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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. [...]
 
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.
</blockquote>


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

Latest revision as of 03:19, 23 December 2023

Band (91-97)

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

Discography

Albums

Year Title Label
1993 The Serpentine Similar Teenbeat
1994 Crookt, Crackt, Fly[1] Drag City
1994 Mirror Repair EP Drag City
1995 The Harp Factory on Lake Street EP Table of the Elements
1996 Upgrade & Afterlife Drag City
1998 Camoufleur Drag City

Full

Year Type Title Format Label Notes
1993 Album The Serpentine Similar LP/CD Teenbeat
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
1995 EP 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[2] and samples the 1957 science fiction film "The Incredible Shrinking Man"
  • "Rebecca Sylvester" got its name from a road sign[3]
  • "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[4][5]
1997 Comp Conflagration: "Nani?" CD Creativeman
  • Remix of Ground-Zero
1998 Album Camoufleur Drag City

Retrospectives

David Grubbs, 1998[6]

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. [...]

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.

Other projects with both Grubbs and O'Rourke

Bastro

Louisville punk band that grew into Gastr del Sol

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
    1. "A Watery Kentucky"
    2. "Work From Smoke"
    3. "Fool Summons Train"
    4. "Produkt"
    5. "Ursus Arctos Wonderfilis"
    6. "For Soren Mueller"
    7. "Dictionary of Handwriting"

Links

References

  1. ↑ https://groups.google.com/g/alt.music.alternative/c/rnL3JZ5ZNJ8/m/G_kJ_uGQVp8J
  2. ↑ https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/569882700775088128
  3. ↑ https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/569873580776927233
  4. ↑ https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/1208123076682158080
  5. ↑ https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/680238710449909761
  6. ↑ https://www.paristransatlantic.com/magazine/interviews/grubbs.html
  7. ↑ https://twitter.com/blackfaurest/status/1517560929814200322
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