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The title Bee Thousand was inspired by a group brainstorming session, during which band members smoked marijuana. Pollard's brother, Jim, thought of "zoo thousand", allegedly inspired by a mile marker reading "Z1000". This phrase coalesced with a misspelling of a movie title at a drive-in theater, with "Beethoven" spelled as "Beethouen", which Pollard liked because the misspelling sounded like the name of The Who guitarist Pete Townshend. Other considered titles included All That Glue and Instructions for the Rusty Time Machine, both of which were used in the lyrics of other Guided by Voices songs.
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