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Blind Melon DVD Returns To Stores In Updated Version
09/11/2001 10:00 AM, Yahoo! Music
Neal Weiss
(9/11/01, 10 a.m. ET) -- An expanded version of the Blind Melon 1996 home video, Letters From A Porcupine, arrives in stores today (September 11) in the form of a DVD.
The release contains previously unreleased material that doubles the length of the original version, including home movies, behind-the-scenes interviews with the Melon members, and all eight of the band's videos, among them the famed bumble-bee-starring clip for the group's biggest hit, "No Rain." Eighty-two minutes of live footage are also carried over from the original release.
Letters From A Porcupine was originally released in memory of the group's fallen lead singer, Shannon Hoon, who succumbed to a drug overdose in 1995. Blind Melon bassist Brad Smith tells LAUNCH that to this day, he's still learning about Hoon's talents.
"The media, you know, turns someone into a genius after their death and I don't think Shannon got his quota of that, if you will. And it affected me like that. I didn't realize what an amazing folk songwriter Shannon was until he was dead. And a lot of this stuff didn't even make it into the Blind Melon music world. But he could write a folk song that was just dead accurate and perfect and just really honest. That was his genius that was never really shown, you know. That's kind of a bummer."
Smith and guitarist Christopher Thorn returned to the rock wars in 2000 with the self-titled debut from the group, Unified Theory. The band is currently working on its second album.
-- Neal Weiss, Los Angeles
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