Recorded 8/13/1994 - Woodstock 94 (Saugerties, NY) Visit Wolfgang's www.wolfgangs.com/music/ to stream concerts from thousands of legendary artists. Start your free trial today. Copyright Bill Graham Archives
@@BarekHalfhand times seemed to be so much simpler back then, right? Great music everywhere you turned, friendly people around you, no riots like the 1999 shit show. If I had a time machine, THAT'S where I'd go for 3 days.....back to August 12,13,14, 1994. I just graduated high school and my whole life was ahead of me. The salad days of my youth
@@NandorTheRelentless76 I wasn't really into blind melon back then (I just remember Shannon bouncing around in his girlfriend's white dress on acid being kind of amusing) but I've taken an interest in the band over the last year or so and started lamenting Shannon's passing as symbolic of the end of that era you described. Sure I felt the loss of Kurt Cobain and Layne Staley but being a Midwesterner from Chicago and a Woodstock 94 attendee Shannon kinda hit close to home.
Married for nearly 4 years with 1 baby in tow and 1 on the way back in 1994. We were young, dumb, didn't know a thing, but man did we enjoy life and the times sure seemed better. There were no daily feelings of doom and gloom and I still had all of my loved ones by my side. Today just doesn't hold those same bright feelings of hope, joy, love, and excitement. I lost my best friend last year - my husband of 31 years. Which was absolutely the stop you dead in your tracks and make you forget how to breath type of devastating. Also lost my father several years ago, all of my grandparents are gone, as well as several close friends. The 80s and early 90s were simply magical. And now ... well, let's just say it kinda sucks where this world is and where it's headed.
Thanks for sharing your story. I only have my wife in this life. We both don't have parents nor supportive relatives. Sometimes is really hard to live.
I'm gonna be honest, that line "I just want someone to say to me, I'll always be there when you wake" hit me like a freighttrain when this song released, and I've lived by it ever since. Relationships come and relationships go. But that line always rang true to me. Following it was the best thing I've ever done, no matter how young and stupid I was. "Do what Shannon told ya, ya dummy!" That's one of the deepest expressions of true, deep love I've ever heard, and I am truly thankful I get to experience it every single day these last 18 years, with a woman that I get to wake up next to every single morning. I always kiss her on her cheek as I slip off to work, while she sleeps. Thanks for those words Shannon. Thanks for teaching me what real, deep and true love is. Rest in peace my friend.
Sir the term wake it means a higher state of consciousness the ability to see yourself and others and the world in the most truthful way. However it's maddening there's lots of good but also great darkness in the world I don't like knowing the world suffers. Most Americans are asleep and in a dream.
What a CROWD! All singing along, tripping balls and having the time of their lives. Also yes I’m gonna be that person, NO PHONES!!!! Seems like a great time to be alive and enjoy good music.
brisakruspe How I wish times like this would come back again... funny thing of me to say that is because I was just a teeny, little baby in my mother's arms when this aired on TV, that this happened 5 years prior to the '99 Woodstock festival before our culture gradually tanked in terms of quality (entertainment, music, movies/TV etc.) I can never stop agreeing with you on that! Oh how nostalgia hits the soul and mind hard!🙂
@@Ibusers1 and i wasn’t even born yet lol i’m from 2000 but it seems that i live more in the past than present. certain music give me this nostalgic feeling of something i’ve never experienced.
I was born in 02 and have grown up with Blind Melon thanks to my mom. It’s hard to explain the spiritual and special connection my mom and I have to Shannon and Blind Melon. It’s helped us through many tough times. But he’s also shown up in random places. When I’m feeling down a commercial with No Rain playing comes on. No Rain had played on my radio at work when I was particularly stressed. I listen to Blind Melon when I go on a relieving drive. And just now this video of WS 94 pops up in my recommended. Shannon speaks to both of us. To have gone to a Blind Melon concert would have been a beautiful and magical experience. I cannot preach Blind Melon enough. They hold a special place in my heart and life :)
I am so glad you get to experience the impact of Blind Melon and the 90s in general. So many great decades of music but things changed with Cell Phones/Technology becoming what it was. I would say around '01-'03ish things truly changed. Cell Phones became the norm, advancements in Technology for musical algorithms for sales/streams, etc. It truly changed music for the worse. The days of going to your states big cities music/pub venue to discover a house band that may be big someday was a hidden secret. That hidden secret is now available at a click of a mouse or a quick search online.
Maybe a legend. Hero? What did he do that was heroic? Enough drugs to kill himself? Not really very heroic. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you don't really understand the definition of the word hero. Btw I think Shannon was pretty cool and all and wish he didn't pass so young.
Ahhh... Why can't we re-do, recapture this 90s era? Why can't we go back? Why can't Shannon -and all the great blasts still be alive? - where are you Layne? Where are you Scott? I hope you're all dancing in the sky. RIP the best time to be alive.
I was lucky enough to see blind melon when they opened up for guns n' roses on the uyi tour. They put on an amazing show. Shannon hoon was an amazing frontman, he died way before his time. They were just starting to make it big. If shannon wouldn't have died they would have prob been one of the one hit wonders that faded away. When he died it immortalized him & the first album fovever.
Oh the 90’s…good times. I literally think about that time and cry at how many people I’ve lost and had much fun we had. We lived balls to the wall the whole time. Long live the 90’s ♥️
@@thecrossedtheroadfund4289 Wow, sounds like jeezus pissed in your cereal this morning… why go through life so negative, do you believe he intended or brought undo harm upon anyone… more so than you or I? I’d be willing to bet he’s brought more joy and happiness to the world than you ever could dream of… So again, peace, love, and rock n fucking roll baby!!
I'm kind of ashamed to admit I'm way late to the Blind Melon party. I was 25 when this show happened and all I knew of Blind Melon was this song and Tones Of Home and both were played to death on FM radio so I never even attempted to get into this band. Fast forward to about 6 months ago and I finally listened to Soup in its entirety and then the debut album. I was absolutely floored at how incredible both albums are and have dived so deep into this band. I've got my 19 year old son totally hooked on them now as well.
Me too, and I was into Jane's Addiction, the Pixies and Soundgarden at the time, but somehow I missed Blind Melon till recently. Love how they bring in elements such as banjos, brass bands and blues guitar, they sounded so different to all the other grunge bands at the time
As an old deadhead, I always find familiarity with this band in the free way they played. And Shannon....had such unique voice and range. I sure miss him.
I'm singing with you Shannon 🎉😎🎉 All I can say is that my life is pretty plain I like watching the puddles gather rain And all I can do.....is just pour some tea for two And speak my point of view But it's not sane It's not sane
The difference between 93 Hoon and 95 Hoon is intense. Here we are in the middle, on the way down. So sad to see how quickly a drug like coke can ruin your life.
Howie Duwit yes I saw Peter Gabriel. Excellent! Here is a little video I put together of some pictures I took while I was there.✌🏻 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Z_kf4_dWdIM.html
I love how Shannon has LEGIT so much room to run around and trip on acid! Thank God for the crowd's sake they had cords on their microphones or he may have LITERALLY taken off into the atmosphere instead of metaphorically!
@@matthewcrowe5023 mmm perhaps you're right, i mean i like Primus more as a band if i have to choose but Blind Melon had that Woodstock vibe, grunge in general i think idk always seen the grunge generation as the sons of the hippie generation
Richard Shannon Hoon (Lafayette, Indiana, 26 de septiembre de 1967-Nueva Orleans, Luisiana, 21 de octubre de 1995) fue un cantante, Guitarrista y letrista estadounidense que lideró la banda de rock Blind Melon hasta su muerte por sobredosis de cocaína el 21 de octubre de 1995 cuando solo tenía 28 años y estaba en pleno apogeo de su carrera. En vida Hoon, junto a Blind Melon publicó dos álbumes de estudio, Blind Melon y Soup, en 1992 y 1995, respectivamente, aunque un año después de su muerte, sus excompañeros editaron el disco Nico con grabaciones descartadas de los anteriores trabajos, que lleva el nombre de la hija de Shannon, Nico Blue. Hoon, cuyo estilo vocal fue comparado a menudo con el de la también fallecida Janis Joplin,[1] consiguió oponerse al estilo reinante en Los Ángeles, el hair metal, para componer canciones basadas en el rock de los años 1970, con representantes como Led Zeppelin o Grateful Dead.
I was good friends with Shan in the 90s ll never forget riding around going to raves in Chicago and tripping balls and poppin E. He was kinda dating my friend Bill here there off and on but he passed away unfortunatly out of nowhere. We had so much planned to do. he was learning about techno and house and I was teaching him to dj, wanted to do more rave stuff and Manchester influenced music. Truly a great guy. World misses him still
Man, I hope that someone hears this this band Blind Melon needs to be in the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame. They deserve it and no rain I was eight years old when that song came out in 1992 best song I have ever heard.
Just occurred to me this has a Birdsong vibe. I was at WS 94, though I can’t remember all the acts I saw. This concert at this time was kinda the peak of Liberalism. The Cold War just ended a few years before, liberalism had won and the liberal ideal of ‘freedom’ was on full display. It’s been downhill since.
