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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 night by jumping into a cab before the final encore was over.
"I could still hear the band playing when I got in the cab," he said. "It was nerve-wracking. That was the worst part."
Pollard, 48, is one of rock's fiercest individualists. Guided By Voices started as a weekend hobby among his friends in Dayton, Ohio, and grew to become a pop music cult. A flood of albums, EPs, solo projects, collaborations, box sets, compilations and soundtracks is the result of Pollard's wily pursuit of the perfect pop song. Along the way he became identified by his perseverance and obsession, a fine line between both that would only be matched by his committed legion of fans - which, when faced with...
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