"PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
10/21/2015 at 22:03 • Filed to: None
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"PotbellyJoe and 42 others" (potbellyjoe)
10/21/2015 at 22:03 • Filed to: None | 4
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I feel like all I ever contribute around here is music, but 20 years ago today was among the first times I stopped and really thought, “Hey, drugs are bad.”
Shannon Hoon, lead man for Blind Melon, was found dead of a cocaine overdose on October 21, 1995. I was 14, but it has kept me from ever even considering cocaine.
If the only song you know from Blind Melon is “No Rain,” I suggest you take the 55 minutes and listen to their self-titled album in its entirety.
Amazing work and when you get to “Change” well, you’ll see what a beautiful artist Shannon was.
I had the album on CD and would sit in the rear-facing seats of my family’s Taurus wagon getting yelled at by my siblings for having my headphones too loud. I was 12. Thankfully my dad had a healthy love for rock and by extension albums like this and the Spin Doctors
Pocket Full of Kryptonite
so I had access to music like this despite being really young.
Billboard has a write-up as well. Find it here:
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Spaceball-Two
> PotbellyJoe and 42 others
10/21/2015 at 22:11 |
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I was listening to Blind Melon on a tape deck in my first car. I felt like I was the only one that liked this band when everyone else was getting into hip hop. Galaxie is by far my favorite.
Also he sang back up in GnR.
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PotbellyJoe and 42 others
> Spaceball-Two
10/21/2015 at 22:15 |
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My friends at the time were like, “Isn’t that the band with the bee girl video? Cute.” and then went back to BIG and Puffy.
It’s funny because I’ve re-introduced so many of them to the 1991-1995 rock scene and they are almost embarrassed that they missed it.
shop-teacher
> PotbellyJoe and 42 others
10/21/2015 at 22:17 |
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Drugs are indeed bad. My uncle died of a heroin overdose when I was 12 (he relapsed after nearly a decade clean). That kept me from ever trying drugs.
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Spaceball-Two
> PotbellyJoe and 42 others
10/21/2015 at 22:23 |
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They were so much more than that one radio hit. Blind Melon filled the gap that grunge was missing (I know this because I’ve lived in Seattle for 35 years) and when I saw them and Blues Traveler I knew they were something special. I mourned more when Hoon passed than Cobain.
DrScientist
> PotbellyJoe and 42 others
10/21/2015 at 22:27 |
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dont forget: he is of the family HOON.
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PotbellyJoe and 42 others
> Spaceball-Two
10/21/2015 at 22:27 |
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I work right outside of Princeton, NJ. Matthew Sweet, Blues Traveler and the Spin Doctors are royalty in the right circles.
The first date I ever went on with my, now, wife was a Blues Traveler concert in the Lower East Side in NYC.
ADabOfOppo; Gone Plaid (Instructables Can Be Confusable)
> PotbellyJoe and 42 others
10/21/2015 at 22:40 |
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I still get excited when I hear Spin Doctors on the radio/musical PA system. Little Miss Can’t Be Wrong and Two Princes are such great songs.
I think I bought that album for nostalgia recently and haven’t given it a listen yet. I should do that soon.
I will also give the BM album a listen.
Gamecat235
> PotbellyJoe and 42 others
10/21/2015 at 22:47 |
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I saw them live at the local punk club in Tucson on their first tour. I got there about an hour early and chatted with a guy (who later I found out was Christopher Thorn, their guitarist and mandolin player) for about 30 minutes about the local music scene and places to skate and hang out. When Blind Melon went on, there were 12 people in the club. When they finished their set, the room was nearly packed (a couple hundred). It was a stupidly amazing show and my brothers first concert ever (he was 10 or 11).
Agrajag
> PotbellyJoe and 42 others
10/21/2015 at 23:26 |
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Love their music. This was one cassette that saw a lot of playback. I discovered this recently. Band member Brad Smith and Shannon’s daughter.
Sam
> PotbellyJoe and 42 others
10/22/2015 at 01:34 |
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Cocaine and heroin are both just awful. Why can’t we just all smoke weed and play video games instead?
McMike
> PotbellyJoe and 42 others
10/22/2015 at 05:40 |
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Haven’t heard or thought of Blind melon in 10-15 years. Then yesterday, out of nowhere Tones of Home cycled through my iPod in the car.
Fun fact: I dressed up as the bee girl for a halloween party back in.. 93? Tights, leotard, tutu... the whole thing. I kept makng my way up to the band yelling drunkingly “HEY, DO YOU GUYS KNOW ANY BLIND MELLON??” It was funny to them the first time. :)