chart.- Live Performance :...

    ". This is done in reference to the game of ping-pong that can be heard as the music fades at the end of the studio track.
  • A sample of the guitar riff and bongo's from "Rocketship" can be heard in "Pot Of Gold" on rapper Game's R.E.D. Album.
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