Phone down, eyes up, heart open
Goose’s Peter Anspach on the raw magic of improvisational live music
COURTESY GREG KNIGHT
by Carter Ferryman
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eter Anspach wears many hats at his job. For that reason, he’s been anointed a number of nicknames by his bandmates in Goose, a talented five-piece wedged comfortably into the forefront of jam music’s current landscape. First, “The WizKid.”
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“When I first ON THE BILL: joined, [the band] GOOSE. didn’t really have any 6 p.m. Aug. 16 content at all,” Ansand 17, Dillion pach explains. He’d Amphitheater, 201 learned sound mixing, W. Lodgepole St., audio/video production Dillon. and social media stratAug. 18, Red Rocks egizing during his time Amphitheatre, with Great Blue, the 18300 W. Alameda rock-pop hybrid band Parkway, Morrison. he fronted for more than a decade. So, brick by brick, he worked passionately to elevate his new musical home. “I was a huge fan of Goose,” Anspach, who joined the band in 2017, says. “So even to this day, I want to make them sound as good as they are.” Anspach’s efforts paid off—there’s now a see GOOSE Page 18 AUGUST 11, 2022
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