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GUIDED BY VOICES.
LETTERMAN.
TONIGHT.
Wonky cassette-sourced 1983 recording of a Guided By Voices song called “Walls and Windows,” later transformed into “Hardcore UFOs” from Bee Thousand. I think posting this makes me a curator. I hate the semi-sudden ubiquity of that word. But I love this song.
Getting to hear any unreleased early Guided By Voices reminds me of being a kid and getting to go to Disneyland or Fenway; which is to say - magical to me. Though this song didn’t have too far to go to become Hardcore UFOs, there’s a mystique in its original form with different lyrics and a more chill jangly-psychedelic folk sound. Fortunately, early working versions eventually seeing the light happens often in GBV-land, and it’s one of the reasons why loving them seems to endlessly pay off. You can hear Bob sing the first two lines to this song while he’s thumbing through a notebook of early lyrics on the Watch Me Jumpstart dvd. It’s about 3/4 of the way through the bonus of Beautiful Plastic.
What’s the game Master John?
Have you been through wall & windows…Big thanks to Jim Greer, once again.
If you’re a fan of Guided by Voices, you really should be following James Greer’s blog. Today’s entry covers Bob Pollard’s duet with Kim Deal on the classic rock track Love Hurts, as recorded for the soundtrack of the movie Love and a .45 . I can attest the song was indeed released as a single (even if just promotionally), as I’ve got a copy of the CD single.
Click on the photo of Bob and Kim’s forehead, or here for more from James Greer - journalist and former GbV bassist. All of his posts on the band are really engrossing stories that add further color to his book on the band, Hunting Accidents.
GUIDED BY VOICES, the Trocadero, Philadelphia, PA. November 6, 2010. The third-to-last show on the Hallway of Shatter Proof Glass Tour, only followed by two in NYC. One of those is on New Year’s Eve.
The lads were in fine form this evening, very tight and not as much goofing around during Lethargy as they’d done in DC. The venue was pretty neat; an old-time theater that had been home to burlesque shows in the early 1900s. There was a show poster available that incorporated some of the Phillies logo touches into the letters “GBV” — a shot of that poster will be forthcoming in photo here on Playmixt.
It’s difficult to express what seeing these guys playing together again means to me, but it’s something I’ve been ruminating on awhile now. It’s been 2 weeks since the last show (DC) and there’s a wave of really awesome things that have been happening to me since then. Keep in mind you can download show recordings via GBVdigital.com
Photo by Playmixt.
This is Mitch Mitchell. Not Jimi Hendrix Experience Mitch Mitchell, but Dayton’s own Mitch Mitchell. He plays in Guided by Voices. He is a rock god.
More on GBV in DC is forthcoming.
MORE FREE LIVE GbV!
2 songs from Guided by Voices’ Dallas show soundcheck have been made available here at GBVdigital.com - explore them both, won’t you?
Get yourself a free live GUIDED BY VOICES show for download! From the fine folks at the recently opened GBVdigital.com. This week’s show from the Wiltern in Los Angeles has been made available free of charge. The band are in fine form this night and the recording sounds great.
“Oh yeah, I’m going to drive my car…”
Pitchfork has some video of the first show from the classic GbV lineup. And hey, if you’re a fan of Dayton’s Favorite Heroes, you might be interested in this website:
https://www.gbvdigital.com/
— they’re planning on recording every show of the tour and offering it for download the next day. The first show from Dallas is up already today!
Most of the GbV and Pollard back catalog is available here as well, and one show of note is the 9:30 Club show from the 2004 Electrifying Conclusion tour.
Playmixt will be attending the DC and Philly shows, and hopes to be able to photograph them both for Photomixt.
If you missed them then, here’s your chance, kids! DO NOT MISS the classic 1993-1996 lineup of
when they come to your town this fall, performing the hits from the classic trifecta of LPs consisting of Bee Thousand… Alien Lanes… and Under The Bushes, Under The Stars. Tourdates here.
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LOOK: IT’S BASEBALL! Robert Pollard scoring Pete Rose film
Courtesy of the legendary & triumphant RichT, comes this story at Spin.com — Guided by Voices nucleus Robert Pollard is scoring 4,192 - a documentary about Pete Rose. It’s rather fitting that the songwriter of “Look, It’s Baseball” should do so. Pollard even drops hints at offers of a GBV reunion. Click the photo to read the whole story.
As a former fan whose love of baseball was brutally killed off by the strikes in the ’90s, I have to say - this film looks good. The official site for the movie has a teaser trailer, and it includes interviews with Rose’s Phillies teammate, Mike Schmidt. Both those guys were heroes of mine growing up a Phillies fan, and seeing the trailer definitely got me excited for the film. It doesn’t seem to address much about why Rose will not get into Cooperstown, at least in the trailer, but I’m hoping it will cover the entire story of his career.
