Live From Austin TX [Digipak]

Performer: Guided by Voices
Engineer: David Hough; Sharon Cullen; David Hough; Sharon Cullen
Producer: Gary Briggs; Cameron Strang; Gary Briggs; Cameron Strang; Jay Woods
Distributor: RED Distribution

Notes: Guided by Voices: Chris Slusarenko (bass guitar); Doug Gillard, Robert Pollard, Kevin March, Nate Farley. Personnel: Robert Pollard (vocals); Doug Gillard, Nate Farley (guitar); Kevin March (drums). Additional personnel: Pete Yorn. Audio Mixers: Chet Himes; Gary Griggs. Liner Note Author: Terry Lickens. Recording information: Austin, TX (11/09/2004). Photographer: Scott Newton. While Dayton, Ohio's finest seem an unlikely choice for the ongoing LIVE IN AUSTIN TX series--which chronicles performances from PBS's long-running show AUSTIN CITY LIMITS--Pollard and the boys' ragged, beery rock makes perfect sense within Austin's ragged, beery music scene. The 30 tracks, spread over two discs, capture GBV at the twilight of their career, recorded less than two months before their final show, and are pulled from across the band's lengthy discography. Pollard is in full-on rock bard mode and the band, arguably the tightest and most muscular he ever assembled, provides Bobby with a solid musical grounding. And while this concert isn't the definitive live GBV document, it works as something of a canonization for Pollard. He might still be your crazy drunk uncle, but he's also been known to write a mighty fine song here and there.

Led by former school teacher Robert Pollard, Dayton, OH's Guided By Voices pursued an aesthetic marked by structural brevity, lo-fi sound, bizarre lyrics, and a preference for early to mid-period Who and other primal pop-rock. Pollard continually shifted the group's lineup, with a new outfit backing him on nearly every record. On 1999's DO THE COLLAPSE, GBV polished its sound considerably, bringing in Ric Ocasek as a producer. GBV played their final show on New Year's Eve 2004, however Pollard continues to write and record as a solo artist and with various collaborators.

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