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| From | "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com> |
| Subject | Re: Guided By Voices news |
| Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:40:17 -0500 |
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Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 12:39:12 -0500
From: Randall J Paske <rpaske@kc.rr.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: Guided By Voices news
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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."
Well, I was obviously exaggerating for effect. But the change in personnel
has proceeded along pretty much the same pace it always has. By the
standards of the vast majority of recording bands, a 3/5ths turnover in less
than five years (with different bass players at the beginning and ending of
that period) is a considerable one. And, more to the point, the operating
principle of the band has (ever since the departure of Tobin Sprout) evolved
into GBV being Pollard's benign dictatorship. He writes the songs, he makes
the decisions, he has control over the personnel. If he literally wanted to
make GBV a band that did indeed consist of him and anybody else who happens
to be in the room at the time, nobody would or could stop him. Ergo, his
ability to unilaterally dissolve the band because he no longer wanted to be
the leader of the gang.
Gregory Sager
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