By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard When Robert Pollard prepared his demos for the Boston Spaceships album Let It Beard, he recorded his vocals and guitar on his boombox, then spliced sections of songs together to form a full composition. With this method in mind, I’m wondering if he ever had to actually learn […]
Tag: Alternate Tuning
No Steamboats
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard I’ve always considered Let It Beard to be my least favorite Boston Spaceships album. That’s not to say I never liked it, but in mental rankings it just always seemed to get bottom placement. Lately I’ve been reconsidering this evaluation, as I’ve been spending a LOT of time […]
Christmas Girl
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard When I create these guitar tablature posts, the tablature and chord diagrams are all made from shapes and tables in Google Slides, so I start by copying a song from a previous post that used similar tablature or chord diagrams and modify as needed. As it turns […]
The Ballad Of Bad Whiskey
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Let It Beard “The Ballad Of Bad Whiskey” from the final Boston Spaceships album Let It Beard sounds like The Beatles’ “Sexy Sadie” stumbled across an old saloon and stayed for too long, getting boozed up and slurred. This, according to Boston Spaceships member Christopher Slurarenko, was exactly the intention. He […]
You Satisfy Me
By: Boston Spaceships Appears on: Brown Submarine If you’re a member of the GUIDED BY VOICES Facebook fan group, you may have heard of the synchronized listening sessions that someone organized. Basically, it’s a bunch of people listening to an album at the same time and commenting about it in real time to a Facebook […]
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 […]
