#38 Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) 1995 | The Tapes Archive podcast

A never before published interview with Robert Pollard (Guided By Voices) from 1995
In the interview, Pollard talks about:
His creative time of the day
Upcoming records to be released
Working with Matador Records
What makes him happy
Giving hope to all other garage musicians
The collectability of his records and “hoarding” a few himself
Luna Music in Indianapolis
The business side to making money in the music biz
His love for The Beatles when they are “goofing around”
Whether he thinks kids are getting dumber
What he has tortured himself with over the years
What it’s like being a musician and living in Dayton, Ohio
Who he thinks is a “fucking creep”
Working in the studio
How the band Ween acted like rock stars
Writing a song for Tom Hanks
In this episode, we have one of the most prolific songwriters of the past 30 years, Guided By Voices’ Robert Pollard. At the time of this interview in 1995, Pollard was 37 years old and was promoting an upcoming concert date in Indianapolis. In the interview, Pollard talks about the collectability of his records and “hoarding” a few himself; the business side of making money in the music biz; who he thinks is a creep; and how he gives hope to all other garage musicians.
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0:00 Start 1:04 K-Tel Presents 1:53 Robert Pollard Interview 2:22 What are you doing up? You should be living the rock-star lifestyle. 3:50 this is the album that you’re working on now? 7:02 We don’t care about making money 7:40 Giving hope to other garage musician 9:54 Talking about Todd Robinson and Luna Music 10:29 Keeping Guided By Voices records for himself 12:39 Misleading NPR? 13:48 The business side to making money in the music biz 15:42 His love for The Beatles when they are “goofing around” 17:34 What do you think of kids? Are kids getting dumber? 18:30 What he has tortured himself with over the years 19:21 What it’s like being a musician and living in Dayton, Ohio 20:04 Who he thinks is a “fucking creep” 22:44 Talking about John Strohm and Velo-Deluxe 23:44 Working in the studio 26:52 How the band Ween acted like rock stars 28:20 Writing a song for Tom Hanks

[@doozle5132]

We love you Bob. You were the soundtrack to my teenage years. I think if I listen to GBV every day I'll never have bad luck. I have all your mid-nineties 7 inches on vinyl. Never going to sell them. Yeah, you give people hope. I'm sitting here coding a website at 545am on a Sunday morning. I'm going to grind away and enjoy the journey. Peace.

[@vladdzuranyuk225]

Thanks for this interview and subtitles!

[@TheTapesArchive]

You're welcome! Thank you for checking it out and commenting. This is the only real way we know if what we are doing here matters to others. -Alan

[@DfactorPop]

Fun! I've got some other 90s Pollard radio interviews on cassette... he was pretty entertaining to listen to...

[@NickRitorto]

upload them

[@hoffmanjeffreya007]

7:11 Pollard makes reference to Burton 'Buddy' Kallick of Buddy’s Carpet Barn. As a former employee of WKEF-TV, I had the pleasure of working with Buddy in the studio to put his commercials together. He was a nice guy. He would always come into the studio with a joke, do his shtick on camera, and with just a few takes on camera, he was finished and back out the door. RIP Buddy…and God bless you Robert Pollard! GBV! GBV! GBV! #buddyscarpetbarn #guidedbyvoices #gbv #robertpollard

[@Vingul]

Nice, thanks Tapes.

[@RobinJamesHurtMusic]

Wonderful, such a treasure to find. 15:32 incredible hearing this in 2023 and Pollard is still fronting GBV aged 66

[@jamiegustkey2573]

The record store was called LUNA record store or LUNA Music... Back when GBV was kinda hitting it so to speak- that was one of the only places I (from Michigan @ the time) could order their music from! They were really cool... Thank you by the way for this interview! I became good friends with Bobby around 94ish- Steven Drozd told me about them/Him. Good times- Dyn O mite to be exact* ✊🏻

[@TheTapesArchive]

@@marcallan9930 I thought they moved to Broad Ripple. www.lunamusic.net/

[@TheTapesArchive]

Marc Allan it always hurts when you correct me. Lol..their 52 and College is not the location where this GBV appeared. That was their 86th location that doesn’t exist anymore.

[@matthewradcliff5335]

What a fantastic interview - thanks for sharing this!

[@TheTapesArchive]

Glad you liked it! I must say I like your Captain Beefheart icon. We are big Zappa fans.

[@brannonmcclure6970]

We love Bob! He Kaye’s down a marker on the low- fi tape production. He knows how to make it sounds interesting. 🧑‍🎨🤘🎸❤️

[@thenavajoknow]

What a great guy!

[@mykeadaptiv5828]

"They're worth like $150 each now". Ha.

[@franchise5000]

Choppin broccoliayyyy

[@nikolashoag942]

To be fair, Ween were probably too busy shooting up in that limousine to hangout with GBV hahaha.

[@TheTapesArchive]

lol Pushing daises

[@Elaine-oo4qp]

Fantastic interview- Uncle Bob RULES!!

[@franchise5000]

He wrote “that thing you do”?!

[@TheTapesArchive]

I think he was originally brought in but Bob felt he couldn't do it.

[@BTown787]

the guy from fountains of wayne ended up doing it

[@RAB6969]

i would have loved to hear Bob’s vision for it

[@BIZARBIES]

I worked at a club that GBV played at least once a year for about a decade. The band were very nice when they would arrive to the venue but as the night went on they turned into not so nice people, almost unbearable. Alcohol does bad stuff to people and makes egos appear that were not there 6 hours earlier. After dealing with this every time GBV played made me not a fan. The last time I saw them, they were really drunk before, during, and after the show. It was so bad. Horrible actually.

[@RobinJamesHurtMusic]

I'm a huge GBV fan but I totally believe this on face value based on a large amount of other opinions. Unfortunate, but it's not gonna stop me listening to the albums. Never meet your heroes as they say. Older guys with grudges and a lot of beer on board, never gonna be nice...

[@TheNicestGuy02]

19:50 what is the ‘Kelley Deal Incident’?

[@matthewvaneyk4713]

The Kelley Deal Incident was her eponymously named side project.

[@Earlydoors272]

Busted for drugs