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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Guided By Voices news |
| Date | Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:27:30 -0500 |
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One misconception should be cleared up -- Robert Pollard does not go around
firing guys left and right. Jack Rabid did an excellent interview (does
Jack do any other kind?) of Robert for Big Takeover magazine. Pollard
explained that the primary reason for the turnover is that it's hard to find
guys in their mid-30's/early 40's who can maintain a very active touring
schedule. More often than not, people were leaving because they had other
things to do with their lives.
Mike Bennett
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
>From: "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com>
>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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