hardwood floor

her voice gives me the heebeejeebee's

I saw Shear at the old Chestnut Cabaret in Philly probably in the early 1990s

he was real good

I kept yelling out for "Good Reason," a great Jules & the Polar Bears track, but he wouldn't play it

The Feelies are as great as ever

Please let those links still be working when I get home from work.

 

And thanks in advance!

they should be up for a week

any problems, i can easily repost 'em

i think i'm going to post one GBV show each week for the next 52 weeks if people are interested

here's an incredible 2002 seattle show i posted on DTS

this is GBV at the peak of its live powers, with the bob / tim / nate / doug / jon mccann lineup

file 1 - http://www.sendspace.com/file/ra105o

file 2 - http://www.sendspace.com/file/cx7h8d

file 3 - http://www.sendspace.com/file/jtmh9q

Disc 1

1. Intro

2. Everywhere With Helicopter

3. Skin Parade

4. Things I Will Keep

5. In Stitches

6. Chasing Heather Crazy

7. Eureka Signs

8. Edison's Memos

9. Back To The Lake

10. I Drove a Tank

11. Universal Truths and Cycles

12. Waved Out

13. The Enemy

14. Game of Pricks

15. Cut-Out Witch

16. The Weeping Bogeyman

17. Christian Animation Torch Carriers

18. Alone, Stinking And Unafraid

19. Glad Girls

Disc 2

20. Watch Me Jumpstart

21. Car Language

22. Submarine Teams

23. The Brides Have Hit Glass

24. My Valuable Hunting Knife

25. Psychic Pilot Clocks Out

26. Tight Globes

27. Zap

28. Cheyenne

29. Twilight Campfighter

30. Shocker In Gloomtown

31. Love 1

32. Storm Vibrations

33. Soul Train College Policeman

34. Wire Greyhounds

35. From A Voice Plantation

36. Fair Touching

37. Skills Like This

38. Father Sgt. Christmas Card

39. Don't Stop Now

40. Instrument Beetle

Disc 3

41. Tractor Rape Chain

42. The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory

43. Hot Freaks

44. Echos Myron

45. Smothered In Hugs

46. I Am A Scientist

47. Peep-Hole

48. Lethargy

49. Teenage FBI

50. Baba O'Riley

people have been doing house concerts and house tours for years

great idea but siberry certainly didn't invent it

in the last few years i've seen steve wynn, graham parker, jules shear and matt keating at a house in jersey

fantastic way to see music and terrific for the artists, who leave with a grand or so plus lots of merch sales

glad everybody's digging the shows

they've never been better live & i think a big reason is drummer jack slick ... the guy is a beast

the 'we all belong tour.'

well, that's ironic

any idea what the issue was? i can't imagine the band had anything to do with this?

figgs are great, too

even though they wouldn't play favorite shirt when i saw 'em and yelled out for it

i'll have to check out the new one

i saw parker a couple years ago in a tiny house concert (with jason victor) and it was just mind-blowing great

the guy's body of work is astounding and he's one of the few of his generation who's still putting out great music

very good record

the show is archived here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125739676

sadly, it's only the portion that was broadcast ... so we're actually missing the last 45 minutes or so if not a little more

So jealous... do remember any other songs they did?

oh man, i don't really know their stuff well enough to answer that

i believe they did "from"

they did "my friend" and they definitely did "worst trip"

sorry, that's all i remember

great set

that's the set list from the part that was broadcast on WXPN ... they stayed and played another 35 or 40 minutes of requests and it was just incredible

amazing set

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125739676

i'll be there

i once asked bob before a gig about his no-hitter for wright state and he went on for 10 minutes about the game, and by the end of the conversation he was ripping larry bird and telling me his brother jim should have been Mr. Basketball for Ohio in 1975 or so instead of Jim Paxson

Dr. Dog is free @ noon show at World Cafe Live in Philly on Friday

see ya there

cool, when's the gig?

there's been more intelligent discussion of the man and his music in this thread than I've experienced on dts in probably 4 years

yeah, but how many beers did you have tonight?

ow!

Keep Me Down is the most GBV like song I've heard in years. Pumping power chords, "I'm driven to youuuuu, I'm driven to drinkkkk".....I can just see Mitch blowing smoke and hopping around with his Les Paul slung low at his knees.

i need to check that one out -- is it from planets are blasted?

i would say the same thing about radical amazement ... an almost GBV-esque track

ya know, as good as some of these songs are though, there's still something missing ... that musical edginess gillard brought, usually in the form of lyrical, riff-based intros that are repeated later on in the bridge or coda ... seems like almost all of bob's recent stuff is chord based and not riff-based ... taken individually, it's no big deal, but album after album of it is a problem

yeah, I've heard it all.

 

0 - 99 is great, but I think I'd put Planets are Blasted over it as the best Pollard release since FaCE.

 

That run of first 5 songs - Canned Food Demons, Dorothy, Tattoo Mission, Keep Me Down, Big O is great.

i need to give planets are blasted another shot

...interesting angle. I'm trying not to do any drive-by diagnosis shit on Bob, but I have to say I just don't get where he's at right now.

 

He seems alright with the 2,000 or so fan base that snaps up every mediocre release...I honestly sense bitterness that he never "made" it...perhaps that's why he's not even trying anymore.

 

that being said, the guy still gave us over 20 years of great music. that's more than most fans could ever ask for, and we'll always have that to fall back on. I do believe he still has a few great records left in him...if only he'd take things in a new direction.

have you heard 0 to 99? it sure ain't alien lanes, but it's significantly better than everything else since FaCE. it's the first record he's put out in five years that doesn't make me cringe.

and best of all, todd tobias has nothing to do with it (except producing bob's vox)

is that all he sold? jesus christ. that depresses me.

 

it's fucking criminal he isn't more popular

true, but when you put out 10 to 12 records a year under eight different band names, how is a potential new fan going to get his arms around that?

GBV was fairly popular for a while there, but bob's decision to break up GBV and take the solo route certainly didn't help. very limited touring since and exteremely uneven records don't help either.

plus, standard gargoyle decisions & coast to coast carpet of love were released on the same day and both were pretty bad

i would say the only decent tracks on SGD were shadow port & folded claws, which are both great, and the only good tracks on coast to coast were miles under the skin and life of a wife, which had been floating around for a while and was on the original silverfish trivia that wasn't released ... our gaze is ok, too

so i agree that he has been criminally underappreciated but i think he's brought a bit of that on himself

I saw Guided by voices 2/26/02 in Boulder, I would love to see a set list of that show but I can't seem to find one. Pollard handing me a Budweiser from the stage was one of the highlights of my concert going experiences. One of the best shows I have ever seen.

that was just an incredible tour ... the universal truths and cycles tour ... they were just explosive, although i did think march wasn't as good a drummer as mccann and mcpherson

TONS of fading captain series stuff

the set list two nights earlier in kansas city was probably very similar:

1. Lethargy

2. Flat Beauty

3. Edison's Memos

4. Wire Greyhounds

5. Skin Parade

6. Mushroom Art

7. In Stitches

8. Back To The Lake

9. Zap

10. Christian Animation Torch Carriers

11. I Drove a Tank

12. Girl Named Captain

13. Wings of Thorn

14. Game of Pricks

15. Instrument Beetle

16. Universal Truths and Cycles

17. Twilight Campfighter

18. Submarine Teams

19. The Brides Have Hit Glass

20. The Weeping Bogeyman

21. The Enemy

22. Smothered In Hugs

23. From A Voice Plantation

24. Skills Like This

25. Everywhere with Helicopter

26. Cheyenne

27. Things I Will Keep

28. Teenage FBI

29. Love 1

30. Storm Vibrations

31. Soul Train College Policeman

32. Tight Globes

33. Tractor Rape Chain

34. Alone, Stinking And Unafraid

35. Glad Girls

36. Car Language

37. Echos Myron

38. Cut-Out Witch

Encore #1

39. My Valuable Hunting Knife

40. Watch Me Jumpstart

41. The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory

42. Fair Touching

43. Don't Stop Now

44. I Am A Scientist

speaking of insanely great ...

here's the set list from the final show

one of the greatest nights of my life

Dec. 31, 2004

Over the Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox

Watch Me Jumpstart

Pimple Zoo

Everybody Thinks I’m a Raincloud

Fair Touching

Things I Will Keep

Glow Boy Butlers

Lethargy (Jim Pollard joining Bob on vocals)

The Best of Jill Hives

Red Ink Superman

Fourteen Cheerleader Cold Front (with Tobin on vocals & guitar)

Girls of Wild Strawbereies

Back to the Lake

Demons Are Real

Do the Earth

Tropical Robots

Beg for a Wheelbarrow

My Kind of Soldier (with Beatle Bob … um … dancing)

“Wished I Was a Giant”

Bright Paper Werewolves

Lord of Overstock

Window of my World

Navigating Flood Regions

Gold-Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory

Tractor Rape Chain

I Am a Tree (with Jon Wurster on drums)

Drinker’s Peace

Chief Barrel Belly

Game of Pricks

Pink Gun

Matter Eater Lad

Redmen and their Wives

Never Gonna Have to Die

I Drove a Tank

Shocker in Gloomtown (last two with Jim MacPherson on drums & Greg Demos on bass)

Secret Star

If we Wait

Huffman Prairie Flying Fields

Sad if I Lost It

Cut-Out Witch

Buzzards and Dreadful Crows

Alone, Stinking and Unafraid

Unleashed! The Large-Hearted Boy (with Matt Sweeney on bass)

Glad Girls

Johnny Appleseed (Bob, Jim Greer & Tobin)

Heavy Metal Country

Murder Charge

Encore No. 1

My Impression Now

My Valuable Hunting Knife

Queen of Cans and Jars

Hot Freaks (Tobin at some point starting singing)

Motor Away

I Am a Scientist (with Don Thrasher on drums)

Teenage FBI

Echos Myron (with Tobin on "Man of Wisdom ..." harmony)

Smothered in Hugs

Encore No. 2

A Salty Salute

Postal Blowfish

Pendulum

Dayton, Ohio, 19-something-and-5

He’s the Uncle

Exit Flagger

Don’t Stop Now

insanely great