My Kind Of Soldier

If you are merely a casual fan of the band, or not even a fan but you have heard of them, you probably know a few rudimentary things about Guided by Voices: that Bob was a fourth grade school teacher for fourteen years before his band was "discovered." That he was consequently considered, at age thirty-six, an unlikely prospect for rock stardom. That the band made most of it's records on a cheap Tascam four-track in the basement, spending very little time and even less money, which method became known as "lo-fi", short hand for "low fidelity," of which the band was considered if not the inventors then certainly one of its leading practitioners. That its live shows range from borderline disastrous to exhilarating raw rock power of a kind rarely seen in the unfortunately labeled genre "indie rock." And that Guided by Voices drinks a lot of beer. A ridiculous amount of beer. An inhuman amount of beer.
Guided by Voices
A Brief History
Twenty-one Years of Hunting Accidents in the Forests of Rock and Roll
James Greer

MP3 Guided by Voices - A Salty Salute
MP3 Guided by Voices - Gold Star For Robot Boy