By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue “Secret Star” was included in Guided By Voices’ live shows from April 2003 (several months before Earthquake Glue was released) until the band’s final performance on 12/31 of 2004. I originally tabbed out the guitar parts for the Chords page of the old gbv.com website, but frankly […]
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I’ll Replace You With Machines
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue Back when Earthquake Glue was released, I was a frequent contributor to the Guitar Chords page of the old GBV website, where guitarists could tab out a song and submit it to the site via email. I was also catching a lot of live GBV shows during […]
Useless Inventions
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue In “Useless Inventions,” Robert Pollard crafts a verse chord progression using a fifth chord shape (root note and fifth note) on the fourth and third guitar strings combined with a technique he frequently uses which I’ve nicknamed “Drop The Bass.” You need to be logged in to […]
My Kind Of Soldier
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue “My Kind Of Soldier” features two guitars playing different melodies using an open string drone technique; the G note on the open third string will ring throughout much of the song for both guitars. There are times when one guitar strums chords, so I’ll include those in […]
Dirty Water
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue In the post for “Apology In Advance,” I mentioned that there are certain songs from Earthquake Glue that never really “did it” for me, and “Dirty Water” had been one of them for a long time. Obviously, I loved those harmonized guitar lead lines towards the end […]
Apology In Advance
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue Earthquake Glue is a Guided By Voices album that I’ve always loved, and yet some of its songs took longer for me to realize their greatness. When it was first released, the obvious hits to me were “I’ll Replace You With Machines,” “The Best Of Jill Hives,” […]
A Trophy Mule In Particular
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue Part of the mission of the GBV Guitar website is to fill in the gaps. For Robert Pollard’s work 2004 and prior, there are already some guitar tabs floating around on the internet, and a lot of them are pretty accurate, or at least close enough to […]
The Best Of Jill Hives
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Earthquake Glue During the Universal Truths and Cycles and Earthquake Glue tours, I managed to attend quite a few Guided By Voices shows. I didn’t follow them around the country, but I did head out of state a few times to see them. During this time, Nate Farley and Doug […]
