Christopher Thorn and Rogers Stevens of Blind Melon
Steven Rosen, ultimate-guitar.com, 27 January 2007
BLIND MELON may have been a lynchpin back in the 90's, a nexus between rock and new wave and songwriters and guitar soloists. But the world has a way of dissolving around you and on October 21, 1995, just four years and two studio albums later, lead singer Shannon Hoon overdosed.
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