Here’s another guy who didn’t quite realize that heroin was dangerous until it was a little bit too late. The late Shannon Hoon with his band Blind Melon whined his way into our hearts with No Rain which I am pretty sure is about a clingy douche bag who might be crazy. I guess we’ll never know now. Unless one of you know what it’s about. If so, then why don’t you explain it to me, Mister or Miss Smart Face!
But even if you didn’t like the song, at some point you heard about the “Bee Girl”. The dancing bee was quite the phenom when the video came out. I don’t quite remember what a phenom took the shape of before the Internet. I mean, Now we have AccountingFan2008 but back then I guess there were photo copies and Entertainment Tonight. And MTV. And Bee Girl. You know what things aren’t as cute as a little girl with glasses dressed up as a bee trying to find a place to fit in? Well I do, cause I have tried every one!
- Frog Hat and no pants at Friendly’s Ice Cream.
- Dressing like a mime but just going to work and talking constantly.
- Finally meeting Nicole Kidman and instead of just shaking her hand I threw her like a javelin and impaled a cop.
- Scaring England by pretending everyone in America was going to come to visit at the same time.
- Frog Hat and no pants at Sears.
- Frog Hat and towel at Mall Security Office
So they really hit on something with the Bee Girl. And all the frigging singer had to do was not die. The video made his song famouser than it would have been otherwise. But nope. He died. And the Bee Girl went on to be Maya Angelou. Seriously. Weird, right? Video and lyrics after the jump!
Blind Melon – No Rain
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
I just want someone to say to me
I’ll always be there when you wake
You know I’d like to keep my cheeks dry today
So stay with me and I’ll have it made
And I don’t understand why I sleep all day
And I start to complain that there’s no rain
And all I can do is read a book to stay awake
And it rips my life away but it’s a great escape
Escape …
All I can say is that my life is pretty plain
You don’t like my point of view
You think that I’m insane
It’s not sane …
I just want someone to say to me
I’ll always be there when you wake
You know I’d like to keep my cheeks dry today
So stay with me and I’ll have it made
Shannon Hoon’s death was one of the most disturbing to me during my years as a rock journalist because I had been assigned a story on the band shortly before his death. I remember seeing him perform at the Troubadour in Los Angeles. The band’s album, Soup, had just come out, and I thought he was a pretty special singer. I was looking forward to talking to him, even though it was probably going to be a phoner since the band was on the road. It never happened. I felt awful. I also felt like I had been robbed of what would probably have been one of my better stories. Blind Melon was inspiring like that.
BTW, Hoon actually died of a cocaine overdose. He had recently been in rehab for heroin, but it was coke that did him in.
You know, I couldn’t even watch the video. It started to upset me all over again. Some rock star deaths you take personally, even if you never met the guy.
You’re like my Kurt Loder except you’re a chick and I don’t want to punch you.
cocaine is safer and take us back to sonny crocket & tubbs!!
The correct moniker is “Blind Melon Chitlin” – and if you don’t know where it came from, you are popular-culturally challenged.
This was a good choice. Someone super awesome must have suggested it!
You’re welcome. Google “Blind Melon Chitlin.” Everyone steals from the originals.
I liked this song for like 2 minutes.