Andrews returned to San Diego to play with the Greyboy Allstars in 1995, and Jules began making frequent sojourns to Los Angeles to shop for a record deal.
During this period, he wrote many of the songs that would eventually form the bulk of his debut album and make volumes of demo tapes. When that band broke up as well, Jules and Andrews began playing and recording together again. Jules moved back to San Diego later that year and formed Ourtown Pansies, who put out a limited, locally released CD before disbanding in 1992, after which he took off for and settled in San Francisco, where the Origin had already relocated. When he returned to the States, Kofi resumed playing and developed a small buzz around Los Angeles, until they called it quits in 1990. The band went on a short hiatus the following year, and Jules took the opportunity to trek around Asia, sometimes singing in the streets for his supper.
(The band eventually signed to Virgin and put out two early-'90s albums, though after Jules had left the group and moved to Los Angeles.) In 1987 he began a yearlong stint at UCLA during which he started the band Kofi. By the time high school arrived, Jules and childhood friend Michael Andrews had formed an early incarnation of the Origin. Unsatisfied with lessons, he quit shortly after his first recital, only to rediscover the instrument in fifth grade on his own, this time taking up electric guitar with John Lennon as the primary catalyst. San Diego native Gary Jules Aguirre - professionally shortened to Gary Jules to honor the Texan grandfather who called him that - first began playing acoustic guitar as a child at the instigation of his parents.
It would be three years before he resurfaced with the independently released Trading Snakeoil for Wolftickets, an album that was even more stunning and advanced on all the promises of the first. The album was ultimately sunk by poor record label handling and, as a result, sadly neglected by an unknowing public. With 1998's Greetings from the Side, Gary Jules emerged as one of the most gifted songwriting talents to surface during the decade.
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