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Lädt ... Guided by Voices: A Brief History: Twenty-One Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Rollvon James Greer
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is a pretty good stab at summing a notoriously protean "band" largely centered around one man, viz., Robt. Pollard. As such, in some ways it resembles a biography of that man. Greer was in the band at one time, so he has a claim to know whereof he speaks. I found that his viewpoint on Pollard at little bit at odds with what I've read in the music magazines about him over the years. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
Guided by Voices was one of the most popular indie-rock bands of the 1990s. Critics internationally have lauded the band's brain trust, Robert Pollard, as a once-in-a-generation artist. Pollard has been compared byThe New York Times to Mozart, Rossini, and Paul McCartney (in the same sentence) and everyone from P. J. Harvey, Radiohead, R.E.M., the Strokes, and U2 has sung his praises and cited his music as an influence. But it all started rather prosaically when Pollard, a fourth-grade teacher in his early thirties from Dayton, Ohio, began recording songs with drinking buddies in his basement. James Greer, an acclaimed music writer and formerSpin editor, enjoys a unique advantage in having played in the band for two years. This personal connection grants him unparalleled insight and complete access to the workings of Pollard's muse. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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A wish of GBV fans over the year has been for a biography of the band written by someone who isn't a friend of Bob Pollard's; I think that's fair, and I'd be down to read it, however grisly. I went into this book, written by a double threat of iffiness, a Rock Journalist/former member-of-the-band, with fairly low expectations, but I didn't actually find it too hagiographical. Besides the redundant espousal's of Greer's belief in Pollard being the greatest living artist ever of all time, it didn't shy from some rather appalling stories, nor soften the blow or forgive many Bob's, or the band members', numerous fuckups, dick moves and/or crimes.
A common side-effect of this book is creating at least a temporary disgust with everybody in the story, and since the main character here is one Bob Pollard, you may have a sour taste in your mouth for awhile.
I really don't know what to say about this book: is it useful anymore now that there's a new one? It's been awhile, so I can't say for sure, but I think this one had a few stories and/or quotes I hadn't heard, and that'd go for the new one too. Certainly if you read them in close proximity you'd be grinding through a ton of overlapping anecdotes or even verbatim quotes.
So I'll quote Bob, in his description of GBV's 2001 song 'Glad Girls':
I don't know. (It's) alright. ( )