Robert "Guided by Voices" Pollard is a showman. A charismatic, compelling
showman.

Pollard finished the Antone's/Merge Records showcase tonight with a bang of
an hour-long set. The dude's got like a million songs, and played about a
dozen -- old, current European single,and a couple from his upcoming Merge
Records album coming out Oct. 10th.

Great, great set tonight from all Merge label artists. For the Pollard and
Superchunk experience, I must say drunk people suck. Really, really suck.
Made me wish I'd packed a camera phone so I could belittle their sorry
hides for the World Wide Web to see.

But, they weren't enough to ruin the evening, or even detract from it that
much.