• 1991-

  Ryan MillerLead vocals, guitar

  Adam GardnerGuitar, vocals

  Brian RosenworcelDrums, percussion

  Joe PisapiaVarious2003-2010

  Luke ReynoldsVarious2010-
• All three founding members went to Tufts University in Massachusetts, where they met on the freshmen Wilderness Orientation program and later shared an apartment in Somerville, Massachusetts as students. Here they toured extensively in the early 1990s as an acoustic trio.
• After the release of their 2003 album Keep it Together, the band simultaneously released a fake online version of the record in which all the vocals were replaced with the sound of cats meowing, which was called "The Meowstro Sings – Guster's Keep it Together." This fake was released in response to illegal sharing and downloading of their music, and were called the "meow mixes."
• In the spirit of the Grateful Dead who started the tradition, Guster allows audience members to tape their shows from the audience during concerts. These tapes are then shared amongst Guster fans, with whom Guster keep an intimate relationship. Guster frontman Ryan Miller said, "We're so bad at playing rock stars, it's ridiculous!", but this has proven to be a very good marketing strategy for the band whose success is mostly due to word-of-mouth popularity and a jam-packed touring schedule.
• Brian Rosenworcel has maintained a blog called Guster Road Journal in which he humorously keeps fans in touch with the band members' personal lives and experiences, and has done so on an almost monthly basis since 1999. For example, August 1 2013's entry keeps fans graphically up-to-date with Rosenworcel's latest bowel movement, and returning from the toilet to find the tour-bus has left without him. Says Brian: "We feel that the website and our road journals and having our music available is an important part of how our band got to where we are."
• Guster's music has featured in several movies and TV shows, including Disturbia, Life as a House, The O.C., Martain Child and Wedding Crashers. They have also featured in an advert for The Weather Channel.
• Guster enjoy keeping their live shows humorous, and have a history of dramatic concert entrances. They have arrived on stage in a rubber dinghy, and also through the ceiling.
• Guster started out as an acoustic trio, and it was not until their fourth album Keep it Together that drummer Rosenworcel (a.k.a. "Thundergod") began to use a drum set instead of percussion. Rosenworcel has also performed as a DJ under the alias "DJ Thundergod."

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