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Post by 8807 on Mar 6, 2007 12:34:35 GMT -5
It was Saturday Night,I know that cuz I was on afternoon shift & only Partied w/ my Bro on Saturdays.I was 29,I was Partying in my Brothers garage that had a Bar,Pool Table,Dart Board & a Card Table.His Friend came in & after awhile he mentioned he was still bummed out about Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon dying.I only knew the Video/Song No Rain & always suspected Shannon was tripping that day.Everyone was saying it was Heroin,which my Brother & I were dabbling in at the time.I thought to myself,maybe I should quit doing this Junk & go back to Dropping Acid,it would've saved him.That didn't happen for a few years but when I heard Soul One in 96, in the parking lot at work,I was just drawn to it & then bought the Nico cd which ended up being my best & only friend at times.It's been over 10 yrs. & we are all here with Blind Melon songs still in our Lives!I wouldn't have it any other way Melons!
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Post by Joel on Mar 11, 2007 8:02:44 GMT -5
It was Saturday Night,I know that cuz I was on afternoon shift & only Partied w/ my Bro on Saturdays.I was 29,I was Partying in my Brothers garage that had a Bar,Pool Table,Dart Board & a Card Table.His Friend came in & after awhile he mentioned he was still bummed out about Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon dying.I only knew the Video/Song No Rain & always suspected Shannon was tripping that day.Everyone was saying it was Heroin,which my Brother & I were dabbling in at the time.I thought to myself,maybe I should quit doing this Junk & go back to Dropping Acid,it would've saved him.That didn't happen for a few years but when I heard Soul One in 96, in the parking lot at work,I was just drawn to it & then bought the Nico cd which ended up being my best & only friend at times.It's been over 10 yrs. & we are all here with Blind Melon songs still in our Lives!I wouldn't have it any other way Melons! That`s deep man. I can`t remember hearing or reading about it. I only got into Blind Melon like 6 years ago but the first time i heard Shannon was dead was from my older brother. I was watching Don`t Cry and asked who that other singer is and my brother told me,he was the lead singer in a band called Blind Melon but he`s dead now. I do remember when Kurt Cobain passed away. Off topic yes,but still...
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seumas
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Post by seumas on Mar 11, 2007 13:34:11 GMT -5
I was a senior in High School when I found out about Shannnon's death. I had only heard "No Rain", didn't have M.T.V. or Much Music, or even a C.D. player. I was at basketball practice and remember hearing from a team-mate about it. I think I said something about how No Rain sounded like some Green Day song they listened to a lot (can you believe it?) Anyway, a few days or weeks later my father, of all people, said he'd heard this fantastic song on the C.B.C. (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation for those who don't know) and that I should find out about Blind Melon. I borrowed "Soup" from another class-mate (also on the basketball team, who racked up Columbia House debts like nobody else I've ever known. Good guy though. He had all the right stuff, which seemed to be the most important thing growing up in no-where-ville). I taped Soup. I listened to it religiously for some reason, while drawing, doing homework, working out:all the time. I became a fanatic. Seeing my unrestrained worship of this band he didn't particularly like, the guy gave me his Soup C.D. Somewhere along the line I got a C.D. player. I was hooked. Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, every other band with the possible exception of the Stones, whom my Dad had liked back in the very early days when Jagger got nicked for pissing in public (odd correlation, that), came AFTER Blind Melon. Especially Green Day.
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Post by Bogo on Mar 11, 2007 16:42:07 GMT -5
I didn't get into the band until a few years after shannon died so after I picked up their first album I looked them up on the net only to find out that my new favorite band was now defunct and with no possibility of a reunion.
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Post by melonforthought on Mar 12, 2007 3:36:17 GMT -5
I heard about it once it was hitting the air waves. I had the T.V. on and it was right on Much Music, and if you guys have seen the video for No Bidness on Youtube, that was the dude who did the announcement. I can't say it was shock, but it was more of a sense of surrealism just cause they had just had the I & I, and that coffee shop interview - I mean Shannon was not at all a guy ready to pack it in he seemed to be a guy trying to put it all together again. That interview he talked about how he had wasted so much creativity doing drugs, and he hated how fans were getting the idea that heroin, and cocaine were "cool" drugs. So I guess it just didn't seem real plus to me even at the time Blind Melon was just one of those rare groups that had so much offer, and so eclectic different than everything else. They were like the 90's the Greatful Dead to me in terms of there diversity. I also remember since I had a party the night before my brothers friend (who stayed over) saying that he's just another drugged out rock star, and so I definetly took as something significant in music and in my life as well. Plus they had Spotlights, and interviews on them that night. It was definetly great stuff to see. If you don't live in Canada you don't know what you were missing out from those interviews and Spotlights just a lot of great stuff.
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Coffey
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Post by Coffey on Mar 25, 2007 17:58:17 GMT -5
Okay okay, so im only eighteen but i remember the days Shannon died and also when Kurt Cobain died, my nextdoor neighbor was in her late teens and used babysit me, she was like a sister to me she introduced me to Blindmelon, nirvana, Alice In Chains and The Pumpkins, When Shannon died she ran into our house cryin' her head of and kept tellin my mother "he's dead, he's dead!" my Mum was freaked out to bits! She was like "Whos dead what are you on about???!!!" Next thing she says "Shannon Hoon". Of course id no idea who he was untill her sister explained to me later he was the lead with Blindmelon. I Was Gutted. (My mams respose to this was and i quote "another one bites the dust...") Der ya are... oh and by the way Cobains death was quite the same except it was my dad who was Upset... Peace, Coffey
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Post by josh sinclair on Mar 27, 2007 10:51:08 GMT -5
6 days after my second birthday. so i was not caring what was goin on in the outside world, besides what was happening right here.. blind if you will . a friend of mine introduced me to them in the beginning of 6th grade. tones of home was the first song i heard and i loved it. then change had me hooked. but even though we lived in the same town it just makes me mad that i never even had the chance to meet him in my lifetime.
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Post by melonwheels on Mar 28, 2007 10:58:33 GMT -5
... I remember the shocking news like it was yesterday. MTV, broke in with a special statement. ... soon after that ( the same day) my wife left me and the kids, and never heard from her again. I will never forget it !
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Post by Rebekah on Sept 18, 2007 21:16:40 GMT -5
I was almost 18 when Shannon died I lived in this really small town in Michigan there was just a small group of us that liked Blind Melon it was so sad when I found out Shannon died I was on my way to work when I found out it made going to work really hard.
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nadius
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Post by nadius on Sept 18, 2007 22:00:44 GMT -5
I had come from school (I was 12) and had gone to pick up my best friend, who around that time lived around my house, when I got to her house, inside her room, she was watching MTV and crying, I remember sitting down, and then we went to the park for a walk, 'cause we needed some air, I remember we took her dog, Gala too, I can see everything very clearly, I remember which bench we sat on and all, I'll never forget that day. It marked the very passing moment from childhood to teen years, it was the first person we "knew" that had died, quite a shock when you're 12, you suddently realise that people die, it breaks both your heart and innocense.
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Samantha
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Post by Samantha on Sept 19, 2007 15:16:12 GMT -5
When Shannon died I was living in the my life version of the "sleepyhouse", and I remember it came over the radio and so we had a toast to Shannon and played the self titled album all night. I was far too involved in bad for me activites for it to have really hit me...it was only when I sobered up and realized my favorite singers were dropping like flies, and someone here already hit it-you could hear him getting out of control and desending into the abyss, I was almost there too, I'm so lucky Shannons words saved me...
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melondew
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Post by melondew on Sept 19, 2007 21:02:17 GMT -5
I didn't hear about it until a few months after it happened. At that point in my life I was disturbingly disconnected from media. I was in high school and dating my future wife. No-one I knew of in my school was into Blind Melon. If I wasn't hanging out with my girlfriend ignoring all methods of avoiding teen pregnancy(I did dodge the bullet however, amazingly), I was in my room writing songs on my cassete 4 track recorder. So the news never reached me. I found out about it when I was surfing the internet at my girlfriends aunts house. I was angry. I hated Nirvana so I was indifferent when that happened, but this really pissed me off. I think I told this story elsewhere. Nico came out and I came to terms with it. Then Layne died. All the anger returned. I wrote a song about them called Waste. The bridge: "You had the chanced to change the world, but you pissed it all away. You had millions who'd hang on your words, you tell me you had nothing to say?" chorus: "If they weren't sewn shut, I'd look you straight in the eye and tell you, you were a waste". Further on in life, I had my own issues with destructive behaviour, and I didn't agree with my own lyrics anymore. To the point of, bands I was in would beg me to use the song and I would tell them no way. They reflect an unfair judgement. I don't take back things I say, that's why I so openly admit to having written those words, because it was how I felt at the time, but now, understanding life, pain and addiction, I feel empathy rather than anger. I miss their creative contributions dearly, they had so much more to offer the world.
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Post by 8807 on Nov 17, 2007 8:04:25 GMT -5
I never saw Shannon perform or met him but there's just no topping him.I told Travis when I talked to him in Toledo that I really dug how natural he was with his singing.Shannon made it look so effortless & I think Travis has that quality with his singing too.As fans & especially His Family,We are all missing out.Nico sure seemed like a natural in Chicago though,Didn't She Melons!?
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Post by Karen on Nov 17, 2007 22:10:39 GMT -5
She did. I would have shit my pants up there in front of everyone. She has a beautiful voice and didn't even look too nervous.
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ladyjane
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Post by ladyjane on Jan 14, 2009 9:29:59 GMT -5
It's been awhile since any have been here. Anyway, unfortunately at the time of his death, I didn't know who BM was. I had a baby girl a couple months before he died, so I was wrapped up in her, and totally out of the loop. It wasn't until the following spring/summer, when I left said baby girl's father(after a long stint),that we got to have a life again, and I discovered Blind Melon. It was a guy friend of mine's cd,but when he first played "The Pusher" I fell in love with that voice;the passion and personality in THAT voice! I had to know who that was! That's when I first heard about BM and Shannon Hoon. When that friend left to join the army,he left "Nico" at my house; I couldn't even have told you who each guy was on the cover! I just knew that it was crazy, soulful, desperate, fun; and ohhh so real! That cd has seen better days,but I'm still playing the hell out of it! Honestly, though, I really just got to know Shannon these last couple weeks. Sometimes, when I'm going through my day, I sing. Well,all last week for some reason I kept belting out Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz";while bathing, cleaning, driving, u name it. From there I felt like hearing some BM and that's when I decided to look the band up; I was only a few vids in when I came across the one with him,on stage, doing Janis! I never knew this existed,hell I'd never seen ANY Blind Melon vids before! If I was a guy, I would have shit my pants! Yeah, then something really powerful took over from there. I've been introduced, fell in love, watched the rise and fall, beginning to end, said hello and goodbye all in about a week and a half. I cried my heart out for at least half of those days.
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