Solving The "Veronica Mars" Alt-Rock Riddle - Idolator Comments

Solving The "Veronica Mars" Alt-Rock Riddle

dshramek — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:27:01 EDT

Ah, but you're forgetting that Veronica Mars creator is an Austinite (consider the nod to Liberty Lunch in this episode) and I believe he played in a band here. Maybe he's referencing someone a decade earlier. I mean, what if these characters were speaking for the show's creator? We'd have to adjust the years for the age difference. I don't know what that gets us, though.

dshramek

Solving The "Veronica Mars" Alt-Rock Riddle

Dan Gibson — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:21:11 EDT

I wish it weren't so, but I think it's obviously Robin Wilson from the Gin Blossoms. Doug Hopkins, who wrote basically every song on "New Miserable Experience", drank himself out of the Gin Blossoms, and then killed himself in '93.

I don't think Wilson has the same current issues that the Mars character does, but nonetheless, it's the closest match. There's even a reasonable resemblance.

Dan Gibson

Solving The "Veronica Mars" Alt-Rock Riddle

Jude — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:09:55 EDT

@MagicJewball: you mean...pull a Sheryl Crow?

(great moniker, btw.)

Jude

Solving The "Veronica Mars" Alt-Rock Riddle

MagicJewball — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:47:01 EDT

Oh come on, Matthew Sweet wasn't a lush or a pill-popper! He was a dope fiend, get it straight. Plus, I kind of wish he'd just coast by on his old stuff, really.

MagicJewball

Solving The "Veronica Mars" Alt-Rock Riddle

Jude — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:41:15 EDT

nice to see Zach Braff has an equally annoying female counterpart to discuss marginal/unspectacular music with.

two bullets, please!

Jude

Solving The "Veronica Mars" Alt-Rock Riddle

Ned Raggett — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:29:48 EDT

You were understandably blocking him from your mind.

Ned Raggett

Solving The "Veronica Mars" Alt-Rock Riddle

Brian Raftery — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:26:02 EDT

Can't believe I didn't think of Dando.

Brian Raftery

Solving The "Veronica Mars" Alt-Rock Riddle

chrisb — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:23:19 EDT

Cast another vote for Gin Blossoms. Didn't their lead songwriter commit suicide after struggling with alcoholism?

chrisb

Solving The "Veronica Mars" Alt-Rock Riddle

Butch Huskey — Wed, 09 May 2007 10:02:17 EDT

if this was 1996 and the writers went to school on the West Coast i'd say Peter Case if they went to school on the East Coast i'd say The Badlees

Butch Huskey

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MTS — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:58:42 EDT

Adam Duritz.

MTS

Solving The "Veronica Mars" Alt-Rock Riddle

Moff — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:33:18 EDT

If this is like all the other mysteries on Veronica Mars, then we'll have to wait until the DVDs are released, replay several scenes several times to decipher the key bits of mumbled dialogue we missed, and then make at least one ginormous leap in logic before we can figure it out.

Moff

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kiteless — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:28:30 EDT

I was gonna say Stephen Jenkins also, but the alcohol/picks up women online thing has be Scott Flippen Stapp. Did you know his middle name was Flippen? I didn't.

kiteless

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Thierry — Wed, 09 May 2007 09:22:41 EDT

I was thinking more Evan Dando meets Robin Wilson (of the Gin Blossoms) meets Stephen Jenkins (of Third Eye Blind)...

Thierry