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Bee thousand

Covers the album "Bee Thousand's" long and unorthodox period of writing, recording, sequencing, and editing. This book includes interviews with members of the band Guided by Voices, manager Pete Jamison, web-master and GBV historian Rich Turiel and Robert Griffin of Scat Records. It provides a central account of how the record was made, and more.
Print Book, English, ©2006
Continuum, New York, ©2006
viii, 160 pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
9780826417480, 0826417485
1131551224
Persons of the play
A man discovers his coat has a pocket
Listener responses #1-3
Love & purity
Listener response #4
Fiction, man & hardcore facts, part one
Four-track tape
Guided by voices narrative #1 : Robert Pollard
Listener response #5
A correspondence with Lewis Klahr
Fiction, man & hardcore facts, part two
Listener response #6
Guided by voices narrative #2 : Don Thrasher
Fiction, man & hardcore facts, part three
Desire & its limits
Guided by voices narrative #3 : Kevin Fennell
Listener responses #7 & 8
Spatial representation #9 of Bee thousand action motives
The diamonds of being in the dirt of the pigpen : on Robert Pollard's lyrics
Listener responses #9-11
Bee thousand word cluster : Fauna
A sonnet
made from Bee thousand fragments (themselves often fragments)
Guided by voices narrative #4 : Robert Griffin
Bee thousand word cluster : States (of being)
Fiction, man & hardcore facts, part four
Guided by voices narrative #5 : Dan Toohey
Listener response #12
Dayton ode
Listener response #13
Kicks
Guided by voices narrative #6 : Greg Demos
Bee thousand word cluster : Generation
Tobin Sprout's Tascam Portastudio 1 four-track & electro-harmonix memory man
Guided by voices narrative #7 : Tobin Sprout
Listener responses #14-16
Fiction, man & hardcore facts, part five