Blind Melon~ Intimate, Interactive (full Show)

Every few years, Blind Melon comes up in conversation and, inevitably, I learn that yet another person in my sphere adores the band's second album Soup as much as I do. It's an album about addiction, serial killer Ed Gein, murder Susan Smith and lighter topics like halitosis and a grandmother named Vernie. For being known as that bee girl band, they really went out of their way to show they were more than that. I appreciated it more than I could say in 1995 and was beyond bummed to learn of Shannon Hoon's passing just two months after it was released.

All that is to say, I've been going down the YouTube rabbit hole of Blind Melon material I was previously unfamiliar with.

• Intimate, Interactive show - a fantastic hour long set comprised primarily of Soup songs, interspersed with some song anecdotes.
• From Shannon To You And You And You - a collection of acoustic home recordings from Hoon's mother given to a fan forum in 2008.
• Woodstock 94 - don't think I'd ever watched this before. A good year before Soup was released but the songs were, obviously, already there. Can't tell if it's a good or bad idea to play mostly unreleased material to a crowd this size.

There's plenty more out there I'm sure but that's a smattering of what I'm listening to in between album rotations.