Whos Pasty?
Pasty is the rep name of one Michael Corcoran, one of Guster’s first reps and a Villanova alumnus. Pasty served as Guster’s tour manager and lighting technician for seven long, wonderful years, but recently hung up his touring shoes to become a pencil-pushing desk jockey in a management office in Nashville. He’s still involved with the band (so says his “Gustah 4 Evah” tattoo) but the days of frantically shouting for him if security is hassling you, are over. Pasty has been forever immortalized on the cover of The Pasty Tapes, volumes 1 and 2. The text from the liner of The Pasty Tapes: “We first met Michael ‘Pasty’ Corcoran in 1995 at a small club in New York City. A skinny 18-year-old Guster Rep and nervous freshman at Villanova University, Michael had embraced the Guster-given name we blindly threw on his rep badge. He approached us, fair hair and ghostly skin glistening under the hot Wetlands lights and said, ‘I’m Pasty.’ Over the next four years, Michael worked his way up the Gust
