― Josh, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tom, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― jess, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― cuba libre (nathalie), Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― mark s, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Vinnie, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
I enjoy the live show too. Mostly for the fact that they play lots of upbeat numbers, one right after another, and focus on being entertaining (instead of just "doing their thing and if anyone likes it that's a bonus.") But the last time I saw them I started to feel sorry for Pollard. He just looked like such a pathetic drunk up there, an overgrown child. He never missed a note or a lyric, so the music didn't suffer, but I just hated to see him making an idiot of himself. It's one thing to be 22-year old Paul Westerburg drunk in a wading pool, but Pollard has kids in college. He should have moved on a long time ago.
― Mark, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ron, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― J Blount, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― di smith (lucylurex), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 07:02 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
― zebedee, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:08 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 16:46 (twenty-one years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:27 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:30 (twenty years ago) link
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:30 (twenty years ago) link
(xpost haha Ned and a good 30 of them will be "That's because they picked the wrong songs, maaaaan...")
― M Matos (M Matos), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:33 (twenty years ago) link
My goodness, the meme is at least that old! Ack!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 04:50 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 05:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 05:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 05:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 05:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 05:46 (twenty years ago) link
x-post, do you any other similar indie rock Matos? Maybe it's just not your thing.
― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 05:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 05:49 (twenty years ago) link
Hey, this stuff was selected by the man himself so you KNOW it's dubious!
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 09:04 (twenty years ago) link
― Squirrel_Police (Squirrel_Police), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 09:23 (twenty years ago) link
...flaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 09:42 (twenty years ago) link
The GbV website has a list of his Fading Captain releases here. There are also two pre-Fading Captain Pollard solo albums (Not In My Airforce and Waved Out) and a Phantom Tollbooth collab.
― Jeremy (Jeremy), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 10:05 (twenty years ago) link
unfortunately, the version on the 'best of' is the inferior single version. it's higher-fi, but the performance is lacking. the album version is not only more excited-sounding but it's one of "lo-fi" gbv's better production jobs (all in my opinion, of course).
a similarly regrettable decision was made in the case of "game of pricks".
― brittany harpoons, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 11:46 (twenty years ago) link
* Freedom Cruise (only two songs, i think. one w/ the Deal sisters)
* Nightwalker (two or three singles and one album. Nightwalker seems to be nothing more than Bob dredging up his sludgier basement tapes and slapping the Nightwalker name on them. One Nightwalker track is a 12 minute drone.)
* Lexo and the Leapers (one EP over four years ago. it's a different band, but the record is almost indistinguishable from some gbv records)
* Airport 5 (Tobin Sprout records complete instrumental tracks and Pollard writes songs over them. two albums)
* Circus Devils (the weirdest - and probably best - side project. GbV's producer Todd Tobias and former bassist Tim Tobias record (bizarre) instrumental tracks and Pollard writes songs over them. most gbv fans (online, at least) don't seem to like this one. three albums, with a new one out just last week.)
* Go Back Snowball (Mac McCaughan records complete instrumentals. Pollard write songs over them. one album.)
* The Lifeguards (Doug Gillard records complete instrumentals and Pollard grafts new songs onto them. one album).
* Phantom Tollbooth (Pollard joins the long-defunct arty punk band by getting them to erase the vocals on their recordings so he can write new songs on top of the instrumental tracks. One album).
Pollard's next project is a collaboration with Tommy Keene, which, it seems, will work just like the collaborations above.
And then there are the solo albums...
― brittany harpoons, Tuesday, 4 November 2003 12:11 (twenty years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:03 (twenty years ago) link
― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:04 (twenty years ago) link
― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:18 (twenty years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 13:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:43 (twenty years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:48 (twenty years ago) link
― Jeff-PTTL (Jeff), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 14:55 (twenty years ago) link
file under: indie guilt, ILM case #504285-02485-234
― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:03 (twenty years ago) link
― largehearted boy (largeheartedboy), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:08 (twenty years ago) link
― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 15:11 (twenty years ago) link
I'm sure it's complicated, Kevin has a history.
― Evan, Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:33 (ten years ago) link
who doesn't already know that? bob is a lovable narcissistic dick.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:34 (ten years ago) link
Now that this is public the fans get to provide all of the context that is missing!
― Evan, Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:37 (ten years ago) link
I'm going to print out this email and try to get Bob to autograph it.
― Evan, Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:38 (ten years ago) link
Then sell it on ebay
― Evan, Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:39 (ten years ago) link
for $55k
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:40 (ten years ago) link
Reserve not met.
― Evan, Thursday, 24 October 2013 19:44 (ten years ago) link
^next album title
J Mascis "who gives a fuck" story
― Allen (etaeoe), Friday, 25 October 2013 03:51 (ten years ago) link
Ugh, that correspondence, guys in bands being horrible to each other but not actually in person, what a novelty
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Friday, 25 October 2013 08:11 (ten years ago) link
Upcoming release:
1. Being on call at the drop of a hat2. Too fast (which is the sign of an amateur)3. $50,000 for the metal trash can4. There was no attack5. See the absurdity (and where it can go from there)6. So-called fucking classic 7. Sense of loyalty8. I said I wouldn't do it if I couldn't9. A laugh to begin with10. Asking price11. You have made a fool
― Evan, Friday, 25 October 2013 14:39 (ten years ago) link
hahahaha!!
that's making me want to record one of those songs, which in the spirit would sound super shitty and be recorded in a midwestern basement on the most rudimentary of recording devices available to me (my phone) "4. there was no attack" is my track of choice
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 25 October 2013 14:46 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, track 4 is the hit! "$50,000 for the metal trash can" is the rambling nonsense at :34 in length.
― Evan, Friday, 25 October 2013 14:49 (ten years ago) link
Jesus that was depressing. The FB link is dead now; those excerpts are from the FB page or what?
― Admin is dead, e/t is permitted (Jon Lewis), Friday, 25 October 2013 15:15 (ten years ago) link
They are, yes.
― Evan, Friday, 25 October 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
You're welcome for the copy/paste.
B-)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 25 October 2013 15:28 (ten years ago) link
(hilarious post btw, Evan)
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 25 October 2013 15:29 (ten years ago) link
Ha, thanks! Also for pasting, should have known it would get deleted.
― Evan, Friday, 25 October 2013 15:33 (ten years ago) link
God, lesson is as old as the internet: Don't have contentious conversations in email (or text, or writing, etc).
― Pete Scholtes, Friday, 25 October 2013 16:00 (ten years ago) link
"a laugh to begin with" is a gorgeous acoustic ditty with bob and toby singing together about god knows what the fuck.
― i play too fast (which is the sign of an amateur) (fact checking cuz), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:03 (ten years ago) link
"you have made a fool" is, for better or worse, their new "hold on hope."
― i play too fast (which is the sign of an amateur) (fact checking cuz), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:06 (ten years ago) link
Got to LOL at Bob Pollard berating someone else for being amateurish
― Thomas K Amphong (Tom D.), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
"being on call at the drop of a hat" is a surprisingly good electronic album opener that fools you into thinking this album is going to be their kid a, which of course it isn't.
― i play too fast (which is the sign of an amateur) (fact checking cuz), Friday, 25 October 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
"I was available for the band but we only played 2 shows this year,"
to be fair, each show was 400 hours long.
― scott seward, Friday, 25 October 2013 17:21 (ten years ago) link
"So-called fucking classic" is even shorter and more ironic than "Hit" off of Alien Lanes
― Evan, Friday, 25 October 2013 18:17 (ten years ago) link
glad this got explained because the links I'd seen were to the fb page which was gone by the time I clicked on it. Bob sounds like a dick to to be perfectly honest, that is a ridiculous auction price and no-one gives a shit who drums for GBV.
― akm, Friday, 25 October 2013 20:27 (ten years ago) link
I think they should let a fan be their drummer.
― sweat pea (La Lechera), Friday, 25 October 2013 20:39 (ten years ago) link
fennell was the first drummer i ever saw gbv play with and he was most definitely a part of the reason i fell in love with them. he's still my fave gbv drummer. neither he nor pollard seems like they'd be all that fun to be in a band with though.
gotta love that pollard has a 7-inch called "return of the drums" due out in november. seriously.
― i play too fast (which is the sign of an amateur) (fact checking cuz), Friday, 25 October 2013 20:52 (ten years ago) link
If I'm not mistaken, he's got a fairly large Guided By Voices tattoo taking up the length of his arm. Wondering if he's regretting that now.
― Ex Slacker, Friday, 25 October 2013 20:56 (ten years ago) link
lol Lech
― Tip from Tae Kwon Do: (crüt), Friday, 25 October 2013 21:02 (ten years ago) link
I wonder when he got the tattoo. This isn't the first melodramatic falling out these two dudes have had.
― Evan, Friday, 25 October 2013 22:07 (ten years ago) link
Guys, this is just another classic rock tribute from them, a tribute to The Byrds dust up in which David Crosby the drummer "Michael, play drums right!"
― Sodade Stereo (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 26 October 2013 11:50 (ten years ago) link
Listening to Lamb lies down on broadway a few times & it seems like a strong influence on GBV?
― badg, Friday, 29 June 2018 14:56 (five years ago) link
i think pollard has copped to being a 70s peter gabriel / genesis fan
― tylerw, Friday, 29 June 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link