Pois é meus amigos, este já deve vir a caminho... Para quem não conhece, eis um excerto sobre os Guided by Voices publicado na amazon.com:

Guided by Voices was one of the most popular indie-rock bands of the 1990s. Critics internationally have lauded the band’s brain trust, Robert Pollard, as a once-in-a-generation artist. Pollard has been compared by The New York Times to Mozart, Rossini, and Paul McCartney (in the same sentence) and everyone from P. J. Harvey, Radiohead, R.E.M., the Strokes, and U2 has sung his praises and cited his music as an influence. But it all started rather prosaically when Pollard, a fourth-grade teacher in his early thirties from Dayton, Ohio, began recording songs with drinking buddies in his basement.

Guided By Voices: A Brief History, written by James Greer, and featuring an introduction by Steven Soderbergh, has been released by the fine folks over at Grove/Atlantic Press. Here is what they had to say about it, in the way of background: Guided by Voices: A Brief History follows the fascinating story of leader Robert Pollard’s twenty-one year evolution from unrecognized garage-rock genius to his discovery, at age thirty-six, by rock critics and fans. Critics—whose praise went so far as to hail him as “this millennium’s William Shakespeare”—drew comparisons to everyone from Paul McCartney and The Who to Rossini while fans went bananas at some of the best live rock & roll shows ever staged. All the while Robert Pollard wrote, literally, thousands of songs, which Entertainment Weekly has called “the best melodies around.” Written with full, frank and exclusive cooperation from Pollard, Guided by Voices: A Brief History includes an foreword by famed American filmmaker Steven Soderbergh, cover art by Pollard, a photographic history of the band and contributions from Ric Ocasek of The Cars, Pete Townshend of The Who, Peter Buck of R.E.M., Steve Malkmus of Pavement, and the legendary critic Richard Meltzer.