Blind Melon is a rock band from Los Angeles, United States. They were active from 1989 to 1999, and then from 2006 onward.
Best remembered for their 1993 single "No Rain", the group enjoyed critical and commercial success in the early 1990s with their neo-psychedelic take on alternative rock. The 1995 death of lead vocalist Shannon Hoon halted the band's activity, and the members went on hiatus until officially disbanding in 1999. The band reformed with new lead vocalist Travis Warren in 2006
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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 1998 12:27:32 -0500 (EST) From: [email protected] Subject: TAB: "Life ain't so shitty" by Blind Melon
Chord Progression:
BmBmBmBmBmBm BmBmBmBm GGGGGG GGGG (Repeat once and then on third time an A chord for the last sixteenth note (G) of this progression). Then: START SINGING!!!! AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!! (while you play the same chord progression)
VERSE:
BmBmBm(4x) GGGGGG Life ain't so shitty, there's a lot that you can be and
BmBmBm(4x) GGG AIN'T IT A PITY, but its' allrighhihight for you to
GGG smile at me and if we both--->A chord variation
For the next part of the verse you go up to an A bar chord at the fifth fucking fret and put your pinky down on the high e-string at the seventh fret and pull it off twice as you sing with the googoodoll damn rhythm. But then!!! (on "necessarily come in contact with"), you go down to a G bar chord on the 3rd fret and do the same horny little thing with your pinky (you can do it with your reddy and bluey too). Then, right before Shannon says "hey you don't know where I'm coming from", you stop after you play the G chord thingamagiggygaagaagookanybandalrakittlkelymphnodes.
Here are the lyrics to the second riff section:
A (do pinky thing) A (do bluey thing) G -go there, then count on problems that we might not necessarily
(do greeny thing) stop come in contact with, hey you don't know where I'm coming from.
(note: there is a Sonic Youth song called "Screaming Skull" where the second part of the lyrics starts with "go there" and it is so very kool)
Then after this, you solo on the Bm, G, and A chords, listen to the record to get it down good.
Then you repeat the first and second lyrical parts with the same two riffs and in the same fashion!, and that's just dandy, Oh yes it is Wendy!!