OFF: Guided By Voices

[John Majka]

I'll be seeing GBV next week here in Indianapolis and it should be a great
show.  I've seen them about 7 or 8 times and it's always been spectacular.
They have such a huge backlog of possible songs to draw from that I'm always
surprised to hear what they play--inevitably they always dredge up several
obscure B-sides and so on that you never expected to hear.  I remember the
last time I saw them they played "Big School"...wow that was amazing....
I'm sure they won't disappoint!  I'm not real keen on the latest record, but
all that Pollard solo stuff is the bee's knees!
John Majka
jmajka2 at home.com

> Theo, did you go to the GBV show at Armory High? I was way up toward the
> front, so I didn't get to see most of the crowd. Fun show! I heard all of
my
> favorite GBV songs except "Echoes Myron" and it was nice to see them
playing
> so much of the new album. Well, I guess since it's #1 in the college radio
> charts, that's not a surprise. Either was the fact that it was such a
young
> crowd. Closing with Baba O'Riley was cool too--I was actually wearing my
Who
> t-shirt. The only drawbacks I saw were that Robert Pollard was trying too
> hard to be Roger Daltry, not just during the Who cover, and one of the
> guitarists was trying too hard to pose like Mick Jagger. ;-)
>
> Brian
>
> P.S. It was also the first show I've ever seen where the headliner was
> introduced by a guy (the owner of the club?) reading two original poems
he'd
> written for them. Very classy, even with the outrageous reverb they put on
> his voice. ;-)
>
> Brian
>
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