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happy happy joy joy:

Robert Pollard live featuring:

Robert Pollard : frontman
Jason Narducy - bass, backing vox
David Suycott - drums
Dag Juhlin - guitar, backing vox
Mitch Marlow - guitar


FRIDAY NOVEMBER 30th
Chicago, IL
METRO
Tickets on sale Saturday Oct. 6th at Ticketmaster.com
More info to follow

SATURDAY DECEMBER 1
Newport, KY
Southgate House
Ticket info to follow

THESE WILL BE THE ONLY SHOWS THAT BOB WILL PLAY IN 2007


Bob, choosing all Chicago musicians to back him up on these gigs: Not Crap

And 2 new albums to boot!

Go BOB!



.....you weird,old, prolific man.

I wish i had such troubles.

glynnisjohns wrote:And 2 new albums to boot!

funny you say that - postman left them for me this afternoon (vinyl, yes!)

let's see...


not crap



not crap

I've fallen for GBV pretty hard recently. Listening to 'Alien Lanes' most of all. What a great album!
I've also picked up 'Bee Thousand' and 'Propeller', and I'm looking forward to listening to them properly.

NOT CRAP.

never cared.

can't vote.


beer thousand was a laugh though.

Kyle Motor wrote:I like some GBV, but I really think there's too much filler (that is an understatement). It bugs me when they've got a string of cool catchy songs on an album and they interrupt it with hissy, out of tune nonsensical rambly atonal acoustic shenanigans with Bob all drunk and hollering over it. The sheer number of releases makes many of them more "collectables" than music. I think Pollard/GBV has a very keen eye for marketing to completist collectors....once they get a taste of something and there's a bit of a "legend" about it, they HAVE to get it all.

Although if I could record every single musical idea I ever have (bad or good), release them, and have people actually buy them, I'd probably do it too.

The irony here is that there *was* some degree of self-editing, as evidenced by the Suitcase releases containing all the tracks that didn't make it onto the albums. I never bothered with those, not wanting to shell out some serious cash for something so crapulent. However, the GBV site did post a free track from Suitcase Abridged called "Sensational Gravity Boy" that was a nice slice of Gillard-era power pop with a great chorus. Go figure.

Bob's noisiness gets kooky, but I love Toby's boiler room Tascam mad scientist vignettes when sequenced well with other tracks on albums like Bee Thousand, Alien Lanes, or Propeller. The random noise does make for a nice diversion there, but it does get tedious on less "hitsville" releases like The Grand Hour or Same Place The Fly Got Smashed and sounds forced when sequenced with the GbVerde tracks on Mag Earwhig!. I guess all that stuff is tolerated because most fans know that there's probably an in-joke in there somewhere.

guided by voices.

heh, more like "guided by feces"

RURITE? [x]no

Alien lanes has some goddamned good songs.

watch the video for Shadow Port


NC