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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: SPARX on December 17, 2003, 02:35:00 pm
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WHY I LOVE... GUIDED BY VOICES
By Fab Moretti From The Strokes
"They're, like, the band that when I started to get into music kinda
reassured me maybe I had a more of a chance of being able to do it.
Like
when you're in High School the teachers are like, 'Yeah, keep
dreaming.'
with the whole music thing. Then I heard them and their songs were so
great
and the fact that they recorded some of their stuff on a four-track
recorder
- wow. I was like, 'Shit, maybe, you know... it's still possible.'
I just think Robert Pollard is a very smart, beautiful human being.
Just
inspiring to me and the band. And he should be inspiring to a lot of
people.
They're just a really great band. We were fortunate enough to meet him
and
also tour with them. Then at Leeds festival when we were headlining we
brought him out to sing 'A Salty Salute' from 'Alien Lanes'. No-one
knew the
song or anything but we really didn't give a shit.
When I was like 15, 16, I had a best friend at that time. He just knew
all
these bands. He would never play them for anyone but for some reason he
would play me bands every once in a while, I'd just hang at his house
and
play guitar with him. He started playing Guided By Voices, an album
called
'Vampire On Titus'; there's this song called 'Donkey School' on there I
remember listening to it over and over again driving to a party and I
just
couldn't believe that I'd never heard this. It was almost like hearing
for
the first time. When I lestened to it, I almost felt, like, that same
cool
feeling I had when I first heard the Beatles - except it was great.
Everybody calls it dirty. It's recorded on a four-track and I really
like
that. It feels really intimate. It feels like you're finding a tape of
someone that no-one else knows about and it's just for you.
If you go out and party and you can listen to them at, like, six in the
morning... it's great. And if I feel sad I put some on and it just,
like,
helps you go to sleep. I'd listened to them for, like, eight years.
Then in
LA a year and a half ago, I found a new song of theirs I'd never heard
before. I couldn't belive I'd never heard something so... perfect.
Even though lots of songs are really short they also feel just right...
they
don't seem short... you just want to push 'play' again. It's so nice he
(Robert Pollard) actually told us that once - when he heard our first
record
- he said, 'You guys have great replay value.' Meaning you wanna keep
pushing 'play' after the song's over.
He's so funny, man. When we opened for him, he drove us back to our
hotel in
the van, he was just saying all these jokes. And you know... he told me
I
can call him Uncle Bob."
Fab Moretti was talking to Mark Beaumont
WHAT TO BUY
Vampire On Titus - Scat - 1993
Their breakthrough record: rough as sandpaper, recorded in a bin, but
overflowing with top-flight tunes.
Alien Lanes - Matador - 1995
Yes it's long (28 tracks). Yes, it's self indulgent. But so are GBV.
And
with songs of the calibre of 'Motor Away' in their pockets, they can do
no
wrong.
Human Amusements At Hourly Rates - Matador - 2003
Best-of compiling all the band's best moments and ditching the ones
that
sound like they're made on a broken Dictaphone
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Thanks god someone finally mentioned Guydid by Voyces on this board!
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Wilco Wilco Wilco Wilco Wilco....
Now we're back to about 50/50. ;)
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Guided By Voices Reschedule Gigs, Record New Album; Pollard Reteams With Todd Tobias For Solo Album Pollard's vertebrae refixed with permanent-bond earthquake glue
[Posted Monday, February 9th, 2004 05:00:00 Pitchfork Central Time]
Jeremy C. Baron reports:
Our favorite "I write songs faster than Dean loses percentage points" musician is back--ahem-- in the fray. Guided By Voices' captain of fade, Robert Pollard, recently sustained another injury to his back, causing him to cancel a number of January tour dates. Fortunately, Pollard has been recovering, and is expected to continue rocking out crowds come March. Rescheduled dates:
03-05 Dallas, TX - Trees
03-06 Austin, TX - La Zona Rosa
03-08 Columbia, MO - Blue Note
03-09 St. Louis, MO - Mississippi Nights
03-11 Columbus, OH - Little Brother's
03-12 Louisville, KY - Headliners
03-13 Bloomington, IN - Bluebird
In the meantime, GbV has been at Waterloo Studios in Kent, OH (birthplace of Universal Cycles and Truths) recording their next album, according to Matador and the band's official website. Fifteen songs have been recorded with Todd Tobias producing, and the album is expected for release sometime around the summer of this year.
Furthermore, Pollard has set a March date for his next solo release, Fiction Man. Pollard penned the tunes, while Tobias provides instrumentation (much in the same vein as Pollard's collaboration with Doug Gillard, Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department). Neither source reported whether the release will be on Fading Captain, Matador, or another label. The next Fading Captain release will be a CD edition of Circus Devils' third album, Pinball Mars, which was first released on vinyl last Halloween.
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Originally posted by SPARX:
WHY I LOVE... GUIDED BY VOICES
By Fab Moretti From The Strokes
"They're, like, the band that when I started to get into music kinda
reassured me maybe I had a more of a chance of being able to do it.
Like
when you're in High School the teachers are like, 'Yeah, keep
dreaming.'
with the whole music thing. Then I heard them and their songs were so
great
and the fact that they recorded some of their stuff on a four-track
recorder
- wow. I was like, 'Shit, maybe, you know... it's still possible.'
I just think Robert Pollard is a very smart, beautiful human being.
Just
inspiring to me and the band. And he should be inspiring to a lot of
people.
They're just a really great band. We were fortunate enough to meet him
and
also tour with them. Then at Leeds festival when we were headlining we
brought him out to sing 'A Salty Salute' from 'Alien Lanes'. No-one
knew the
song or anything but we really didn't give a shit.
When I was like 15, 16, I had a best friend at that time. He just knew
all
these bands. He would never play them for anyone but for some reason he
would play me bands every once in a while, I'd just hang at his house
and
play guitar with him. He started playing Guided By Voices, an album
called
'Vampire On Titus'; there's this song called 'Donkey School' on there I
remember listening to it over and over again driving to a party and I
just
couldn't believe that I'd never heard this. It was almost like hearing
for
the first time. When I lestened to it, I almost felt, like, that same
cool
feeling I had when I first heard the Beatles - except it was great.
Everybody calls it dirty. It's recorded on a four-track and I really
like
that. It feels really intimate. It feels like you're finding a tape of
someone that no-one else knows about and it's just for you.
If you go out and party and you can listen to them at, like, six in the
morning... it's great. And if I feel sad I put some on and it just,
like,
helps you go to sleep. I'd listened to them for, like, eight years.
Then in
LA a year and a half ago, I found a new song of theirs I'd never heard
before. I couldn't belive I'd never heard something so... perfect.
Even though lots of songs are really short they also feel just right...
they
don't seem short... you just want to push 'play' again. It's so nice he
(Robert Pollard) actually told us that once - when he heard our first
record
- he said, 'You guys have great replay value.' Meaning you wanna keep
pushing 'play' after the song's over.
He's so funny, man. When we opened for him, he drove us back to our
hotel in
the van, he was just saying all these jokes. And you know... he told me
I
can call him Uncle Bob."
Fab Moretti was talking to Mark Beaumont
WHAT TO BUY
Vampire On Titus - Scat - 1993
Their breakthrough record: rough as sandpaper, recorded in a bin, but
overflowing with top-flight tunes.
Alien Lanes - Matador - 1995
Yes it's long (28 tracks). Yes, it's self indulgent. But so are GBV.
And
with songs of the calibre of 'Motor Away' in their pockets, they can do
no
wrong.
Human Amusements At Hourly Rates - Matador - 2003
Best-of compiling all the band's best moments and ditching the ones
that
sound like they're made on a broken Dictaphone
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CLEAN UP YER DATA! YER GIVIN US TUNNEL VISION!
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i guess fab is trying to lineup his post strokes gig...
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Actually the hipster backlash against GBV is about to begin..... To my surprise the Diesel store in Georgetown was not playing crazy euro disco on Saturday, but a whole GBV album.
Needless to say, I didnt buy anything.
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Um, the point of bringing back a really old thread was just to let pollard know the dates are rescheduled (he was going to Ohio originally...). But of course, I'm sure he knows, he's probably on like 8 mailing lists. Couldn't find a more general GBV thread cuz, you know, there's no search engine here. :p
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backlashed?
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Forgotten clitoris
Archive: Sexual Health
With 8,000 nerve fibres at its tip the clitoris has more fibres than any other part of the human body including the tongue or, in men, the penis. As writer Natalie Angier comments it is strange that women are often perceived as having a more ??muted? sexuality or as experiencing penis envy when the clitoris is far more sensitive than the penis and enables many women to experience multiple orgasms ?? an experience denied to men.
During the Middle Ages the importance of the clitoris was acknowledged, despite the churches distrust of pleasure, because it was believed it was involved in women??s ability to conceive. Studies of the clitoris were made in the 16th and 17th centuries but then it disappeared from historical records until the 19th century. In 1875 it was shown that clitoris did not play any role in procreation.
In 1865 the head of the British Medical Society, Dr Baker Brown recommended the removal of the clitoris to cure epilepsy, hysteria and madness. His work was eventually rejected and he lost his position but because of his theories hundreds of women were mutilated up until the 1920s.