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Guided by Voices - Auditorium/Motor Away
Guided By Voices - I Am A Scientist
1. Fucking Christ Robert Pollard is looking old as hell these days.
2. LAWL Greg Demos falls down on national television. He is clearly out of practice doing the splits. THIS IS WHY YOU DON'T TAKE 6 YEAR HIATUSES!
3. Fuck yea Guided By Voices.
Robert Pollard & His Soft Rock Renegades - I Drove A Tank Apropos of nothing in particular, other than "it rules the school", this is the opening track from one of The Uncle's very best extracurricular releases, Coreographed Man Of War. There was some received opinion in the GBV community around this time that Coreographed Man Of War should have been the GBV record that year instead of Isolation Drills, as there had been a similar opinion about Speak Kindly Of Your Volunteer Fire Department vs Do The Collapse. While I think that's largely ludicrous, I do agree that both CMOW and SKOYVFD are every bit the equal of any of the "main range" GBV releases, and deserve to be more widely known. The Soft Rock Renegades here were Captain Bob on guitar, stripéd Greg Demos on bass and lead guitar, and Big Jim Macpherson on caveman drums. "I never go to that awful town. I get it on when it gets me down."
GBV in 2010
Guided By Voices - Surgical Focus I've been listening to Do The Collapse (and associated B-sides) all afternoon, following my reaquaintance with "Avalanche Aminos" yesterday. I feel even more strongly than I have before that this is one of the very best records Our Captain My Captain Uncle Bob has ever penned; and before anyone says anything about it, I absolutely love "Hold On Hope"...so there (if it's good enough for Glen Campbell, it's good enough for me!). However, I actually can't get through "Surgical Focus" without listening to it three times, so I thought I'd pin it to m'Tumblr wall. Take a listen, tell me this earworm of a melody doesn't do it for you (or Big Jim's huge drums, Doug's hopscotch counter melody guitar stripes, Greg's chonky bass tone, and whatever that weird sound effect stuff is that Ric Ocasek has going on). I could wax rhapsodic about this record all week!
Greg and Bob, 2011
I once witnessed Guided By Voices play three encores, drunk off their asses, and they never lost their footing. 35 seconds into last night's appearance on Letterman, bassist Greg Demos took a spill. Was it due to being stone crushingly sober? Was he nervous? Ed Sullivan Theater floor a bit slippery? All three? All three.