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| From | Randall J Paske <rpaske@kc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: Guided By Voices news |
| Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:39:12 -0500 |
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"Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> wrote:
>Actually, the rate of attrition in GBV has remained pretty constant. The
>only two members of Guided By Voices who were in the band when *Do the
>Collapse* was recorded five years ago are Pollard and Doug Gillard.
But Nate Farley toured on that record and is still in the band. Tim Tobias
also joined in 1999 and was expelled just recently. With Pollard and
Gillard, that's four constant members for the greater part of five years,
with the drummer changing from Jim MacPherson to Kevin March in 2001. So
that doesn't match the stability of a band like, oh, U2, but neither would
I characterize this period of GBV as Pollard "and anybody else who happens
to be in the room at the time."
>His basic songwriting style doesn't vary on his solo albums from the GBV
>template, but the songs themselves tend to reflect more of the brevity and
>lo-fi aesthetic for which the band was once famous than do the latter-day
>GBV albums. It'll be interesting to see for which aesthetic he opts once he
>jettisons the band name -- the lo-fi, short-song approach of the Fading
>Captain Series (his solo work), or the more mainstream, standard production
>and song length, approach of the last few GBV albums. Once he's working with
>only one brand name rather than two, he'll have a harder time switching
>between the two approaches. All the more reason to keep the GBV name alive,
>IMO.
With that I agree. I hope he won't give up trying for a "mainstream"
sound. Most of the more recent Fading Captain releases have been
disappointing, aside from the occasional great song like "Harrison Adams."
Randy
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