Scalping the Guru

Scalping The Guru is an archival GBV release envisioned and sequenced by Robert Pollard as a cohesive album, featuring select tracks from four Guided By Voices EPs released in 1993-1994 by Domino, City Slang, Siltbreeze, and Engine Records. These hard-to-find records are essential for fans of Vampire On Titus and Bee Thousand, with GBV classics including "My Impression Now", "Matter Eater Lad" and "Big School". Robert Pollard with Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, Kevin Fennell, Jim Pollard, Dan Toohey, Greg Demos, Larry Keller Recorded on 4-track cassette by Tobin Sprout. Some songs lovingly fucked with by Mike Hummel

For 'Scalping the Guru,' Robert Pollard hand-selected a greatest hits culled from four of the band's fan-favorite and hard…

In the mid-'90s, Ohio band Guided by Voices were hitting their stride with the four-track cassette recorder, or as bandleader Robert Pollard affectionately referred to it, "the instant gratification machine."

Scalping the Guru's 20 songs come from 1993-1994, just as Guided By Voices were about to release their landmark album 'Bee Thousand'.