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Post by glengraham on Aug 7, 2007 22:02:50 GMT -5
The clip in question is the solo from the fabulous new song Wishing Well. Glen Graham
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Post by glengraham on Sept 7, 2007 2:57:13 GMT -5
I loved the version that was on Travis' Myspace, and I'm loving this version. My favorite new song along with Make a Difference. I'll have to be completely honest though, I'm not a fan of the drumming on Sometimes (sorry Glen). I guess it's just too unconventional for me. I'm assuming you mean "conventional" as your description of the drum part on Sometimes. This is by far the most pedestrian drum part I have played on all of the Blind Melon recordings. This part was simply a starting point for the song, as are all of the recorded versions of our songs. They tend to evolve during live performance; and, as a fan, I am sure, you are aware of this fact. I hope that if you are attending some of our shows, you will notice the evolution of this drum part and I hope it can satisfy your discriminating taste. This post is not meant to belittle your comment but simply to address your observation. See You On The Road, Glen Graham
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Post by glengraham on Feb 15, 2007 20:45:39 GMT -5
Why are we fighting? Who's fighting who and what for? -Mick Jagger, Gimme Shelter
...for christian, and hoon1234
And you are...
To begin, all segments of the entertainment industry, including the music industry, exist simply to make money. Those of us involved have chosen these professions just as doctors, plumbers, or ballroom dancers. We do these things because we love doing them and they afford us a living. Unlike more traditional professions, being in a rock band requires fans. No fans, no money, no music, no band. When Blind Melon began, there were dozens of major record companies. Now there are 4, soon there will be 2, etc... We haven't existed since '98, that is to say no entity has existed for eight years to release anything. The records, etc that have come out since Shannon died were put out by Capitol. On the subject of using the fans... What do you think fans are? They choose who to like, that's what makes them fans. We are perfectly capable of producing the music, and all promotional items required for Blind Melon. I initiated these two contests without the knowledge of the other band members because I wanted to show my appreciation for this forum the existence of which I was completely unaware of six months ago. Lastly, I knew Shannon extremely well and it is painfully obvious to me that you did not, certainly not in the context of Blind Melon. I don't seem to recall what role you played in our band, perhaps you could refresh my memory. As I have often said, If Shannon were alive today he would be dead. Barring that, and as difficult as this may be for you to believe, I can say with absolute confidence he would have his own reality TV show probably exposing faux purist kids' complete misreading of pop culture.
Now go away you silly persons...
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Post by glengraham on Sept 2, 2007 3:11:57 GMT -5
I just received the entire Shannon Hoon video archive which includes over 100 hours of video filmed and narrated by Shannon from 1991-1995. I will be plowing through it during the coming year and preparing as much of it as possible for gradual release over the course of the next two years.
I just thought I would make your day...
-Glen
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Post by glengraham on Jan 9, 2007 15:42:19 GMT -5
I couldn't help but jump in. Although we may have briefly entertained the notion of releasing the Soup rejects as an Ep (I have no memory of this), The name "Your Highness" was one of the original titles of the Soup record (along with "Satanic Mamas and Papas", I kid you not...)but we thought it was just too stupid. I remember this because I drew the album cover art which I recently used for the home page of my other band The Meek's website, minus the titles which filled the space between the two faces. Shannon didn't like the cover because he said he "didn't want to be a cartoon band", whatever that meant... -Glen
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Post by glengraham on Nov 13, 2006 0:09:59 GMT -5
About the name... If you lost your right arm, would you change your name? (That is the best I can come up with.)
Glen Graham
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Post by glengraham on Nov 12, 2006 19:06:37 GMT -5
Good point, these three new songs have more in common with older material where the lyrics and music were written by one person such as Change, No Rain, (Brad wrote that one by the way), Mouthful of Cavities, St. Andrews Fall, and a few others. With very few exceptions we wrote songs two ways. 1.Using the following formula; jam, revise repeat. The bulk of our material was written this way. Shannon was usually given a tape of finished material to write to and we did tweaking where necessary to accommodate his finished vocal. 2.someone would bring in a song structure that would then get Melonized into a form that bore little resemblence to the original usually resulting in the author becoming quite upset often found later curled up in a corner in the fetal position. Anyway, Travis wrote Harmful Belly and we fucked it up, I think nicely, for him. I think Brad wrote the music for Make A Difference, and on my end I tried to give it a sort of Keith Moonish treatment. Rogers wrote the music for For My Friends. These songs were really thrown together rather quickly, and as we currently have no management, we felt it would probably be best if we avoided presenting ourselves with an armload of Lemonades and Car Seats. We do want a career. Think of it this way, we have three songs, one in 1st gear, one in second gear, and one in third. This project will evolve quite a bit during the coming months.?? If you knew how many songs we used to throw away you would be shocked. The first two albums took months to write, we whipped these ditties up in about five days. I see it this way, we cannot possibly recreate the past, but this project is about growth and the future. From now on, this is the only Blind Melon there is, so enjoy it for what it is. Also keep in mind that in the last 10 years, we have played together less than 10 days. Good things come to those who wait, Glen Graham
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Post by glengraham on Nov 11, 2006 22:51:51 GMT -5
Just to set the record straight Drive is not about Axl Rose, but a guy none of you have ever heard of who used to get Shannon to drive him to buy heroin, as well as general pondering about the nature of addicts and addiction. Jet Rag was the used clothing store on Melrose where Christopher, and said guy, worked at that time and was often used as a rendezvous point for these excursions. We stole extensively from dozens of bands but this was by far the most blatant example so we had to acknowledge it vocally. Despite what you may have read, Shannon was barely acquainted with Axl. From time to time I will try to correct some of the inaccuracies on this forum. Glen Graham
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