Guided by Voices & Blitzen Trapper @ Terminal 5 (pics)
photos by Chris Gersbeck
I have a friend who, despite my attempts to proselytize, doesn’t much care for the songs from Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes. He thinks they’re catchy, sure – only a hopeless misanthrope or a space alien wouldn’t – but he doesn’t like the feel of those lo-fi songs: recored on four-track and cut up and reassembled, swathed in abrasive sound.
I’ve tried to tell him that in concert, those transistor-radio mini anthems, drawing on Pollard’s “four P’s” (pop, punk, prog, and psych), are utterly transformed into pure, pummeling, lung-busting ROCK. They are writ large and loud with beer-fueled bombast.
And so it was: 840 people pumped fists and held lighters aloft, shouting along in unison to the Beatle-esque “Echos Myron,” the leering “Hot Freaks,” the light-speed “Shocker in Gloomtown,” the snotty call-and-response of “Lethargy,” the euphoric “Gold Star for Robot Boy.” -[The Phoenix]
The above review refers to Guided By Voices‘ November 5th Boston show but, but these pictures come from the NYC show that took place at Terminal 5 two days later. A review, setlist, video and 177 comments as of this posting, are HERE. The pictures and a few more videos, below…
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Blitzen Trapper
Guided By Voices
Guided by Voices “Cut-Out Witch” at Terminal 5
Guided by Voices “Tractor Rape Chain” at Terminal 5
Guided By Voices -“A Salty Salute” – Terminal 5 NYC, November 7th, 2010
Guided By Voices – Weedking @ Terminal 5 11/7/10