By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Not In My Airforce When it’s just Robert Pollard and an acoustic guitar, the beauty of his songwriting really shines through. Listen to some of the early Guided By Voices recordings, some of the material on the Suitcase box sets, or demo recordings such as those on Edison’s Demos. On these bare-bones […]
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Make Use
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: Waved Out For “Make Use,” the opening track on his 1998 solo album, Waved Out, Robert Pollard crafts an entire song with basically just one chord shape. It’s a perfect example of how much can be accomplished with the “floating chord shape” guitar technique that he uses in many of his […]
Slick As Snails
By: Robert Pollard with Doug Gillard Appears on: Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department I don’t know how to properly explain it, but there’s a certain kind of magic that occurs when Robert Pollard teams up with Doug Gillard. You can hear it all over the Guided By Voices records that feature Doug as […]
Love Is Stronger Than Witchcraft
By: Robert Pollard Appears on: From A Compound Eye On New Year’s Eve 2004, the world ended. Or at least, that’s how it felt to some of us die-hard fans of Robert Pollard and his band, Guided By Voices, when they played what was announced to be their final show (which was released in its […]
