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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    He definitely used it to it's full potential.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • disilluzion
    disilluzion Posts: 1,015
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    BLIND MELON ANNOUNCED FOR WINNIPEG SHOW APRIL 8. Soul Asylum supporting. 
    I saw that yesterday. Huge fan of both. Tempted to make the drive up. I'll be seeing SA with Local H for their annual holiday show here, but wouldn't mind this one as well. April is still iffy weather-wise though. Play it by ear.
  • disilluzion
    disilluzion Posts: 1,015
    Just looked at tickets and it's at a theatre, which means assigned seating, which means if I decide last minute, no good seats will be left. Oh, first world problems...
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    My brother saw them last year at a small theatre and had blast.  He had some kind of backstage tickets so there was a short acoustic set with about 10 "audience" in the back and they played Sleepyhouse and it was crazy good.
    Then they opened the show with my favorite I Wonder... Really should have gone to that.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    disilluzion said:
    Just looked at tickets and it's at a theatre, which means assigned seating, which means if I decide last minute, no good seats will be left. Oh, first world problems...
    sometimes, depending on the band, the floor is still GA, even though there are seats. I would imagine BM would most likely be assigned though. 
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  • disilluzion
    disilluzion Posts: 1,015
    edited November 2019
    We'll see what it looks like in April. School break then, so we could have a long weekend in Winnipeg. Do minors need passports? I should Google that...

    EDIT: Looks like birth cert is all that's needed for minors, if Google is to be believed.
    Post edited by disilluzion on
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    it is assigned seating. I got row 4 after finally acquiring the presale code 30 minutes in. i could have had front row. grrr.....
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  • disilluzion
    disilluzion Posts: 1,015
    Well, mine will be worse if I go lol. I know better than to buy tickets in advance for anything between Oct and April, save for something big like PJ, Springsteen, etc.

    I've eaten too much money in tickets over the years getting stuck in bad weather during the winter months.
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,888
    RobbyD462 said:
    They shouldn’t call it Blind Melon just like they shouldn’t call it Alice in Chains.
    You could call it the Jerry Cantrell Project and people would still listen but to call it the same thing in disrespectful in my opinion but hey that’s my opinion.
    My counter argument to that one.  At least moreso with AIC (as I know less about BM) is that it took a band (or most of a band) to create the reputation the band name holds.   I feel it's amazingly difficult to find that level of success twice.  It's easy to say make a new name, and a new rep for yourself, but it's insanely hard for lightning to strike twice.  In this case I saw Jerry Cantrell do 3 solo performances.  One was an opening opening slot for Days of the New and Metallica.  The 2nd two were club shows in Vancouver.   One was Richards on Richards which held maybe 500ish people (700 if they oversell).  The 2nd was at the commodore which holds about 1100.   William Duvall was going vocals at those bar shows (but not at the Metallica show).   The last few times they played Vancouver they played the Queen E. Theatre which holds 3000.  That's about triple the attendees from a Jerry Cantrell solo show.   Plus they can probably charge more for the tickets.

    While I mixed on the new AIC.  I enjoy the live shows, but I'm mixed on the new albums.   I think the other guys (mainly Cantrell) should be able to use the name.  It seems unfair to me that they lose a big chunk of their livelihood because their singer had problems.    I understand the other argument, because I'm getting less and less enthralled with the replace the lead singer thing that's going on.  I've had no desire to see reformed Queen, Journey, STP etc.. with singers.  AIC might be the only band I've made the effort to see after they've lost a singer.   Well there's AC/DC but that's it's unique thing.  That's best case scenario.   Maybe the only band that had just as much success with studio albums before and after they lost a singer.  


  • disilluzion
    disilluzion Posts: 1,015
    They canceled their show in Okanagan, unsure why. Hope Winnipeg still works out for you, @HughFreakingDillon
  • disilluzion
    disilluzion Posts: 1,015
    Actually, I think it might be all the Canadian dates...
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    whole tour cancelled the day tix go on sale. i wonder if travis split/got fired again. how odd. 
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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,785
    They’ve answered some fan questions on their latest Instagram post with:

    “The shows were never confirmed with the band. But we are planning to come back up to Canada in 2020”
    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    goldrush said:
    They’ve answered some fan questions on their latest Instagram post with:

    “The shows were never confirmed with the band. But we are planning to come back up to Canada in 2020”
    how bizarre
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWNbIckifJ4

    new music release party. starts at 2pm winnipeg time (central)
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    Glen revealed two alternate titles and artwork to Soup that Shannon pitched to the band back in the day:

    Satanic Mamas and Papas
    Your Highness

    https://www.facebook.com/blindmelonband/videos/something-you-did-now-know-video-1-by-glen-graham/350869379535411/?__so__=permalink&__rv__=related_videos
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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,785

    From a new interview with Guitar World:

    Rather than releasing a full album, Blind Melon has been issuing songs. What was the thinking behind that?

    Stevens: “I think the concept of an album, maybe it’s not necessary in the same way. Because it used to be that the record company would put an album out, and over the course of the next two years, they would selectively present you with one of the tracks you already heard. But now, the distribution model has completely changed.

    “We’re going to release singles every couple of months, and then when there are 10-12 of them, we’re going to press vinyl and sell it to whoever wants it. But what else is there to do? 

    “And my thinking is you’re better off reminding people you still exist every couple of months than reminding them once every two years with a media blitz and they get sick of you, and then it goes away. It’s consistency…and punctuality…virtue!”

    So the plan is to compile all the songs and release a full-length later this year? 

    Thorn: “I hope so. I’m not sure just because of the timing of everything. But we’re staying the course and we have a bunch of songs. We’re knocking them away, finishing them up. We’ve got to get a record out this year. For sure.”


    https://youtu.be/rJN1-sR73Nw


    https://youtu.be/AI26AiyUAqU


    https://youtu.be/lrJ8j8p_G4g

    “Do not postpone happiness”
    (Jeff Tweedy, Sydney 2007)

    “Put yer good money on the sunrise”
    (Tim Rogers)
  • 2-feign-reluctance
    2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,459
    Wonder what Brad is up to these days. No offense to Nathan, dude is a crazy talented guitarist and all around musician, but Brad had a lot of song writing mojo in Blind Melon. 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    goldrush said:

    From a new interview with Guitar World:

    Rather than releasing a full album, Blind Melon has been issuing songs. What was the thinking behind that?

    Stevens: “I think the concept of an album, maybe it’s not necessary in the same way. Because it used to be that the record company would put an album out, and over the course of the next two years, they would selectively present you with one of the tracks you already heard. But now, the distribution model has completely changed.

    “We’re going to release singles every couple of months, and then when there are 10-12 of them, we’re going to press vinyl and sell it to whoever wants it. But what else is there to do? 

    “And my thinking is you’re better off reminding people you still exist every couple of months than reminding them once every two years with a media blitz and they get sick of you, and then it goes away. It’s consistency…and punctuality…virtue!”

    So the plan is to compile all the songs and release a full-length later this year? 

    Thorn: “I hope so. I’m not sure just because of the timing of everything. But we’re staying the course and we have a bunch of songs. We’re knocking them away, finishing them up. We’ve got to get a record out this year. For sure.”


    https://youtu.be/rJN1-sR73Nw


    https://youtu.be/AI26AiyUAqU


    https://youtu.be/lrJ8j8p_G4g

    i found this exciting when Billy Corgan did it. Hopefully they don't abandon it like he did. 
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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    new song Strikes Back out today. By my count, that's 5 songs from the eventual full record that they plan to release physically when all the songs are out. 

    making me buy them all twice. 

    you savvy bastards.  :wink:
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