Blind Melon - New Track up on Blind Melon's Myspace!

reggie500

somebodyelse'ssky wrote:

sorry it's simply impossible to replace someone so special. sadly i think they will never make it because they chose to use the old name. but it will be better that way. i don't agree with any band losing as important a member as the lead singer to death, carrying on and using the same name. it's just not right and doesn't show much respect for hoon. bottom line is the name means instant recognition for instant dollar making. what are the remaining members afraid of? good music will be good no matter what the band is called...show some fucking respect and let the blind melon name rest with shannon and use a new name...pearl jam did it and look at them now.

What Pearl Jam did was different because they didn't go out and play MLB songs. The Blind Melon guys have said that they will play some of their old songs and that they felt like they were in a catch-22 situation or whatever because it would feel strange to them either way to play their old songs under a new name or to not acknowledge the past by not playing old songs at all. I know somebody who has been working with them and have heard the whole story about how they got back together.....it is a very strange story. I also heard a bunch more of the songs and they are all really good. it made more sense to me after I heard it.

PissBottleMan

somebodyelse'ssky wrote:

it's just not right and doesn't show much respect for hoon.

Seriously, why does Shannon get a free pass. He died of an overdose. How much more disrespectful can you get? Chris, Glen, Rogers and Brad had to pick up the pieces after his death. They tried other projects and waited 12 years to resurrect the name.

I don't get it.

PBM

facepollution

PissBottleMan wrote:

Seriously, why does Shannon get a free pass. He died of an overdose. How much more disrespectful can you get? Chris, Glen, Rogers and Brad had to pick up the pieces after his death. They tried other projects and waited 12 years to resurrect the name.

I don't get it.

PBM

Exactly, it's like saying someone shouldn't get married again after their spouse dies. At the end of the day they all played a part in writing those songs, so they still have the right to play them.

mouthfulofsoup

facepollution wrote:

martyr. I like the way you conveniently miss out a load of the points I made. I don't know why you even refer to it as Blind Melon, cause clearly you saw it as the Shannon Hoon band, obviously the other guys weren't as important in your view. Oh well, your loss.

Hmm, I can't imagine why I "conveniently missed your points"...um, probably because there weren't any.

I call them Blind Melon because that's who they were, together. There's no denying that Shannon was the driving force behind that band though...Anyone who says otherwise is just trying to be politically correct about it. No matter who says it, there's no such thing as Blind Melon with Shannon...They can use the name & cash in for a while, but they will end up failing miserably...Why? Because "Blind Melon" without Shannon simply doesn't exist.

facepollution

mouthfulofsoup wrote:

Hmm, I can't imagine why I "conveniently missed your points"...um, probably because there weren't any.

ok what about the point I made that the new singer has ALWAYS sounded like that (i.e. in his old band), and wasn't 'obviously' trying to sound like Shannon. Or what about if another member had died instead of Shannon and they had carried on then, would they still be Blind Melon in your eyes? Fucking hell, read before you make such a dumb comment.

I'm not sure I can be bothered with much more of this, clearly you don't respond to LOGIC, you're ruled by emotion on this subject and can't even possibly consider looking at the bigger picture. That's a shame, I can only hope you don't apply this template when assesing other things in life.

Hypothetically speaking, a band CAN go on and become successful with a new singer. Like someone else pointed out, AC/DC did incredibly well with a new singer. And a new singer and some popular new songs may cause a whole new generation of fans to go check out the earlier stuff, and rescue Blind Melon from becoming a footnote in the early 90's alternative scene, and putting them in the rightful place they deserve as a classic band.

mouthfulofsoup

facepollution wrote:

ok what about the point I made that the new singer has ALWAYS sounded like that (i.e. in his old band), and wasn't 'obviously' trying to sound like Shannon. Or what about if another member had died instead of Shannon and they had carried on then, would they still be Blind Melon in your eyes? Fucking hell, read before you make such a dumb comment.

I'm not sure I can be bothered with much more of this, clearly you don't respond to LOGIC, you're ruled by emotion on this subject and can't even possibly consider looking at the bigger picture. That's a shame, I can only hope you don't apply this template when assesing other things in life.

Hypothetically speaking, a band CAN go on and become successful with a new singer. Like someone else pointed out, AC/DC did incredibly well with a new singer. And a new singer and some popular new songs may cause a whole new generation of fans to go check out the earlier stuff, and rescue Blind Melon from becoming a footnote in the early 90's alternative scene, and putting them in the rightful place they deserve as a classic band.

LOL, okay, apparently he sounded like Shannon in his old band..big whoop. He was quite possibly a rip off then, or influenced by the man, I don't give a rats ass. The fact is they weren't calling themselves "Blind Melon" so he can be whatever wannabe he wanted. Like I said they can call themseleves "Blind Melon" & get some little 25 year old poor man's Shannon, but it doesn't make it Melon. & Selfishly, if one of the other guys died, I'm not gonna lie & say I wouldn't have wanted them to go on...Again, Shannon was the charasmatic driving force behind that band. I'm not gonna pretend otherwise. Then again, I'm sure from what I've heard in interviews from Shannon he wouldn't have let anyone in the band be replaced. 12 years later or not, I highly doubt he'd be trying to cash in on it. He was strong enough to stand on his own & go on to do new things & would have been beyond succesful doing so...It's too bad the other guys in the band haven't been succsessful enough in their previous projects & feel the need to do this now. Pathetic really.

On that note, I'm done arguing with you on the topic...I am right, you are wrong, sweetie. End of discussion.

facepollution

mouthfulofsoup wrote:

LOL, okay, apparently he sounded like Shannon in his old band..big whoop. He was quite possibly a rip off then, or influenced by the man, I don't give a rats ass. The fact is they weren't calling themselves "Blind Melon" so he can be whatever wannabe he wanted. Like I said they can call themseleves "Blind Melon" & get some little 25 year old poor man's Shannon, but it doesn't make it Melon. & Selfishly, if one of the other guys died, I'm not gonna lie & say I wouldn't have wanted them to go on...Again, Shannon was the charasmatic driving force behind that band. I'm not gonna pretend otherwise. Then again, I'm sure from what I've heard in interviews from Shannon he wouldn't have let anyone in the band be replaced. 12 years later or not, I highly doubt he'd be trying to cash in on it. He was strong enough to stand on his own & go on to do new things & would have been beyond succesful doing so...It's too bad the other guys in the band haven't been succsessful enough in their previous projects & feel the need to do this now. Pathetic really.

On that note, I'm done arguing with you on the topic...I am right, you are wrong, sweetie. End of discussion.

Enjoy your little world, I'll enjoy looking at the bigger picture. It's much brighter.

Peace.