This is my one of my favorite songs of all time. I was 15 when I first heard Blind Melon now I'm 31 and it's amazing how you grow up and listen to a song and it means something different from years ago.
I had a friend who told me when I was 15, ‘I’ve been listening to so much blind melon’. I thought to myself ‘the bee girl video with that repetitive guitar lick? Eh hippies’ A couple years ago someone posted a video of their song ‘change’ an acoustic live studio performance. I watched it and thought, ‘is that blind melon?’ I went on a binge of their videos and albums and have loved them ever since. My girlfriend too. Great band. Still.
I love this song , it's beautiful and so is shannon..miss hearing him terribly. At least we have these to come back to and our c.ds and dvds but nothing beats him live in person, his musicians fit him like a glove..They are perfect and sound unique and one of the best group of musicians out there...shame in the 90's they were underrated and for what ?
"fishing through the city phone lines" I did an A-trip listening to this song years ago... Amazing way to tap into where Shannon & Co. were coming from.
Saw them twice..once at UMBC Fieldhouse here in Baltimore and again at Woodstock 94. 1st album stayed in my Discman during 9th and 10th grade year and Soup got me through my senior year(96). Fucking great band.
Glitch - Lyrics Sittin' on the back of my time Fishin' through the city phone lines Suddenly, suddenly 'till my back's out of line Who today will be knocked off And who controls all the chalk talk Will they let you see And will you believe May there be a charm in your shine Lies about the big find But shouldn't he, oh - so deservingly
Zeitgeist is THE movie to watch if you care anything about humanity and your future. Very cool someone mentioned it on here. We are ALL ONE or NONE! Peace.
you are "high" as I type this, wherever you are projecting yourself to be... and will you believe...... a second to see.... an eternity to believe.... hard to swallow when the pill is already inside of us... Why is ours always drugs yet theirs medicine?
Saw an interpretation of the song i kinda wanted to throw on here for people wondering..."Seeing truth before Logic." If you understand the word totalitarianism, and the depth of the rabbit hole...You might understand where Shannon is coming from.." this song proved to me i wasnt alone when realizing just how fucked up the world could be
I've often said, if you want to look for era's with great bands, look to the 70s and then look to the 90s. No other era compares and both decades are close in terms of producing great bands
All the children of the singers 90's bands that have passed should form a band and rock for their daddies long gone like Shannon, Kurt and Chris. Would be beautiful to see.
anna Sneddon Thanks for the compliment. I made this video in 2006 for the Blind Melon Forum video contest. Glen Graham said that he liked the dark vibe of the video.
Fishing through the cities phone wires, till my backs out of line Who today will be knocked off and who controls all the CHALK TALK? Will they let you see and will you believe?
Thumbs up! :D Rabbit hole = matrix = potential virtual reality universe that we are currently "living" in :D We are the people we have been waiting for! Time to "Glitch" me thinks? :D
Where did you get the image with the bronze dome in the back (starting at 0:06)? It is Mexico's city "Palacio de los Deportes". Is from another BM video? Thanks, enjoy your video.
An ancient axiom runs thus "O Lanoo, a second to see, an eternity to believe" which I feel ties in nicely with "Will they let you see and will you believe?". The most important aspect of it all is YOU. The secret is always contained within the germ lying latent yet always ready to spring up and then fall back down like so many restless waves upon the back of a beach. Its a comedy, a tragedy, a love story and you are the star! Quality comments brought to you by: Carls Jr. :D
I fished through the city phone lines many many times. Did he mean me? or did he know a technician that he was trying to "reach". Or was he all knowing and wrote this for us all... so deservingly yet what did I do man? I just wanted to be 16 and free.. yeah now you have gone away and left me here with these words... you all go away... Just a glitch in the programming and will be fixed with our next upgrade! 2012 or just another day
Not much substance in youtube comments it seems. This band was great blah blah and nice video seems to be the only appropriate comments yet I gaurantee that the open minded people who brought us this wonderful music, via whatever means, would agree with me wholeheartedly that it is shallow. These songs, these lyrics have significant meaning yet damn it if it doesnt seem totally lost on most people. And lastly, I despise all you anti drug people and your learned behavior/fear.
@Garboho - I agree with what you said except the 90s don't come close to the early 70s. The amount of diversity and depth of music in the early 70s was unbelievable. That said, the 90s were another peak and music today can't compare.
I consider myself truly neutral. I report on what I see without bias as much as is humanly possible. I come here and read over and over again something like the following: "Shannon was great but those darn drugs took him away from us" bleat bleat etc etc... It is the cries of the sheeple with their fear-bleating and THAT is what gets OLD my friend. It is the IQ curve in effect ya'll and frankly Murl, I for one am sick and tired of the slave like mentality :D
@NEOPEAKOIL Lol so people's comments aren't good enough for you? I have respect for anyone that actually listens to this band. Like anyone that goes past the song no rain is cool in my book. The music speaks a lot so even if someone doesn't get the lyrics they get the mood surrounding the lyrics. And the lyrics are all up for interpretation. But it seems like whenever someone tries to discuss the lyrics on one of these videos someone gets butt hurt about it.
FACTOID EN PASSANT in 1989 a THC receptor site was located in the HUMAN BRAIN. There are no receptor sites for any classified drugs per the FDA and all medical definitions associated with physical addiction. THC is not a drug per any current definition of the word based on our current understanding of the human brain.
@Caleb4551 not denying your comment but alot of the greatest musicians used to deal by using and hate to say this but what he shared with the world might not have happened had he been a straight edge person so using and abusing are too totally different things and there is a fine line between the two i would never promote drug use however i am not against having fun i myself have always been the one to try and keep my friends and family grounded when the world is pushing all Meds on them
an illusion that helps us believe the unbelieveable... I perceive adults acting like children and children acting more like adults enough to conclude that this to must be an illusion. Try some clutch if you are angry or perhaps some pink floyd if you are sad and maybe some Son house death letter if you want to go back to what appears to be one of the original sources. Pain, suffering, the blues and in between hymns and ballads of our overcoming and ascention.
will they let you see? ZEITGEIST movie and will you believe? Now that is the question, isnt it... Shannon IS awesome - we do not die - we were never born, you are not who you think you are, you are not "here", here is nowhere, forever means all is not seen, never means forever brings everything special thanks to soundgarden :) From Clutch to Rage to Tool back to Jimi, Zep and the Stones and even further to Son house and beyond to things like the outlawed scottish bagpipes...
@@philjoy6635 Was Shannon into Heroin for a long time? I know in the 90's so many musicians were shooting heroin. Heroin has been around for years and now more of a epidemic than ever. So many FALLEN ANGELS to the drug. NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN Andrew Wood Layne Staley Mike Star Demri Parrot Shannon Hoon Scott Weiland Bradley Nowell Janis Joplin ect.....
The song lyrics go "WHO CONTROLS ALL THE CHALK TALK?" and no one wonders what that means? Or even cares I suppose. Love the song... Love Shannon... HATE song lyrics with meaning! :D Poor shannon bleat bleat.... drugs are bad uhmkay? bleat bleat... No Merl, I stand firmly by my initial comment apologies :)
this life is an illusion... all the great religions echo the same sentiment... are you afraid? to die? you feel bad that shannon died of an overdose? need i remind you of the first sentence?
Pretending to know "some shit" and knowing are two very different things, Johnny :) Is Grammar Nazism all you have? If everything was just fine in the world you wouldnt hear a peep out of me unless in jest or perhaps to sing etc etc... But no, Johnny, its pretty damned messed up and its everyones duty to raise awareness of the fact which may ultimately lead to a correction. Glitch, get it? like in a matrix, a computer simulation et al... "and who controls the chalk talk?"
Now listen up, I have done my share, when I was young a mountain of pills, bales of marijauna, enough alcohol to float a battleship around and enough LSD to get a grateful dead concert tripping. According to many, I am one of the smartest people that they know. I do not think I am the smartest by far yet I wont sell myself short as is the custom, either... I am self employed after a career in a high tech field for a fortune 100 company. Problems with your sterotyping? You havent a clue
that's kind of judgemental. Just cause someone thinks the video si nice doesn't make them a sheeple. Maybe you should go on a new world order video or Monsanto video and complain. but do what you want , you probably will anyway. I'm trhing to think of a comment with substance. maybe your just looking for something. Shannon was great and so was the band. haha
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I have nothing but love for Blind Melon.
This is my one of my favorite songs of all time. I was 15 when I first heard Blind Melon now I'm 31 and it's amazing how you grow up and listen to a song and it means something different from years ago.
Rich McRaZzle54 agree mate. your only 2yrs older then me. that's what I love about music. it fits any stage of ya life.
I had a friend who told me when I was 15, ‘I’ve been listening to so much blind melon’. I thought to myself ‘the bee girl video with that repetitive guitar lick? Eh hippies’
A couple years ago someone posted a video of their song ‘change’ an acoustic live studio performance. I watched it and thought, ‘is that blind melon?’
I went on a binge of their videos and albums and have loved them ever since. My girlfriend too.
Great band. Still.
Love this song. Listened to it in high school and I graduated 2016. Shannon Hoon was one of a kind in terms of musical talent.
one band that was sooo underrated and had an overwhelming amount of originality
This song means more to me than you could ever know but Shannon knows ~🕊May there be a charm in your shine ✨ Shannon Hoon
I personally think that Blind Melon is one of the greatest bands of the 90's no one can compare to their uniqueness
I love this song , it's beautiful and so is shannon..miss hearing him terribly. At least we have these to come back to and our c.ds and dvds but nothing beats him live in person, his musicians fit him like a glove..They are perfect and sound unique and one of the best group of musicians out there...shame in the 90's they were underrated and for what ?
The truth
"fishing through the city phone lines" I did an A-trip listening to this song years ago... Amazing way to tap into where Shannon & Co. were coming from.
Saw them twice..once at UMBC Fieldhouse here in Baltimore and again at Woodstock 94. 1st album stayed in my Discman during 9th and 10th grade year and Soup got me through my senior year(96). Fucking great band.
one of my favorite tunes ! Sadly enough- just bc it's sounds so beautiful ! Still missing Hoon in 2017!
Still missing Hoon in 2020...all life
Still listening Shannon 2018💔
Thank You to the person who made this Amazing video. Thank You Blind Melon. Thank You Shannon Hoon. I Love You. :)
F#cking awesome, and wonderful clips!!! Blind Melon could do no wrong.
Glitch - Lyrics
Sittin' on the back of my time
Fishin' through the city phone lines
Suddenly, suddenly 'till my back's out of line
Who today will be knocked off
And who controls all the chalk talk
Will they let you see
And will you believe
May there be a charm in your shine
Lies about the big find
But shouldn't he, oh - so deservingly
this is the best video for a blind melon song . my respect to you ...
what an amazing video to one of my favorite songs out of many. Thank you
Zeitgeist is THE movie to watch if you care anything about humanity and your future. Very cool someone mentioned it on here. We are ALL ONE or NONE! Peace.
@Garboho :) 60's early 70's lol and Shannon would have fit right in. transcendental...those are old souls and would have been amazing in any era.
Man they were so good I'd love to hear today's music if he was still here
I really love this song ! It’s one of my favorites! RIP Hoon 💜💙♥️
such a great tune
yet another awesome song from blind melon
you are "high" as I type this, wherever you are projecting yourself to be... and will you believe...... a second to see.... an eternity to believe....
hard to swallow when the pill is already inside of us...
Why is ours always drugs yet theirs medicine?
I Love this song!!!
Beautiful Video!!!
Saw an interpretation of the song i kinda wanted to throw on here for people wondering..."Seeing truth before Logic." If you understand the word totalitarianism, and the depth of the rabbit hole...You might understand where Shannon is coming from.." this song proved to me i wasnt alone when realizing just how fucked up the world could be
This is my favorite one so far. Great job!
love all the old footage
beautiful....
love blind melon, love Shannon hoon!
ah, one of my fav. songs...thank you!!!
I've often said, if you want to look for era's with great bands, look to the 70s and then look to the 90s. No other era compares and both decades are close in terms of producing great bands
All the children of the singers 90's bands that have passed should form a band and rock for their daddies long gone like Shannon, Kurt and Chris. Would be beautiful to see.
very nice job with this one keep up the fantastic work
Lol.Shannon in the buff towards the end. Great vid to whomever compiled it.
anna Sneddon Thanks for the compliment. I made this video in 2006 for the Blind Melon Forum video contest. Glen Graham said that he liked the dark vibe of the video.
awesome vid!!!
Excellent video- nicely done-
Fishing through the cities phone wires, till my backs out of line
Who today will be knocked off and who controls all the CHALK TALK?
Will they let you see and will you believe?
I SURE DO MISS IT.
2024... Blind Melon for fucking ever✌️
very nice video to this very nice song ;)
Thumbs up! :D
Rabbit hole = matrix = potential virtual reality universe that we are currently "living" in :D
We are the people we have been waiting for!
Time to "Glitch" me thinks? :D
Been trying to find this since 2010
amazzzzingggggg lollll fly like a eagle in to the pastttttttttttttttt
Thatsa pretty awesome vid.
thank you
@Garboho What about the 60's?
I like the vid.
Where did you get the image with the bronze dome in the back (starting at 0:06)? It is Mexico's city "Palacio de los Deportes". Is from another BM video? Thanks, enjoy your video.
wish i could have taken away some of his pain......
An ancient axiom runs thus "O Lanoo, a second to see, an eternity to believe" which I feel ties in nicely with "Will they let you see and will you believe?".
The most important aspect of it all is YOU.
The secret is always contained within the germ lying latent yet always ready to spring up and then fall back down like so many restless waves upon the back of a beach.
Its a comedy, a tragedy, a love story and you are the star!
Quality comments brought to you by: Carls Jr. :D
Very good. Thank you Carl
NICE VID EEE OOO
Who controls all the chalk talk ?/?
Arik Garcia-Swift I used to think he said Choctaw. 😂 Must have been the tribal nature of the drums LoL
i haven't even been born yet!
I fished through the city phone lines many many times.
Did he mean me? or did he know a technician that he was trying to "reach".
Or was he all knowing and wrote this for us all...
so deservingly yet what did I do man? I just wanted to be 16 and free.. yeah
now you have gone away and left me here with these words...
you all go away...
Just a glitch in the programming and will be fixed with our next upgrade!
2012 or just another day
@Garboho really anything from the 70's the 90's, after that it just kinda sad
Not much substance in youtube comments it seems.
This band was great blah blah and nice video seems to be the only appropriate comments yet I gaurantee that the open minded people who brought us this wonderful music, via whatever means, would agree with me wholeheartedly that it is shallow.
These songs, these lyrics have significant meaning yet damn it if it doesnt seem totally lost on most people.
And lastly, I despise all you anti drug people and your learned behavior/fear.
True mate
@Garboho - I agree with what you said except the 90s don't come close to the early 70s. The amount of diversity and depth of music in the early 70s was unbelievable. That said, the 90s were another peak and music today can't compare.
I consider myself truly neutral.
I report on what I see without bias as much as is humanly possible.
I come here and read over and over again something like the following:
"Shannon was great but those darn drugs took him away from us" bleat bleat etc etc...
It is the cries of the sheeple with their fear-bleating and THAT is what gets OLD my friend.
It is the IQ curve in effect ya'll and frankly Murl, I for one am sick and tired of the slave like mentality :D
Nice name> peanutsinapile. I get it, I get it. Very cool.
@NEOPEAKOIL Lol so people's comments aren't good enough for you? I have respect for anyone that actually listens to this band. Like anyone that goes past the song no rain is cool in my book. The music speaks a lot so even if someone doesn't get the lyrics they get the mood surrounding the lyrics. And the lyrics are all up for interpretation. But it seems like whenever someone tries to discuss the lyrics on one of these videos someone gets butt hurt about it.
FACTOID EN PASSANT
in 1989 a THC receptor site was located in the HUMAN BRAIN.
There are no receptor sites for any classified drugs per the FDA and all medical definitions associated with physical addiction. THC is not a drug per any current definition of the word based on our current understanding of the human brain.
@Caleb4551 not denying your comment but alot of the greatest musicians used to deal by using and hate to say this but what he shared with the world might not have happened had he been a straight edge person so using and abusing are too totally different things and there is a fine line between the two i would never promote drug use however i am not against having fun i myself have always been the one to try and keep my friends and family grounded when the world is pushing all Meds on them
an illusion that helps us believe the unbelieveable...
I perceive adults acting like children and children acting more like adults enough to conclude that this to must be an illusion.
Try some clutch if you are angry or perhaps some pink floyd if you are sad and maybe some Son house death letter if you want to go back to what appears to be one of the original sources.
Pain, suffering, the blues and in between hymns and ballads of our overcoming and ascention.
Will you believe? I know what I believe! This is my personal love to believe it will make it true.
will they let you see?
ZEITGEIST movie
and will you believe?
Now that is the question, isnt it...
Shannon IS awesome - we do not die - we were never born, you are not who you think you are, you are not "here", here is nowhere, forever means all is not seen, never means forever brings everything
special thanks to soundgarden :)
From Clutch to Rage to Tool back to Jimi, Zep and the Stones and even further to Son house and beyond to things like the outlawed scottish bagpipes...
yeah...
What's with the negaitivity man. So people think the video is nice. I like positive messages better than negative ones.
will they let you see?
yes and it is called ZEITGEIST movie
will you believe?
Now that is the question isnt it...
I think he was on drugs @ woodstock, they talk about it a little bit in the DVD.
He was always on drugs but never hurt nobody
@@philjoy6635 Was Shannon into Heroin for a long time? I know in the 90's so many musicians were shooting heroin. Heroin has been around for years and now more of a epidemic than ever. So many FALLEN ANGELS to the drug. NEVER TO BE FORGOTTEN Andrew Wood Layne Staley Mike Star Demri Parrot Shannon Hoon Scott Weiland Bradley Nowell Janis Joplin ect.....
Then perhaps you'll like Blind Melon's cover (of WCH). Of course, you probably already know it. Just in case you didn't...
The song lyrics go "WHO CONTROLS ALL THE CHALK TALK?" and no one wonders what that means? Or even cares I suppose.
Love the song... Love Shannon... HATE song lyrics with meaning! :D
Poor shannon bleat bleat.... drugs are bad uhmkay? bleat bleat...
No Merl, I stand firmly by my initial comment apologies :)
Woah, I guess dredg is strongly influenced by this song... at least regarding their by far best album leitmotif...
Shit, man...pretty haunting. Nevertheless, nice job. Get a sundae or taffyapple perhaps...smile a little.
this life is an illusion... all the great religions echo the same sentiment...
are you afraid? to die?
you feel bad that shannon died of an overdose?
need i remind you of the first sentence?
macumba
mfw it glitches ou in the middle of the song
2:33 and 2:37 and 2:40 - what???
Pretending to know "some shit" and knowing are two very different things, Johnny :)
Is Grammar Nazism all you have?
If everything was just fine in the world you wouldnt hear a peep out of me unless in jest or perhaps to sing etc etc...
But no, Johnny, its pretty damned messed up and its everyones duty to raise awareness of the fact which may ultimately lead to a correction.
Glitch, get it? like in a matrix, a computer simulation et al...
"and who controls the chalk talk?"
Now listen up, I have done my share, when I was young a mountain of pills, bales of marijauna, enough alcohol to float a battleship around and enough LSD to get a grateful dead concert tripping.
According to many, I am one of the smartest people that they know.
I do not think I am the smartest by far yet I wont sell myself short as is the custom, either...
I am self employed after a career in a high tech field for a fortune 100 company.
Problems with your sterotyping?
You havent a clue
that's kind of judgemental. Just cause someone thinks the video si nice doesn't make them a sheeple. Maybe you should go on a new world order video or Monsanto video and complain. but do what you want , you probably will anyway. I'm trhing to think of a comment with substance. maybe your just looking for something. Shannon was great and so was the band. haha