Bob Pollard

Still working my way through all of the Pollard material, just finished listening to Suitcase 3 which takes me up to about the end of 2009. I know the acoustic demos recorded between Bee Thousand and Alien Lanes are what got all the Pollard geeks excited, but disc 3 of this is probably my favorite of the individual Suitcase discs so far - the demo of "Huffman Prairie Flying Parade"! "Piss Along You Bird"! "Trader Vic"! The 4-track version of "Smothered in Hugs"!

It's crazy to think that I still haven't gotten to the GbV reunion albums yet, nor have I touched ESP Ohio, Ricked Wicky or Teenage Guitar!

Also, I already knew how goddamn great Boston Spaceships was, but this journey has confirmed that they were easily Bob's second best band behind GBV.

have you spent much time with Circus Devils?

Oh I love Circus Devils too! But BS edges them out with an even higher hit-to-dud ratio. I need to spend some more time with the post 2010 Circus Devils records (soon!) but that run of Sgt. Disco > Ataxia > Gringo > Mother Skinny is absolutely great.

So many songs, so little time

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There's Bob with all the albums he's recorded so far this year.

Loool!

Holy shit, please tell me that's not his son!

I saw GBV on the tour they did with Cheap Trick in Fall '99 at the Electric Factory. After GBV's set, we went up to the balcony for drinks and ended up standing right behind Pollard and his then teenage son and Bob was air guitaring like a fool during all of Cheap Trick's hits.

Grandson.

I remember Bob bringing his son onstage to join him on vocals at Irving Plaza in the mid-90's

that's some collection

Who has time to listen to all that shit

Is he getting too old to be a music obsessive?

lol

the Pinterest caption said “helping uncle bob with his records” or something, should have dug deeper