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Article: Guided By Bob Robert Pollard searches for the perfect pop song.(Time Out!)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
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- March 31, 2006
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Byline: Mark Guarino Daily Herald Music Critic
Robert Pollard with The High Strung
Where: Metro, 3730 N. Clark St., Chicago
When: 9 p.m. today
Tickets: $19. (312) 559-1212
When Robert Pollard decided to end Guided By Voices, the band he fronted for 21 years, he played the last two shows at Metro, Dec. 30 and 31, 2004. Although the final show lasted more than four hours and included a balloon toss, an onstage bartender, a rotating assembly of musicians from the band's past, plus plenty of liquor consumed onstage and off, to Pollard, the set of shows did not particularly strike a nostalgic chord. In fact, he ended the first ...