Goose’s fall tour shot off like a rocket Friday night at the Parish Public House in downtown Albany, the first of several upcoming sold out shows set to take place across the east coast.
With an ever-increasing discussion hailing the Norwalk, Connecticut based band as the ‘next big thing,’ the Guthrie Bell Productions ticket was one of the hottest and hardest to score in recent memory, creating a field day for scalpers and scammers alike, something rarely seen for a show at the former Red Square in Albany. Indeed, the excitement and energy in the air prior to the show was palpable. You just got that sense that something special was about to happen.
Following a fan organized a pre-show meet up at Wolff’s Biergarten, fellow Connecticut bird band Eggy promptly took the stage at 9pm, wasting no time setting the tone for a scorching night of funky grooves and balls to the wall rock n roll. The highlight of the set came when the band invited Goose guitarist Rick Mitarotonda to the stage for a blistering take on the song “Here and Now.”
