Gin Blossoms front man, Robin Wilson, has been spending time at home the last couple of months going through old boxes containing all kinds of rock n roll history. Along with tons of Gin Blossoms early demos, live recordings, pictures, and even a picture of the band backstage at SNL, he found audio and video of two projects he had post Gin Blossoms in the late 90s.
When the Gin Blossoms broke up in 1997, Robin and GB drummer Phil Rhodes, formed Gas Giants. Since the Gin Blossoms broke up with songs still on the charts, A&M Records held onto the member’s record contracts, thus Gas Giants had a deal with A&M themselves. The band was set to hit the ground running, but in 1999 with label mergers being very common with major labels, the band found themselves off A&M and on an indie label. With the music industry changing, the album (From Beyond The Back Burner) came out with little success. “There were only 2 rock bands that had real radio hits that year, Fuel and Filter, it was the worst time in music to put out a rock record like ours” -Wilson said when he called into The Local Buzz in late March.







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