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Post by tattymelon on Oct 2, 2008 5:30:43 GMT -5
Hi at all Is there anybody here besides me that truly becomes depressive thinking of Shannon? I mean not sad but, I don't know how to say it... Sometimes it really hurts inside me and when I listen to his voice I start crying. Or sometimes I feel like he is an old friend of mine and we knew each other, but in fact I never got to know him personally - I only saw Blind Melon once playing live in cologne/Germany as they were opening for Guns n Roses... Am I normal? confused greets
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Post by cloudy on Oct 6, 2008 22:16:25 GMT -5
Hi -
I get sad myself sometimes - sad for the waste of it all - sad for the amazing songs we will never know - sad for his daughter, Nel and family but I believe everything happens for a reason so I try to learn what I can from it and go on - because there is nothing else really any of us can do....
peace to you...
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Post by guitarbutt on Oct 7, 2008 9:46:23 GMT -5
yea, hte "what could have been" factor is extremely high with shannon. same with jeff buckley, jim morrison, andrew wood, and stevie ray vaughan, among others.
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Post by Bam~Melon on Oct 7, 2008 10:11:17 GMT -5
As i read this book I feel that sad/pissed feeling come over me the further I get in this book..The though of what was lost, what great material would have come.... that we were shorted. DAMN IT.
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Post by cloudy on Oct 7, 2008 10:53:33 GMT -5
As i read this book I feel that sad/pissed feeling come over me the further I get in this book..The though of what was lost, what great material would have come.... that we were shorted. DAMN IT. well said!
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Post by rotten apples on Oct 7, 2008 13:49:13 GMT -5
:(Couldn't agree with you guys more. I was reading the Aftermath chapter and couldn't finish it. Maybe someday.
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Post by ~LoveJoy~ on Oct 7, 2008 17:03:36 GMT -5
i read the aftermath part last night definitely some tear smudged pages. i would like to say i really like how glen and his wife were open in addressing the depression...the way they put it, i think it might help people understand that sometimes the drugs are more than just partying. I know alot of what shannon was doing was self medicating a serious, as i see it, bipolar disorder/manic depressive disorder. I like how they put it and i feel they were exactly right, until his chemicals got stabilized, he couldnt stay clean, he couldnt stay clean cause his chemicals were too screwed up. this was also in 1995. people really didnt talk as openly about these problems. I hope at least somethings in the book can help people understand the disease of addiction as well as the mental illness aspect.
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Post by Bam~Melon on Oct 7, 2008 19:36:08 GMT -5
i read the aftermath part last night definitely some tear smudged pages. i would like to say i really like how glen and his wife were open in addressing the depression...the way they put it, i think it might help people understand that sometimes the drugs are more than just partying. I know alot of what shannon was doing was self medicating a serious, as i see it, bipolar disorder/manic depressive disorder. I like how they put it and i feel they were exactly right, until his chemicals got stabilized, he couldnt stay clean, he couldnt stay clean cause his chemicals were too screwed up. this was also in 1995. people really didnt talk as openly about these problems. I hope at least somethings in the book can help people understand the disease of addiction as well as the mental illness aspect. Yes I second that, the openness they have showed here is bound to help someone in need that may be reading this book.....It helped me to understand a little more on the self medicating thing, and that chemical imbalances are a REAL issue. My dad has a chemical imbalance(he has been on meds for 16+years now) and I can tell you without the meds life was awful, once he started seeking treatment life for him completely turned around for the better. Thanks Glen and Brooks for the open door you took with that topic
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Post by theduke81 on Oct 17, 2008 12:26:51 GMT -5
Yea, sometimes it does feel like I knew him, like we were old friends. I really get depressed about Shannon being gone. I used to have a friend named Justin and this guy was like a Shannon clone. Not because he was trying to be Shannon, he just naturally looked like him and had a very similar personality.They could have been twins. So that might be the reason why I feel like I knew Shannon so well. But I still miss Shannon and wish he was still around singing new songs for us.
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Post by Samantha on Oct 17, 2008 19:51:35 GMT -5
I have had my random moments of devestation concerning his death, and I agree with everyone that the book definately intensified that feeling. It was like living it all over again, and with more detail as to his everyday personality. For someone who touched so many people and continues to do so to this day, I think it's okay to feel as deeply for him as he did for his fans and friends, and okay to cry and mourn his loss...it was tremendous.
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Post by adrienne on Oct 20, 2008 17:20:52 GMT -5
Hi at all Is there anybody here besides me that truly becomes depressive thinking of Shannon? I mean not sad but, I don't know how to say it... Sometimes it really hurts inside me and when I listen to his voice I start crying. Or sometimes I feel like he is an old friend of mine and we knew each other, but in fact I never got to know him personally - I only saw Blind Melon once playing live in cologne/Germany as they were opening for Guns n Roses... Am I normal? confused greets 2 possibilities:
1. you're normal, because i feel the same way 2. we're both freaks lol
but seriously, it's good to know i'm not the only one who feels like that... specially today!!! :-| tomorrow's the day ... 13 years, i still can't believe it... *snif*
sometimes i feel as if i met him and we were like bff and it's weird... and i sometimes start crying too so ... i know how you feel ...
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Post by cloudy on Oct 20, 2008 23:09:36 GMT -5
Hi at all Is there anybody here besides me that truly becomes depressive thinking of Shannon? I mean not sad but, I don't know how to say it... Sometimes it really hurts inside me and when I listen to his voice I start crying. Or sometimes I feel like he is an old friend of mine and we knew each other, but in fact I never got to know him personally - I only saw Blind Melon once playing live in cologne/Germany as they were opening for Guns n Roses... Am I normal? confused greets 2 possibilities:
1. you're normal, because i feel the same way 2. we're both freaks lol
but seriously, it's good to know i'm not the only one who feels like that... specially today!!! :-| tomorrow's the day ... 13 years, i still can't believe it... *snif*
sometimes i feel as if i met him and we were like bff and it's weird... and i sometimes start crying too so ... i know how you feel ...
Oh God yes, to both of you and all of it...
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Post by adrienne on Oct 21, 2008 15:23:34 GMT -5
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