Mike's Music Interview Archive: Tobin Sprout of Guided by Voices. GBV made growing up in Nowheresvile, Ohio, bearable (even, I daresay, sort of cool).. Robert Pollard was the first musician of any renown I ever got to talk to, though it probably doesn't exist online...Sprout is the band's melodic secret weapon, and they were never the same without him... http://triblive.com/mobile/6074602-96/guided-voices-band