The gourds one of my all time favorite bands. Their first 5 albums are brilliant. "Dems Good Beeble", "Stadium Blitzer", "Ghosts of Hallelujah", "Bolsa De Agua", "Cow, Fish, Fowl or Pig". All their albums are great.
If I had a nickel for every time I heard the Gourds, I’d still want to hear them again. The Electric Lounge was where I first saw them during some Acoustic Music Festival held over the course of a week shortly after they moved to Austin. Jimmy Smith found the keyboard used on Ziggy Stardust in the dumpster behind the Electric Lounge as I recall. I remember talking with Kevin and Jimmy at the bar there discussing something called the Internet. I also remember 50 cent beer night at Waterloo Ice House, sort of.
Yes I was in college at the time and was into Phish. A friend said hey here this Phish version of Gin and Juice and I said, that’s not Phish but it’s awesome
Great story! Just saw Kevin/Shinyribs at the City Winery in NYC LAST NIGHT! He briefly - for a chorus or two - sang "Gin n' Juice" within one of their songs songs. The audience dug it. Great show.
Gourds are one of my all time favorite bands. I brought them to Missoula, Montana many times 2001-2013. Kev Russell wrote a song called "Lower 48" he claimed was partly inspired by me and some of my sayings. Miss the lads
This is the song that led me to the Gourds. One of my friends played it for me, telling me it was a Phish song. I knew immediately it was not Phish, but I had to find out who this band was. One day, I was on a Leftover Salmon message board. Some folks thought they were behind the cover. An admin on the board set the record straight. It was the Gourds. The next day, I went to the record store. The only Gourds CD they had was Ghosts of Hallelujah. I bought it and have been a huge fan of the Gourds and Shinyribs ever since!
I've never heard of the Gourds until today, but I'm familiar with this recording. I got it off Napster back in the day. The file name is "Son Volt- Gin and Juice.mp3." (I was probably searching for Son Volt when I found it.) I knew it wasn't Son Volt, but the Artist tag inside the file was "String Cheese Incident" That sounded plausible to me, so I've always assumed it was them.
I bet I downloaded that song 20 or 30 times. I would show friends and relatives how to use Napster and would always use this song as a tutorial. Without fail everyone loved it, even my grandmother thought it was great. The Shinyribs Austin City Limits is way up on my favorites list Sweet Potato is a masterpiece.
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I was 25 years old before I had ever even knew who snoop dogg was and I dont think I have ever even heard the original but the gourds are and thus tune is epic
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My version was labeled as Less Claypool. I got it from Napster back in like 2000 while working at an ISP in Missoula MT. So glad to see this to set the record straight.
Dang. I was probably 13 when I first downloaded that cover. My buds and I wore it out too! There’s a live show of John Moreland here on YT where some goofball yells out “play Freebird!” John pay it’s no attention so the man then yell’s out “Gin ‘n Juice.” lol John then has some words. Also you’re right about Phish, I’m from Georgia and had heard of the band when I was 12/13 but to this day have never listened to the music. lol
First time I heard it, it was under Hank III. That said, love the Gourds and Shinyribs. (If you're reading this, Kevin, would love to jam with you sometime!)
"Gin and Juice" was listed as a Phish song when I first heard it as well. I knew that it wasn't a Phish song. It was right after a Bonaroo festival that I heard it and which led me to believe it was Phish and some other musicians that were just jamming and it got recorded. It took awhile before I found out that it was The Gourds.
The past week I watched 3 hip-hop "reactors" listen to The Gourds' "Gin and Juice", grinning, grooving, and saying they think they like this better than the original. That's some pretty big praise in my book.
I totally downloaded this as “phish” circa 2000. I was very confused but thought maybe they had some different singer or something. Eventually figured it was mislabeled once I heard more phish. But I learned it and played it at every single high school party to great approval lol. A few years later a guy told me it was the Gourds.
As a UNT alumni I love hearing stories from little Dentron! Such a great music scene around there then. Thanks Otis for all the great work! Edit* The Gourds and Bad Livers=perfection!
That high beam thing really happened in Alaska. According to the local legend. I even remember what gas station they were shot at. No Jin or Juice tho.
My wife and I were psyched when the Gourds were playing our town. Gin & Juice, baby! So as the night goes on and it’s getting late, no G $ J! So we holler our request out and it was like they made a point of looking at us. And wouldn’t play the song. My wife was crushed and couldn’t understand why they treated us that way. No fan here.
Gin and Juice is one of the most played songs in my I pod I have 3 covers of it and The Gourds is the best . Richard Cheese is 2nd Snoopy comes in 3rd : )
all those poor kids that went on Phish tour only to be disappointed. They came back to Grateful Dead tour in a hurry! I knew a guy that drove truck for the Jimmy Kimmel show...that sounds about right-those people are spun!
