Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/07/09/guided-by-voices-interviewed-on-their-30-year-old-ep-that-became-a-cult-classic.html
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Contributed by Lee Keeler?
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Naturally they used the Tascam Porta-One, I think it was the most common cassette 4-track of the era, and in my opinion the best. While you couldn’t record more than two tracks at a time, it did have direct outs, so anything you put to tape you could then mix in a pro studio using their outboard gear to make it sound less murky (I guess they made their own home mixes and mastered those instead-- whatever works.) Today used working units cost almost as much what they went for new back in the late 80’s-- my own died, was repaired, and died again (apparently there’s a plastic part that breaks/wears out) so I’m impressed if theirs still works considering how many hours they must have put into it.
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oh, man.
so I’m not really a fan but I did college radio in the mid and late 90s while in school in Knoxville. one of the guys who had an office was a huge fan and he was homies with my homie the program director, so we went to Nashville to see them since they weren’t coming to Knoxville on that tour.
I didn’t really know them other than they were a hot indie rock band, the show was my first real exposure but I mean I had heard them on comps/airplay. I couldn’t tell you any of the songs but what I remember was: they were great, really tight and a fun band. the other thing I remember was that during the start of the show a fifth of Jack Daniels was uncapped and set on the head of one of the amps. before the show was over, that bottle was empty. and I don’t think the drummer had any, he couldn’t get up and no doubt he had his own drinks, but Pollard and the other guy killed it off in under an hour and pretty sure they were drinking beers the whole time but for sure they killed that fifth. not the most debauched thing a rockstar has ever done but nevertheless, I was impressed.
weirdly, Nashville’s Exit-In is halfway between my mom’s house and my highschool, and right on the route I took; but the whole time I lived there I wasn’t legal to drink so that was my first and only show I saw there.
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I wrote this, yes.
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the best GBV stories usually come out with some kind of bottles being thrown around. Thank you for sharing this!
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so, if you have a BBS account, why does the OP byline have the generic “contributer” account?
just curious.
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Same with Jennifer Sandlin, who’s at @LowlyWorm2022…
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ha, I have no idea. I send my text/images to the editor and then it gets posted from there. that’s always how I have written for this site.
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I figured it was something like that.
some of the peanut gallery have started naming the authors for the benefit of people surfing the BBS without clicking through the posts on the main page. that’s what was up with the above comment, fyi.
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I will totally read more of these highly specific GBV EP article’s. Do the Grand Hour next!
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Saw tons of shows at Exit/In back in the day. Even played there once myself! Across the street was another club, The End, that we frequented even more - it was way scuzzier. And not far away was Cantrell’s - the scuzziest of all. Black Flag, Exploited, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, MDC…. Good times!
And now I am an old
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I used to take the 3 West End bus to Hume-Fogg High downtown, but when I started riding my bike to school, I’d take the side streets. I lived on Nebraska Ave which fed into Long Boulevard, cut through Centennial Park, go the wrong way through the funeral home driveway which became Elliston. rode right past all those places (although I’m unfamiliar with the other venues but if they did all-ages shows maybe I went; though if you saw BF and MDC there, it was a little before my time.) somewhere near the hospital Elliston changed names to Church St. and on into downtown. Lucy’s records ended up being on Church but not until after I graduated, but the summer I went back I shopped and went to a few shows there.
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It’s all so different now I hardly recognize anything when I go to Nashville
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TRUE DAT!
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