Post by Meredith on Oct 22, 2006 8:36:40 GMT -5
A few articles I found....
www.chartattack.com/damn/2006/10/1908.cfm
www.wstw.com/music.php?num=8
www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061021-112419-7885r
www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=291974
www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/tittletattle/article_21245151.shtml
www.relix.com/content/view/1861/112/
Blind Melon Reforming, As People Apparently Still Care
Thursday October 19, 2006 @ 07:30 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
Saturday will mark the 11th anniversary of Shannon Hoon's drug overdose death, but Blind Melon have experienced a rebirth in interest over the past year and recently reformed with a new singer.
Glen Graham (drums), Christopher Thorn (guitar), Brad Smith (bass) and Rogers Stevens (guitar) have added former Rain Fur Rent frontman Travis Warren as their new vocalist and started writing new songs. The band members originally looked for a replacement for Hoon a decade ago, but decided to go their separate ways instead of carrying on with the grunge-meets-classic rock group.
Blind Melon have somehow kept a loyal fanbase over the years, and a two-day vigil was even held at Hoon's grave in Dayton, Indiana last month. The event was carried over the internet for Melonheads who couldn't attend in person, and it concluded with the eight-band Vigilstock concert in his nearby hometown of Lafayette. The vigil is apparently an annual event, so check out the band's fan site for updates around the time of Hoon's September 26 birthday if you desperately yearn to attend next year.
Interest from less avid fans of the band was spurred by last year's Best Of Blind Melon CD/DVD, which featured previously unreleased live material, soundtrack contributions and music videos.
Capitol Records released Blind Melon Live At The Palace, an October 11, 1995 concert recording from the Palace Theater in Hollywood, California, this week. A tribute album titled Twenty Stories Below is scheduled to come out on December 15 through New Zealand's YakMusic label.
Blind Melon formed in Los Angeles in 1989 and signed to Capitol two years later. Hoon was friends with Guns N' Roses' frontman Axl Rose and sang back-up on several songs on Use Your Illusion, which created a buzz in advance of the release of Blind Melon's self-titled debut in the fall of '92. The album spawned the hit single/video "No Rain" (featuring the infamous bee girl), and the band toured extensively in support of the disc before starting to record the follow-up (Soup) with Nirvana producer Andy Wallace in the fall of '94.
Hoon was in and out of rehabilitation facilities for his drug problems during this time, but went out on the road against a counsellor's wishes. He was found dead, at the age of 28, on the band's tour bus on October 21, 1995.
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Thursday October 19, 2006 @ 07:30 PM
By: ChartAttack.com Staff
Saturday will mark the 11th anniversary of Shannon Hoon's drug overdose death, but Blind Melon have experienced a rebirth in interest over the past year and recently reformed with a new singer.
Glen Graham (drums), Christopher Thorn (guitar), Brad Smith (bass) and Rogers Stevens (guitar) have added former Rain Fur Rent frontman Travis Warren as their new vocalist and started writing new songs. The band members originally looked for a replacement for Hoon a decade ago, but decided to go their separate ways instead of carrying on with the grunge-meets-classic rock group.
Blind Melon have somehow kept a loyal fanbase over the years, and a two-day vigil was even held at Hoon's grave in Dayton, Indiana last month. The event was carried over the internet for Melonheads who couldn't attend in person, and it concluded with the eight-band Vigilstock concert in his nearby hometown of Lafayette. The vigil is apparently an annual event, so check out the band's fan site for updates around the time of Hoon's September 26 birthday if you desperately yearn to attend next year.
Interest from less avid fans of the band was spurred by last year's Best Of Blind Melon CD/DVD, which featured previously unreleased live material, soundtrack contributions and music videos.
Capitol Records released Blind Melon Live At The Palace, an October 11, 1995 concert recording from the Palace Theater in Hollywood, California, this week. A tribute album titled Twenty Stories Below is scheduled to come out on December 15 through New Zealand's YakMusic label.
Blind Melon formed in Los Angeles in 1989 and signed to Capitol two years later. Hoon was friends with Guns N' Roses' frontman Axl Rose and sang back-up on several songs on Use Your Illusion, which created a buzz in advance of the release of Blind Melon's self-titled debut in the fall of '92. The album spawned the hit single/video "No Rain" (featuring the infamous bee girl), and the band toured extensively in support of the disc before starting to record the follow-up (Soup) with Nirvana producer Andy Wallace in the fall of '94.
Hoon was in and out of rehabilitation facilities for his drug problems during this time, but went out on the road against a counsellor's wishes. He was found dead, at the age of 28, on the band's tour bus on October 21, 1995.
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Blind Melon--Reforming With New Singer
Blind Melon is regrouping with a new singer. Guitarist Christopher Thorn says he and bassist Brad Smith met singer Travis Warren through industry channels and it felt right playing with him. They brought in guitarist Rogers Stevens and drummer Glen Graham, and Thorn says they felt the chemistry after playing just one song with Warren. Thorn says they all know from the beginning they can't replace Shannon Hoon, who died in 1995. He says had they done a show like "Rock Star" to find a singer, it would've have been "cheesy," while they feel finding Warren was more of a natural and organic thing. They're calling themselves Blind Melon for now, but Thorn admits that may change, because things have happened so fast that they haven't worked out details like that. They will have three songs finished by the end of the week and if all goes well, the album and a tour will be planned for next year. In the meantime, Blind Melon are re-issuing their CD "Live at the Palace" this week. Tomorrow also marks the anniversary of Hoon's death.
Blind Melon is regrouping with a new singer. Guitarist Christopher Thorn says he and bassist Brad Smith met singer Travis Warren through industry channels and it felt right playing with him. They brought in guitarist Rogers Stevens and drummer Glen Graham, and Thorn says they felt the chemistry after playing just one song with Warren. Thorn says they all know from the beginning they can't replace Shannon Hoon, who died in 1995. He says had they done a show like "Rock Star" to find a singer, it would've have been "cheesy," while they feel finding Warren was more of a natural and organic thing. They're calling themselves Blind Melon for now, but Thorn admits that may change, because things have happened so fast that they haven't worked out details like that. They will have three songs finished by the end of the week and if all goes well, the album and a tour will be planned for next year. In the meantime, Blind Melon are re-issuing their CD "Live at the Palace" this week. Tomorrow also marks the anniversary of Hoon's death.
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Blind Melon re-forms with new singer
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. band Blind Melon has re-formed with a new lead singer replacing Shannon Hoon, who died 11 years ago.
Billboard reports that Travis Warren, a 25-year-old from Amarillo, Texas, met two former Blind Melon members, guitarist Christopher Thorn and bassist Brad Smith, through a friend.
The reunion became a serious idea after Smith sent another former member, guitarist Rogers Smith, a joke e-mail in the form of a press release.
"Brad wrote a fake press release and sent it to me -- it was saying how we were back together and how Travis had brought us together," Stevens told Billboard. "It was the first I'd heard of it. I called Brad and I was like, 'What do you mean? You got the band back together without me?'"
The group is working on a record, their first since "Soup" in 1995, with three new songs and some old material. Stevens said Warren's voice is in the same register as Hoon's, but his phrasing is different.
"On the old songs, he can sing them really well," Stevens said. "They are different, but he definitely was influenced by Shannon."
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. band Blind Melon has re-formed with a new lead singer replacing Shannon Hoon, who died 11 years ago.
Billboard reports that Travis Warren, a 25-year-old from Amarillo, Texas, met two former Blind Melon members, guitarist Christopher Thorn and bassist Brad Smith, through a friend.
The reunion became a serious idea after Smith sent another former member, guitarist Rogers Smith, a joke e-mail in the form of a press release.
"Brad wrote a fake press release and sent it to me -- it was saying how we were back together and how Travis had brought us together," Stevens told Billboard. "It was the first I'd heard of it. I called Brad and I was like, 'What do you mean? You got the band back together without me?'"
The group is working on a record, their first since "Soup" in 1995, with three new songs and some old material. Stevens said Warren's voice is in the same register as Hoon's, but his phrasing is different.
"On the old songs, he can sing them really well," Stevens said. "They are different, but he definitely was influenced by Shannon."
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Eleven years after the death of frontman Shannon Hoon, Blind Melon has announced they are reforming with a new singer. According to online reports, Travis Warren of the band Rain Fur Rent will handle vocals and the group is writing new material together
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Blind Melon Plan Comeback
By WENN
Oct 19, 2006
Cult rockers Blind Melon have reunited 11 years after their original singer died from a drug overdose.
The No Rain hitmakers have recruited former Rain Fur Rent singer Travis Warren to replace tragic Shannon Hoon, who died in 1995, aged 28.
As Wenn went to press with this story, there was no word about tour or recording plans.
By WENN
Oct 19, 2006
Cult rockers Blind Melon have reunited 11 years after their original singer died from a drug overdose.
The No Rain hitmakers have recruited former Rain Fur Rent singer Travis Warren to replace tragic Shannon Hoon, who died in 1995, aged 28.
As Wenn went to press with this story, there was no word about tour or recording plans.
www.postchronicle.com/news/entertainment/tittletattle/article_21245151.shtml
Blind Melon will reunite with Rain Fur Rent frontman Travis Warren taking the place of deceased frontman Shannon Hoon. As first reported by Chart Attack, Warren has started working on new songs with Blind Melon’s remaining members: Glen Graham (drums), Christopher Thorn (guitar), Brad Smith (bass) and Rogers Stevens (guitar). After Hoon’s fatal overdose, his bandmates reworked a handful of rough cuts into the album Nico and began auditioning new singers. Unable to find a suitable replacement, the quartet reorganized with Smith on lead vocals, but the project soon faded away. Tomorrow, October 21, marks the eleventh anniversary of Hoon’s passing. To mark the occasion, the group will release Blind Melon Live At The Palace, which captures an October 11, 1995 concert at Hollywood’s the Palace Theater. A number of Hoon’s former friends and bandmates reflected on the singer in the November 2005 issue of Relix.
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