The Taco Shop Jam Band - Goose
Episode notes
What do you call a band that named themselves after a taco shop inside joke, recorded their debut album in a barn in New Hampshire, and eleven years later headlined Madison Square Garden for four hours — with Trey Anastasio staying for the entire third set at Radio City Music Hall along the way? You call them Goose, Connecticut's most improbable world conquest, and this is the episode where we break down exactly how they pulled it off.
In this episode, Schecky traces the full Goose arc — from the quietest kid in Berklee's Fusion Ensemble Level 6 class to selling out Radio City, from fifteen kids in a Kentucky club who knew all the words to Trey Anastasio's gear being spotted on 6th Avenue and the internet losing its mind. We break down why Arcadia is the one song every new listener needs, go deep on the legendary June 25, 2022 Radio City show where Goose and Trey played Hungersite into Arcadia into Dripfield into Empress of Organos for a sold-out crowd that didn't want the night to end, and reveal the time they performed with Animal — the Muppet — at Newport Folk Festival.
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