C or D : Guided By Voices.

could be a repeat of the kevin fennell thing only this time pollard didn't wanna bother amending the "classic" line-up any further

I'm awaiting the announcement of a regouping with the Cobra Verde lineup.

Cool Planet was my second favorite of the reunion albums so its a shame they break up now. Time to call up Tommy Keene.

I remember thinking a Keene/Pollard collaboration would work nicely and then I learned it already existed.

I remember getting a coupla of rekkids signed by him, along with the Jim Greer book as the two were going to book stores to promote it a few years back. I asked him, "so what have you been diggin' music-wise lately," and he quickly said, "the Moles." I was not at all surprised when he did the postal service band, "Cosmos," with Richard Davies literally two months later.
He's just an amazing, fun, modern psych/rock songwriter, and I'm sure we'll get a smattering of quality product that badly needs an editor for years to come. When I saw 'em at some street fair in Chicago this summer, I really thought it was Demos and March holding the whole thing together. Toby just looked super-pissed off, and Mitch kinda phoned it in on the songs he didn't obviously dig. Bobby was Bobby. It was a good run, and it truthfully felt over after the final show in '05. Of the 6 (!) Classic lineup rekkids, I only really liked 'Bears,' 'League,' and, 'Planet.' They coulda seriously done just one good double LP, and that woulda had a big inner groove. I always thought Fennel was a slow drummer, and was kinda glad they booted him after the drum set farce.

i had forgotten about that!
honestly i am glad this reunion is over. the gimmick of gbv was honestly starting to make me like them less and i don't want to like them less.
i hope everyone's health is ok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cl-grAJlt8#t=165

"Asked for a more detailed reason why the group is disbanding, Mr. Pollard responded through his manager in an email.
“I feel we’ve done some great work with these albums,” he wrote, “it wasn’t just a reunion to cash in. But it’s gone as far as it was going to go and to go beyond this point, to any degree or any length would be just going through the motions. It’s time to wrap it up with this particular entity.”

hmm
sounds like something else happened but ok

He's way more wasted there than any of the three times I've seen them play.

maybe they gave him an ultimatum about excessive drinking and/or recording

lol. I for one welcome this breakup since it will give me a much needed chance to catch up on their recorded oeuvre subsequent to Earthquake Glue.

i've seen pollard plastered beyond the possibilities of mathematics numerous times, but that stone pony footage is pretty fucking depressing.

i can't even watch it

ugh that is fucking horrible

Wow I thought that Replacements reunion clip was bad...

But yeah looks like he's moved on from slugging Budweiser to Jack Daniels which packs a little different punch.

Ha, I was just thinking Bob P should join up with Tommy and Paul in some kind of bizarre supergroup.

?? The Replacements were pretty pro the other night

Actually wish I were going to see the 'Mats tonight but I am under the weather.

What clips I saw/heard of the big Replacements show in St. Paul last week were pretty great. Was reminded of when Fogerty started playing CCR songs again.

stone pony footage reminds me that i saw them plenty in 90s and 00s, and don't need to be bummed that they never came to the uk in this incarnation, because that is some awful garbage.

The albums weren't very good either

Looks like it's tequila he's swigging from. Fuck's sake. When did he switch to that from beer?

Last time I saw GBV play in London - must have been 2003? - he was swigging from a JD bottle

xp i liked a couple of them, and the others had good moments, which is pretty much how i felt about all gbv post-earthquake drills

he did seem to gt extra drunk in london. he never got that nasty wasted tho.

Tequila since at least 2010. He passed it around during the Maxwell's show.

sooooooooo saaaaaaaaad
what has become of this supercreative person?!

which is pretty much how i felt about all gbv post-earthquake drills

They did an outdoor show in St Paul at a street fest about 10yrs ago before another hiatus, this was last gasp of the Billiard lineup, pretty bad, that one younger bass player dude who drove the pickup truck in that one gbv video kept asking for coke onstage

haha okay the drills album, the divorce album with chasing heather crazy xp

Just to point out, the 1st 90 mins of that Stone Pony show were pretty great, as were the 5 or so reunion shows I saw. Band seemed to be drinking a lot less at them than 1st time around. Still quite a bit, but a lot less.

On stage Tobin always looked like someone's dad filling in on guitar, daydreaming about golf while all the other guys get blasted and act like rock stars throughout the show.

None of them have released a couple of albums in the last few days? This is disturbing.

Are they all ok post recent, erm, breakdown?

T'interweb is very GBV silent post Sept18

There have been new Circus Devils and Teenage Guitar records, and there is something called Ricked Wicky coming out some time soon.

they're back together
http://pitchfork.com/news/57229-robert-pollard-tobin-sprout-play-set-at-guided-by-voices-tribute-show/

So, I'm guessing Mitch Mitchell wasn't there?

yeah that at least nullifies a few theories

As an out the loop Limey, I was suspecting rehab, after watching the above footage

Thread derailer , but there's a mention above - I'm guessing that Westerberg remains off the sauce?

Sooooooo.... Guess who's reunited again?

Kevin Fennell back in the band then?

only one who's previously been in GBV is Kevin March, right?

finally catching up on the rest of the reunion albums, they're definitely working on a lower average quality level than anything propellor thru half-smiles but its still kinda fun to scavenger hunt for the occasional jam e.g. 'males of wormwood mars'

English Little League is the only one of the new ones that was really a keeper, imo. Good songs scattered around on the other ones.

The new one is wretched.

yeah that's the one i've listened to most too. Class Clown Spots a UFO was also decent

being part of a present-day gbv crowd might have finally cured me of sometimes complaining that people at shows are all 10-15 years younger than me and occasionally call me ma'am. dudes my age and older who only go out twice a year cannot handle themselves.

Lol

Are you sure that's not the band you're talking about rather than the crowd?

ya know, maybe it's b/c i read the replacements bio fairly recently, but the extent to which pollard's drunkenness is part of the appeal for a lot of the crowd did bum me out a little. i know he claims in interviews to not really have a drinking problem, but...

and i'm not sure i can think of anyone so committed to wearing out the audience except maybe the feelies.

GBV headlining the free Village Voice summer show in lower Manhattan tom'w

and the Feelies are playing in Central Park in about 10 days

deathless geezers