Filed under: General | Tags: 2008, Blind Melon, Devin Pugliano, misc., Music, Myspace, Shannon Hoon, Soup, Travis T. Warren, Travis Warren
as most of you know…blind melon is my favorite group. 13 years ago, shannon hoon died from a drug overdose. up until 2 years ago the band was broken up. they reformed after meeting travis t. warren. from 2006 – 2008, they had one great ride…a new album (an incredible one at that) entitled, “for my friends,” a new tour and then after all of that… travis decides to quit. overworked. underpaid, so he claims. i honestly didn’t see this guy turning out like that. but as he states on his personal myspace page, “no one knows what really happened except for the members of Blind Melon.”
I still love the dude regardless so i have to respect what he and the other members have decided to do. but that doesn’t mean i can’t be pissed off and hurt…which is exactly what i am right now.
full details here: http://www.myspace.com/blindmelon (in the blogs)
as i posted in one of their blogs…i’ll remain a fan but twice now i’ve been disappointed…and that’s hard to recover from emotionally. especially when you put so much into a band. but i realize they’re human and shit’s going to happen. it just blows my mind that it keeps happening to the same band…a band that happens to be my favorite.
have a good one, everybody.
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Amen! i hear ya..it is pretty disappointing….you think they will apprieciate a female vocalist this time around??? I sing Blind Melon songs around bonfires and shiz all the time =)
Comment by Bethy Lu November 10, 2008 @ 10:55 pmhell, you never know. i saw your post on their blog. maybe they’ll get ahold of you. you should send them a demo or something. couldn’t hurt.
Comment by Devin Pugliano - Author November 10, 2008 @ 10:57 pmYou’re shitting me!
They fucking broke up, again.. because, Travis whined about not getting paid enough and working too much?
Seriously, what the fuck! It’s Blind Melon!!!! You have to be out of your mind to just walk away from that, being a part of that.
I’m sooo, sooo disappointed. That ruined my day.
Comment by Brittany November 10, 2008 @ 10:58 pm“You have to be out of your mind to just walk away from that, being a part of that.”
my thoughts exactly.
Comment by Devin Pugliano - Author November 10, 2008 @ 11:02 pmit’s an honor & a privilege
That’s a once in a lifetime opportunity, to revive a band from a thirteen year hiatus and be good at it!
…I never saw it coming, and there goes my chances of ever seeing them, again.
Comment by Brittany November 10, 2008 @ 11:12 pmthey are still going to continue touring but just not with him, unfortunately. they are going with chris shinn. a bad choice, i think. but i have to respect whatever they decide to do. because, well…it’s not my band. it’s theirs.
chris shinn, btw…was the lead singer of “unified theory.” which was a band that some of the members of “BM” formed after shannon’s death.
Comment by Devin Pugliano - Author November 10, 2008 @ 11:17 pmHey Devin!
I loved Blind Melon! I also had the honor of doing what is quite possibly the last Blind Melon poster while Shannon was still alive. Take care, Rev. Frank
Comment by Frank A. Bella November 10, 2008 @ 11:55 pmOi, i’m thinking I should start one of these.. I need a good place to unleash some fury and have some input!
Comment by Brittany November 11, 2008 @ 2:40 amI have been trying to come up with words for this whole situation since I found out…Im still at a loss. Im so hurt & devastated…once again! I was supposed to see them on Friday, Saturday & Sunday. They have canceled the tour because its impossible for Chris to learn all the songs in such a short period of time. I believe they are still keeping the New Year’s Eve show though. I really admired Travis. He brought back Blind Melon!!! This whole situation is just sad.
Comment by Katie November 11, 2008 @ 2:23 pmI will continue to support my favorite band in their future endeavors as well as Travis. He has made me a fan for life…regardless of what the “real” story is.
Ok I could continue to ramble on and on and on but I shall stop here as I still dont have my thoughts together……still processing