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Band (91-97)
* [[David Grubbs]]
* [[Jim O'Rourke]] (93-97)
* [[John McEntire]]
* Bundy K. Brown (91-93)

* Mostly a duo based in Chicago between David Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke

== Discography ==

=== Albums ===
{| class="wikitable"
!Year
!Title
!Label
|-
|1993
|''[[The Serpentine Similar]]''
|Teenbeat
|-
|1994
|''[[Crookt, Crackt, Fly]]''
|[[Drag City]]
|-
|1994
|''[[Mirror Repair]]'' EP
|[[Drag City]]
|-
|1995
|[[The Harp Factory on Lake Street|''The Harp Factory on Lake Street'']] EP
|Table of the Elements
|-
|1996
|''[[Upgrade & Afterlife]]''
|[[Drag City]]
|-
|1998
|''[[Camoufleur]]''
|[[Drag City]]
|}

=== Full ===
{| class="wikitable" 
|-
! Year
! Type
! Title
! Format
! Label
! Notes
|-
| 1993
| Album
| ''[[The Serpentine Similar]]''
| LP/CD
| Teenbeat
| 
* "A Watery Kentucky" references [[Dear Betty Baby]]
* Reissued in 1997 on [[Dexter's Cigar]] ([[Drag City]])
|- 
| 1994
| Single
| 20 Songs Less
| 7"
| Teenbeat
| 
* First release with Jim O'Rourke, last release with Bundy K. Brown
|-
| 1994
| Album
| ''[[Crookt, Crackt, Fly]]''
| 
| [[Drag City]]
| 
* "Work From Smoke" reuses a riff from Bastro's "Produkt"
* "Thos. Dudley Ah! Old Must Dye" gets its lyrics from an anonymous 1645 poem sent to Colony of Massachusetts Governor Thomas Dudley
* The indie pop group The Sea and Cake (with [[John McEntire]] on drums) got its name from a mishearing of "The C in Cake"
|-
| 1994
| Comp
| [[Hey Drag City]]: "At Night and at Night"
| LP/CD
| [[Drag City]]
| 
|-
| 1994
| EP
| ''[[Mirror Repair]]''
| 
| [[Drag City]]
| 
* The cover is a 1992 fabric painting by [[Albert Oehlen]], untitled
|-
| 1995
| EP
| [[The Harp Factory on Lake Street|''The Harp Factory on Lake Street'']]
| CD
| Table of the Elements
| 
|-
| 1995
| Split
| "The Japanese Room at La Pagode" / "May"
| 7"
| Table of the Elements
| 
* Split with Tony Conrad
|-
| 1995
| Comp
| Red Hot + Bothered: "Quietly Approaching"
| 
| Kinetic
| 
|-
| 1996
| Album
| ''[[Upgrade & Afterlife]]''
| 
| [[Drag City]]
|
* "Our Exquisite Replica of 'Eternity'" is named after a knockoff gas station perfume<ref>https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/569882700775088128</ref> and samples the 1957 science fiction film "The Incredible Shrinking Man"
* "Rebecca Sylvester" got its name from a road sign<ref>https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/569873580776927233</ref>
* "Dry Bones in the Valley" is a [[John Fahey]] cover and features Tony Conrad on violin. Jim O'Rourke would again combine Fahey and Conrad's styles with his 1997 piece "Happy Days"
|-
| 1996
| Comp
| 
* The Christmas Album: "The Bells of St. Mary"
| 
| Sony Japan
|
* Cover of Bob B. Soxx and the Blue Jeans song<ref>https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/1208123076682158080</ref><ref>https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/680238710449909761</ref>
|-
| 1997
| Comp
| Conflagration: "Nani?"
| CD
| Creativeman
| 
* Remix of Ground-Zero
|-
| 1998
| Album
| ''[[Camoufleur]]''
| 
| [[Drag City]]
| 
* "Black Horse" is a cover of Vietnamese folk song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH8ZUYfB8dA Lý Ngựa Ô]
|}

== Other projects with both Grubbs and O'Rourke ==
* Brise-Glace - When in Vanitas... (1994) Skin Graft [LP/CD]
* [[The Red Krayola (album)]]
* [[Amor and Language]]
* Tony Conrad - Slapping Pythagoras (1995) Table of the Elements [CD]
* [[David Grubbs]] - Banana Cabbage, Potato Lettuce, Onion Orange (1996) Table of the Elements [CD]
* [[Japan in Paris in L.A.]]
* [[Hazel]]
* Boxhead Ensemble - Dutch Harbor: Where the Sea Breaks Its Back (1997) Atavistic [CD]
* Edith Frost - Calling Over Time (1997) [[Drag City]] [LP/CD]<ref>https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/1517560929814200322</ref>
* [[Stephen Prina]] - [[Push Comes to Love]] (1997) [[Drag City]] [CD]
** Both producing

== Bastro ==
Louisville punk band that grew into Gastr del Sol

{| class="wikitable" 
|-
! Year
! Type
! Title
! Format
! Label
! Notes
|-
| 1988
| EP
| Rode Hard & Put Up Wet
| 12"
| Homestead
| 
|-
| 1989
| Single
| "Shoot Me a Deer" / "Goiter Blazes"
| 7"
| Homestead
| 
|-
| 1989
| Album
| Diablo Guapo
| LP/CD
| Homestead
| 
* "Pretty Smart on My Part" is a Phil Ochs cover
|-
| 1990
| Split
| "Nothing Special" / "Flesh Colored House"
| 7"
| Clawfist
| 
* Split with My Dad Is Dead covering each others' songs
|-
| 1990
| Album
| Sing the Troubled Beast
| LP/CD
| Homestead
| 
|-
| 1991
| Split
| "A l'ombre de nous" / "Produkt"
| 7"
| Glitterhouse
| 
* Split with Codeine
|-
| 1993
| Comp
| Teenbeat 50: "Sketch for Sleepy"
| LP
| Matador
| 
|-
| 2005
| Comp
| Sing the Troubled Beast / Diablo Guapo
| CD
| [[Drag City]]
| 
* Two-on-one-CD reissue supposedly only briefly in print
|-
| 2005
| Live
| Antlers: Live 1991
| CD
| [[Drag City]]
| 
* Most of these tunes were reappropriated for Gastr del sol <br>1. "A Watery Kentucky"<br>2. "Work From Smoke"<br>3. "Fool Summons Train"<br>4. "Produkt"<br>5. "Ursus Arctos Wonderfilis"<br>6. "For Soren Mueller"<br>7. "Dictionary of Handwriting"
|}

== Links ==
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastr_del_Sol Gastr del Sol on Wikipedia]
* [https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/gastr-del-sol Gastr del Sol on RateYourMusic]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20041026034708/http://www.bitmine.net/~gnat/gastr.html Gastr del Sol fansite]

== References ==

[[Category:Groups]]