In Reno Friday night, Gin Blossoms bloom once again
Robin Wilson is on his way back home to Ventura, California, weaving through rush hour traffic after getting a tattoo from The Dear & Departed frontman Dan Smith of Captured Tattoo in Orange County.
“I met him on LA Ink eight years ago,” he says in between checking in on freeway navigation with his passenger. “He seems to be one of LA’s greatest living hipsters. We had the shop to ourselves, so we were sharing all this new music with each other.”
Fittingly, Wilson’s fresh ink consists of lyrics from The Meat Puppets’ song “Paradise,” specifically the lead track off the iconic Phoenix, Arizona, alt-rock band’s 1987 record “Huevos."
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