Robert Pollard and Guided By Voices

It began with a bar band and smashed records, and ended on a bittersweet New Year’s Eve in Chicago.

HELLO C.1980 It actually began somewhere in the mid to late ’70s and came out of a lame arena rock covers bar band called Anacrusis, which means to start a song on the upbeat. I guess most songs start on the downbeat. The symbol for the term was an upside-down ‘u’ with a period in the middle. So I put a lightning bolt through it and made it our logo. A little to our credit, we did do Alice Cooper and Aerosmith and so many Cheap Trick songs, one could call us a Cheap Trick cover band. I seriously considered calling ourselves Fat Chance. So anyway, Mitch Mitchell and I bailed, or maybe we got kicked out, in 1978 or ’79, because we started getting into punk rock or, more…

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