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| 491.1 | Gonna' Go Downtown | CRISTA::MAYNARD | The Front Row Kid | Thu Sep 16 1993 19:29 | 5 |
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Blind Melon Chitlin and his famous "ding-dong"?
Jimbert
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| 491.2 | Acapulco Gold is ........ | PAKORA::GMORRISON | NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!! | Sat Sep 18 1993 04:00 | 8 |
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Goin downtown gonna see ma gal
Gonna sing her a song,gonna sho her ma ding-dong
YYYYAAAA.
(I hope there's some Cheech and Chong fans out there!)
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| 491.3 | | ESBLAB::BRIDGE | | Mon Sep 20 1993 20:37 | 2 |
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Ya blind baby.. What the hells this ding-dong???
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| 491.4 | just thought I'd comment | VAXWRK::STHILAIRE | contemporary angst & nihilism | Tue Sep 21 1993 14:52 | 6 |
| I thought they sounded terrible when they opened for Neil Young at
Great Woods last month. I think they need better sound equipment, or
more practice performing in public, or both.
Lorna
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| 491.5 | got the tape | SALEM::BULL | | Thu Sep 23 1993 19:32 | 10 |
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I just bought the tape (because of the song 'no rain')
Even on the tape they sounded a bit rough.
Lorna,
How was Neil????
Sherrin
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| 491.6 | loved it | VAXWRK::STHILAIRE | Food, Shelter & Diamonds | Thu Sep 23 1993 20:24 | 4 |
| re .5, Neil was *fantastic*!!! :-) He put on a great show.
Lorna
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| 491.7 | more comments? | NAVY5::SDANDREA | Plonk, Roost, and Jam, what a country! | Wed Apr 20 1994 14:08 | 5 |
| I'm not a 'dead' fan, but I really like "No Rain". It's the only cut
i've heard. Do they have more than one CD out, and is the rest of the
album 'like' "no Rain"?
steve
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| 491.8 | 2 cents worth, and worth every penny of it | RICKS::CALCAGNI | I Got You Babe (Slight Return) | Wed Apr 20 1994 14:24 | 9 |
| I'd recommend it. I like the single "No Rain", but like most of the
record even better. Blind Melon is a jammin band, they do a lot of
stretching out. That kind of stuff either works or it doesn't; in this
case I'd say it does.
Note that while I can understand the tendency to compare them to the
Dead, I don't think they really sound like a Dead clone band. I could
see not liking the Dead and still liking this CD.
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| 491.9 | :) | TECRUS::DEMARSE | No ego's under water | Wed Apr 20 1994 16:01 | 20 |
| >> I'm not a 'dead' fan, but I really like "No Rain".
who said you had to be a dead fan to like Blind Melon? I don't see any
similarity between the 2 bands...
>> Do they have more than one CD out
No, this is their only cd (at the moment)...I expect a new one out
within a year...when I saw them at TT's last spring they played the
whole album and the year before they did the same. When I saw them in
Providence this spring, again they played a lot of tracks off the
album, this time with a little variation, and only a couple new ones.
I was a little disappointed that there were only a couple new songs,
I would think they would get sick of playing the same songs for 2 1/2
years....but then again, most of the crowd was only there to hear
"No Rain" and the rest of the overplayed radio hits...
They're a good band, the cd's definitely worth checking out...
:), danielle
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| 491.10 | | SMURF::HAPGOOD | Java Java HEY! | Wed Apr 20 1994 16:31 | 7 |
| re: Dead Connection
Robert Hunter (I'm fairly certain....) writes tunes for Blind Melon.
there's a direct connection....
bob
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| 491.11 | squash the bee girl... | CABRIO::MULHOLLEN | kindred to being an american | Wed Apr 20 1994 18:30 | 17 |
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>>re: Dead Connection
>>
>>Robert Hunter (I'm fairly certain....) writes tunes for Blind Melon.
>>
>>there's a direct connection....
>>bob
maybe so... but i don't get the dead connection either. big deal if
robert hunter writes songs for blind melon... i have heard robert
hunter perform the songs that he writes for the dead, and they sound
nothing alike... the sound of a band is majorily in the performance
and not the lyrical writing... just my $.02...
/brian
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| 491.12 | hmmmm.... | TECRUS::DEMARSE | No ego's under water | Wed Apr 20 1994 18:39 | 7 |
| Are you sure that Robert Hunter writes songs for Blind Melon? I always
thought it was Shannon that wrote the lyrics...
I think that I looked at the lyrical credits back when I bought the cd
but I'm not sure....I could be wrong...
:), danielle
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| 491.13 | when does Franklin's tower not sound like itself? | SMURF::HAPGOOD | Java Java HEY! | Thu Apr 21 1994 16:47 | 13 |
| I'm not positive if RH writes lyrics for Blind Melon - I'm pretty sure but
not absolute.
re: /brian
As for Dead Connections - I didn't say I saw a connection, I don't really
except for Garcia's guitar riffs in the song "No Rain" or whatever the title
is.....I just listed an direct connection (assuming I'm right about
it :).
As for RH tunes not sounding like the dead - that's your opinion. Not mine.
bob
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| 491.14 | RIP, Shannon Hoon..... | ASDG::MCNAMARA | strange visitor...... | Tue Oct 24 1995 10:50 | 7 |
| ...Shannon Hoon, aged 28, found dead on Monday, October 23rd by the
group's sound manager....no cause of death as of yet....wayyyyyy
too young, Shannon....Rest in Peace....
"cut off in my prime, mine hetz, mine hetz..."
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