Robert Pollard (born October 31, 1957) is a Dayton, Ohio singer-songwriter, who until 2004 was the leader and creative force behind indie rock group Guided by Voices. During his high school years, he was a successful basketball and baseball player. Pollard was a fourth grade schoolteacher until 1994, when Guided by Voices first broke into the national consciousness with the release of the album Bee Thousand. With over 900 songs registered to his name with BMI [1], Pollard is among the most prolific songwriters of his time. In 2006 Paste Magazine listed him at the 78th greatest living songwriter of all-time [2].

Solo career
Solo Albums:

1996 - Not in My Airforce
1998 - Waved Out
1999 - Kid Marine
1999 - Speak Kindly of Your Volunteer Fire Department (with Doug Gillard)
2001 - Choreographed Man of War (billed as "Robert Pollard and the Soft Rock Renegades")
2003 - Motel of Fools (12"/CD EP)
2004 - Fiction Man
2005 - Music From "Bubble" (7"/CD EP)
2005 - Zoom (7"/CD EP)
2005 - Relaxation of the Asshole
2006 - From a Compound Eye (CD/2xLP)
2006 - Normal Happiness
2006 - Moon (live LP included with original mail orders of Normal Happiness)
2007 - Meet the King: Asshole 2
2007 - Silverfish Trivia (CD EP)
2007 - Standard Gargoyle Decisions (October 9 on Merge Records)
2007 - Coast to Coast Carpet of Love (October 9 on Merge Records) Discography

Side Projects
During the mid-90's, in addition to GbV albums appearing annually, Pollard's prolificacy typically was vented onto innumerable singles, EPs, compilations and other side releases. However, once signed to a major label and constrained to the expectation of producing only a single album per 18 months, Pollard began the self-financed and released Fading Captain Series, a series of releases both under his own name, and a wide variety of pseudonyms. In addition to solo and archival releases, Pollard began collaborating with fellow musicians and friends by mail via a process dubbed "postal rock" - Pollard would receive completed musical backing tracks, and add his own lyrics and vocals. Albums under the Airport 5, Circus Devils, and Go Back Snowball monikers, among others were produced in this fashion.
In December 2006 Pollard announced that the Fading Captain Series was being concluded with the release of Crickets, a 50-song "best of" collection spanning from 1999 through 2007 [5].
Acid Ranch: (archival recordings featuring Robert Pollard, Kevin Fennell and Mitch Mitchell)
Airport 5: (Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout)
Circus Devils: (Robert Pollard and Todd and Tim Tobias)
Go Back Snowball: (Robert Pollard and Mac McCaughan)
Hazzard Hotrods: (Recording of informal 1990 performance by Pollard, Tobin Sprout, Mitch Mitchell, and Kevin Fennell)
Howling Wolf Orchestra: (Pollard and various GbV members)
Keene Brothers: (Robert Pollard and Tommy Keene)
Lexo and the Leapers: (Robert Pollard backed by The Tasties)
Lifeguards (Robert Pollard and Doug Gillard)
The Moping Swans (Robert Pollard, Greg Demos, Jim MacPherson and Tony Conley)
Nightwalker (pseudonym for archival GbV recordings)
Phantom Tollbooth:
Psycho and the Birds: (Todd Tobias supplementing Pollard solo demos)
The Takeovers: (Robert Pollard and Chris Slusarenko)

2002 - Some Of The Magic Syrup Was Preserved (2xLP--Pollard's first double album)
2005 - As Forever: A Manifesto Of Fractured Imagination And Wreckless Living
2007 - The Great Houdini Wasn't So Great"
2001 - Tower in the Fountain of Sparks
2002 - Life Starts Here
2001 - Ringworm Interiors
2002 - The Harold Pig Memorial
2003 - Pinball Mars
2005 - Five
2007 - Sgt. Disco (due in July on Ipecac Records)
2002 - Calling Zero
2000 - Big Trouble (re-released as Bigger Trouble 2005)
2000 - Speedtraps for the Bee Kingdom (12" EP/CD)
2006 - Blues and Boogie Shoes
1999 - Ask Them (12" EP/CD)
2003 - Mist King Urth
2005 - Lightninghead to Coffee Pot (12" EP/CD)
1999 - In Shop We Build Electric Chairs: Professional Music by Nightwalker 1984-1993
2003 - Beard of Lighting
2006 - All That is Holy
2006 - Check Your Zoo (7" EP/CD)
2006 - Turn to Red
2007 - Bad Football Fading Captain Series
When Pollard announced that the Fading Captain Series was being concluded he also announced that he was starting up a new record label, then called Record Company Records [6] but later re-titled as Prom is Coming [7], which is named after a song off his first solo album Not in My Airforce. The first release on Prom is Coming was Silverfish Trivia.