Post by Vince on Jan 5, 2006 6:01:26 GMT -5
The remaining members of Blind Melon are trying to buy the www.blindmelon.com domain that expires in March 2006, to make a site full of unreleased material for us to download.
You can sign the petition here:
www.petitionspot.com/petitions/blindmelondotcom
Please, do me a favor: do not insult the guy who owns www.blindmelon.com because it won't help...
Here is a message from Rogers Stevens (posted on http://www.blindmelonforum.com):
Hi all
Rogers here...yes, the band does want this domain name (blindmelon.com). After the band ended, it was still kinda early on in the whole website thing, and we were all so upset that we didn't lock it down. I've been back and forth with the guy who owns it, and he has refused to sell it to the band, so we don't have a lot of recourse unless we wanted to take it to the courts, which is just too nuts to deal with. So I kinda gave up on it for now.... but we wanted to put a nice site together to preserve the name and memory of the band, as well as put out a lot of stuff that has not been seen or heard before. As you can imagine, the band has lots of photos and bits of music that were not together enough to release, so this would be the perfect place to put it out so ya'll could download etc. We could also make this board a part of the site (if that were amenable to the owners here). If someone manages to reason with this guy, then let us know. As always, we are very grateful to all of you here for keeping our music alive.
take care
Rogers
You can sign the petition here:
www.petitionspot.com/petitions/blindmelondotcom
Please, do me a favor: do not insult the guy who owns www.blindmelon.com because it won't help...
Here is a message from Rogers Stevens (posted on http://www.blindmelonforum.com):
Hi all
Rogers here...yes, the band does want this domain name (blindmelon.com). After the band ended, it was still kinda early on in the whole website thing, and we were all so upset that we didn't lock it down. I've been back and forth with the guy who owns it, and he has refused to sell it to the band, so we don't have a lot of recourse unless we wanted to take it to the courts, which is just too nuts to deal with. So I kinda gave up on it for now.... but we wanted to put a nice site together to preserve the name and memory of the band, as well as put out a lot of stuff that has not been seen or heard before. As you can imagine, the band has lots of photos and bits of music that were not together enough to release, so this would be the perfect place to put it out so ya'll could download etc. We could also make this board a part of the site (if that were amenable to the owners here). If someone manages to reason with this guy, then let us know. As always, we are very grateful to all of you here for keeping our music alive.
take care
Rogers