Ahead of their Golden Plains debut, a look at the gear behind the Brooklyn band everyone is talking about.
Few bands have risen as quickly as Geese. The Brooklyn group formed in 2016 while its members were still in high school, rehearsing in drummer Max Bassin’s basement, and signed to Partisan Records in 2020. With 2025’s Getting Killed, they became one of the most talked-about bands in the world, with performances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and Saturday Night Live along the way, and they’ve now been announced as one of the headline acts for Golden Plains Nineteen, making their Meredith debut in March 2027.
It’s a fitting stage for a band whose songs refuse to sit neatly in one genre. Golden Plains is an independent, sponsor-free festival held on the Nolan family farm in Meredith, and with only one stage and no clashing sets, everyone on the hill will be watching the same band at the same time. Next year’s bill is as wide-ranging as ever, putting Geese alongside electronic pioneers Underworld, desert blues legends Tinariwen and Peter Garrett & The Alter Egos, and that kind of company suits a group that has made unpredictability part of its appeal.
Frontman Cameron Winter, guitarist Emily Green, bassist Dominic DiGesu and drummer Max Bassin have been a four-piece since guitarist Foster Hudson left at the end of 2023, with keyboardist Sam Revaz joining them live. Their sound mixes jagged guitars, driving rhythms and big keys, so here’s a look at what each member uses to get there.
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Cameron Winter
Winter’s main guitar is a modified Gibson SG Junior fitted with an extra single-coil pickup in the neck position, including a Lace Sensor. He runs it through a mix of amps, from the big, clean headroom of a Fender ‘65 Super Reverb to a smaller Vibro-Champ and the chime of a Vox AC30 Custom Classic, with a Keeley Compressor Plus keeping his tone even and punchy. A Roland GK-5 pickup and GM-800 guitar synthesiser add synth textures straight from the strings, and on vocals he uses an sE Electronics V7 dynamic mic. When he moves to the keys, his rig includes a Sequential Prophet-10 polysynth, a Nord Lead and a Nord Stage 4 88.
Emily Green
Green’s guitar of choice is a short-scale 1956 Silvertone Stratotone Newport, which she picked up at RetroFret Vintage Guitars in Brooklyn, and she also plays Reverend guitars. Her amps are Fender through and through, with a ‘65 Deluxe Reverb Reissue and a Hot Rod Deluxe both associated with her setup. Her pedalboard sits on a Pedaltrain Classic 2 and is packed with character, including a ZVEX Vexter Series Fuzz Factory, DigiTech Whammy, Pearl PE-10 Parametric EQ, Source Audio ZIO, JHS 3 Series Harmonic Tremolo and a Boss DD-5 Digital Delay.
Dominic DiGesu
DiGesu plays a Höfner 500/1 violin bass, the lightweight, hollow-bodied design best known for its warm, round tone. He’s left-handed and also plays a Fender American Professional II Precision Bass and a brown-finish Fender Jazz Bass. His low end comes from an Ampeg SVT-CL Classic head through an SVT-410HLF cabinet, while his pedalboard is loaded with a Tech 21 SansAmp Bass Driver DI, Electro-Harmonix Bass Big Muff Pi, MXR Phase 90, Boss SY-1 Synthesizer, Boss ME-80 and a Boss TU-3 tuner. He also plays LP Generation II bongos on the Getting Killed tour.
Max Bassin
Bassin plays a Ludwig Classic Maple drum kit and is an Istanbul Agop cymbal artist, using 15″ Xist Brilliant hi-hats, 22″ Mel Lewis and Traditional Medium rides, and a 20″ Traditional Original crash ride. Two Remo Roto-Toms sit alongside his regular tom for extra pitched colour. In the studio, his drum mics include a Sennheiser MD 421-II, Shure SM81 and a Coles 4038 ribbon.
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