Soundtrack of Your Life: GBV in ATL

I found this unfinished and unpublished from a year ago. Let's not let anything go to waste. Here are some videos to brighten up the day:

 
By coincidence, Guided by Voices just happened to be playing in Atlanta during the same week of a law conference I attended in May 2018. Robert Pollard and the boys tore up Terminal West, an old iron smelting room converted in 2012 to a music venue.


Among the often-overlooked gems that Pollard polished up for this tour is "I Drove a Tank, the opening track from 2001's "Choreographed Man of War":



And he reached into his 2010 album "Moses on a Snail" for the ballad "It's a Pleasure Being You":



And his creative choice from "Mag Earwhig" -- aside from ceding center stage to Doug Gillard for Gillard's composition "I Am a Tree" -- was the '60s vamp "Jane of the Waking Universe":



Pollard, after downing his share of Miller Lites and swigging from a bottle of tequila (the second half of which he donated to the audience), exited stage left to the closing chords of, what else, "Recovering," from last decades comeback solo project "From a Compound Eye":




BONUS TRACKS
A month earlier, the Breeders made Albuquerque a stop on one of their intermittent tours. The Deal sisters were in fine spirits. (When are they not?) They struggled with making pithy stage banter, as if they were robots or merely a little too high. At one point Kim asked the crowd, "So do you all live in Albuquerque?" -- as if the city existed in the high desert merely as a tour stop, a filmmaking hub, or an oasis for Americans' road trips. They expertly mixed old hits and new songs. Here is one of their jauntiest new songs, "Wait in the Car":



Oh, and GBV, honoring the new album "Space Gun" came out in matching lamé tour jackets and their play-on music was the early '60s classic "Telstar" by the Tornados: