David Grubbs, guitarist, pianist, and vocalist, was a founding member of Squirrel Bait, Bastro, and Gastr del Sol. Squirrel Bait was a 1980s Louisville, Kentucky punk rock group. Grubbs' next group was Bastro. Compared to the earlier band, Bastro were artier and, especially early on, more Big Black-influenced. In the early 1990s Bastro moved to Chicago and transformed into the more avant-garde Gastr Del Sol. This project soon became essentially a partnership between Grubbs and Jim O'Rourke. The albums released by the duo (including Crookt, Crackt, or Fly, Upgrade & Afterlife, and Camoufleur) have been described as a visionary and theoretical deconstruction of the songwriting process. Since the partnership's breakup in 1997, Grubbs has released several solo and collaborative records, mostly on the Drag City label. He operates his own label, Blue Chopsticks, which has released both new and

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