![]() Hoon’s connection and association with Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose garnered the band extra industry recognition when he sang backing vocals on many Guns N’ Roses tracks on the Use Your Illusion I and II albums in 1991, including the single “Don’t Cry.” Late that year, Blind Melon embarked on a tour with Soundgarden. The band was dissatisfied with the production quality, therefore the recordings were scrapped. Blind Melon was signed by Capitol Records A&R executive Tim Devine later that year, and he oversaw recordings with legendary producer David Briggs for an unreleased EP titled The Sippin’ Time Sessions. In 1991, the band released The Goodfoot Workshop, a four-song demo. They are best known for their 1993 single “No Rain,” and their neo-psychedelic approach on alternative rock brought them critical and financial success in the early 1990s.Īfter West Point, Mississippi, Blind Melon formed in Los Angeles in March 1990. Guitarists Rogers Stevens and Christopher Thorn, drummer Glen Graham, vocalist Travis Warren, and bassist Nathan Towne make up the current lineup. Design: HTML5 UP.Blind Melon is a five-piece American rock band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 1990 by three Mississippians, one Pennsylvanian, and one Indiana. Please email Webmaster or call for more info No Longer Accepting Unsolicited Packages.Supporting local music is fun! Help Max Ink Support Local Music, Donate Here! VIDEO PODCAST: Inspired by Family to Make Music: Q & A with Holland Zander & Dana Buck of The Sensations.VIDEO PODCAST: On with the Ride: Q&A with Eclectic Alt-Rocker Dusty Bo as his National Tour Hits its Stride.VIDEO PODCAST: Growing Up a Nielsen: Q&A + Stories from Rockford-based Musician Miles Nielsen of The Rusted Hearts.Q&A with band leader Jimmy Voegeli plus stories from the road (& the farm)! VIDEO PODCAST: The Jimmys Winter Tour.VIDEO PODCAST: Cars, Coaching & Country: Q&A with Singer-Songwriter Jackson Taylor as His Music Hits a High Note.Bobby Weir and the Wolf Brothers featuring the Wolfpack.Because Hoon was friends with Axl Rose and even sang on Use Your Illusion, I asked Smith if he knew anything about the long-awaited Chinese Democracy, but unfortunately, he said there hasn’t been communication with that camp for a long time.( 3044) Page Views Blind Melon Online: They’re back at The Rave in Milwaukee on March 18th and their new record For My Friends comes out on April 22nd. It doesn’t sound like a money grab for him. I talked to him the day after the first show of the tour and even after a day of interviews, you could hear the excitement in his voice. We’re playing for people that didn’t have a chance to see us the first time through and we’re going to keep it going as long as we can.” We’re releasing a new record in April and you’re going to hear all the old stuff. But here we are and it’s not like a reunion. And speaking of ages past, what does Smith think about bringing that music back after being gone for over a decade? He said, “I never thought we’d get a chance to play these songs again and I made my peace with it. He told me that it was a nickname that his father used to call him and his friends when they’d come over- a bunch of “Blind Melons.” In any case, it fit in with the trend for weird two-word juxtapositions that we all loved during the Grunge Age. I called the rest of the guys in to jam after that and after about ten seconds we knew that this would work.” As far as the name’s concerned, it’s been said that it comes from blues artist “Blind Lemon” Jefferson or that it was a slang term for unemployed hippies in the bass player’s Mississippi hometown. ![]() “There was something about him that reminded me of Shannon”, he said, “and I thought we could just try playing a couple songs. So when Brad Smith, bassist of Blind Melon, was producing a demo for an artist named Travis Warren in 2006, getting the band back together wasn’t even on his mind. ![]() Although an album of outtakes and live performances followed (named Nico after the newborn daughter Hoon left behind) and the band went on a search for a new singer, the public would not accept them and the band broke up before the end of the decade. Indeed, when I met him as a underager in 1993 after sneaking into Marquette University in Milwaukee to see them, drugs was a subject he mentioned almost immediately. The two associations that Blind Melon will always have are with the girl in the yellow and black bee costume from the video for their 90’s alternative chestnut, “No Rain” (a tune which reached #20 on the Pop Charts and even earned a Weird Al parody), and the drug overdose of their original lead singer, Shannon Hoon, in 1995.
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