At one point, Bob fell to his knees and pleaded, "Please don't leave." What had happened was an amp broke, so the lights came on and he announced they were changing the amp. Then he knelt down to talk to some people.
Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, 'Don't trust in Guided By Voices.' You were there; was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but they're not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad?
Gaunt was the tight outfit of the evening. Guided By Voices were fueled by whiskey and beer.
I like the club. It looks nice with all the tables out. They were freaking out, the Gilly's people.
I mean, it's so normal for everybody to have a huge ego, it's great. It's great. Otherwise, everybody would act like Bono, you know, really big.
I thought I'd do everything on four-track, and then I'll record every instrument myself in a studio, and then I'll have a solo album released by spring.
It's like they had a backlash the first 11 years. I think the reason why it always seems like there's a backlash is because when bands are unknown, they only get written about by fans.
Jim drove her home in the pickup and he delivered her to my dad. My dad took her to the rehab unit. Then, all of a sudden, it's a solo album again.
Jim's all over, he's playing all the drums on it. Kelley's playing bass on something like three songs. Lead guitar on three.
Nate Farley, he's in The Method. And you know the Tasties? Louie's the drummer for them. And me and MacPherson are in the Breeders.
So it would be a Breeders thing where Kelley would come down and record. We went to New York City, and that's when we saw Kelley kicking.
The beginning was "a plea to all fans of this band: if you are not in the band, then please stay off the stage," and then he went on to bitch. It's Dave Larsen, we call him the "gnome."
Then we were going to make it a Breeders' record as impetus for Kelley to stay straight, to show her through actions more than words that even though it was a solo album to kind of distract her, and use her time, and to take her mind off drugs, we would change this into a Breeders album.
They said they were going to play, and they got us on in the first place, and he's gone now., I had him apologize every night.
We played "All Apologies" all summer long at Lollapalooza because they said they were going to be at Lollapalooza, so every time before we played, we put "All Apologies" on.
We were over in Europe all the time their posters were up. That's why I liked them. So now all of a sudden they're going to get a band hat on, and say people aren't acting the right way?
When the band begins to get a name for themselves, and the writers get assigned to bands, they'll hit somebody who just doesn't like that kind of music, or they love hip hop but hate guitar rock.
Writers who are actually fans, and they're always positive reviews. "Hey, you've never heard this band, but you got to check them out, blah, blah, blah."
You know it has to do with Kelley and drugs, and me... and there's like, what is it? I didn't read it. That's my thing. That's what I do, I don't read things if I don't think they're going to be good. I don't even look at the pictures.
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