LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Sebadoh: Eric Gaffney
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The three guys from Sebadoh hadn’t played together in years, not since a falling out between the band members which left member Eric Gaffney incommunicado with the group for over a decade. Despite successful reunion tours in 2002 and 2003, the press expressed some concerns that the three rockers were just a bit too past their prime to put on a good live show together.
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If Sebadoh had stopped immediately after finishing ‘The Freed Man’ then this release would have represented a perfect snapshot of a brief period of time when the two protagonists were at a creative peak. As it stands they went on, and this is good in some ways (’Soul and Fire’, ‘Gimme Indie Rock’, their influence on bands that turned out to be far greater than them) and very very bad in others (pretty much everything Gaffney did after ‘The Freed Man’*, the whole sorry influencing of a generation of sadsack ‘emo’ losers).
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When Sebadoh find their way onto the stage it is with the same casual air that they have always carried themselves. They have done more for the genre of lo-fi indie rock than the bands that get most of the credit (Pavement, Guided By Voices, to name two), and have done so by allowing each of its members to contribute equally to the songwriting. What this means is that one song may be a straight-up shoegazing unrequited love song with Lou taking the vocals, the next tune will have Jason swapping drums for bass and screaming his bloody head off, and then Eric will take a turn on guitar and toss out a melodic punk song. They are several bands rolled into one and this is what makes them so great.
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