Blind Melon 10/07/07

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  • momofglynn
    momofglynn Posts: 849
    reggie500 wrote:
    I just came from the Columbus ohio show and the band brought Nel onstage twice and she fully endorsed what they were doing...she seemed really happy and the crowd went crazy. the show was completely mindblowing. It was sold out and the crowd was singing every song so loud that yyou could barely hear the band at times.

    So glad you got a chance to see and experience a positive thing. Good times.
    Let's Go Red Sox!
  • momofglynn
    momofglynn Posts: 849
    mouthfulofsoup wrote:
    I was gonna let this drop, but since it keeps finding its way back...

    I'm surprised that Nel was there. Whatever her reasons, I hope she truly found peace with it.




    Ex.fucking.actly. ;)

    I understand where you're at. Really I do. I could not see Pearl Jam do it. But for whatever reason I don't have a problem with Blind Melon doing it. Shannon was great, truly great. Blind Melon was the cross over for me from the hippie scene to harder edge, rocking stuff. Shannon was talented. The whole band was talented.


    We are all fans of them. Again I understand where you're coming from. I'm just the other side of the fence. I am so proud of the rest of the band. Like I said it was a dream come true to relay to the actual people how I felt about them the day I heard about Shannon. If it goes to an album or 2 great. If it goes longer, then it was meant to be. If it ends, it was meant to be. I think they needed to do this in order to finally heal.

    I think both opinions are valid and right but that's just me.
    Let's Go Red Sox!
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    Vedd Hedd wrote:
    I cant blame you. if Eddie died, and the rest of Pearl Jam went on with some singer....and I had to hear Alive or Betterman from some other dude....I would be pissed too.

    Id rather listen to a cover band or a garage band tribute versus some bastard reincarnation.

    You're comparing apples and oranges though.

    Blind Melon never really got a chance to peak musically. Their potential was swept away from them far too early.

    As mentioned earlier...they're not exploiting the name and disrespecting Shannon.

    They're creating and honoring some really great music. In the grand scheme of things, I applaud them.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

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  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    just saw them last night and it was fantastic travis sounds good and i liked all the new songs. they seemed to be genuinely happy to be all playing together again. i loved it.
  • momofglynn
    momofglynn Posts: 849
    I'm glad you enjoyed the show. They are playing in Boston on 10/22. My buddy is begging me to go. I really can not. However if I was to get out of work early I told him I would meet him down there. So you never know. I might be going again. I really enjoyed the show in Providence and I have been thinking about it ever since.
    Let's Go Red Sox!
  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,578
    from the youtube clips, Travis seems to sound a lot like Shannon :)
  • holtz
    holtz Posts: 509
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3MpKBpoA1Y

    Nico Hoon singing Change in Chicago
  • Green Di$ea$e
    Green Di$ea$e Posts: 158
    and from a different angle

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q5_TnAxTDM
  • mouthfulofsoup
    mouthfulofsoup Posts: 397
    Wow, I just fucking balled my eyes out. I'm actually almost speechless for once. I can't believe that...so fucking sad, yet so beautiful at the same time. I almost wish I went now to have witnessed that moment...

    "wonder where he is these days..." :(
    "Oh, a flower you are to my land..."
  • facepollution
    facepollution Posts: 6,834
    holtz wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3MpKBpoA1Y

    Nico Hoon singing Change in Chicago

    Woahhhh! That really was amazing, I can only imagine what it must have been like to have been there, it was so cool hearing the crowd back her up.
  • PissBottleMan
    PissBottleMan Union City, TN Posts: 4,155
    holtz wrote:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3MpKBpoA1Y

    Nico Hoon singing Change in Chicago

    Thumbs up!

    Talk about a seal of approval.

    PBM
    "We paced ourselves and we didn't rush through it and we tried to be as creative as our collective minds would let us be over some course of time instead of just trying to rush through a record"

    Wishlist Foundation: http://wishlistfoundation.org
  • Brisk.
    Brisk. Posts: 11,578
    thats awesome!
    I really hope they come Europe
  • boxwine_in_hell
    boxwine_in_hell Posts: 1,263
    pearljamgirl07 wrote:
    blind melon without shannon is not blind melon....he was great and tjhe soul of the band

    That's what I was thinking.....Did they exhume him from his dirt nap to sing, because that's the only way I'm going to see Blind Melon in 2007.
    one foot in the door
    the other foot in the gutter
    sweet smell that they adore
    I think I'd rather smother
    -The Replacements-
  • mouthfulofsoup
    mouthfulofsoup Posts: 397
    boxwine_in_hell wrote:
    That's what I was thinking.....Did they exhume him from his dirt nap to sing, because that's the only way I'm going to see Blind Melon in 2007.

    Seriously, while all this Nico, Nel & the band paying tribute to Shannon right now is touching...what's gonna happen when that wears off & they actually expect to be considered "Blind Melon?" It'll never happen, they'll always be a cover band of their own band. & While Travis seems like a nice enough guy from the clips I've watched...he'll always be that guy who is "filling in."
    "Oh, a flower you are to my land..."
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    mouthfulofsoup wrote:
    Seriously, while all this Nico, Nel & the band paying tribute to Shannon right now is touching...what's gonna happen when that wears off & they actually expect to be considered "Blind Melon?" It'll never happen, they'll always be a cover band of their own band. & While Travis seems like a nice enough guy from the clips I've watched...he'll always be that guy who is "filling in."

    i'd rather see a blind melon cover band with travis filling in than 90% of the bands out there today.
  • mouthfulofsoup
    mouthfulofsoup Posts: 397
    soulsinging wrote:
    i'd rather see a blind melon cover band with travis filling in than 90% of the bands out there today.

    & That's fine & dandy.

    But it is what it is...& Blind Melon it is not.
    "Oh, a flower you are to my land..."
  • soulsinging
    soulsinging Posts: 13,202
    mouthfulofsoup wrote:
    & That's fine & dandy.

    But it is what it is...& Blind Melon it is not.

    if pearl jam can still call themselves pearl jam after adding matt cameron and the subsequent drop in quality, then blind melon can still be blind melon ;)
  • vital5
    vital5 Posts: 5,486
    soulsinging wrote:
    if pearl jam can still call themselves pearl jam after adding matt cameron and the subsequent drop in quality, then blind melon can still be blind melon ;)
    haha ouch... funny though!
  • mouthfulofsoup
    mouthfulofsoup Posts: 397
    soulsinging wrote:
    if pearl jam can still call themselves pearl jam after adding matt cameron and the subsequent drop in quality, then blind melon can still be blind melon ;)

    Omg, you are so right...that is the same thing exactly! :D
    "Oh, a flower you are to my land..."
  • Green Di$ea$e
    Green Di$ea$e Posts: 158
    the new songs are pretty good, the new singer does a decent job on the old stuff, Shannon's family is very cool with this...guess you are going to have to move forward on with live mouthfulofsoup

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