Through touring heavily throughout 1999 and 2000, Guided by Voices’ live act became legendary, with shows often stretching past the three-hour mark, and populated by an endless stream of new and classic songs, Pollard solo tracks, impromptu covers of The Who , David Bowie and The Rolling Stones , all accompanied by continuous alcohol consumption. In addition to multiple swings through the United States and Europe, 2000 saw the band’s first and only visits to Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. 2000 was capped with the release of the massive Suitcase , a four-disc, 100-song trawl through three decades worth of Pollard’s enormous reserve of unreleased material. (Three more box sets of unreleased songs, Suitcase 2 , Suitcase 3 and Suitcase 4 released in October 2005, November 2009 and November 2015 respectively.)
Live act becomes legendary
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