10-25-1992
Detroit, MI
St. Andrews Hall


Songs like "Tones of Home" and the introspective new single "I Wonder" are passionate, earthy, sometimes rollicking internal explorations, and the band looks to the serious side of life for lyrical inspiration. It doesn't get more serious than a recent incident the band encountered on its current "crammed-in-a-van tour."

Hoon's normally ebullient demeanor sobers when he relates the tale, which, he notes, is the sort of thing that might someday inspire a song lyric: After a show in Detroit, Blind Melon witnessed a suicide.

"We saw a girl 20 floors up on a ledge. All these people on the street were going, 'Go ahead, jump.' So heartless," Hoon says.

"She jumped 20 floors. We all saw it. We left immediately, and it was quiet in our van for like two hours. I called to find out what happened and was told, 'She took her secret with her.' And we were pissed because we had a bad monitor mix. You realize how irrelevant it is to the big picture."

excerpt from Los Angeles Time article (12-12-1992) photography: Los Angeles Times

Blind Melon Setlist Saint Andrew's Hall, Detroit, MI, USA 1992
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