Robert Polllard played his first solo show last night to a half empty crowd in Athens, GA

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Did he come back too soon?

― nice88, Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:37 (twenty years ago)

with an extra "L" too. damn

― Dom iNut (donut), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:40 (twenty years ago)

Didn't the nineties end about six years ago?

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:44 (twenty years ago)

Is Athens normally a hotspot for GBV fandom?

I'm sure he'll do just fine when he comes to NYC, there's always loads of intense GBV fans around here. I'll be there, anyway.

I think part of the problem could be that people think that he's only going to play new songs - this is not the case! I asked Jon Wurster (he's Bob's new drummer), and he told me that they are playing a little bit of everything from the GBV, Pollard, and Pollard side-project catalog, so it's pretty much business as usual, but with an all-new band.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:45 (twenty years ago)

maybe everyone in athens saw the same episode of austin city limits that i saw. (PEEEEYOOOOO)

― scott seward (scott seward), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

I'm waiting for Pollard to rename himself Pollard's Rising Force

― Dom iNut (donut), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Bob-12 World

― Dom iNut (donut), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

Robert Pollard & Wings

― Dom iNut (donut), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:51 (twenty years ago)

Bobrillaz

― Dom iNut (donut), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Pollardgon Window

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh man, that Austin City Limits thing was sooooo bad. If that was the only document of Pollard live that I'd ever seen, I would refuse to go see one of his shows.

But I've seen many super-fun GBV shows! For real! (It probably helps that they were all in NYC though - there really is a major concentration of GBV superfans around here for whatever reason.)

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Athens hates indiefun.

― Dom iNut (donut), Saturday, 28 January 2006 00:57 (twenty years ago)

I spent the hour or two before the ACL airing telling my girlfriend how much she'd like GBV--and I threw "Glad Girls" in there as one of the best songs live--usually an encore, everyone's drunk (Bob too). Then he just completely wanked it. It was hard to dig myself out of that hole.

― marathonpacks, Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:34 (twenty years ago)

maybe the world is finally coming to its senses

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Saturday, 28 January 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

A-fucking-MEN.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:06 (twenty years ago)

Three cheers.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:11 (twenty years ago)

or was the show half full?

― |l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l|l| (ema, Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

"I think part of the problem could be that people think that he's only going to play new songs"

I dunno, he told someplace (Magnet? Pitchfork?) that they were gonna start the set with about 20 of the 26 songs from the new record. I'm pretty much a GBV superfan and there's no way I'm up for that. Plus I think anybody that cares already went out to see them on the farewell tour.

― Renard (Renard), Saturday, 28 January 2006 02:15 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, but he usually does that the first couple shows of the tour for a new record, and then settles into a proper mix. I really enjoyed watching GBV play Isolation Drills and Universal Truths & Cycles complete and in order, but then again, those are both much better albums than From A Compound Eye.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 28 January 2006 03:05 (twenty years ago)

I'm guessing Dave Matthews Cover Band was playing the same night as Pollard.

― Dom iNut (donut), Saturday, 28 January 2006 03:22 (twenty years ago)

It is worthy of comment that Athens wouldn't turn out for Pollard - Athens used to kind of be ground zero for a certain sort of indie. But the Athens scene and the Ohio scene were two quite different things to my mind - even though Pollard's essentially a Beatles pastiche artist, he comes from the whole "we're from Ohio and we're gonna drunkenly rock out" school, whereas the Athens scene leaned more toward psychedelia and non-Beatles 60's pop in my unscientific, impression-based (and certainly amenable to correction) opinion. Way different mood from Ohio.

But I think the main issue is brand recognition, known quantities: people who're into GBV will go see GBV 'cause it's a brand they know & trust; who knows what Robert Pollard solo will be? A band? An introspective Pollard telling stories between solo renditions of songs you'd rather hear in full-band arrangments? And not everybody reads liner notes (or fanzines, or websites), either; I'm sure there's a fair percentage of people at any given GBV show who couldn't tell you Pollard's last name.

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 28 January 2006 03:28 (twenty years ago)

pooooooooooolllllllll

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Saturday, 28 January 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

Jon Wurster (he's Bob's new drummer)

you must be thrilled about that.

― brokeback titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Saturday, 28 January 2006 03:44 (twenty years ago)

Yeah! Jon's awesome. I'd be a little more excited if he got a full-time comedy gig, but it's good to see him working.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 28 January 2006 03:58 (twenty years ago)

I'm going to hypothesize that the real factor here is that Athens's hipster culture isn't at all about the Elephant Six/Kindercore thing OR the Ohio drunken rock thing: it's about 2,000 20-21-year-old Pitchfork addicts weaned on emo, Franz Ferdinand, and adjectives like "mathy." As for me, I was at Indie Rock Karaoke, which is the real live, beating heart of musical delight in town. Sometimes anyway.

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Saturday, 28 January 2006 05:20 (twenty years ago)

no, he just kinda sucks

― sovietpanda (sovietpanda), Saturday, 28 January 2006 08:47 (twenty years ago)

adjectives like "mathy."

for real? whoa, different world down there

― Thomas Tallis (Tommy), Saturday, 28 January 2006 12:34 (twenty years ago)

Did Pollard just end GBV as a way of sacking the current lineup then?

If he's doing GBV - whats the diff?

Is he now sober?

― The Velvet Overlord (The Velvet Overlord), Saturday, 28 January 2006 12:56 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure if I totally get it either. I think he just wanted to change things up in terms of collaborators and have a symbolic break with the past to take some pressure off of himself.

But there's just no good reason why he shouldn't play his old songs. They are his songs, and he should do whatever he wants with them.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 28 January 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

Haters, repent! Bob's new record has got some killer tunes, certainly catchier and more adventurous than what the rest of the indie godhead (Malkmus, Frank Black) have been putting out of late....

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Saturday, 28 January 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

I'm probably going to hit tonight's DC show at the 9:30 Club. The only song that I've heard from the new album is the MP3 on his website ("Dancing Girls and Dancing Men"), and it sounds pretty promising.

― John Fredland (jfredland), Saturday, 28 January 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

I like Pollard and there's some good songs on the new album (but that's not a shock, there's at least one or two good songs on every Pollard record), but I think you're dead wrong about Malkmus, especially in relationship to Pollard.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 28 January 2006 15:07 (twenty years ago)

I like the phrase "Half-Empty Crowd." It makes it sound like a bunch of people without much purpose in life, not a room with plenty of space for more fans.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Saturday, 28 January 2006 15:14 (twenty years ago)

It seems like he's played Athens about 10 times in the past 4 years, and I think part of that is when he was dating a woman who lived there. I'm assuming there's a reason he played up there rather than down here in Atlanta where he's likely got more fans who are willing to see how the new band sounds.

― don weiner (don weiner), Saturday, 28 January 2006 15:44 (twenty years ago)

i have a ticket to tonight's show at the 9:30 club, but im not entirely sure im gonna go.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 28 January 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

does anyone know if he plays stuff like "i am a tree", which is not written by him?

speaking of post-gbv projects, d0ug g1ll4rd is touring with richard buckner at the moment.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 28 January 2006 16:54 (twenty years ago)

As far as I know "I Am a Tree" is unique to the catalogue in that respect.

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Saturday, 28 January 2006 16:56 (twenty years ago)

Whoops, I forgot about the Tobin Sprout songs. And I know Jim Greer contributed a song to Tonics & Twisted Chasers....

― Dr. Gene Scott (shinybeast), Saturday, 28 January 2006 17:01 (twenty years ago)

most of the gbvheads graduated awhile back (haha and got jobs in atlanta), tickets were 10 DOLLARS (WTF), it was a thursday, it was COLD, and if his band was incredibly hit-or-miss how's he gonna be 'solo'? now imagine listening to that for 2 1/2 hours. but seriously even the gbv revival is like at least two recruiting cycles ago - every vestige of that crowd is long gone (even dude who did a pretty funny interview with pollard in flagpole this week moved to chicago long ago)(haha pollard on the fans - "Most of them are cool, will kind of stand off, lay back, come up and say hi. Some people will, I think, kind of step out of bounds sometimes. Go too far. Say shit, like, “The Bengals suck,” or whatever. That’s taking it too far. Keep your opinion to yourself."). there's also a real possibility that it came at a point in the school schedule where whatever students were old enough to remember gbv had tests the next day. o and the tickets were 10 DOLLARS. he's not the fucking stones!

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 28 January 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

also yknow when me and emily and casino walked by it looked like a decent sized crowd was petering out, there were definitely enough motherfuckers we knew to cause enough of a carcassone-scuttling stop-and-say-hi delay. also casino otm - full house watching us rock out 'telephone line' on the mike. FULL HOUSE. nearly.

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 28 January 2006 20:23 (twenty years ago)

Maybe to some, the club was half full...

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Saturday, 28 January 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

a half-full 40 watt is a very decent sized crowd. particularly for a 2 1/2 hour long show of bob pollard that's costing you 10 fucking dollars.

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 28 January 2006 20:36 (twenty years ago)

The show in NYC is $20 without service charges, and that will almost certainly sell out or come close to it. $10 is a bargain!

GBV were playing "I Am A Tree" on the final tour, but I think it's sorta unlikely that he'd pull that one out without Doug Gillard around.

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 28 January 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

but wait, did he also have some 7-inches for sale? 'cause that would've kicked the cost of the night up to 14 fucking dollars. and that's NOT EVEN INCLUDING BEER.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 28 January 2006 20:56 (twenty years ago)

population athens, ga - 103,951
population new york city, ny - 8,104,079

yuppies who grew up on indie act more willing to pay insane price for ticket than college students who were six during said act's prime shockah

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I love what you Athens folks consider an exorbinant amount to charge for a show. It's weird but endearing.

― Eppy (Eppy), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:40 (twenty years ago)

Those lower salaries and minimum wages are lol to the extreme. I just busted a side myself.

― Dom iNut (donut), Saturday, 28 January 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

"You mean you Georgians pay regular price at McDonald's? We New Yorkers are proud to pay the higher 'Alaska and Hawaii' fee!"

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Saturday, 28 January 2006 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Out of curiosity, what is the average price for shows by nationally touring acts in Athens?

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 28 January 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

Okay, just going through the 40 Watt Club's site, I found that while some of the shows were $5, most nationally touring acts on the schedule were asking between $10 and $15. Blount should be mortified to learn that the Pollard show was in fact $15!

― Matthew C Perpetua (inca), Saturday, 28 January 2006 23:23 (twenty years ago)

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"...the half-empty theaters were due SOLELY to gay panic and that the price had NOTHING to do with it you'd be beaten up just like those Bloomberg Republicans who tried to start clapping along at my half empty show at the 40 Watt yesterday."

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:18 (twenty years ago)

spotted cow what's an indie act whose prime was twelve years ago that's played in your town seven times in the past four years? now let's say you're in a town 1/3 the size of madison and it's a thursday and it's test season and the weather's awful and there's strong, cheaper competition from other venues and the act routinely plays three hour shows drunk and it's not even the actual act but a solo foray from it and the tickets are generally on the high end for the market. are you telling me you would be shocked and outraged if this act doesn't sell out a large venue?

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:23 (twenty years ago)

I think if you are finding shock and outrage in this thread you have low standards, dude.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Or, you know, something witty about a mirror.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:27 (twenty years ago)

like say a blogger talking about low standards?

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:29 (twenty years ago)

What?

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Dude now you're just talking.

― Eppy (Eppy), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:34 (twenty years ago)

I'd like to give props to Hillary Brown for keeping some dose of Athenian reality alive

Yeah. I moonlight doing that.

I will concur with Dr. Casino on the listed prices for things in Athens. I have occasionally paid more than $10 for a 40 Watt show, but usually in a special situation (e.g., Flaming Lips was somewhere in the $15 neighborhood, but it's nice to see a band like that in a smaller venue [and, fwiw, I'd still consider the 40 Watt this, even though it's one of the larger places in Athens; 800 capacity? something like that?]; ditto Gang of Four).

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:43 (twenty years ago)

what a strange thread!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:56 (twenty years ago)

Matt, stop charging people for your 'shows,' they are cultural events for the people.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:57 (twenty years ago)

what i always find odd is how few decent sized venues and how small the crowds are in atlanta. i remember being stunned the first time i went to echo lounge that it wasn't any bigger than the 40 watt and it was basically the preeminent indie venue in atlanta, tasty world where the hold steady are playing saturday isn't any bigger than where they played in atlanta last year and i guarantee you it'll be a bigger crowd. i can easily understand it when there's a small crowd at a name show in athens - it's a tiny town and one or two factors come into play and pow you've got the high llamas playing to 100 people - but with atlanta i really can't quite figure it out - it's a incredibly larger city obv and even if indie's hardly king like it is in athens it's still fair to say that there's several times as many indierock fans overall. i can understand how indie venues might have problems with liquor license hassles or whatever (this is basically what did echo lounge in right?) but it still surprises me when i go to shows that the crowds in general are as small as or smaller than they would be or are in athens.

― j blount (papa la bas), Monday, 30 January 2006 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Matt, stop charging people for your 'shows,' they are cultural events for the people.
-- Ned Raggett (ne...), January 30th, 2006. (Ned)

yr thinking the wrong way ned! i'm following marissa's lead and charging $1000 for tickets! that way, we only need one person to go! quit being part of the anti-talent movement!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 30 January 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

Robert Pollard Parlayed His First Solo Show Into A 300+ Answer Thread On ILM

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Monday, 30 January 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

ned, people like them in lacrosse and oshkosh, too!

blount, i get what you're saying. i have no argument with you, really. just putting in another perspective. i'd be happy to complain that bob played madison and complained the whole time. but he's not even coming here, and i'd like him to. i'm envious athens is such a popular draw that bob plays there so much

― spotted cow, Monday, 30 January 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

ned, people like them in lacrosse and oshkosh, too!

How dare you impugn the fandom of people in Rice Lake.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 January 2006 20:42 (twenty years ago)

the people in rice lake have tin ears, ned, i'm sorry to say

― spotted cow, Monday, 30 January 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

BIGOTRY

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 30 January 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

what i always find odd is how few decent sized venues and how small the crowds are in atlanta

ask H20 (or do you have to call him Mr. Chunklet up there in Athens) why Atlanta blows goats as an indie scene. And if you don't like that version, I'm sure Jeff Clark would be happy to spout off. Hell, take a look at Creative Loafing and try to find signs of life in that music section. Besides, THE ATL IS THE HOME OF THE DIRTY SOUTH. CRUNK CITY!

Part of the problem is that all the clubs are spread around town, part of the problem is that our version of bohemia utopia seems to fluctuate (yeah, it's been East Atlanta for a half dozen years but people are always trying to find the next trendiest spot to call cool.)

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:16 (twenty years ago)

Also, even a PBR costs $3 in Atlanta. That might have something to do with it. If I lived in Atlanta, I wouldn't go out as often.

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

atlanta doesn't get very good sports crowds does it? aren't the hawks and falcons always poorly attended?

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

that's because a) it's a town full of transplants and b) college football and NASCAR sucks the life out of everything else.

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:47 (twenty years ago)

i guess phoenix is kinda like that when ever i see the vikes play down in arizona, there's always a ton of vikes fan retirees in the stands.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:48 (twenty years ago)

i thought the falcons pretty much sold out all year. who doesn't wanna see #7?

as for the loafing, well, isn't their MO basically to ignore the most vibrant rap scene in the country in favor of the latest bunch of crackers to storm the alt-country scene or what the fuck ever? fuck those dicksucking honkey pieces of shit, they can eat a pile of cocks.

― Milhouse is not a meme. But 'Milhouse is not a meme' IS a meme. (Adrian Langston, Monday, 30 January 2006 22:08 (twenty years ago)

actually wait, they did a cool story on gangsta grillz a month or two ago that surprised me. i remember wondering if that was the start of a seachange or something, but i haven't picked it up since then so who cares lol.

― Milhouse is not a meme. But 'Milhouse is not a meme' IS a meme. (Adrian Langston, Monday, 30 January 2006 22:11 (twenty years ago)

This is fun.

― Chris Hassiotis, Monday, 30 January 2006 22:15 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't even give Creative Loafing credit for covering the cracker scene well. It's funny, I moved here from Minneapolis, where, at the time, they had two alternaweeklies that were more in touch than the one they had here. And not only more in touch, but better written.

― don weiner (don weiner), Monday, 30 January 2006 22:21 (twenty years ago)

stephen malkmus's first toronto show was at a place half the size pavement played not long before. idunno.
his first detroit show wasn't nearly as "busy" as the one pavement played at the same place not long before.
what's in a name?

― aa, Monday, 30 January 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

oh, malkmus's first toronto show was "scheduled" for the same place pavement played not long before but had to be downsized.

parallel lines on a slow decline . . .

― aa, Monday, 30 January 2006 23:07 (twenty years ago)

good lord, you people are a bunch of fucking lunatic loser asshole posers

get a fucking life

and listen to some good music for a change

― lexo, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 01:13 (twenty years ago)

will do!

the falcons have sold out every game every year vick's been here, and did better than you'd guess previously considering their 'never had back-to-back winning seasons (STILL)' history. the braves still draw very well, not like the yanks or bosox or cards but baseball isn't king down here and the team's been a strange brew of disappointment since jim leyritz (esp since it became just another time warner property). football's definitely king, college esp. (the dawgs could go bowless for three years and they're still selling out every game no prob).

i'd probably take creative loafing over flagpole but the closest thing georgia has to a decent alt-weakly is probably southern voice, maybe having a focus helps them. creative loafing's never really seemed to know what the hell it wants to do or have any sort've identity (perfect for atlanta in a way), flagpole's had intermittant moments of vitality - j0hn britt, brad 4aron - but in general 'eh', it started out as a straight vehicle for club promotion then predictable scene boosterism and now not even that really with nothing replacing it. when it was litterally j4red bailey's propaganda rag basically it still felt fresher, more 'alternative' and 'in the know' i guess. it definitely felt more connected to the town (hillary's pretty great food column is one of the few things in it that makes it anything other than a 'less hard news version of the red and black'). but yeah obv nothing remotely comparing to the what the twin cities got (can you imagine how bizarre griel marcus's real life top ten would look in creative loafing? like stonehenge in a shopping center). i can get how atlanta doesn't have a better local indie scene - athens' scene came about cuz of 1) jim herbert and the art school 2) cheap housing 3) georgia square mall creating alot of empty, cheap space downtown 4) nothing better to do 5) see #4 6) house parties - and then sorta kept on thru the peaks and valleys thru hucksterism of a determined few and r.e.m. and the b's (and to a lesser extent guadalcanal diary's and some other bands i'm forgetting probably) success inspiring/fooling other kids to do the same. obv atlanta didn't quite have this enviroment (and of course there were atlanta bands that moved to athens or said they were from athens in their presskits, etc.), and probably doesn't still (esp since rockabilly like refuses to die in atlanta right???) but it still seems odd to me that with emory and tech and ga state and all the indie kids from uga and auburn and wherever that are now in atlanta and have a lil more income that my odds of seeing black dice or love is all or whoever in a room with 400 people are about even between athens or atlanta or at least not tilted heavily in atlanta's favor. i could be wrong - i mean atlanta does have venues like the tabernacle or variety playhouse and while wilco or whoever might play the civic center up here it's still pretty 'wtf' when they do it, whereas in atlanta it's just another friday, but if i am wrong i don't think i'm as wrong as i should be. it perplexes me!

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 04:51 (twenty years ago)

why was the place even half-empty, is my question?

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 06:28 (twenty years ago)

O SNAP

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 06:32 (twenty years ago)

why would anyone want to go to a hawks game? the only team they can beat is the knicks.

in a town where the braves' perennial postseason appearances draw yawns...

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 17:09 (twenty years ago)

Blount, that's nice to me, but not so much to the rest of Flagpole. Admittedly, I write for the music section, but I find it a lot more open to new possibilities than it was previously.

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:30 (twenty years ago)

Flagpole has pretended people should know who I am, so I can't hate on it.

― Zwan (miccio), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:42 (twenty years ago)

yall do realize the only thing anyone reads in it are abc and movie times right?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Hey now. Not even the rekkid reviews?

― Hillary Brown (Hillary Brown), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 18:58 (twenty years ago)

if the taco stand is taking an exceptionally long time making mega nachos that day

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 19:00 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of money, the back of the Robert Pollard T-shirts being sold on this new tour read

"Pixies... $60
Gang of Four... $45
Robert Pollard... Priceless"

haha...

― Yip Jump, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 19:42 (twenty years ago)

ive seen plenty of good "indie" shows in athens.

i've also seen three completly piss poor GBV shows...connection?

― mimilovesbananas, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 20:34 (twenty years ago)

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I Never listened to 'guided by voices,' but I have heard of them. After perusing this thread, I listened to some of his stuff, and I have one word: blows.

Are the appellations "indie" and "alt" somehow in reference to performers who play their instruments amateurishly and incessantly sing out of tune, whether by contrivance, laziness, or artifice? If so, I don't catch the sequitir.
Good day.

― shithead mcgillicutty, Thursday, 1 June 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

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― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Thursday, 1 June 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

So is Polllard still using three "L"s in his last name now? That's kinda cosmic!

― ((((((DOPplur)))n)))u))))tttt (donut), Thursday, 1 June 2006 04:10 (nineteen years ago)

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