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Post by chrispy0515 on Jan 28, 2008 0:50:31 GMT -5
I am a huuuge fan of the band since the early 90's and like a million other people I was devastated when Shannon Hoon passed away. The guy was an absolute brilliant artist who's life I was following along with being that I was in a band myself at the time, was a big fan of Blind Melon, and I was also battling my own "demons" with a drug addiction for about 10 years from 1984 to 1994(everyday heavy weed smoker, popping qualudes & valium left & right, and snorting & free basing cocaine). I used to just kick back and listen to their songs while getting high and trying to write my own songs, and I could totally feel & relate to Shannon's lyrics because alot of them were about his struggles with drug addiction and his desire to stop & get clean. Believe it or not those songs helped me get through alot of my struggles and pain at the time, and now proudly I sit here having stayed totally clean & sober for 13 years and counting, but sadly and ironically Shannon was not able to find & follow the same path to sobriety I did while I listened to HIS own lyrics back then while getting clean.
So in my particular case his personal demons that he sang about, helped me eventually overcome my own.
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Post by melonrocks on Jan 28, 2008 20:07:14 GMT -5
yeah BM's music and lyrics are so magic that can help people,when you are down blind melon is always there to pick you up
theres always a blind melon song for every situation
you feel soo sad so you lisen CHANGE
you wanna remember your grandma so you lisen VERNIE
you notice that you havent seen smile your friend in a little while so you lisen TOES ACROOS THE FLOOR
your boyfriend dumpn you so you lisen DERA OI DAD
you fell so dwn so you lisen SOUP(which is magic)
and i can think a lot of more but i'm to lazy
i dont know what blind melon's cds have that you can stop lisen to them. you lisen them one time,another time,two times more and more ,more after you realize that shannon is death and he will never come back
but you now shannon dont die until we forget him!
in a few words blind melon can change lives XD
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Post by melonrocks on Jan 28, 2008 20:12:08 GMT -5
sorry is DEAR OI DAD i wrote it so fast i didnt notice it and whre it says i can stop lisen to them is can't(negative) sorry
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Post by chrispy0515 on Jan 28, 2008 21:12:07 GMT -5
And "haven't seen that smile in a little while" is from Mouth Full Of Cavities by the way - lol.  |
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Post by melonrocks on Jan 29, 2008 13:32:47 GMT -5
yeah i know, when i was written that part i was lisening toes acroos a flooor so i got confused, really sorry XD
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Post by bowlofjokes on Feb 2, 2008 2:15:08 GMT -5
ha ha ha great convo
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Post by D MAn on May 2, 2009 20:27:29 GMT -5
 I am a huuuge fan of the band since the early 90's and like a million other people I was devastated when Shannon Hoon passed away. The guy was an absolute brilliant artist who's life I was following along with being that I was in a band myself at the time, was a big fan of Blind Melon, and I was also battling my own "demons" with a drug addiction for about 10 years from 1984 to 1994(everyday heavy weed smoker, popping qualudes & valium left & right, and snorting & free basing cocaine). I used to just kick back and listen to their songs while getting high and trying to write my own songs, and I could totally feel & relate to Shannon's lyrics because alot of them were about his struggles with drug addiction and his desire to stop & get clean. Believe it or not those songs helped me get through alot of my struggles and pain at the time, and now proudly I sit here having stayed totally clean & sober for 13 years and counting, but sadly and ironically Shannon was not able to find & follow the same path to sobriety I did while I listened to HIS own lyrics back then while getting clean. So in my particular case his personal demons that he sang about, helped me eventually overcome my own.
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Post by JD on May 2, 2009 20:30:51 GMT -5
I will tell you that the DEMONs that Shannon were the same that I shared in 1994! I agree, we all have to remembe to shake our demons..it will destory us all. I am a huuuge fan of the band since the early 90's and like a million other people I was devastated when Shannon Hoon passed away. The guy was an absolute brilliant artist who's life I was following along with being that I was in a band myself at the time, was a big fan of Blind Melon, and I was also battling my own "demons" with a drug addiction for about 10 years from 1984 to 1994(everyday heavy weed smoker, popping qualudes & valium left & right, and snorting & free basing cocaine). I used to just kick back and listen to their songs while getting high and trying to write my own songs, and I could totally feel & relate to Shannon's lyrics because alot of them were about his struggles with drug addiction and his desire to stop & get clean. Believe it or not those songs helped me get through alot of my struggles and pain at the time, and now proudly I sit here having stayed totally clean & sober for 13 years and counting, but sadly and ironically Shannon was not able to find & follow the same path to sobriety I did while I listened to HIS own lyrics back then while getting clean. So in my particular case his personal demons that he sang about, helped me eventually overcome my own. |
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