Closer You Are by Matthew Cutter

Author:Matthew Cutter
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Published: 2018-08-20T16:00:00+00:00

THE BAND GOT A WEEK off to recharge. On July 13, a piece aired on MTV News in advance of GBV’s Lollapalooza dates, including interview footage with Jimmy, Bob, Greg, and Tobin, not to mention underground music royalty like Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo.

Of GBV’s tenacity Ranaldo observed, “It says the obvious: that it’s really what they’re into doing. They had day jobs in order to do it. And that’s great. I mean, that’s where real music gets made a lot of times. It’s not about record deals, it’s not about even traveling around the country. It’s about what’s in your head and getting it out.”28

A discussion on the band’s advanced age (in rock years, at least) prompted a youthful Demos to joke, “The only reason they got me in the band was because I bring the average age down by about ten years.”

“Every once in a while you hear a band that’s right, from the word go,” said Ranaldo, “it’s like, everything that a rock band is supposed to be.” An unnamed fan added, “They’re the ancient Chinese secret of rock.”

Meanwhile, Demos made it clear to Bob he was leaving the band to take a job with a law firm in September, and the Lollapalooza dates would be his last. Bob was desperate for another bass player who fit the band’s vibe. Someone who, like Demos, could fall off the stage during a show and pop up none the worse for wear.

Bob knew Jim Greer played instruments—not bass specifically—but that he could hold his own. One night at Walnut Hills he offered him the job, all but begging him to join GBV.

It’s probably every rock writer’s dream to do it for real; still, Greer was reluctant. “I can do it,” he said, “but I don’t want to be in a band full-time. I’m a writer.”

“Well, we spend, like, one week recording, and then we tour for, like, three weeks, six weeks out of the year,” Bob said. “That’s nothing.”

Greer said he’d think about it. Back at their apartment that night, Kim Deal voiced her opposition. “We’ll be broken up within a year if you do this,” she said. But Deal was wrong. It took two years.29

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