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Robin Wilson (born July 12, 1965) is an American musician most notable for his work as the lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Gin Blossoms. Career. Wilson replaced Richard Taylor as guitarist of Gin Blossoms in 1988, but switched places early on with vocalist Jesse Valenzuela.
Feb 3, 2022 · The singer talks about his band's 30th anniversary tour, his collaboration with The Smithereens, and his musical TV show. He also recounts his house fire and his son's band.
ROBIN WILSON. Robin enjoys describing himself, is like, really smart, and super-good at music, art, and science. SCOTT JOHNSON. Scott enjoys the Miller High Life, hiking, and singing old Bob Wills songs. He also enjoys teacup collecting. SCOTT HESSEL. “Hess” has been playing drums with the Gins since 2012.
- Tour with Toad The Wet Sprocket in '92
- An Anniversary Celebration Cut Short by A Broken Arm
- The Pressure of Having to Follow 'Hey Jealousy'
- Rebuilding The Gin Blossoms Brand
- 'It Was Very painful'
- 'There Was So Much of It That We Kept Secret'
- New Gin Blossoms Songs in 2023?
- The Mixed Reality of 'Mixed Reality'
- Gin Blossoms
It hadn't been an easy birth. Midway through tracking in Memphis, they'd fired guitarist Doug Hopkins,the Gin Blossoms founding member who wrote the songs that would become the album's most successful calling cards, "Hey Jealousy" and "Found Out About You." "There was a period of several months where we had no idea whether the album was even gonna ...
Gin Blossoms started 2022 with a tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of "New Miserable Experience," playing the album in full every night. "We were playing great," Wilson says. "Everybody was getting along. We were firing on all cylinders. It's kind of rare in our career that everybody's playing well and having fun and healthy. It takes a lot for...
After spending two years touring on "New Miserable Experience," Gin Blossoms set out to avoid the dreaded sophomore slump with "Congratulations ... I'm Sorry." Released in 1996, that album hit the charts at No. 10 on the way to going platinum. "Having to survive without Doug and live up to his legacy as a songwriter, that's the most pressure we've ...
Within a year of the album's release, they'd gone on hiatus. As guitarist Jesse Valenzuela once told the Republic, "We had been landlocked together for a long time." Reuniting in 2001, they spent a decade rebuilding their brand. "I don't know how many hundreds of times I'd meet someone and they'd say, 'Gin Blossoms?! Are you guys still together?' A...
Playing the album in sequence really takes him back to 1992, though. "It's a little bit more focused on the legacy of the record and the entire experience of having made it, which was not fun," Wilson says. "It was very painful. And you sort of get sucked back into that world." It can be "kind of intense and emotional" to think about those days, es...
It's gotten easier to talk about the making of "New Miserable Experience" and what happened to Hopkins. "There was so much of it that we kind of kept secret," Wilson says. "We didn't really want to talk about just how (messed) up the whole thing was and how precarious our situation was. But eventually, you kind of face down all those demons and get...
As proud as Wilson is of those hit records, he hopes that Gin Blossoms have something new to talk about in 2023 — specifically their first new music since 2018's "Mixed Reality." "We're not the most prolific band in history," Wilson says. "But I would like to hope that we would make a record every five years or so. And I've already told my bandmate...
Gin Blossoms recorded "Mixed Reality" with producer Don Dixon at Mitch Easter's studio (the team behind R.E.M.'s "Murmur" and "Reckoning"). "I would love to work with Don and Mitch again," Wilson says. "That was a dream come true. When you start out as a 19-year-old working at Tower Records and you're listening to R.E.M. records, you can't possibly...
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Dec 31, 2021 · I spoke with Robin Wilson about returning to the stage in 2021 and the economics of live performance as the Gin Blossoms gear up for a winter tour scheduled to begin on February 18, 2022 in...
Aug 21, 2023 · Listen to Robin Wilson, the frontman for both the Gin Blossoms and now the Smithereens, on The Long Island Sound podcast. He talks about his musical career, his connection to Long Island, and his upcoming induction into the Hall of Fame.
Aug 8, 2022 · The singer of the Tempe rock band recounts the painful and chaotic making of "New Miserable Experience" 30 years ago. He reveals how they lost their founding member and songwriter Doug Hopkins, who died by suicide shortly after the album's success.
