Guided By Voices Free Show In NYC 8/19/04

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Are any of you planning on going to this show? I'll be there so long as the weather is reasonable.

Thursday August 19
New York, NY - Hudson River Rocks Pier 54
Hudson River Park Public Pier 54
13th St. & West Side Highway
7PM Opening act: Ambulance Ltd

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll be there saying goodbye to a band i once loved, and then stopped loving, but they still have a place in my heart. this'll be my first gbv show in years. and my last.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm mostly just excited to hear them do "Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud" and "Sleep Over Jack."

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

wish i could be there...

there's GBV karaoke with a live band at a club called Tonics afterwards.

― thomas, Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll be there for sure.

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

there's GBV karaoke with a live band at a club called Tonics afterwards.

now THAT I wish I could go to. I'd dib "Big Boring Wedding"!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 15:58 (twenty-one years ago)

what exactly is the difference between a typical gbv live show and gbv karaoke?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU do the high kicks!

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

YOU get so drunk you can hardly stand then sneer are other groups for being younger, richer and more successful than you are

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck the free show. its all about the karaoke.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

ill be there, BTW. at tonic.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:13 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, I'd do "Quality Of Armor." A local band covers it but they fuck up the chours by going "driiive myyyyy caaarrrr" rather than "drive my car!" I need to hear it done right.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i am going to do "game of pricks". i play it on my guitar at home all the time.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

God, I knew so many GBV songs by heart in high school. I never knew when I'd get the chance to be the next rhythm guitar player.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man, and I'm wearing a GBV shirt right now. weird.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

ive always wanted to start an all-girl GBV cover band. i guess this is as close as im going to get!

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd love to go to the GBV karaoke, but it's just not a real option for me since I commute to the city.

If I could do a song, I'd want to do either "I Am A Scientist" (obvious, I know!) or "Universal Truths & Cycles" or "Frequent Weaver Who Burns."

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

It would have to be "Hit"

― Dadaismus (Dada), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I think 'Salty Salute' would go over well...

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"Disarm the:
1) SETTLERS
2) SEXLERS
3) SEXLESS

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 18 August 2004 17:15 (twenty-one years ago)

can someone sing the official ironman rally song for me?

>>>More info on the GBV Karaoke thing...

Guided By Voices `Half Smiles of the Decomposed' Release party!
August 19th @ Tonic after the show at the Pier.
Begins at 11:30 pm

Featuring the band True Love playing the songs of Guided By Voices for
the audience to come up and sing True Karaoke style.

The event is free and open to the public!

We are planning on limiting it to 1 person to one song, so one
person
sings one song and then it's out of the rotation.

here is the final list in the actual order that the songs will be
played....

GBV KARAOKE

Propeller
1) Quality of Armor
2) Exit Flagger
3) Over The Neptune/Mesh Gear Fox

Bee Thousand
4) I Am a Scientist
5) Echos Myron
6) Buzzards and Dreadful Crows
7) Gold Star For Robot Boy
8) Hot Freaks
9) Tractor Rape Chain
10) Gold Heart Mountain Top Queen Directory

Alien Lanes
11) Salty Salute
12) Watch Me Jumpstart
13) Game of Pricks
14) Motor Away
15) My Valuable Hunting Knife

Under the Bushes...
16) Official Iron Man Rally Song
17) Don't Stop Now
18) Your Name Is Wild
19) Underwater Explosions
20) Cut Out Witch

Mag Earwhig!
21) I Am a Tree
22) Not Behind the Fighter Jet
23) Bulldog Skin

Do the Collapse
24) Teenage FBI
25) Surgical Focus

Isolation Drills
26) Glad Girls
27) Chasing Heather Crazy

Universal Truths
28) Everywhere With Helicopter
39) Cheyenne
30) Back To The Lake

Earthquake Glue
31) My Kind of Soldier
32) Best of Jill Hives
33) Useless Inventions

__________________________________
34) Closer You Are (w/bob, hopefully)

― thomas, Thursday, 19 August 2004 09:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, how did I forget "My Valuable Hunting Knife"? Of course that would be my first choice. But I won't be there.

They should record this and put it out on Fading Captain.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Knowing Cap'n Bob he probably will

― Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 19 August 2004 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The show was pretty great, the new stuff sounded strong, especially "Sleep Over Jack" and "Window of my World." I liked how they dug out a couple songs from the first few albums. Also, "Sad if I Lost It" was cool. I do the think the show kinda lost steam towards the end. Sucked that there was no encore.

― ColinO, Friday, 20 August 2004 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

taking stock of GBV karaoke:

- getting to tonic early for sign up. check.

- finding out songs would be picked randomly, which means my early ass doesnt stand a shot. uh...

- drinking and having drinks handed to me. check.

- getting on stage when it wasnt my turn and singing. check.

- doing it for like, every song. uh...

- having no recollection of this photograph being taken. ugh.

- throwing the microphone into the audience for participation. check.

- being flagged by GBV's manager. er...

- telling bob pollard "no fair you always sing these songs!" when he gets on stage to sing. um...

- waking up in the LES apartment of an ex-boyfriend. OK.

- throwing up at breakfast 3 times. PRICELESS.

clearly, there are a lot of blanks that need to be filled from last night. what the hell happened to me? no wait, i dont want to know. ill feel more embarrassed, if thats humanly possible.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 21 August 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Hurrah for Maria, who surely at least had a good time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 August 2004 12:52 (twenty-one years ago)

no hurrah for me. apparently i chipped one of my front teeth and got burned on my hand in the process. more like, "serves you right!"

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Saturday, 21 August 2004 13:01 (twenty-one years ago)

How horrid! Ask Bob to dedicate the profits of the release to your recovery (and hangover).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 21 August 2004 13:03 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sleepover Jack" and "Sad If I Lost It" were really, really, really good. So was "Beg For A Wheelbarrow" and "Alone Stinking and Unafraid." Pretty strong show, though the lack of encore (and the megaclassics which are normally played in the encore) made it so that the show ended on a sour note.

Note to Bob: just because it ends on the lyric "and that's the electrifying conclusion" doesn't make an obscure tune like "Murder Charge" an actual electrifying conclusion!

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 21 August 2004 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

wish i could have been there. i've ducats to seven shows on the upcoming tour though so fuck ya!!!

― aa, Saturday, 21 August 2004 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Tickets just went on sale for the last two NYC shows an hour ago, by the way. I'm seeing the last one with Chavez opening up.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Saturday, 21 August 2004 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

can't make the new york trek, unfortunately, hitting boston/philly/washington/cleveland/detroit and chicago times two.

― aa, Saturday, 21 August 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

as you can clearly see from above, one GBV related event is enough for a year. i have a ticket to the philly show [a birthday gift] but at this point i just might sell it.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Sunday, 22 August 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

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