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Post by charityholyfield on Mar 1, 2007 22:56:27 GMT -5
I don't mean to start a conversation that will make everybody sad, but I just got to thinking about the day I got the sad news that Shannon was gone... It made me wonder how that happened for everyone else. In my town, all the teenagers used to hang around the courthouse square every evening. There were a couple of benches, filled with old-timers enjoying the shade during the daytime and us kids at night. That day, I had just pulled up in my usual spot in my grandpa's car when a girl I knew named Christie A. came running up to me with tears in her eyes, yelling something at me. My stomach went all funny because I could tell something was BAD wrong-- this girl was a tough chick, not someone to get emotional in public-- so I turned off the self-titled album so I could hear what she was shouting about. Then she told me. We all sat up there that evening quietly, not like our usual rowdiness, and we kept playing my old tape over and over again until it was late and we all had to get home. (I was only 16 and had a curfew, and so did everyone else) I haven't talked to Christie in years, and we were never close friends or anything, but I'll never forget that she was the one to break the news to me. I just get to thinking about these things sometimes... don't you? sigh..........
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Post by tattymelon on Mar 2, 2007 8:09:45 GMT -5
Hi
Yes,in my opinion thats very interesting to know about where we all had been and what we had been doinig when we got the bad news of shannons death.
I myself was in hospital because of a sports accident in school. i was nearly 16 years old... I got the news from a friend who visited me and when I heard about it it felt like somebody was ripping out my heart and i could not tell why I was feeling that way. That time I was not a fan of Blind Melon or Shannon Hoon. Yes,I knew them and I had seen them playing live as supporter at a Guns n Roses Concert in Cologne in 1993 - and I did not have good thoughts remembering that concert. Shannon had been totally high that day and nobody could understand one single word he was singing. It was terrible and I was just thinking what a bad bad band Blind Melon was...
But the day I got the news of Shannnons death I felt like I had been their (or his) biggest fan (and even somehow closer than that) all time. It felt kind of weird or strange and I could not deal with the whole situation. I know it sounds strange but it really felt like something of myself died that day...
After I left the hospital i bought the two albums of Blind melon and I became a big fan of everything having to do with the band and Shannon himself.
And now I´m looking forward to what the other melons will write..
Best wishes,Tatty
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Post by Meredith on Mar 2, 2007 8:26:37 GMT -5
I was in a car and I cant remember where I was going or what I was doing but the guy on the radio announced it and I remember my heart just sinking. I was a senior in high school that year....I remember putting on the self titled album every night before I went to sleep after that until I left for the military. I used to lay there and try to dream of Shannon Hoon and I thought if I wished hard enough I would wake up and it would all be just a bad dream.
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Post by tripticket on Mar 2, 2007 15:13:33 GMT -5
I think i May have posted this somewhere already, and that's is quite ok I'm very surprised that a couple days went buy w/out me hearing of it actually. It was a monday morning, in high school french class. We used to get marks for tells the "latest news", n french of course. One of my classmates, as though is was as plain as telling the weather u know, says.."you know that Bee girl band? the singer OD'd on the weekend" I don't remember the rest of that class, just in total disbelief & shock. I watched I&I just about everyday after for quite awhile (it had been taped only a month before!!) When Nico came out i was totally excited!! i never even heard of another album due to come out!! I just happened to come across it in a record store, but the only had cassette at that time...i NEEDED IT!. Every lunch and break i would put the headphones on and just completely loose myself in Hell, Pusherman, and All That i Need.
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Post by Keith on Mar 2, 2007 17:32:17 GMT -5
It was my senior year of HS and that morning happened to be my turn in the car pool so I was driving me and 3 of my friends to school in my old red '86 Grand-am, listening to the "Z-Morning Zoo" on Z100 in New York. The girl anchor on the show as doing the news portion and I remember very specifically her saying
"And in this sad story, the members of Blind Melon are trying to figure out what happened after finding their lead singer, Shannon Hoon, dead this morning on the band's tour bus."
I don't remember what she or anyone else said after that. I remember getting to school and every morning they had this closed circuit station on -it was called Channel 1 or something - that morning when i walked into home room Shannon's picture was up on the screen and the news anchor's were talking about it. At that point I wasn't nearly the fan of his that I am today - I didn't even own Soup yet at the time - but there was definately something inside me that felt personally affected by the news. For some reason, it felt more personal than when I heard about Cobain in much the same way the previous year.
A few years later when i was in college, i met my first real fellow Melon - a guy named Dave who became a roomate of mine, mainly based on our mutual love of Blind Melon. At some point we had this same conversation and it turned out that he had been listening to the same radio station that morning and heard the news the exact same way i did. (he was from NY also.) always thought that was interesting.
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Post by StingingPistol on Mar 2, 2007 17:40:41 GMT -5
Kindergarten...
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Post by Keith on Mar 2, 2007 17:59:36 GMT -5
"And in this sad story, the members of Blind Melon are trying to figure out what happened after finding their lead singer, Shannon Hoon, dead this morning on the band's tour bus." HAHA....well, she didn't say Melons....
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Post by *Sonya* on Mar 2, 2007 23:13:35 GMT -5
I was 17 and I was in my room with my boyfriend and my best friend called, she was crying and she NEVER cried so I knew something was really wrong. She told me and I didn't believe her at first. I pressed her for details and she told me what she had just heard. She came over and we sat in my room and listened to the cd's and cried. We knew he had been using hard drugs and we had both seen a big change in the way he was between when we met him and when he did Woodstock...when Soup was released we could tell from his lyrics that he was into drugs way over his head. She and I had been experimenting with a lot of different things in previous months so even though we were only 17 it was very obvious to us what he'd gotten into. I remember I was really angry about it for a long time. There was supposed to be a show in our area that we had planned on going to and we had been so excited that we were going to see them again. The date was announced but they hadn't sold tickets yet. I remember I didn't listen to Soup for years after Shannon died, I couldn't stand hearing him sing about his addiction because it was so painful that he was gone. It was like listening to a cry for help. I still listen to Soup the least of all the albums because it brings back a lot of sad memories for me.
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Post by Lee on Mar 3, 2007 3:52:14 GMT -5
I was only 5 so I didn't know of the band. All I knew was No Rain... I remember hearing that when I was very young. What I do know however is that my family moved house from Bristol to near London a week before Shannon died. So when he died I would have most likely been in my new house (which is still where I live)... it would take me 10 years from there to discover Blind Melon
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Post by Marika on Mar 3, 2007 10:50:16 GMT -5
I was 19, sorry I can't remember that day.
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Post by Barbara on Mar 3, 2007 20:37:29 GMT -5
I wasn't into Blind Melon yet when Shannon died, I only saw No Rain video a few times and liked it but I didn't look for more of their music. I remember I read a small article in a music magazine, it said Shannon died of a drug overdose. It made me sad to hear another musician died because of drugs but he was kinda unkown to me, I heard only No Rain, like I said, I didn't really know Blind Melon yet. Then, about a year later, my boyfriend put on the self titled. I loved it right away! I remembered I already heard No Rain but it definitely wasn't No Rain that got me into them (always loved the song though).
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Post by ishbell on Mar 4, 2007 2:38:19 GMT -5
I was in my kitchen and I was listening to Much Music on tv when they announced that he had died. I just thought there goes another talented, beautiful, young person. I also thought about his family because I had lost my dad in August and was still grieving and could not imagine how Lisa was taking this. You know you'll lose your parents even though my dad was fairly young when he died but they had just had a baby and that broke my heart.
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Post by Marika on Mar 4, 2007 8:56:13 GMT -5
I wasn't into Blind Melon yet when Shannon diedé
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Post by Mr. Sexy on Mar 4, 2007 13:22:36 GMT -5
i remember i was at my friends house watching tv and it said he died, i had absolutely no clue who blind melon or Shannon was but for some reason instead of just "aww, someone died that sucks" i felt really sick like he was my best friend and i started crying, my friend just looked at me and gave me a glass of water and hugged me, he also didn't know of them but thought i did. i never remembered to check them out but the feeling never left and i had dreams about him... then a few years later i moved here and found Blind Melon and somehow made me feel better, no more bad dreams or seemingly guilty conscience, i felt good...weird huh
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Post by Karen on Mar 6, 2007 8:10:39 GMT -5
I was 20 and I was at work. My boyfriend called me to tell me and I was devastated. They thought I was crazy because I was crying. Some people don't understand the melon love.
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