Band: Guided By Voices
Location: Detroit, MI, USA @ The Magic Stick
Date: April 03, 2002

Equipment: Mini Disc --- Giant-Squid Powered Battery Box Binaural > Sony MZ-R700
Taping Position: Front Of Stack - Right

Notes: To be honest, I wasn't familiar nor was I in the right frame of mind to really seea 3.5 hour concert ona
Tuesday night when school loomed early the next morning. In fact, we left after the first encore, about 2.75
hours through, very late. But looking back & listening to this band, damn, they are really good. I think the only
description I can think of is: college rock. It seems like this is a college band that sort of just became a
professional college band. They've been around for years. Songs are short, seem to have the same vibe but tell a
story with each one. Interesting. GBV rocks, seriously, I kid you not. Really, I would like to check these guys
out again. Now, this show + recording is one of my favorites, listen to it at least once a month in it's entirity. Not
like power-pop but just cool music. Example: "planet destruction, life without a care - I wish I could give a shit,
just a little bit - oh, lethargy, lethargy, lethargy!" The band members are in their late 30's, early 40's & really
seemed to like to drink. I heard that the lead singer has written something like 4,000 songs - noen of which are
recorded. They went through 3 cases of different kinds of beer, lead singer was giving some out to people in the
audience if he showed them "wrinkles - if you are over 21, you have wrinkles." Man, they got wasted at this
show, I've heard that they get wasted at all their shows also but I've never witnessed a band get slammed on
stage - and, odd thing is, they sounded better when they were wasted. Ha.

Setlist Attained?: Yes -- when the band walked off the stage for encore, I jumped up onto the stage & grabbed the drummer's
setlist. When I crawl back down, some guy asks what the encore is. I saw the drummer look for his list of songs & decided it was a
good time to leave. No sense in getting into a tiff.

Setlist:
Things I WIll Keep
Skills
Eureka Signs
Back To The Lake
Lethargy
Whiskey Ships
Helicopter
Soul Train College Policeman
Tight Globes
Christian Animation
Tank
Cut-Out Witch
Universal Truths & Cycles
Waved Out
Enemy
Chasing Heather Cosey
Wire Greyhounds
Skin Parade
In Stitches
Unspirited
Sub Teams
Brides
Weeping Boogeyman
Twilight Campfighter
Game Of Pricks
Love I
Storm Vibrations
Alone, Stinking
Glad Girls
Zap
Shocker
Wings Of Thorn
Edison's Memos
Get Under It
Watch Me Jumpstart
Car Language
Fair Touching
Cheyenne
Hunting Knife
Instrument Beetle
Don't Stop Now
Teenage FBI
Father Sgt.

encore (not recorded)
Bee 1000
Salty
Psychic
Pop Zeus
Motor Away Baba