I lived in Gainesville, Fla. for seven years of my life and it was miserable. It was graduate school. But Gainesville is notable for producing some pretty significant musical acts. Chief among them, of course, Tom Petty. Then Hot Water Music — to whom we’ll return here — and Against Me!. These latter two of course got picked up by Alkaline Trio for national tours and they blew up in the divergent ways they did.
Anyway, Chuck Ragan, the lead singer and frontman of the once and former band known as Hot Water Music, is apparently something of an asshole, so that no one can work with him.