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Jesse Valenzuela (born May 22, 1962) is an American rock musician and singer who is perhaps best known as a member of the alternative rock band Gin Blossoms. He was originally the vocalist in Gin Blossoms when the band first formed in 1987. [1] In 1988, he switched roles with the band's new guitarist, Robin Wilson. He continued to be a member ...
Gin Blossoms is an American alternative rock band formed in 1987 in Tempe, Arizona. ... rhythm guitar (2023; substitute for Jesse Valenzuela) ...
Gin Blossoms' guitarist Jesse Valenzuela would write an embryonic version of the song with Marshall Crenshaw in a hotel in Austin, Texas where the Gin Blossoms and Crenshaw were both participating in South by Southwest 1995. [4] Crenshaw said: "Jesse Valenzuela had started the music and asked me to help him finish it.
According to an interview by Songfacts with Gin Blossoms songwriter Jesse Valenzuela, this song was written at the very end of the recording process for the Congratulations I'm Sorry album. [1] Valenzuela recalled:
Wilson replaced Richard Taylor as guitarist of Gin Blossoms in 1988, but switched places early on with vocalist Jesse Valenzuela.He remained a member of the band until its disbandment in 1997; prior to its split, the band released two albums. [1]
The Gin Blossoms is made up on Bill Leen, Jesse Valenzuela, Robin Wilson and Scott Johnson. They dominated radio and MTV playlists for most of the 1990s, but took a break from playing together ...
Billboard called the single "pure pop joy." [1] Ed Masley of The Arizona Republic listed the song as the Gin Blossom's 15th-best song on his list of the band's top 30 tracks, writing that the song "certainly holds up as a pure pop song, from its yearning chorus, as a call and response between Wilson (who wrote the song with Valenzuela) and his bandmates, to a brilliantly constructed lead ...
Gin Blossoms also performed Learning The Hard Way live on XM Radio, for which there is a video on YouTube. Jesse Valenzuela told Songfacts that he "started ruminating" on a 5 or 6 hour drive between Phoenix and Los Angeles and "just kind of wrote down the song when I got home." [1]