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.
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 19 September 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Cl-grAJlt8#t=165
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 19 September 2014 22:13 (nine years ago) link
"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.”
hmmsounds like something else happened but ok
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 19 September 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
He's way more wasted there than any of the three times I've seen them play.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 19 September 2014 22:16 (nine years ago) link
maybe they gave him an ultimatum about excessive drinking and/or recording
― da croupier, Friday, 19 September 2014 22:29 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 September 2014 22:46 (nine years ago) link
i've seen pollard plastered beyond the possibilities of mathematics numerous times, but that stone pony footage is pretty fucking depressing.
― fact checking cuz, Friday, 19 September 2014 22:49 (nine years ago) link
i can't even watch it
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Friday, 19 September 2014 22:53 (nine years ago) link
ugh that is fucking horrible
― akm, Friday, 19 September 2014 23:06 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Friday, 19 September 2014 23:07 (nine years ago) link
Ha, I was just thinking Bob P should join up with Tommy and Paul in some kind of bizarre supergroup.
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 September 2014 23:37 (nine years ago) link
?? The Replacements were pretty pro the other night
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 September 2014 23:40 (nine years ago) link
Actually wish I were going to see the 'Mats tonight but I am under the weather.
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 19 September 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 20 September 2014 02:12 (nine years ago) link
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.
― A college wearing a sweater that says “John Belushi” (stevie), Saturday, 20 September 2014 11:52 (nine years ago) link
The albums weren't very good either
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 September 2014 11:57 (nine years ago) link
Looks like it's tequila he's swigging from. Fuck's sake. When did he switch to that from beer?
― PaulTMA, Saturday, 20 September 2014 11:59 (nine years ago) link
Last time I saw GBV play in London - must have been 2003? - he was swigging from a JD bottle
― FYI Macedonia (Tom D.), Saturday, 20 September 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
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
― A college wearing a sweater that says “John Belushi” (stevie), Saturday, 20 September 2014 12:00 (nine years ago) link
he did seem to gt extra drunk in london. he never got that nasty wasted tho.
― A college wearing a sweater that says “John Belushi” (stevie), Saturday, 20 September 2014 12:01 (nine years ago) link
Tequila since at least 2010. He passed it around during the Maxwell's show.
― Evan, Saturday, 20 September 2014 13:20 (nine years ago) link
sooooooooo saaaaaaaaadwhat has become of this supercreative person?!
― cross over the mushroom circle (La Lechera), Saturday, 20 September 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
which is pretty much how i felt about all gbv post-earthquake drills
― Code Money Changes Everything (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 20 September 2014 13:24 (nine years ago) link
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
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 20 September 2014 15:00 (nine years ago) link
haha okay the drills album, the divorce album with chasing heather crazy xp
― A college wearing a sweater that says “John Belushi” (stevie), Saturday, 20 September 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Wandering Boy Poet, Monday, 22 September 2014 12:49 (nine years ago) link
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.
― Evan, Monday, 22 September 2014 13:59 (nine years ago) link
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
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 20:57 (nine years ago) link
There have been new Circus Devils and Teenage Guitar records, and there is something called Ricked Wicky coming out some time soon.
― cwkiii, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
they're back togetherhttp://pitchfork.com/news/57229-robert-pollard-tobin-sprout-play-set-at-guided-by-voices-tribute-show/
― tylerw, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 20:59 (nine years ago) link
So, I'm guessing Mitch Mitchell wasn't there?
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
yeah that at least nullifies a few theories
― da croupier, Tuesday, 4 November 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
As an out the loop Limey, I was suspecting rehab, after watching the above footage
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 21:24 (nine years ago) link
Thread derailer , but there's a mention above - I'm guessing that Westerberg remains off the sauce?
― Jessie Fer Ark (Mobbed Up Ping Pong Psychos), Tuesday, 4 November 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
Sooooooo.... Guess who's reunited again?
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:28 (eight years ago) link
Kevin Fennell back in the band then?
― The Robustness of Captchas (Tom D.), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
only one who's previously been in GBV is Kevin March, right?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 16:32 (eight years ago) link
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'
― ciderpress, Friday, 10 June 2016 14:37 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 10 June 2016 14:52 (seven years ago) link
yeah that's the one i've listened to most too. Class Clown Spots a UFO was also decent
― ciderpress, Friday, 10 June 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dc, Friday, 8 July 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
Lol
― Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 July 2016 14:38 (seven years ago) link
Are you sure that's not the band you're talking about rather than the crowd?
― They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Friday, 8 July 2016 14:39 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dc, Friday, 8 July 2016 14:42 (seven years ago) link
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
― helpless before THRILLARY (Dr Morbius), Friday, 8 July 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
i know he claims in interviews to not really have a drinking problem, but...
It seems to have escalated in recent years.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 8 July 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
He's certainly written enough songs about drinking.
Just to save anyone the trouble: He's certainly written enough songs about drinking.
― They could have been Stackridge. (Tom D.), Friday, 8 July 2016 14:53 (seven years ago) link
dudes my age and older who only go out twice a year cannot handle themselves.totally otm
this is part of what has made me not care about seeing this band ever again :(
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 8 July 2016 14:58 (seven years ago) link
Love them, saw them twice pre-breakup and I think I'm good.
― some anal dread (Old Lunch), Friday, 8 July 2016 15:01 (seven years ago) link
(Xpost)This is why I restrict, with very rare exceptions, my current live music outings to jazz in its many forms and opera in which venues, among other niceties, the audience has learned to cover up its moontan with long sleeves instead of highlighting it with black rock T-shirts. Of course when streaming into headphones, it's a completely different story, the same old National Hits Day.
― Hare in the Gated Snare (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 8 July 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link