What kind of message does Nico send out? Is it kind of a closing statement for Blind Melon?
Well, first of all, it will be the last Blind Melon release, I suppose. I mean, that’s all there’s gonna be. There is a message that we want to sort of convey to Shannon’s daughter, that he really cared about her, and that’s why we named the album after her. It’s almost as if it’s a gift from him to her, that he wasn’t able to give her in person, so in that way it’s important to us. But there’s a lot of messages on the record. I mean, we’re just sort of holding up our example. I don’t really want to preach to anybody and say, you know, this or that, drugs are bad, or whatever. I can’t point fingers, but I can certainly hold up our example for people to see and let them make their own decisions. Why do you think the critics were so hard on Soup, your second album? I don’t know. Maybe it was sort of a mean-spirited record. Kind of dark and negative in a lot of ways, but it was the only record we could have made at the time. It was the way we were at the time. For us to do anything else w
