Glen Graham
Blind Melon’s Glen Graham talks to MD Online about the band’s dramatic resurrection, and the release of their first album in thirteen years, For My Friends.

Blind Melon signed to Capitol records in 1991, and in two short years they’d gone platinum with the help of the MTV video for their smash single “No Rain.” Original lead singer Shannon Hoon passed away in 1995, at the height of the group’s rise to fame. Drummer Glen Graham says he had to stop playing at that point—and subsequently didn’t play music for almost the next ten years. “It sounds kind of pathetic, I suppose, but I just lost interest,” admits Glen today. “But to go from that level…to realize you were doing exactly what you wanted to do, and that things were going well, and then to you lose your friend and everything else…it was very difficult.”