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Blind Melon
Blind Melon came together in Los Angeles around a loose, sun-warmed sound that mixed alternative rock with a hippie-ish, acoustic streak. They became known almost overnight for "No Rain," with its bee girl video, but singer Shannon Hoon's wry, searching songs gave the band more depth than the one-hit tag suggests. Hoon died in 1995, not long after the band released its second record.
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Blind Melon (1992). Their debut holds the hit "No Rain" alongside "Tones of Home," and the warmer, folk-leaning side that makes the rest of the album worth keeping on.
Biography
Blind Melon is an American rock band formed in 1990 in Los Angeles, California. The band consists of guitarists Rogers Stevens and Christopher Thorn, drummer Glen Graham, vocalist Travis Warren and bassist Nathan Towne. They are best known for their 1993 hit "No Rain", and enjoyed critical and commercial success in the early 1990s with their neo-psychedelic take on alternative rock. The band has sold over 3.2 million albums in the United States as of 2008.
Blind Melon released two albums on Capitol Records – Blind Melon (1992) and Soup (1995) – before their original lead vocalist Shannon Hoon died of a drug overdose on the band's tour bus in New Orleans on October 21, 1995. After four years of unsuccessfully searching for a replacement for Hoon, Blind Melon dissolved in 1999. The remaining members reformed the band in 2006 with Travis Warren and recorded one album with him, For My Friends (2008). Shortly after its release, Warren left Blind Melon but returned in 2010, when the band returned to performing occasional gigs. The group has been nominated for four Grammy Awards.
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Studio albums
Discography
Official studio albums and EPs.
- 2009Deep Cuts: Blind MelonEP
- 2008For My FriendsAlbum
- 1995SoupAlbum
- 1992Blind MelonAlbum
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