Blind Melon - Live at the Metro, September 27, 1995

Released ten years to the day after the concert it chronicles, Blind Melon's Live At The Metro, September 27, 1995 presents a full-length show held at the Cabaret Metro theater in Chicago during the band's final tour, less than a month before the death of lead singer Shannon Hoon. (Six of the video's performances previously appeared in the 1996 home video Letters From A Porcupine; 13 are previously unreleased.) It's easy to see why Blind Melon couldn't continue without him. Undeniably charismatic, he looks disheveled on-stage in an untucked-in button-down shirt, his mascara already running as the concert opens, his appearance recalling a wasted version of the young Steve Forbert or, to those watching the video in 2005, perhaps John Mayer. Read More