I confess. I'm a GBV Geek.
There's a nice mention of the Knights' "Paris Hilton & Captain Beefheart" record today on World of Wumme. I really dig seeing someone who gets it, . . . well . . . , get it. I'd quote my favorite pieces, but the whole thing's really worth reading, so do it. Most GBV fans (especially those of us who have pulled a muscle or two trying to keep pace with Robert Pollard's recorded output) will appreciate the discussion of the decline of the "GBV Geek."
The WoW piece got me thinking about the GBV t-shirt mentioned in "Paris Hilton & Captain Beefheart" (as well as in the liner notes). I'm happy to report that it's alive and well:
Today's Knights of Infinite Resignation fun fact: A performance of GBV's "Hey Aardvark" was perhaps the musical highlight of the Knights' first public appearance (in Dayton, of all places). It was a throw-in to fill time while lead guitarist T.J. Redds tried to figure out why his guitar sounded out of tune (The answer? He was playing a guitar tuned down a half-step . . . did I mention that this also represented the first time 75% of the band had ever played music on stage before?). The brilliance of the GBV cover was outdone only by the fog machine that the sound guy made the mistake of telling the band they could use if they wanted. Perhaps predictably, the fog machine got the most praise in the review in UD's Flyer News. Perhaps also predictably, I think that review was in volume 49, which is the last volume of the paper not to be included on the online archives, so we're deprived of those precious column inches. Anyway, I'll stop rambling.
