Doug Gillard
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| Background information | |
| Born |
December 23, 1965 Sandusky, Ohio, U.S. |
| Origin | Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock, indie rock, pop |
| Instruments | guitar, vocals, bass, piano, keyboards, drums, percussion, melodica |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Associated acts | Bambi Kino, Cobra Verde, Death of Samantha, Gem, Guided by Voices, Lifeguards, Nada Surf |
| Website | www |
Doug Gillard (born December 23, 1965) is a New York City-based guitarist and songwriter, originally from Ohio. He has been a member of major indie pop and punk bands, most notably Guided by Voices, Nada Surf and Death of Samantha.
Doug Gillard was born in Sandusky, Ohio. His parents were from Colorado, where his father helped construct missile silos, and his mother was a teacher's aide. Gillard grew up on a farm in rural Northeast Ohio, in the town of Huron, and attended schools in Elyria, Ohio.
By age five, Gillard was writing songs, which he recorded on a reel-to-reel tape machine to be mailed by his family to his older sister who lived in Germany.
Gillard moved to Cleveland after graduating high school. In 1984, he was briefly a non-student college radio DJ at Oberlin's WOBC, after which he was a DJ for six years at Cleveland State University's WCSB, concurrent with his musical career in the late 1980s.
Beginning in high school, Gillard began performing with Ohio punk bands such as Suspect Device, Children's Crusade, and Starvation Army. He has also performed and/or recorded with Richard Buckner, Yuji Oniki, My Dad Is Dead, The Mice, Bill Fox, Fence Lions, Zest of Yore, Stewart Pack, The Oranges Band, Mascott, and Sally Crewe and The Sudden Moves.
As a result of Gillard's appearances on Guided by Voices' Suitcase and Suitcase 2 box sets, he is sometimes erroneously credited as a member of a variety of fictitious bands (e.g., Approval of Mice, Champion Hairpuller), due to Robert Pollard's creation of new imaginary band names for nearly every track of his compilations of outtakes and demos.
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