By: Circus Devils Appears on: Capsized! Thanks yet again to Todd Tobias, I’m happy to present another official Circus Devils tab, and it’s for “Legendary Breakfast Code” from Capsized! There are a lot of crazy, chaotic moments on this album, but this song is one of the calmer tunes (which are probably only there to […]
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Cockroach Whiskey
By: Circus Devils Appears on: Laughs Last Quick! Has Robert Pollard written more songs with the word “cock” in the title, or with “whiskey” in the title? I didn’t bother to find out, but “Cockroach Whiskey” from the Circus Devils release Laughs Last contains both, and that’s the song we’re working on today. You need […]
Crucified By The British Press
By: Circus Devils Appears on: Laughs Last In “Crucified By The British Press,” Todd Tobias uses an alternate guitar tuning to create some unique chord voicings. This song is pretty simply to play since it mainly uses strummed chords and a simple riff. You need to be logged in to view the rest of the […]
Hue An’ Dye
By: Circus Devils Appears on: Stomping Grounds Todd Tobias, composer of most of the music to which Robert Pollard added vocals in the Circus Devils side project, seems fond of alternate guitar tunings. In “Hue An’ Dye,” the most obvious change was to tune the low E string down a full step to D. In […]
Time Trapper
By: Circus Devils Appears on: Laughs Last On my first listen of the 2017 Circus Devils album Laughs Last, “Time Trapper” was a track that immediately caught my attention. That melancholy acoustic guitar, playing those desolate arpeggios over a bleak synth, set to Robert Pollard’s haunting vocal melody…I knew I wanted to learn how to play […]
Cold Joker
By: Circus Devils Appears on: Stomping Grounds With an output as tremendous as that of the Guided By Voices catalog, it can become a little overwhelming at times to keep up with all of Robert Pollard’s solo and side projects. I believe it’s totally forgivable to not listen to everything he churns out as soon as […]
