Blind Melon, was one of the most promising bands to emerge in the early 90's. Seattle bands and their imitators had dominated the first two years of the decade, but in 1992, along came a band from L.A. with members culled from Indiana, Pennsylvanian, and Mississippi. Unlike the sounds coming from Seattle, Blind Melon found their inspiration and influences in the classic rock of Led Zeppelin, Grateful Dead & Lynyrd Skynyrd. Their short career was overshadowed by the happenings in the Pacific Northwest, but what little music they were able to leave behind is as solid a [...]
For part of the population, Blind Melon remain the band with that bumblebee video (or members of Blender 's 50 Worst Artists In Music History list ), but we've never been shy about our blind Melon love . The retro-grade L.A. crew continued trucking after their biggest hit, turning out plenty of good material, and would've kept going if not for vocalist Shannon Hoon's death by a drug overdose in 1995. Well, surprisingly, surviving the one-hit wonder jokes and after mourning and taking a break, the band's found themselves Travis Warren, a cocky young Texan, to front [...]
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