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Goose’s light rig is one of many reasons fans have fallen in love with this band’s live experience.
Jam in the Stream weighs in not on the Goose show itself, per say, that rolled through Minnesota Sunday but the polarizing aspect that three up-and-coming bands have sparked the past few years. It’s OK to like, or not like, any or all of them. But it would be better if we all just remembered to be kind to one another.
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Circles Around The Sun drummer Mark Levy said what he and bass player Dan Horne try to do, figuratively, is lay down a carpet for the band’s guitarist John Lee Shannon and keyboardist Adam MacDougal to dance on. Photo by Javier Serna
Drummer Mark Levy, of Circles Around The Sun, sat down with Jam in the Stream before the band’s March 15 show at the Turf Club in St. Paul. He discussed a range topics, including the way the body and mind react to listening to extended instrumentals, the way he has approached the role of beat keeper, and Billy String surprise sit in at a late-nite after party in February.
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Circles Around The Sun keyboardist Adam MacDougall at the Turf Club last March. The band returns to St. Paul, Minn., March 15, part of a tour that also hits cities in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin. Photo by Javier Serna
I’ll never forget the first time I saw this band play in person — a Phish after party in Chicago, following the Saturday show of Phish’s 2017 Northerly Island run. Casal had a way of stretching out an idea in such a tasteful and exploratory way, and the band used its spacey, soul-driven instrumentals to express emotions with notes instead of words.
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