your favorite band that no one has ever heard of

[BruceZ]

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as a songwriter, I am qualified to say this -

Doug Hopkins was the bomb - and everything he wrote in the Gin Blossoms was great, and it's a [censored] waste what happened to him, cause I think the band would have stayed on top for a long time if he was still writing some of the songs -

here's a great tribute page to Doug Hopkins

RB

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Of course I couldn't agree more, but they wrote some great stuff after he was gone too as we discussed. It makes me very sad and confused about why they are doing little nickel and dime gigs instead of taking their place among the greatest bands of our time.