By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Under The Bushes Under The Stars “Drag Days” is one of bonus tracks on Under The Bushes Under The Stars, although I can’t imagine hearing the album without it. There’s a pretty simple lead guitar part that runs through this song, and the chords are all standard barre shapes, […]
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Cut-Out Witch
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Under The Bushes Under The Stars Long-time Guided By Voices guitarist Doug Gillard has mentioned that Robert Pollard gives the band a fair amount of freedom with his songs so that they can incorporate their own ideas. In this way, some songs have evolved a bit from their original […]
Ghosts Of A Different Dream
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Under The Bushes Under The Stars For the main guitar riff in “Ghosts Of A Different Dream,” Robert Pollard uses a simple, two-note figure that keeps repeating while the bass changes the chords beneath it. The guitar notes are played on the seventh fret of the fourth string and […]
Lord Of Overstock
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Under The Bushes Under The Stars “Lord Of Overstock,” originally appearing on Under The Bushes Under The Stars in 1996, has been in regular rotation in the Guided By Voices set list at live shows since guitarist Doug Gillard rejoined the band in 2016. It even earned a spot […]
Burning Flag Birthday Suit
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Under The Bushes Under The Stars “Burning Flag Birthday Suit” uses a bit of the Floating Chord Shapes technique, with Pollard moving an open D chord shape up and down the guitar neck for some parts, and doing the same with an open G5 chord later in the song. […]
Office Of Hearts
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Under The Bushes Under The Stars Here’s a simple, wonderful tune from the 1996 Guided By Voices album Under the Bushes Under the Stars, an album that gave us nothing but hit after monster hit. This one is “Office of Hearts,” and it’s nothing but verse, chorus, wordless verse, […]
Redmen And Their Wives
By: Guided By Voices Appears on: Under The Bushes Under The Stars, Live from Austin, TX It was during their “final” tour, in 2004, that Guided By Voices were asked to perform on the live concert television series Austin City Limits. The entire performance—full of classic tunes as well as several from their latest album, Half […]
