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Headache Revolution

By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: The Planets Are Blasted One of the great aspects of the Boston Spaceships project was that it gave us so many excellent re-workings of songs we already knew from Suitcase. The subject of today’s post, “Headache Revolution,” was first heard as a Robert Pollard demo on Suitcase 2: American Superdream […]

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Red Bodies

By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard “Red Bodies” features a lot of different sections that involve power chord strumming, some arpeggio work, and even a guitar riff that was originally sung by Robert Pollard on his boom box demo for this song and then played on guitar by Chris Slusarenko when recorded for […]

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Fly Away (Terry Sez)

By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Our Cubehouse Still Rocks “Fly Away (Terry Sez)” is straightforward rock done right. Robert Pollard includes a catchy melody and power chords to craft a perfect pop song that should have been a hit. Although most of the guitar is transcribed as tablature here, there are a few basic chords […]

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Return To Your Ship

By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Zero To 99 I think I would have really enjoyed being able to watch Chris Slusarenko working out the Boston Spaceships songs from Robert Pollard’s boombox demos. You can tell he really put a lot of time and effort into trying to emulate Pollard’s guitar playing style, and I think […]

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Tabby And Lucy

By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard When learning a Robert Pollard song for the first time, I’m sometimes deceived into thinking the guitar work is simpler than it really is. In the case of “Tabby And Lucy,” for example, I started out by playing the chorus with pretty standard chords: A5 – D5 […]

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