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Blind Melon sees new life 

Band reunites with new singer, album planned

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What's the status of the new album? Is it coming out early next year?

"Yeah, it is. I mean, we kind of ... when we got of the road this past month we had a couple of songs left to do -- there were a couple of little things we had to put on them and then we mixed ... we mixed most of it and I think there's maybe three songs that are gonna get mixed and we're gonna master it, I guess, right after the new year. Yep ... we're gonna take it with us on the road. I don't know how we're gonna put it out yet. We haven't even really ... solidified the plan. We're not shopping it around to labels or anything, so ..."

What's the reaction been to the new songs?

"From my perspective, it's been great. I mean, I think the only people who ever really would contact us or come to the shows are people who like it. I mean, you kind of live in a bubble in that way. There may be a whole large segment of people who hate it, but people seem to really like it."

What I've heard online is great.

"Yeah. So, I don't know. We like it. I think if you can get out there and believe in it yourself it makes it ... I can be comfortable with that. Although, when we did the Soup record, we really believed in that record when it came out (laughs), but it got so bashed that it kind of shook me in a way because I thought maybe I really don't have any idea what good or not good is."

Yeah, that's an unbelievable album.

"Yeah, but a lot of people didn't like it ..."

Did you guys have a different approach to writing or have you kind of fallen back into the way it used to be?

"Um ... there's more that seems similar about it than things that are different. I mean, I live in New York and those guys live out there, Glen lives in North Carolina. I was back here and I sent ... I wrote three or four songs on the album with Travis going back and forth over the internet. I would send him music on e-mail and he would send it back to me the next day and it'd be done. We'd write tracks that would happen in a matter of hours. And, um ... there were a few songs -- there's a song called 'Hypnotize' that we did that was like that. But, and then other things ... we sort of got in a room and hammered them out. So, which is kind of the way we used to do it. Then Travis brought in some songs and we, you know, sort of learned them and changed them around and kind of did them our way."

Did you guys start off by playing the old songs or did you start out working on new stuff?

"We started off playing the old songs because, I mean, we had to see if he was gonna be able to sing those songs. Because, to do it, like that in order to be able to go out and be able to do that."

I was gonna ask if when you got together to do those songs if that was the first time that you all had played those songs since you were a band?

"It was, yeah. It was a really strange day. (laughs)"

I can imagine. That was my next question.

"It was a lot of fun, but it was eerie. Travis, you know, he came in and to his credit, I mean, there's not really a bigger Shannon Hoon fan in the world. He came in and he was, I imagine, pretty freaked out and scared or nervous, but he wasn't scared. There's a difference, you know. I saw this and that's what really got me right away is that he got lost in the singing immediately. Whatever nerves he had and what not, he overcame it just by getting lost in the music. He wasn't even thinking about it anymore and then he started singing. Which I knew he was gonna have to do, especially going out and singing live for people that have a lot of expectations."

Are there any songs that you guys won't play for one reason or another?

"There are some songs that the lyrics don't ... the lyrics feel strange to me for Travis to sing. We talked about, there's a song called 'New Life' -- it just seems weird for Travis to sing a song about Shannon's baby. It's a personal song, but then again, 'Change' is a personal song, but it's kind of universal in a way. So, we do that one. But, you know ... I think there are some that probably won't get done because of that."

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