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Post by Joel on Sept 18, 2006 7:33:30 GMT -5
Honestly i didn`t think this was ever going to happen.Can`t wait to hear their material,to see how different it is from Melons old songs,how the old songs sounds with a new singer..Very interesting!!  And the band looks great btw!.Smith is looking really cool!.. |
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Post by Vince on Sept 18, 2006 7:46:26 GMT -5
'suggest' has also another meaning in French, sorry Forgive my ignorance, but just out of curiosity what exactly is the other French meaning of 'suggest'? Charles or Barbara, maybe you can help...  in this context, it could have been 'indicate' i shud have used this verb instead of 'suggest' |
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Post by ishbell on Sept 18, 2006 7:57:46 GMT -5
yeah i'm not too concerned with the name, i'd like if if they kept blind melon though. but what i'm thinking about now is how some of the songs would sound from a different singer. like 'change,' that's just kind of Shannnon's song. and what about walk? st. andrew's fall? i don't think it would sound right coming from someone else. but stuff like soak the sin, time, skinned, i think someone else could pull that off. hell now that i think about it, Soup, there's no way someone would sing that song like Shannon. not that the new singer couldn't sing it, or anyone else, but the feeling....Shannon's voice gives that song the feeling to it. Verb & Matt I'm in total agreement there! BTW, INX will be here in November, the tickets are $60  , I'm not going as I was never a fan of their's anyway and I believe that musicians should come together in a natural way not as a fabricated thing. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2006 8:09:21 GMT -5
Here ya go fellas.. A quote message from Rogers. This was sent to me after I asked him whether or not they were going to use the name "Blind Melon".
"hi matt
tough question.....
Whatever we do, it'll be for the right reasons...what feels proper,
not for what we're hearing from the peanut gallery. I for one was very
skeptical about all this going out to LA last month, but I'll say
this... 30 seconds into the first song I knew it was ON. I'd imagine
Travis was a bit apprehensive himself...he has a deep respect for
Shannon and the music, so it must've been weird for him. But somehow
he made it cool, thereby earning my respect as well as everyone
else's. I could not imagine how it could work, but it did, and now
here we are. It's not about money or glory or any other trivial
byproduct of rock-n-roll success. We coulda cashed in a long time ago
but none of us are into doing a nostalgia trip. Either we make
something new, while at the same time showing respect to what came
before, or we go on and do other things with our lives (all of us were
knee deep into other stuff before this came along). And that's no
longer an option because we live for this and we want to play
together. I'm sure that we'll have supporters and that at the same
time there will be people who will never accept the band without
Shannon...not much can be done about that. I assure you, however, that
nobody aside from his blood family misses him more than we
do..........
I'll leave you with a famous quote to ponder:
"You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't
please all of the people all of the time." -- Abraham Lincoln"
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Post by Joel on Sept 18, 2006 8:17:12 GMT -5
Considering a possible tour.
A gig in scandinavia,the odds aren`t on my side..A concert in New York a year from now or anywhere on the east coast for that matter would be perfect for me.
Hhmmm...One can only hope.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2006 8:30:45 GMT -5
Right.. I should have said "Rehersed".
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Post by Joel on Sept 18, 2006 8:31:02 GMT -5
Here ya go fellas.. A quote message from Rogers. This was sent to me after I asked him whether or not they were going to use the name "Blind Melon". "hi matt tough question..... Whatever we do, it'll be for the right reasons...what feels proper, not for what we're hearing from the peanut gallery. I for one was very skeptical about all this going out to LA last month, but I'll say this... 30 seconds into the first song I knew it was ON. I'd imagine Travis was a bit apprehensive himself...he has a deep respect for Shannon and the music, so it must've been weird for him. But somehow he made it cool, thereby earning my respect as well as everyone else's. I could not imagine how it could work, but it did, and now here we are. It's not about money or glory or any other trivial byproduct of rock-n-roll success. We coulda cashed in a long time ago but none of us are into doing a nostalgia trip. Either we make something new, while at the same time showing respect to what came before, or we go on and do other things with our lives (all of us were knee deep into other stuff before this came along). And that's no longer an option because we live for this and we want to play together. I'm sure that we'll have supporters and that at the same time there will be people who will never accept the band without Shannon...not much can be done about that. I assure you, however, that nobody aside from his blood family misses him more than we do.......... I'll leave you with a famous quote to ponder: "You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time." -- Abraham Lincoln" Thanx for posting this Matt.. Sounds like Stevens gave this alot of thought before he gave it a try .Must have been hard to make that decision and i`m really glad he did it.Im sure most of Melonheads will show interest in this and not bash them because they keep going now without Shannon. "It's not about money or glory or any other trivial byproduct of rock-n-roll success" - He didn´t have to say that.Anybody who knows Blind Melon even a little is well aware that those things are absolutely not a priority. |
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Post by Vince on Sept 18, 2006 8:57:36 GMT -5
#worship# to Rogers and the other melon guys!
#thumb# thanks Matt for posting this
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Post by Ryan on Sept 18, 2006 8:58:40 GMT -5
Here ya go fellas.. A quote message from Rogers. This was sent to me after I asked him whether or not they were going to use the name "Blind Melon". "hi matt tough question..... Whatever we do, it'll be for the right reasons...what feels proper, not for what we're hearing from the peanut gallery. I for one was very skeptical about all this going out to LA last month, but I'll say this... 30 seconds into the first song I knew it was ON. I'd imagine Travis was a bit apprehensive himself...he has a deep respect for Shannon and the music, so it must've been weird for him. But somehow he made it cool, thereby earning my respect as well as everyone else's. I could not imagine how it could work, but it did, and now here we are. It's not about money or glory or any other trivial byproduct of rock-n-roll success. We coulda cashed in a long time ago but none of us are into doing a nostalgia trip. Either we make something new, while at the same time showing respect to what came before, or we go on and do other things with our lives (all of us were knee deep into other stuff before this came along). And that's no longer an option because we live for this and we want to play together. I'm sure that we'll have supporters and that at the same time there will be people who will never accept the band without Shannon...not much can be done about that. I assure you, however, that nobody aside from his blood family misses him more than we do.......... I'll leave you with a famous quote to ponder: "You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time." -- Abraham Lincoln" What I like about what Rogers said is that you can tell they put a lot of thought into this decision. It wasn't done hastily or without respect. You can never please all of your fans, and you can tell they care that fans still want to hear some new music, but they are doing it because it feels right to them. Only they can know if now is the right time to bring back the band, and they are telling us that it feels like the right time! That's good enough for me. The name matters very little to me. I can't wait to hear the music. |
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Post by oktacoma on Sept 18, 2006 9:51:42 GMT -5
Here ya go fellas.. A quote message from Rogers. This was sent to me after I asked him whether or not they were going to use the name "Blind Melon". "hi matt tough question..... Whatever we do, it'll be for the right reasons...what feels proper, not for what we're hearing from the peanut gallery. I for one was very skeptical about all this going out to LA last month, but I'll say this... 30 seconds into the first song I knew it was ON. I'd imagine Travis was a bit apprehensive himself...he has a deep respect for Shannon and the music, so it must've been weird for him. But somehow he made it cool, thereby earning my respect as well as everyone else's. I could not imagine how it could work, but it did, and now here we are. It's not about money or glory or any other trivial byproduct of rock-n-roll success. We coulda cashed in a long time ago but none of us are into doing a nostalgia trip. Either we make something new, while at the same time showing respect to what came before, or we go on and do other things with our lives (all of us were knee deep into other stuff before this came along). And that's no longer an option because we live for this and we want to play together. I'm sure that we'll have supporters and that at the same time there will be people who will never accept the band without Shannon...not much can be done about that. I assure you, however, that nobody aside from his blood family misses him more than we do.......... I'll leave you with a famous quote to ponder: "You can please some of the people some of the time, but you can't please all of the people all of the time." -- Abraham Lincoln" What I like about what Rogers said is that you can tell they put a lot of thought into this decision. It wasn't done hastily or without respect. You can never please all of your fans, and you can tell they care that fans still want to hear some new music, but they are doing it because it feels right to them. Only they can know if now is the right time to bring back the band, and they are telling us that it feels like the right time! That's good enough for me. The name matters very little to me. I can't wait to hear the music. Absolutely!! I get the feeling this is something special and I cannot wait! Thanks Matt! |
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Post by foreverlights on Sept 18, 2006 9:51:46 GMT -5
Kudos Rogers and thanks Matt!!!
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Post by Barbara on Sept 18, 2006 10:57:30 GMT -5
I assure you, however, that nobody aside from his blood family misses him more than we do.......... After all he said, it almost brought tears to my eyes... "It's not about money or glory or any other trivial byproduct of rock-n-roll success" - He didn´t have to say that.Anybody who knows Blind Melon even a little is well aware that those things are absolutely not a priority. I totaly agree. Thanks for posting this Matt!  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2006 10:58:46 GMT -5
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Post by verbalpocketplay on Sept 18, 2006 11:18:01 GMT -5
Here ya go fellas.. A quote message from Rogers. This was sent to me after I asked him whether or not they were going to use the name "Blind Melon". "hi matt tough question..... Whatever we do, it'll be for the right reasons...what feels proper, not for what we're hearing from the peanut gallery." -- Abraham Lincoln" so are we the peanut gallery? #lmao# |
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Post by linwoodlarsons on Sept 18, 2006 12:08:35 GMT -5
Matt, Seeing as your on "the in" with Rogers, send him a thank you for letting us all know what's going on. They could've just as easily kept it to themselves. That was very nice of him. Also "peanut gallery" I don't wanna be a peanut gallery. I think most of us don't really care what name they use. It's just amazing enough that after all these years that they're back together. Until then.... looking forward to new music. thanks
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, I'm not going as I was never a fan of their's anyway and I believe that musicians should come together in a natural way not as a fabricated thing.
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