Chords for Blind Melon Interview - intimate & Interactive

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_ _ _ [A] Welcome to the Bunch of _ [D] _ Music [N] 2009 Queen West, Intermittent Interactive with Blind Melon.
Nice to have you with us.
And I believe our next member tonight would be Jerry Garcia.
You know, I think that his face just kind of speaks for itself.
I think a full life doesn't have to be talked about.
Okay, let's do this.
Let's get some questions.
Why does Shannon always wear a horseshoe necklace?
It's not a horseshoe necklace.
It's a cockroach [Dm] necklace.
I have a [F] phobia of anything [D#] that doesn't die in the microwave after [G] five seconds.
There you [E] go.
[F] An audience question going over here.
Your name, where are you from?
Shannon, I'm from Brampton.
If you were given the chance to write an autobiography, [F#] what would you begin your first paragraph [A] with?
Why?
_ _ [D#] _ Alright, _ _ _ _ [A#] _ _ [N] _
Dave, I'm going to come around you here for just a second.
You know, this is very, this is nervous taking the stage.
Yeah, Shannon, what does your tattoo say on [D] your forearm? _
This is the [C] poem, God's Presence, that's at the end of the [F] song Car Seats from [N] my great-great-grandmother's ledger.
_ _ She wrote it February 11th, 1884, and _ it gave me a little hope that I had a little sense in my family because my immediate family is kind of like hee haw.
So [B] I found this and I realized that maybe I [F] do kind of, you know, give it [G] a little bit of a shit about [N] my family heritage.
So, yeah, there's something that_
In the role of hee haw, what role did you play?
I was the lost child.
We _ have Sue Tyler on the phone.
She is with The Buzzard in Cleveland, WMMS [F] in Cleveland, a rocking station down there, and we are being seen, of course, on Much America.
Sue, are you [D] there?
Yes, I am definitely here, Shannon.
First of all, I want to say congratulations on becoming a new dad recently.
Thank you. _
_ But he brought no pictures.
We have no [F#] pictures.
No pictures.
[G] Alright, and the first [N] question I wanted to ask you, the tune No Rain obviously helped bring the, you know, the band Blind Melon into the forefront of modern music.
Into the forefront of a lot of courtrooms.
There you go.
There also had to have been a little bit of temptation at least to do like No Rain Part 2, but obviously from listening to Soup, you definitely chose a [C] different approach.
Did [F] you guys purposely avoid trying to do the same type of sound that was in No Rain on the album Soup, or did you, I mean, did that just come naturally?
What happened there?
I think that just not trying to do anything [F#] permits you to have a little bit more freedom when you go about recording.
[F] I think that this band, and I'm certain, I'm sure that [F] everybody will agree, if we ever try to construct any type of [C] format, it usually gets [F#] completely screwed up, so [B] I think that_
That's one from your heart.
_ Well, [E] yeah.
Thanks, Sue.
Thank [N] you.
Well, Blind Melon may be rocking in Cleveland, but in fact, Canada, Canada is the best territory in the entire world for this band. _ _
Three times platinum.
Now, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ just one thing.
Do you have any theories on that?
Any theories on why people are way cooler here?
Thank you! _
_ _ Cheap applause.
Cheap applause. _
We have Linda from the Province of Ontario.
Linda, your question.
And who's it to?
It's towards Shannon.
I was wondering if parenthood has affected your musical career in any way?
You know, I was telling you earlier, I thought that _ doing this for a living screwed up [F#] your sleep, but [Dm] it doesn't compare to being_
[N] I went on _ tour so that I could catch up on my sleep, and that doesn't sound_
Yeah, I mean, it affects every aspect of your life.
You know, obviously I'm new at this, and it's hard to be a parent and a child at the same time, so I'm just trying to mesh it together and make it work, you know.
I think it's helped me, believe it or not, grow up a little bit.
No!
_ No!
We have a great concept here called Speaker's Corner where people get access to a television camera, and in fact, we run the questions or the statements.
Here's the Speaker's Corner.
Is this from Vancouver?
Vancouver!
Here's a question from Vancouver.
Get ready.
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Listen carefully.
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_ _ [D] _ We're going to ask Blind Man [G] a question.
We heard you got a record deal [F] without even playing a gig.
Is that true?
_ _ [B] We got a record deal from a demo tape that we made in a garage, basically.
[A] And we played, you know, some shows for [B] the weasels in Los Angeles and ended up, you know, getting signed and leaving as quickly as possible.
When [F] I introduced myself, I said I was from Vancouver, and you went, ah, ha, ha.
So let's just deal with that for a second.
Halloween, a couple of years ago.
[C#] _ You went [N] to this exchange.
It was, believe me, the press.
An exchange, yes, exactly.
With your audience, yes.
It was a deposit.
Yeah, precious bodily fluids.
Thank you.
But you did your time there.
Yeah.
Tell me about how that affected you.
It [F#] was probably a good thing that it [A] happened, believe it or not, because _ [Dm] I had to do some community service in a heroin detox, [N] in a Salvation Army heroin detox.
And I think that _ _ for anybody who thinks that it's a very glamorous life, if they could have witnessed the [F] insides of this place, I think that they would have probably had a different thought about [F#] taking that road.
It's definitely not the high road, but out of something bad, my punishment was something that probably helped me out, something that maybe I needed to see myself.
_ Sometimes it takes that before you can really understand what [F] it'll do to you.
So, yeah, I mean, _ what do I say to my child when she asks me about that?
I don't know.
[E] Or I'll [N] give her your number.
_ I noticed that Pigeon Park and Hastings Street