No, Blind Melon's original frontman Shannon Hoon, who died in 1995 from a drug overdose, has not risen from the dead to reunite his band. While Blind Melon are reuniting, Hoon will have to be there in spirit, as new replacement singer Travis Warren will take his place.Blind Melon, with Warren the former frontman for Rain Fur Rent, have already completed work on new album, the band's first in th...
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not an ending so much as it is a change.I have decided to do all of my music related posting over on my own blog...http://swill-merchant.blogspot.com/Basically just to see what happens! I think it will be fun to throw a brand new blog out into cyber space and see if anyone checks it out. The great thing about MOG is that you have a huge built in readership...I am really curious to see how many ...
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Chase the albino cricket had a plan. He knew he had to get to Indio for the Cricketchella fest. You see, Chase loved live music & Cricketchella was the place to be for music. Plus, all his friends & cousins would be there. Ella Anne, Izzie, Debbie, Lucas, Amber & Craig to name but a few. But HOW ??? He lived in Pennsylvania & Indio was all the way across the country. He went to his mot...
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I'll be damned if I don't have a few nightmares tonight. First I figured it would be due to the gent at the bottom of the post - Mr. Ed Gein. The impetus for the characters of Norman Bates, Leatherface & Buffalo Bill... also fodder for multiple songs including one from a band I adore - Blind Melon. Came to also be a thought of mine after watching a video from the outtakes of 120 minutes.As I...
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I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken, and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.- Margaret Mitchell I have probably started a hundred posts with that quote. Sorry. But it's one of my favorites. It made m...
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From _St. Andrew's Hall__And I can't tell youhow many ways that I'vesat and viewed my life today,but I can tell you, I don't thinkthat I could find an easier way.So if I see you, walkin hand in handin hand with the three armed man,you know I'll understand. Butyou should have been in my shoesyesterday..._
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Our freinds at download.com have a stream of the new Blind Melon CD for your enjoyment. They are back with a new lead singer (duh) Travis Warren. His voice works to preserve their unique sound and their new material brings them nicely into this decade. I like their new sound- thought you might to. There's a good mix of musical styles.Here's a sample of the new sound and a link to hear more.http...
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Disclaimer: if you're not a fan of toilet talk, just go ahead and ignore this post.I go to the office bathroom for my regularly scheduled, coffee-induced "break." I finish my bidness, get up, and the toilet does not flush. It's not that it's clogged - there's no water in the tank at all. I turn on the bathroom faucet, also no water. Why couldn't the water get cut off on someone else, or at ...
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This song has been my Friday anthem for years and years. Imagine my joy when I found video of the acoustic version! Oh how I love YouTube, and oh how I wish Shannon was still with us today._♪My mind is a mind that I have come to knowAnd my eyes can't conceive a world that can not growFridays are always fresh days♪_Hope everyone has a fresh day and a wonderful weekend ;p
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I am crazy about Blind Melon’s music, and it is beyond difficult for me to articulate any further than that. There is no combination of subject and predicate that can say it better than “I love them.” Once something really hits me on that soul level, I lose the ability to speak about it with impartiality. I’m not even gonna try. The loss of Shannon Hoon in 1995 was nearly as painful to
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Tragedy struck Blind Melon right in the middle of their 1995 tour. Hours before a concert in New Orleans, the musicians found their beloved singer dead from an overdose. The real tragedy is that the band was soaring and had the potential to climb even higher. So it was a very difficult decision for the band to consider playing together again. It had been 12 years since they had played Blind...
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And I can't tell you, how many ways that I've sat and viewed my life today, but I can tell you. I don't think that I could find an easier way. So if I see you walkin hand in hand in hand with a three armed, you know I'll understand. But you should have been in my shoes yesterday.shit in this world just aint right no more.
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Great rock show last Saturday night at the Hiro Ballroom. The place was packed and the energy was pretty electric. I saw Blind Melon when I was in college in a bar with 12 people. I was the only one who knew the tunes. They must have thought I was some kind of freak singing along with every tune they played from a record that had just come out weeks before. I caught them three or four times ove...
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For everyone who pigeonholed Blind Melon the second they heard _No Rain_, I invite you to listen to this.For a while, I was the same way, and then when Shannon Hoon died, it all just kind of made sense to tuck Blind Melon away somewhere never to be seen or heard from again, like the dollar rack at the used cd store. But then in 1999 my sister came to visit me, and she was jamming _Soup_ and _N...
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