Woodstock '94, Winston Farm, Saugerties, NY, 8-12-1994 to 8-14-1994 - Day 2, Part 9: Blind Melon

The ninth album from Day Two of the Woodstock '94 Festival is a set by Blind Melon.

For some, Blind Melon is a one-hit wonder time of band, due to their one big hit, 1992's "No Rain." But their debut album, simply titled "Blind Melon," sold over four million copies, showing fans wanted to hear much more than just that one song.

At the time of this festival, that was still the only album that band put out. They would release a second one, "Soup," in 1995. But later in 1995, the band's charismatic lead singer Shannon Hoon would die of a drug overdose, causing the band to disband.

Hoon's behavior during the concert was controversial for some. Before going on stage, he took acid, put a barrette in his hair, and smeared on mascara. Then, as the band's lead guitarist Rogers Stevens later recalled, "As we’re going up [to the stage], I turned around and Shannon was completely fuckin' naked in the crowd. He told his girlfriend to take off her dress and give it to him. She did, and he put it on. He looked so fuckin' cool."

But despite the LSD and everything, the band put on a solid performance.

As with nearly all the albums I'm posting from this festival, the sound quality is excellent despite this being unreleased. But I had some issues with the source material for this set. I found two sources, and there were flaws in each, like incomplete songs, short gaps of silence between tracks, and so forth. But because I had two sources, I was able to use one when the other had trouble, and vice versa. So this is likely better than any other version you're likely to come across.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long.

01 talk (Blind Melon)
02 2 X 4 (Blind Melon)
03 talk (Blind Melon)
04 Tones of Home (Blind Melon)
05 talk (Blind Melon)
06 Soup (Blind Melon)
07 talk (Blind Melon)
08 Wilt (Blind Melon)
09 talk (Blind Melon)
10 No Rain (Blind Melon)
11 Time (Blind Melon)
12 talk (Blind Melon)
13 I Wonder (Blind Melon)
14 Working Class Hero (Blind Melon)
15 St. Andrew's Hall (Blind Melon)
16 Paper Scratcher (Blind Melon)
17 Change (Blind Melon)
18 Deserted (Blind Melon)
19 talk (Blind Melon)
20 Soak the Sin (Blind Melon)
21 talk (Blind Melon)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16751005/VA-WODSTCK94_8-13-1994_09BlndMlon_atse.zip.html

 The cover photo of Shannon Hoon is from this exact performance.