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The Keene Brothers name was adopted to get a collaboration between two distinguished veterans of left-field pop — Robert Pollard, founder and leader of Guided by Voices, and Tommy Keene, a songwriter and guitarist who was simply recording okay albums since 1982 and spent some time working like a guitarist-for-hire …

Hailing from Bethesda, Maryland, Tommy Keene is really a guitarist and singer/songwriter who all plays and creates melodic guitar-based pop/rock and roll. As a kid, Keene played traditional piano before picking right up electric guitar and drums. He spent his teenage years drumming within a rock and roll trio known …

Among the stuff that made Guided by Voices’ rise from underground curios to indie superstars in the first ’90s thus noteworthy was that vocalist/guitarist Robert Pollard was also a instructor, an uncommon profession for rock and roll & move idols. Pollard was created on Oct 31, 1957, in Dayton, Ohio. …