Keep on dreaming boy, cause when you stop dreamin its time to die.
You know, of all the bands I never got the opportunity to see live, I think I'm saddest over the fact I never saw Blind Melon. They're hardly my favourite band, but there's something about Shannon Hoon. He has the ability to make me laugh and sob at the same time. I've been watching some videos of Blind Melon playing at Woodstock '94 and I'm enthralled. His antics, his improv, his chatter, his lyrics and his voice, holy shit, his voice, have made me rather smitten.
Take for example this video of Change. It was performed on April 8th, 1994, the day they found Kurt Cobain’s body. Shannon dedicated the song to Kurt and changed the lyrics in tribute. There’s just something about the video that makes me inconsolably depressed.
And to think that the next year Shannon died of an overdose. It’s ironic in a sad sort of way that he couldn’t take his own advice in the end.
Take for example this video of Change. It was performed on April 8th, 1994, the day they found Kurt Cobain’s body. Shannon dedicated the song to Kurt and changed the lyrics in tribute. There’s just something about the video that makes me inconsolably depressed.
And to think that the next year Shannon died of an overdose. It’s ironic in a sad sort of way that he couldn’t take his own advice in the end.
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