doug hopkins

The Ultimate Snatching Defeat Band Deserves Critical Upgrade:
The Gin Blossoms

Dec 182008

I understand why they fired me, but did they have to get so fucking cold and ruthless about it?
—Doug Hopkins (Rolling Stone, 1993)

There is beyond an excellent chance that I was in this crowd.

DISCLAIMER: The Gin Blossoms were the bar band in Phoenix during my post college years. So many weekends were spent drinkin’, smokin’ and dancin’ up a sweat with The Gin Blossoms. Point is, I may be biased.

But hear me out.
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