last year\u2019s best<\/a> and most-talked-about releases, and they played much of it Thursday night \u2014 translating the herky-jerky rhythms and vocal experiments on the LP into effective hard rock that called to mind giants like Nirvana, Television and Radiohead.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\tLead singer Cameron Winter, wearing a blue baseball cap, a track jacket, and sunglasses, opened the show with a full-throated \u201choooo hoooo\u201d at the start of \u201cTaxes,\u201d then spent the stomping 2023 blues-rocker \u201cCrusades\u201d rising from deep, talky verses to falsetto choruses and back again. He\u2019s a mesmerizing singer, and it\u2019s tempting to spend an entire Geese show surfing on the dramatic ups and downs of his voice. But Geese have been at this for 10 years, and for a band full of improvisational players, they are surprisingly tight. Bassist Dominic DiGesu and drummer Max Bassin make up a top-notch rhythm section, while guitarist Emily Green constantly solos, sometimes doubling Winter\u2019s playing, other times providing melodic riffs.<\/p>\n\n\n \t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n
\n\tGeese leaned short and tough for the first half of the show. \u201cIslands of Men\u201d was built on staccato power chords, \u201cHusbands\u201d had a soft, train-like rhythm, and \u201cGetting Killed\u201d opened with classic hard-rock guitars. By the end, the band was gloriously stretching out, allowing for a brief Bassin drum solo during \u201cBow Down\u201d and for Winter to take over from touring keyboardist Sam Revaz by banging relentlessly on a piano on the sprawling \u201cLong Island City.\u201d The band appropriately aired out its spacey side on \u201cSpace Race,\u201d a softer song from 2023\u2019s 4D Country<\/em>, an EP of tracks that didn\u2019t make the band\u2019s 3D Country<\/em> album that year.<\/p>\n\n\tFor the encore, \u201cTrinidad,\u201d Winter stood silently for 30 seconds as he waited for the crowd to stop shouting (\u201cFree Bird!\u201d \u201cCameron!\u201d), then slammed into a massive guitar riff. The last two songs ended in all-out thrash conflagrations, delighting the slam-dancers at the center of the floor.<\/p>\n
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\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\tGeese take Denver.<\/span><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAlden Bonecutter for Rolling Stone<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\tGeese\u2019s opening act was the mysterious Airy Foist, a trio led by a singer in a baseball cap whose mission seemed to be to provoke the loyal Geese crowd. The performer rambled between songs, hurled obscenities at the crowd, and closed the set by starting a (presumably staged) fight with the drummer, all of which caused considerable debate on social media following the show.<\/p>\n\n\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n
\n\tWinter, meanwhile, said nearly nothing onstage during Geese\u2019s headline set, other than to humorously acknowledge Rolling Stone<\/em>\u2018s sponsorship presence. (In addition to being presented by Miller High Life, the Rock Tour is presented in partnership with Sonesta.) Instead, Winter was a focused musical presence, throwing himself into the songs, intensely strumming his guitar on the thrashiest material, moving his frame to match every shift in vocal tone. The rest of the band followed his lead, particularly Green, a relentless head-banger, dropping to her knees to become one with the feedback and leaning back into beatific shred-faces. At one point, however, Winter did hold his phone up to the microphone, streaming Hank Williams Jr.\u2019s 1979 classic \u201cO.D.\u2019d in Denver\u201d without comment.<\/p>\n\n\tJust before launching into \u201c2122,\u201d the opening track from 3D Country<\/em>, Winter thanked \u201cGod and Rolling Stone<\/em>\u201d for putting on Thursday night\u2019s show. \u201cWe expect favorable coverage,\u201d he deadpanned. You know what? Geese deserved it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\nSource link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toward the end of Geese\u2018s sold-out Summit Music Hall show Thursday night in Denver, a mosh pit formed a circle during the piano bits…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":67464,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pop","article","has-excerpt","has-avatar","has-author","has-date","has-comment-count","has-category-meta","has-read-more","thumbnail-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}