Guided By Voices - Peel Session 1999

The complete session recorded by Guided By Voices on 19 October 1999 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on 14 December 1999.
Tracklist:
1. Frequent Weaver Who Burns (0:18)
2. Zoo Pie (3:07)
3. Tight Globes (6:22)
4. Much Better Mr Buckles (9:36)
5. Dragons Awake (12:15)

[@markhower7110]

Best American Band Ever !

[@danmannion6273]

Frequent weeeeavers who burns..... Don't ask me. RIP John you legend.

[@markhower7110]

Dan Moore who do you think you are....the frequent Weaver?

[@killingfloor3999]

Jim Macpherson just fucking killing it on drums, as usual. I swear anything he ever recorded with Robert Pollard was sure to be great.

[@cocoygranada9403]

Great! Jim Macpherson? also of The Breeders on drums¿

[@PintsofGuinness]

@@cocoygranada9403 ye

[@PintsofGuinness]

the professor of rock

[@drzazgi666]

Holy FUCK the hi-fi version of Frequent Weaver is totally killer!

[@juliettewatts7777]

Band never sounded better.

[@DfactorPop]

This sounds AMAZING! So live and electric!

[@bookboy7007]

Peel Sessions usually have great sound!

[@jamesrockstreet]

Good god I love this band.

[@nalla320]

LOVE GBV. Absolute best.

[@mikemathlete]

One of the best eras of GbV as they were unhinged on taking over the world here. Big label with money pushing them (for better or worse.) They were having it. This is a great-sounding, extremely well-executed live performance. And all this while Bob most likely wished he was at home with his drinking buddies instead of playing the game.

[@michaelmiele1177]

Love this photo

[@danielcropp8553]

Me too! Pollard looks like a giant.

[@Ghoopty]

Wished I was a giant....

[@tishpish4939]

Love how Peel played them first with Vampire and kept going till his last show - one of the very few bands he stuck with. Bummer that they only did 2 sessions with him as he was an obsessive.
"Ah, those perky kids."

[@ferroxglideh5621]

oh vibracobra, this is all I ever wanted from life, john peel and gbv. Zoo Pie served up sliced LARGE. Great post!

[@worldnotworld]

Listening to Zoo Pie makes you a cooler, stronger, better man

[@johnwaynesmom]

This is just the best

[@markhower7110]

johnwaynesmom just lately again discovering the greatness of this!

[@Braulios_Penesecou]

MUCH BETTER MR. BUCKLES

[@andyking7621]

Isn't it though .. Magnificent

[@PennsylvaniaHistoryBuff]

Peel Sessions always rock.

[@Brannington]

imagine a peel version of Mesh Gear Fox, Game of Pricks or Navigating Flood Regions

[@phudleyallenrippy]

I'm imagining right now with my rig hard.

[@Brannington]

@@phudleyallenrippy hoh golly

[@Samuel_SC]

Wish one was done during the ‘94-‘96 period. This is damn good though.

[@williamk3702]

Say! I must've missed the GBV lineup with Will Self in

[@cocoygranada9403]

That resolves IT: THEY ARE THE Band you would love to play repeatedly.

[@gergsar]

thanks!

[@fredrickmeyers8076]

Long live big Unkle Bob 👑

[@TheTurkey79]

Good stuff :)

[@realest_shirts]

Volunteer Fire Dept. in effect!

[@lesterhalfjr]

I like zoo pie better here than on DTC

[@TheErikrust]

MY FUCKING 'LANTA. What a gem!

[@thomasminarchickjr.7355]

Zoo Pie is pretty amazing here

[@mattaki]

And BEULAH!

[@johnmavroudis2054]

Two EXCELLENT bands!!

[@lismoeff]

5. Dragons Awake (12:15)

[@oscartravis5740]

same drum intro as Stone Roses' I am the Resurrection

[@Dayglowvista]

Can somebody explain why he was playing from mini disc if they were in session? Surely in those days at the beeb it would've been DAT, CD or even Mp3?

[@tweezerfetish]

Because it was the beeb.

[@oscartravis5740]

lol at Peel's agony over a fraction of silence! And the illegible name is surely Doug Gillard?

[@Vingul]

Do start, come on.

[@williamk3702]

Ironic, isn't it? To think how, just a few years later, technological advances would have made compiling the Festive Fifty a cinch!

[@eddieangelmonroy]

✊gbv

[@banishedfromthedwarfplanet530]

Only slightly above Urge Overkill as the greatest and most underrated American band.

[@johnmavroudis2054]

Slightly?

[@davidames1746]

UO were garbage.

[@bookboy7007]

Even the GBV songs I dont like are Great!? How does that work ?

[@scotttaylor4383]

Great Postal blowfish

[@markhower7110]

Jimmy Mac rocks!

[@gonetoheaven7478]

🍺

[@cocoygranada9403]

Visiblility Buttons, a year ago they Can't Be seen.

[@Vingul]

3:01 WTF, GBV do D&B?

[@davidames1746]

Blistering...surprised British pop establishment didn't turned in their instruments!

[@talpajam]

well, the Who went home and cried =\

[@rjpaws]

The major label stuff was ok...Isolation Drills etc but you can't beat mid 90s GBV...B-1000 and Alien lanes...followed by Mag Earwig....all Matador i believe

[@davidames1746]

No I'll have my pie fully baked.

[@edwardbrinson6137]

Peel seems unimpressed....so far

[@billk128byot]

It's not the Fall, so Peel is never impressed...

[@thomasminarchickjr.7355]

Agreed. GBV are better than The Fall and even Beefheart. Peel should’ve kissed their asses like he did Smith’s.

[@Jack78fr]

I have to disagree I’m afraid. As much as I love GBV, I think The Fall were better.
More creative, more artistic, more edgy… Saying The opposite would be nonsense. Still they are 2 different bands who did different music too… I think bothe bands are brilliant in their own league and Mr Peel was known for being a man of great musical taste (and British too that might explain his preference).

[@williamk3702]

I wonder if Bob digs/dug Swan Lee a.k.a. Silas Lang by Syd's Pink Floyd

[@sonicsolaceadriantsmith7118]

William K I would like to think that Uncle Bob cherishes not only everything about Syd, but everything that is Syd!

[@zenbear4149]

Great band. Terrible set list, played well.

[@davidames1746]

Zoo Pie is terrible are you out of your mind?