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Post by bowlofjokes on May 31, 2015 20:08:54 GMT -5
Haven't made it in the past. Hoping to organize some CT melonheads to take the trek!
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Post by bowlofjokes on May 31, 2015 19:46:54 GMT -5
Yes please!
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Post by bowlofjokes on Jan 30, 2015 19:10:27 GMT -5
Haven't been to the forum in 7yrs. Somehow still remembered password.
Giving myself a hand!
Hoping to make my first vigilstock this year.
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Post by bowlofjokes on Dec 4, 2008 14:42:07 GMT -5
I would love see/hear what happens when you take a Blind Melon & add Chris Shinn. Then come to CT
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Post by bowlofjokes on Nov 3, 2008 10:10:17 GMT -5
I just found out BM is playing at Toad's Place in New Haven CT next week with doors opening at 8pm and event starting at 9pm.
If there is an opening act I will be able to make it. If the band starts at 9pm.....I may have to skip class or leave class early (not good either way).
What has been going on so far with opening bands? I saw them play there in 9/20/95...very excited
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Post by bowlofjokes on Mar 30, 2006 12:32:11 GMT -5
#whip# , This is the greatest collection of smilies i have ever seen
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Post by bowlofjokes on Sept 21, 2007 17:46:54 GMT -5
well i gotta go.It will be a sleepless weekend you bet. Maybe it is as simple as in the LFTP video. something about taking things to seriously might make all your hair fall out~_~
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Post by bowlofjokes on Sept 21, 2007 16:58:56 GMT -5
So here I am packing my car for a weekend adventure camping with friends up in VT. When out of the blue I wonder "why did Shannon shave his head?" Was he starting a clean slate? Did he donate it? Do it himself? Does anyone know cause I leave in a hour or so, and will think about it obsessively at night until answered.
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Post by bowlofjokes on Mar 24, 2006 21:07:37 GMT -5
Well I only had A strawberry, I didn't have the whole pint myself, he was being generous. I still have half the set list. My friend and I both jumped up on stage at the same time and each grabbed it and it tore in half. So we each kept our halves. (remind me to ask him about the other half) Is this show floating around the web somewhere? Rogers was tearing it up man. He was walking the stage like it was a tight rope guided only by the guitar ;D
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Post by bowlofjokes on Mar 23, 2006 9:14:43 GMT -5
I will have to say the best hug of my life is from my wife when we don't see each other for a couple days. BUT, a close second was Shannon. and yes, it was the best B-day ever. I was front row, roght in front of Shannon the whole show. My ribs were getting crushed alll night from being pushed up against the gate that keeps you from getting on stage. I was so thirsty. When Blind Melon took a short break, Shannon came out with a pint of strawberries. It was just what I needed to stay in the game
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Post by bowlofjokes on Mar 21, 2006 15:55:58 GMT -5
9/20/1995, after a show at Toad's Place in New Haven. It was my birthday. I was in awe
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Post by bowlofjokes on Mar 24, 2006 21:21:38 GMT -5
I have enjoyed reading all your stories. The only time I ever sang publicly was St Andrews Fall. I always took a liking to the song. It captures all these emotions simultaneously and it ,,is just beautiful and sad and loving and lonely at the same time.(so is mouthful) So a friend of mine bugged this guitarist for a band we used to go see all the time to play it during break and i would sing. I was a NERVOUS wreck. Went straight to the bar and started drinking Jameson. I have fair memory of my stage performance, and after waking up in my car in the parking lot the next day (I lived like 1/2mile away), I called my friend to see how I did. Everything went fine, apparently I hadn't done myself a terrible embarrassment. *fin* BLIND MELON- also gave me an intro to the Velvet Underground, and I thank them for that
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Post by bowlofjokes on Mar 21, 2006 15:53:49 GMT -5
I just read this whole thread. I feel like I went on an emotional rollercoaster. Is the hope still alive?
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Post by bowlofjokes on Mar 21, 2006 14:00:48 GMT -5
I bought the first tape shortly after the hit song. I never really listened to the rest until.... While driving a friend from one party to the next (1993), he saw I had the tape and had to listen to it during the ride, "Blind Melon are the best" he sang. I didn't really dig them. I told him all the songs sound the same. He thought I was crazy. Into the glove box it went for months. at the time I was a serious burn out. The Doors LA Woman was more my pace if you know what I'm saying. Later in 1993 I made some life changes. After a rude run in with the law i had to give up the heavy herb usage. So one day I was tripin , a little paranoid, driving in my car with nothing to play. I popped in the self titled. I Wonder played through the speakers that day. A song that made perfect sense to me, at that moment where you loose all sense of ego, and time and space are transcended by complete understanding. When your mind unfolds and wraps the universe like a blanket. I the heard the words "Now ya see I'm watching everything I do and they're watching everything I say". I arrived at my destination safely, with that sort of peace that fills you when you know you are understood and understand. 13years later still a fan.
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Post by bowlofjokes on Apr 21, 2006 20:13:39 GMT -5
"All I can say is Blind Melon is Great, when I'm sitting watching puddles gather rain"
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