The Gerbils - Sunshine Soul

Live link to this song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlcIQdW2k9c

http://www.myspace.com/e6thegerbils

The Gerbils are an indie rock band that formed in Athens, GA in 1998. Part of the Elephant Six Collective, the band released two albums and toured nationwide during their tenure.

The band consisted of Scott Spillane, John D'Azzo and Will Westbrook, college roommates in Ruston, LA. Along with sometimes-cellist Penny Burbank, they released a couple singles on a variety of record labels from 1996-1998 before recording an album (which included the four previously-released songs) in 1998 on Hidden Agenda Records.

Spillane's Neutral Milk Hotel bandmate Jeremy Barnes eventually joined as drummer, which drove the somewhat twee pop sound of the band's first album towards a more energetic hard rock. The members of the band soon decided to call it quits unofficially with a farewell show in 1999 in Athens. While D'Azzo pursued interests in California, Spillane and Westbrook (with the help of members of Of Montreal and Elf Power) finished mixing the album that was completed with Chris Bishop prior to their separation. Once the resulting album, The Battle of Electricity, was completed, the Gerbils did a national tour with Elf Power before again separating. The band eventually reformed in 2004, playing regularly and becoming fully active.

Guitarist Will Westbrook died on Monday, December 11, 2006 due to an undisclosed illness. After his death, The Gerbils disbanded, with Spillane and D'Azzo occasionally performing Gerbils' songs together afterwards.

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[Cumquatlounge]

@rootinfinity but as i wanted to link to this video of the live footage which i think is simply brilliant - it stayed in.

[Cumquatlounge]

@rootinfinity - if you think this one needs criticism you ought to see half of my others. thank you for taking the time to post however as the channel points out this is about the music and not the videos however half way in to this endeavor i felt it better to put something watchable to the music rather than an album cover or still image. As for the live footage , it will always be hard to match live for recorded for timing etc. the first part works and the rest is ...mneh ...ok.

[rootinfinity]

This is pretty good. Constructive criticism for the artist: The footage of your live performance does not gel with the rest of the video and the footage of it is boring. I'd cut it out. the rest of it is so nice that it's a shame to bring it down with that footage. The idea of having the band in there is fine, but not that footage, that footage is garbage. great stuff though, really enjoyed it.

[Cumquatlounge]

@tweakiepop Thanks man

[tweakiepop]

Damn good...cheers