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Post by Ryan on Nov 21, 2005 21:01:44 GMT -5
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Post by andrew on Nov 23, 2005 0:42:49 GMT -5
Hey there, I should be able to translate it if you can give me a few days. I'm really busy w/ work and school, but I can do it. I'm actually a Spanish major right now, but I've just started taking Portuguese as well. The language is very similar to Spanish in many many ways, so it's actually coming pretty easily to me. How would you like me to send the translated version?
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Post by Ryan on Nov 23, 2005 1:28:03 GMT -5
Wow, that's great Andrew!!! You can either e-mail it to me or you can post it on the forum. I'd like to share it with all the other melons here. Could you post in the reply to this thread? Take as much time as you need. Thanks so much for doing this for me. I appreciate it.
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Post by andrew on Nov 23, 2005 1:48:01 GMT -5
Not a problem! Yeah I'm a Spanish Translation major, so translating is kinda my thing. I've already got a little bit done, but I'll just wait to post it until I have it all. I can't promise an exactly perfect translation, but I know I'll get you pretty close....if not exact. As of August, I'd never had any experience w/ Portuguese, so that shows you how much experience I've had (or not had) with it. The good thing about magazine articles is that they're usually pretty easily worded for even their native readers, so it makes it that much easier for me. I'll post it up here soon!
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Post by Gabbee on Nov 23, 2005 5:35:49 GMT -5
Oh man you guys.. That article... Im sure everyone is curious but let me warn you it's not a very nice article.. stupid Brazilian magazine underrating my boys #gun# #stickspank# #whip# #thumbdown# Anyways, I see Andrew got it under control Im actually Brazilian so if you need any help with your Portuguese, feel free to let me know I'll leave it to the professional, translating is a bitch even when it's my home language... I always get it out of context
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Post by Gabbee on Nov 23, 2005 5:36:37 GMT -5
Oh yeah and thanks for posting this Bobafett Where in the world did you find this mag anyway? hehe
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Post by Ryan on Nov 23, 2005 9:13:24 GMT -5
I found this on ebay for only five bucks. I thought it was worth it for a piece of Melon history that has been out of print for awhile. . .
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Post by andrew on Nov 23, 2005 19:35:03 GMT -5
Yeah, just looking over the article I can see some stuff later on that seems to be a little negative. One small part mentions that "there's nothing too great about their live show, and it seems that they're all really tired." Something along those lines. Also, in the beginning, it seems to state that the band's music wasn't what got them attention, but the friendship of Shannon w/ Axl Rose. Yes, there are a few negativities in the article, but there are also some cool quotes from the band members, one or two of which were from Glen (and we all know he's the quiet one of the band). Some of the quotes are actually pretty funny when they start talking about how much they hated the bee girl. More to come soon!
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Post by Gabbee on Nov 16, 2006 1:28:30 GMT -5
Sorry for bumping such an old thread guys, but I just translated this article and wanted to share it with you all. Keep in mind that I am NOT a professional, in fact I suck at translating even though Portuguese is my home language so this is most likely not that accurate. They used a lot of sayings and phrases that are just impossible to translate so.. I did my best!
By the way.. The guy who wrote this is an idiot who didn't even bother to get his facts straight, let alone the name of the HIT song (come on... who in the world could get the beegirl song title wrong? #chair# ). Dont judge all Brazilians by this guy please, he clearly doesn't know what the fuck he was talking about. On the other hand, the article has some funny quotes and whatnot, but who knows if they're acurate *rolls eyes* lol, anyway.. Thanks so much for this Ryan!!! #smileyhug#
BLIND MELON - THROWN TO THE LIONS The story of the band could have started and ended on the 80 thousand curious people who bought the first record. But then there was a girl dressed in a bee costume on the MTV video and...
Once upon a time, an American neo-hippie band formed by 5 guys who had come from the South, East, and Mid-West met up in Los Angeles, where they had gone to seek fame and fortune. Even under the wings of a big label, the band wasn't doing too bad for a beginner - but not too well either: only 80 thousand people had bothered to buy the first album, simply called Blind Melon. In the post-grunge era, the melodious (sp?) and relaxed sound of the band seemed out of place. Its biggest catch until then wasn't the music, but the friendship between the singer, Shannon Hoon, and fellow Indiana native, Axl Rose. But then came the bee. In fact, a girl dressed in a bee costume, just like the other girl who adorned the album cover. The bee girl became the main picture of a new video, "Rain", and the world (read everyone influenced by MTV), suddenly as if by magic, fell in love with the band. It wasn't long until they hit the 1 million copies mark in the United States. "The next video will be the bee girl getting crucified", sentences the guitarist Christopher Thorn on an interview to the Los Angeles Times. "She will get run over by a big truck and, right afterwards, cut up in little pieces. Finally, she will get poisoned and soaked with corrosive acid (I have no idea if this is what it's called in English, lol). All horrible things possible will happen to her." Happiness? "It's a joke," he adds. "I don't think many people would like to see that happen to the girl. But now I think we'd rather step away from that image. We don't want people to remember us 10 years from now as 'the band of the bee girl". "This video introduced us to a new crowd, people who'd never even heard of us," argued with less disdain Blind Melon's drummer, Glen Graham, the original bee girl's brother - the one that adorns the album cover and the band t-shirts. Glen is talking while sitting next to the pool at Nikko Hotel in Atlanta, in the state of Georgia, few hours before the show they'll open for Lenny Kravitz at a local amphitheater. "I knew the video would make us more popular, but I never thought it would get to this point." While the sister might have been Glen's, the idea to use the picture for an album cover - the picture hung for years on his parent's living room - came from Thorn. "He saw the picture and just had to have it on the cover of our first album. Every American girl - and maybe even some boys - has had some sort of embarrassing artistic experience at some point in their lives, whether it was dancing jazz, tap-dancing or dancing ballet. One of those terrible things children are subjected to when they're still little. We decided to bring that image into the video, which talked about acceptance - the bee girl is despised by everyone until she finds people just like her and is finally accepted." The popularity of the bee girl taught Graham a lesson. "MTV is what the radio used to be back then. Today, the radio is almost secondary. The kids get home from school, tune in to MTV and everything is there for them. 'Do I really like this? I think I do!' and that's how it works." Nonetheless Blind Melon's quick acceptance after the bee girl video surprises Glen. "In my mind," he agrees, remembering the days he arrived in Los Angeles, three years ago, "the ideal would be to play colleges, build up our own crowd little by little, sign with an independent label, maybe even release an album with a limited number of copies, nothing too big, then maybe play some more shows in other places. I had no idea I would be playing big arenas. One day, yeah, but not so quick." Onstage, that same night, the meaning of Graham's words were more clear. Live, Blind Melon is still a raw, beginner band that needs to learn more about its relationship with the audience (who responds loudly to "Rain", singing the whole song on its own. But that doesn't count, it's the current hit MTV and the radio stations across the nation shove down people's throat day and night). There is nothing spectacular about the band's show, and it seems as if all of the band members were either really tired - the road seems to be never ending - or in a way (already?) disappointed and discouraged with its accomplishments. And the accomplishments, for the record, were not few. The problem is that in an industry hungry for new things, at a time when no time is given for maturing, Blind Melon was thrown to the lions too soon. What the band is trying to do is keep their minds focused through this never ending insanity. It wasn't long ago that Glen, Hoon, Thorn, the bassist Brad Smith and guitarist Rogers Stevens were struggling to be noticed in a Los Angeles infested with metal-lovers. With only four songs recorded on a demo-tape, Blind Melon - the name comes from a character created by two crazy comedians from the 70s, Cheech and Chong, and refers to a fictitious blues musician - managed to get noticed by Capitol and get signed, only they needed to come up with more a lot more songs to make an album. In Los Angeles, however, it seemed impossible to work: the band had too many distractions and invites to parties due to all the buzz around Shannon because he had appeared singing "Don't Cry" on the Guns N' Roses video, who were at their peak and considered Gods at the time. They had to disappear - so they hid in Durham, a small town in North Carolina, to set their heads straight and get to work. The whole world kept track of Blind Melon's first national tour as it was part of the "alternative" 120 Minutes Tour, from MTV (always MTV), along with Live, Big Audio Dynamite and PIL. "A lot of people went to those concerts thinking they'd see Clash or Sex Pistols," said Graham, "but instead of Johnny Rotten, they got John Lydon pulling tampons out of his underwear and throwing it to the crowd, and stupid things like that." There was more to come: tours opening for Soundgarden, Ozzy Osbourne, Alice in Chains, Neil Young (already doing the big arenas). Busting asses, until the bee finally landed.
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Post by Meredith on Nov 16, 2006 6:44:05 GMT -5
Thanks for translating that Gabbee! That was an interesting read!
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Post by Barbara on Nov 16, 2006 7:36:59 GMT -5
THANK YOU GABBEE!!! That was great to read!!! And I love it when threads are resurrected #smileyhug#
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Post by charityholyfield on Nov 16, 2006 12:47:03 GMT -5
To me, it almost seems like the people who wrote the article can't make up their minds whether they love Blind Melon, or hate them! Sometimes they're kinda dissing them, then at other times they're trying to get everyone to give 'em a break. It doesn't sound like they had the first clue what they were talking about! All the same, it was really cool to read. Yes, thank you for the translation!
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Post by Ryan on Nov 16, 2006 14:11:20 GMT -5
Thanks so much for translating this Gabbee! ! ! You rock! #rock# We have such a talented and diversified group of melons here.
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Post by ishbell on Nov 16, 2006 14:23:32 GMT -5
Thank you Gabbee, you're a wonderful melon.
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Post by linwoodlarsons on Nov 16, 2006 15:30:42 GMT -5
I love seein' that old stuff.
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