Gastr del Sol - Revision history

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	I was in a rock band called Bastro, which was a power trio with [[John McEntire]] and Bundy Brown, and it was always the same sound, the same group, the same instrumentation. We needed to change the working procedure, so I went back to playing piano and took up the acoustic guitar. I'd never played a steel-string acoustic until I was twenty-three years old. I'd just gotten tired of always playing at full volume: with Bastro it only sounded best at full volume, so we were always hostage to terrible live sound. You'd walk into a room that you knew you really shouldn't be playing in, and think: "Well this is going to be a bad gig..." There was nothing we could do to put a stop to that. That's the reason I went back to acoustic guitar–I felt that I'd have more control over the sound. I've never been a guitar player with lots of pedals. I had my distortion pedal stolen a couple of years ago, and I don't own a single pedal anymore. I own one guitar lead. [...]		I was in a rock band called Bastro, which was a power trio with [[John McEntire]] and Bundy Brown, and it was always the same sound, the same group, the same instrumentation. We needed to change the working procedure, so I went back to playing piano and took up the acoustic guitar. I'd never played a steel-string acoustic until I was twenty-three years old. I'd just gotten tired of always playing at full volume: with Bastro it only sounded best at full volume, so we were always hostage to terrible live sound. You'd walk into a room that you knew you really shouldn't be playing in, and think: "Well this is going to be a bad gig..." There was nothing we could do to put a stop to that. That's the reason I went back to acoustic guitar–I felt that I'd have more control over the sound. I've never been a guitar player with lots of pedals. I had my distortion pedal stolen a couple of years ago, and I don't own a single pedal anymore. I own one guitar lead. [...]

	Gato Del Sol was a horse that won the Kentucky Derby, and I was in a group called Bastro, so there was some sort of associative blending of the two.		Gato Del Sol was a horse that won the Kentucky Derby, and I was in a group called Bastro, so there was some sort of associative blending of the two. [...]

			I've stopped working with Jim, and Gastr Del Sol is, to all intents and purposes, inert. I guess if I want to work in some group structure again, it could conceivably be Gastr Del Sol, but the idea becomes less important. (Pause) This has been a time of making lots of records. Just a couple of days before I came out here I finished a record which is coming out under my own name, but I wanted to have a consistent group feel, feel like a regular band. So Tony Conrad plays hillbilly violin, John McEntire plays drums, and there's a lot of brass on it. Trombone, fluegelhorn, trumpet. It's called 'The Thicket" and is coming out in September or October on Drag City. Jim and I have stopped doing [[Dexter's Cigar]] (as we're not working together in Gastr Del Sol anymore it felt right to make a clean break–he's incredibly busy), so I'm also starting my own label.
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	== Retrospectives ==		== Retrospectives ==
	[[David Grubbs]], 1998<ref>https://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/grubbs.html</ref><blockquote>I was in a rock band called Bastro, which was a power trio with [[John McEntire]] and Bundy Brown, and it was always the same sound, the same group, the same instrumentation. We needed to change the working procedure, so I went back to playing piano and took up the acoustic guitar. I'd never played a steel-string acoustic until I was twenty-three years old. I'd just gotten tired of always playing at full volume: with Bastro it only sounded best at full volume, so we were always hostage to terrible live sound. You'd walk into a room that you knew you really shouldn't be playing in, and think: "Well this is going to be a bad gig..." There was nothing we could do to put a stop to that. That's the reason I went back to acoustic guitar–I felt that I'd have more control over the sound. I've never been a guitar player with lots of pedals. I had my distortion pedal stolen a couple of years ago, and I don't own a single pedal anymore. I own one guitar lead. [...]		[[David Grubbs]], 1998<ref>https://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/grubbs.html</ref>

	Gato Del Sol was a horse that won the Kentucky Derby, and I was in a group called Bastro, so there was some sort of associative blending of the two.</blockquote>		<blockquote>
			I was in a rock band called Bastro, which was a power trio with [[John McEntire]] and Bundy Brown, and it was always the same sound, the same group, the same instrumentation. We needed to change the working procedure, so I went back to playing piano and took up the acoustic guitar. I'd never played a steel-string acoustic until I was twenty-three years old. I'd just gotten tired of always playing at full volume: with Bastro it only sounded best at full volume, so we were always hostage to terrible live sound. You'd walk into a room that you knew you really shouldn't be playing in, and think: "Well this is going to be a bad gig..." There was nothing we could do to put a stop to that. That's the reason I went back to acoustic guitar–I felt that I'd have more control over the sound. I've never been a guitar player with lots of pedals. I had my distortion pedal stolen a couple of years ago, and I don't own a single pedal anymore. I own one guitar lead. [...]

			Gato Del Sol was a horse that won the Kentucky Derby, and I was in a group called Bastro, so there was some sort of associative blending of the two.
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	== Other projects with both Grubbs and O'Rourke ==		== Other projects with both Grubbs and O'Rourke ==

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	* "Black Horse" is a cover of Vietnamese folk song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH8ZUYfB8dA Lý Ngựa Ô]		* "Black Horse" is a cover of Vietnamese folk song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH8ZUYfB8dA Lý Ngựa Ô]
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			== Retrospectives ==
			[[David Grubbs]], 1998<ref>https://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/grubbs.html</ref><blockquote>I was in a rock band called Bastro, which was a power trio with [[John McEntire]] and Bundy Brown, and it was always the same sound, the same group, the same instrumentation. We needed to change the working procedure, so I went back to playing piano and took up the acoustic guitar. I'd never played a steel-string acoustic until I was twenty-three years old. I'd just gotten tired of always playing at full volume: with Bastro it only sounded best at full volume, so we were always hostage to terrible live sound. You'd walk into a room that you knew you really shouldn't be playing in, and think: "Well this is going to be a bad gig..." There was nothing we could do to put a stop to that. That's the reason I went back to acoustic guitar–I felt that I'd have more control over the sound. I've never been a guitar player with lots of pedals. I had my distortion pedal stolen a couple of years ago, and I don't own a single pedal anymore. I own one guitar lead. [...]

			Gato Del Sol was a horse that won the Kentucky Derby, and I was in a group called Bastro, so there was some sort of associative blending of the two.</blockquote>

	== Other projects with both Grubbs and O'Rourke ==		== Other projects with both Grubbs and O'Rourke ==

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	\| Album		\| Album
	\| The Serpentine Similar		\| ''[[The Serpentine Similar]]''
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	\| Teenbeat		\| Teenbeat
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	\| Album		\| Album
	\| Crookt, Crackt, Fly		\| ''[[Crookt, Crackt, Fly]]''
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	\| EP		\| EP
	\| Mirror Repair		\| ''[[Mirror Repair]]''
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	\| EP		\| EP
	\| [[The Harp Factory on Lake Street]]		\| [[The Harp Factory on Lake Street\|''The Harp Factory on Lake Street'']]
	\| CD		\| CD
	\| Table of the Elements		\| Table of the Elements
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	\| Album		\| Album
	\| Upgrade & Afterlife		\| ''[[Upgrade & Afterlife]]''
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	\| Album		\| Album
	\| Camoufleur		\| ''[[Camoufleur]]''
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	* "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"		* "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>		* "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"		* "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"
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	== References ==		== References ==

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	* "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"		* "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>		* "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"		* "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"
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