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  • fuck chuck and W.o.W.

  • what a badd ass song! so sincere,

  • wow.

  • 0: 52, tiene una onda a dave mustaine en esa foto shannon hoon

  • Shannon saved my life.many times <3 thanks man. R.I.P

  • without Shannon...Life can be pretty shitty...

  • recorded in st. louis

  • spanish ending woo hoo

  • a little ditty which captures the essence of the simplicity of human nature which would solve the world's problems= empathy.

  • dope!

  • Spanish Indie!

  • @WWMPjam ending

  • @guitarlvrify indie

  • @WWMPjam spanish

  • it would be cool if 70 year olds knew who Blind Melon was

  • @Adambob1987 true enough - but remember, the cool 70 year olds know Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, The Who and a lot of other great music. i'm 47 and i wish more 20 year olds knew those bands too.

  • @jodiehays haha, I was just kind of making fun of how everyone has to say their age on videos when they discover older music. Of course young people are going to think older music is better when, especially now, new music isn't that great. I think the super cool 70 year olds are still listening to American Graffiti type music :). But Blind Melon is a timeless band and it will continue to reach across generations.

  • @jodiehays Im 19 and blind melon, pink floyd, bob dylan, and neil young are probably my favorite bands you should check out Umphreys Mcgee and john butler trio if you dont know them.

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  • so im not from this era im only 14 but his songs are just amazing. my mom told me who the band was because i was singing no rain one day and there changing my life. i really wish he didnt OD. his music turned me on to a whole different way of thinking. i hope more kids my age find as much inspiration as i did in this music

  • So many teens these days don't know real talent, real music. I'm 18 years old and am one of the few my age who knows of Blind Melon and Shannon Hoon... Makes me sad.

    Thank you Dad for introducing this into my life at an early age.

  • i wanna put ten million likes to this song.

  • I love Blind Melon, Shannon Hoon was a great Talent and is missed. He cannot be replaced, BUT, remember there was a band there too who helped write all the great music that was/is Blind Melon. Support the New Blind Melon, they are still a great band, even though they are missing Shannon. Gone Not forgotten. Check out "for all my friend" great album. RIP Shannon Hoon. Sadley missed by all you have touched with your soul and music.

  • RIP Shannon, you genius.

  • Drugs are cool.

  • @beowulven I was just thinking the same thing..my life would be soooo booooring without them...but I only smoke weed..I can't die from it and it never gets boring when I'm on it..it's a win/win situation...XD!

  • @beowulven So, you like the thing that killed Shannon Hoon?

  • @beowulven your an idiot.....I hope you die a painful overdose!...then you can be as cool as all the other losers that ruin their parents and family members lives....sooo when you being cool with your friends and you start to feel the pain...and your breath gets short and you realize you can't say good bye or better yet "SORRY " to your mom and dad....think of me...I'll be in the black area that closes in around your eyes as you fade out....tool!

  • @oquatanzenwan

    Nice grammar!

  • I listened to the final part "spanish ending" watching his picture and I almost cried

  • hm... i dont get it. i was born in 95. i like this music and others like it, like nirvana and dream thearter (not that its really like this but stll). but i also like certain pop bands, like owl city and stuff. why is it a big deal? arent i allowed to like both?

  • @Jangleman12 majority of pop bands are thought up by fat cats in a meeting room on the executive floor just to make quick bucks, also the lyrics will carry a certain agenda that may be pro war or consumerism etc

  • It's not that blind melon was under rated. Their star was on the rise, it just got snuffed out prematurely. I could still remember when news of hoon's death came out. We were pretty shocked. It was the death of another rock god.

  • wen did he die?

    

  • @Ryand1238 drug oversdoes in 95, i beleive

  • R.I.P. <3

  • just as long u got some toilett paiper

  • Check out "Chillin" by Five Wheel Soul

  • 0:00

  • I play Blind Melon in my car for pretty much everyone who rides in it. I always introduce them as a lesser known or underrated band. The response is always "lesser known? no way". But when I ask them to name any of their songs they say "No Rain" and sometimes they also throw in "Change" but it's rarely more than that. I just nod, smile and say "yup, lesser known" and then blow their minds with the entire discography. Glad I can show them the true beauty of blind melon even over a decade later.

  • vigil sept 24 2011

  • this song esspecially im glad most my favorite blind melon songs are on youtub like this jem. maybe ill find a cd on the ground to though hahaha

  • this song gives me goose bumps and it feels like it pierces my soul.

  • @thetruth201091 totally just put my feelings into words right there.

  • soul.. can you feel it?

  • i fucking love blind melon r.i.p. shannon hoon

  • I love this band, that beautiful man Shannon....... miss him...... love this band so much I gave my daughter the middle name Nico..... and Blind Melon happens to be her favorite band, can't say I know many 2 year olds who know every Blind Melon song by heart but my little girl does and she sings them like crazy and quite well, the girl can harmonize and carry a tune it's amazing she was born with music in her blood.

  • Always need to hear

  • He makes me feel good. Miss you Shannon

  • After all these years.. Still cuts me deep.. R.I.P

  • Dont know many people that like real music any more, Blind Melon makes my days so much better. Shannon thanks for you contribution to all of our lives!

  • So stoned out of ones mind ya wouldnt have known whether life was shitty or not; such a sad sad sad waste of life!

  • @idolkritiq man.,. you're sad, you'll never live that way.. you couldnt anyway, ur just afraid of change

  • todays teens are so Dumb they think beiber is music for fucks sake

  • VH1 is fuckin stupid.... One hit wonder my ass

  • @DoyleWilliamDavid I know right? What criteria are they basing that on? Record sales? Single sales? I have no idea, but the term one hit wonder always feels derogatory to me. Like the band has no real fans or no other real good music. But Blind Melon had some seriously epic songs and an extremely solid momentum going artistically. To me, every single song is amazing. Unique, full, the whole spectrum of the human condition is represented. Like, say, the Beatles or Led Zep.....?

  • @DoyleWilliamDavid i havent heard them in yeaarrss.. all the time ive wasted :(

  • such a deep song

    rest in peace brother

  • you gotta find the good in life and shannon knew it.

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  • shocked and saddened that so few people know about his contribution to music..really bugs the shit out of me

  • @WeedVulva ME TOO! I just said that about VH1 and all that bullshit....

  • so lucky he shared with us all....

  • @ArtificialRed1083 HAHAHAHH!

  • I miss him -his talent. Nobody can compare to his talent although I've seen some say perhaps Cobain. I have yet to get excited over a band like Blind Melon.

  • i think alot of people really miss this band i know i do

  • RED LEADER STANDING BY

  • Life is good. It's also a long time if you live it day to day. We should all just chill and get to work. Straight up.

  • i miss blind melon :(

  • I agree with other people on here, who have said that Shannon has helped save me when I was in a dark place. His words touch my soul. His voice is so beautiful n unique. I miss Shannon.

  • Life is bullshit!

  • @roskildahphreak yo mama.

  • @SONOFABITCH Fuck you, you fucking hippie faggot!

  • @roskildahphreak Time for INTERNET BATTLE.

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  • @roskildahphreak ...Don't be bummed...it can (and does) all change in a moment.

  • @DarumaXIV Yeah, i'll buy you a beer if that ever happens! My point exactly!

  • @roskildahphreak It's all passing....I just try to be like water.

  • Totally agree. I listen to the tunes today and gives me chills up my neck, so much raw spirit through this sound. Such a loss.

  • Talk about under-rated talent, seriously.. 'tis a shame Blind Melon is quite unknown, I found a CD on the ground, a blank sony one, in about 1996, I brought it home and played it, it worked fine, it was filled with Blind Melon. Thanks dude, whoever dropped that CD, for giving me life.

    Also, one of their songs is in GH now, so be prepared for kids to enter this video crying about modern-day pop artists.

  • @airwalkcrazy360 Damn modern kids talking about modern stuff!

  • @airwalkcrazy360 Not all kids find out about a band from gh...

  • @airwalkcrazy360 good story man.

  • @airwalkcrazy360 this has 2 be the best comment ive ever read !!!!!!!....ty!!!!!!!!  rip sh

  • @airwalkcrazy360 agreed,terribly under rated. but hey, when alota bands get popular they loose their meaning ya know? just the impact they made in their time is AMAZING!! he was about the music,nothing else. which is what made them the band they were. no one can compare.

  • @airwalkcrazy360 To be honest, I agree. But you can't just assume all kids like shitty pop crap. I'm 17 and would listen to this all day, every day if I could, the 90's is definitely my favourite era of music. I hate Justin Bieber. and everything that sounds like him. Blind Melon all the way, dude.

  • @lukestar1994 totally agree with you the 90's is where its at

  • @lukestar1994 thts his point, guitar hero kids always complain about how shit modern day pop iss, thy claim to hate it. Bt instead of listening to relatively unkown, controcersial or underground music they merely listen to old music from the 70's, 80's and 90's

  • @airwalkcrazy360 I hear ya, man. Back in school, a buddy of mine got a bunch of CDs from one of the teachers who had a bunch in her desk. One of which was Blind Melon. Hopped on that, threw him 5 bucks, and haven't been happier. When life gets shitty, I play some good ol' Shannon Hoon.

  • @airwalkcrazy360 hey mate, which CD was that you found on the ground ?? I mean what's the title

  • @AsesinoDeGilipollas It was a blank Sony, someone burned a bunch of songs by stuff like Metallica and Sublime, and it had Blind Melon on it too.

  • @sosexica werd, i jus watched that film, pretty good, but i dont think that is the 1 i was thinkin bout, it was still good, regardless, i wonder where those 2 drums r now 2day, those drums he threw in2 the crowd at woodstock, that was cool they put that clip in there, i didnt really know there was a woodstock 94 i only thought there was the 1 back in the day n the 1 in 99, man i luv blind melon so much, sux dude had 2leave so early, anyway i say good looks on tellin me but that film

  • sadly,great minds never last long, but the dumb go on and on.

  • GOD BLESS THE OLD 90S MUSIC, TIME SHOULD NEVER PASS.

  • 0:20 hoon got dreads!

  • shitty is an understatement

  • awh..Shannon! My mom was friends with him, though i was a baby when he died so i dont remember much :/ She always speaks really great of him though ^_^ R.i.P!

  • I love Shannon ohh so much<3

  • yo i remember back in the day i saw like this tribute show on vh1 or somewhere, it was talkin bout the band and hoon, i have only seen it 1nce n it was mad long ago, i can only remember a slight glimpse of it in my head, but 4sum reason i remember it was sayin that like b4 he died he startd fimling himself n everything around him, i think they had a clip of him smokin a bowl, yo does any1 know if his footage ever made it 2a film, like a doctumentry or sumthin, like all his footage put 2gether

  • @1cupofwater download the "Letters from a Porcupine" It's about his singing career!

  • Be Mellow

  • i LOVE that last photo

    + the one with nico on his chest...

    beauty

  • I was named after that man i love him and i wish i wudda had the chanse to meet him but i was born in 98 :( he is my god its like ive known him for ever.. but ive never met him ill never forget him..

  • I was named after that man i love him and i wish i wudda had the chanse to meet him but i was born in 98 :( he is my god its like ive known him for ever.. but ive never met him

  • you gotta wonder if this was a response to kurt cobains songwriting

  • Yeah I miss this guy's presence in music of today. I feel like these guys were on the verge of really opening up.

  • people dislike shannon and the rest of the band because they didnt belive in organized religons and he did drugs but im sure that they all had more fun then somebody that spends evry min of there day in church of course he od on cocain but we need to respect that he wanted to have a good time and if you have a good time life aint so shity

  • Life's only been shitty since you've been gone bro.

  • hard to believe it's been 15 years already

  • RIP Shannon never forget october 21st 1995 ):

  • shannon hoon mae lo mejor q escuchado ... aparte esta cancion me hace sentir lo mejor con l.s.d

  • Happy birthday Shannon! 

  • Spanish indie FTW

  • i still go to his stone every october and leave him a little something.

  • haha, amazing. 

    be mellow

  • this song has helped me.

  • I love each and every one these guys that play this music, and the way they play it, but the music that these new people add to it makes the music less enjoyable for me. they just cant be the band they used to be without hoon. its like the current members of the band cant reconnect with the energy, the band once had, without hoon.

    P.S.

    -sorry, but i just had to write this wierd thought that jumped through my mind.... im stoned :) ....

  • A man, a guitar and an answering machine.

    That's insane...

  • @FrxBass This was actually recorded in a hotel room. As u hear the cars as well. Letters from a Porcupine was recorded on Thorn's answering machine though, and yes, it was amazing. I'd never have deleted it

  • his spirit helped save me when I was in a deep dark place. I was in total darkness but a cab ride changed my life laf in 2005

  • @elleJify

    Great story :)

  • i love this song

  • This song is great! Full of freedom and love and that simplicity

  • love the 90s....great video to a great song. RIP Shannon....life is pretty shitty now days

  • great man!!!!!!!

  • i miss you shannon hope all is well

  • Y DONT PEOPLE SAY HI ANYMORE I MEAN IM WALKIN N THE PARK N PEOPLE DONT EVEN HAVE THE DECENCY TO RESPOND. WHERES DA LOVE EVRYBODY

  • @ched1077 You must be up north...hell down here if you say hey to someone and they stop you might as well plan on spending a few minutes talking with them.

  • to the 13 who disliked this song, pls dont do that because you don't know Blind Melon is

  • @reverend07 RIGHT ON MAN!! thats exactly how i feel..how could you possibly dislike this??

  • @reverend07 It was Justin Biever :-p

  • great song and slideshow

  • shannon hoon!! beautiful person and I don't wanna mean only how cute and hot he was..his voice..his beautiful soul..i'm 20 years old...I live in another generation that unfortunately don't appreciate good music (some of them) :( but this band..this guy :D they are awesome..!! i think Shannon makes me feel so good..this music really changed my fuckin' life..THANK U!! I wish shannon was here :S

  • it really does suck shannon is gone.

    this vid. made me tear up a bit. :/

  • This man changed my life. i'd be dead without him, literally. Who feels the same as me?

    Hoon may have died but his songs have kept millions of people going on with their lives. It's a sacrafice in my view. Hoon is my jesus(even though i'm not religiois)

  • @datiki I know what ya mean.

  • @datiki I feel like you! MARCELA FROM ARGENTINA"!

  • @datiki Yeah man, just like his grave site (Lyric from Change) says,"I know we can't all stay here forever

    So I want to write my words on the face of today"

  • @datiki I'm with you brother

  • @datiki

    I really think you'd have to be a retard to believe he's saved millions of lives. Come on man. He's probably stopped a couple hundred people from suicide tops(still an achievement of course). Great musician though.

  • @Grungadin How do you know?

  • @datiki Me too! This was my motivation through a very tough time in my life!

  • @datiki who feels the same? I DO! I DO! I DOOOOOOO!!!!! =)

  • @datiki i feel ya man, blind melon was what i would come home to and id rehabilitate myself in shannon's words, in the music. through such a band time, and im fine now.. i love this band

  • @datiki shannon hoon had a set of ideals that wre exploited in the 60' and 70's he was a truley inspirational man with positive ideas and it hurts me too know that there are not many ppl left who feel the same way

    love and peace will reign true dont give my friends

  • @datiki Shannon is awesome. I remember hearing "Change" in high school and being completely blown away by the genius in his words. He was fearless in his resolve to be unabashedly true to himself, and his work reflects that character. Regardless of who you are or what kind of music you listen to, that's something you should admire. Cheers to Shannon and Blind Melon, my life wouldn't be the same without them.

  • @datiki I feel the same as you my brotha. Seriously. That's why when I saw VH1 had Blind Melon listed as number three one hit wonder band of all time I almost had a freaking stroke. What the fuck? Number three one hit wonder? I, mean, do they listen to the albums?

  • @datiki "This man changed my life. i'd be dead without him, literally. Who feels the same as me?" I do :)

  • @wildwomenneverdie Hey man, his music got me through some very tough times in life as well.... His music had soul..

  • @wildwomenneverdie me too =)

  • @wildwomenneverdie him and Peter Doherty same story for me, and what do ya know, she called me for the first time in 9months. and here iam, lettn Shannon help me thru it

  • I love this band

  • We all miss Shannon.

    He was the Jim Morrison of our generation.

  • about time i found some more hoon fans

  • I love this. It's so honest- true mark of a great man

  • why would 11 people dislike this i mean like on slipknot they get thousands of dislikes but every one ive turned on toblind melon love it

  • <3 blind melon and u shannon

  • supongo que se canso de tokar esa canción, y tomo la decision que tomo

  • @mxgoto05 , Disculpa el cantante murio de sobredosis o fue suicidio , en esa epoca de su muerte ni me entere cual fue el motivo.

    saludos

  • NO, NO ES QUE SE CANSO DE CANTAR CHANGE. NUNCA PUDO REALMENTE CAMBIAR Y ENCIMA FUE PADRE! DEMASIADO PARA EL. LA COCAÍNA LE PUDRIÓ LA CABEZA Y CREYÓ QUE NO ERA CAPAZ DE TANTA LUZ!

  • @cemarcemar TRANSLATION: NO, NOT THAT CHANGE cease to sing. COULD NEVER REALLY CHANGE AND FATHER WAS OVER! Too much. LE rotted COCAINE HEAD AND BELIEVE THAT IT WAS NOT ABLE TO MUCH LIGHT!

  • For as long as I live I promise to let his legacy live on. RIP Shannon <3

    Blind Melon = Best of the best. Number 1!

  • hell of a talent, too bad the selfish fuck went and killed himself with heroin and left his daughter behind. A tale thats repeated itself.

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  • @jeanlament12 If you have an addiction to a hard drug like heroin and you don't stop, you will die. Therefore, as addiction is self inflicted, and he was a heroin addict, he killed himself. There are consequences for everything, and he payed the dearest price for his own actions.

  • @manmanguy actually he died of heart failure while on cocaine. People drive cars every day. People die in cars every day. Does that mean they deserved it? I think coke is a shitty drug, but that's kinda cold.

  • @lt3tretrois You are absolutely correct and I apologize. Does one drive a car knowing they ABSOLUTELY WILL DIE once they drive for too long? No. Does one usually die from prolonged use of very hard drugs? Not always. However, if one causes their own death I have no sympathy to a point. If you inject Cocaine into your bloodstream you should probably expect a little death.

  • @manmanguy You can't die a little, you die or you live.

  • @manmanguy i'd rather sniff cocaine than inject it :L:L

  • @Lukith66 Mainlining fucks you up