Live at the Palace (Dig)

Blind Melon | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 4, 2006)
• Original Release Date: 2006
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Capitol
• ASIN: B000EOTF2Q
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #296,934 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Blind Melon's Live at the Palace CD reissued with expanded packaging on Capitol/EMI. Recorded in Los Angeles on October 11, 1995, Blind Melon's Live at the Palace CD captured the band at their creative and dynamic peak: the group was touring in support of their second album and had hit its collective stride. It would turn out to be Blind Melon's swan song, as their charismatic frontman Shannon Hoon would only live 10 days longer, felled by drug addiction. Now, the group's surviving members - bassist Brad Smith, guitarists Christopher Thorn and Rogers Stevens and drummer Glen Graham, have updated the CD release with expanded packaging that includes intimate liner notes by Stevens and never-before-seen tour photographs by Danny Clinch. Live at the Palace kicks off with Hoon welcoming their adoptive hometown of Los Angeles by exclaiming, "I had to dress up a little tonight''... it's family night here.'' The band then rips through 12 original songs, including crowd favorites like "Tones Of Home", "Galaxie", "Change" and the inimitable "No Rain". "I can't recall why this show was recorded professionally with a mobile 24-track studio, but I'm glad it was," says Stevens. --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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120 of 120 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a message from Rogers Stevens (Blind Melon guitarist), April 6, 2006

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Rogers Stevens (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Palace (Dig) (Audio CD)

Dear friends of the Melon,

We are very disappointed with the new "Live at the Palace" release. I have not seen a hard copy of the disc yet, but I was aware several months ago that the track list was scrambled when they made an aborted attempt to put it on Itunes, but did not know that this was off on the disc as well. We've been around the bend with Capitol about this, and they pretty much did what they wanted to anyway. The band does not have a manager now, so we didn't have anyone to run interferece with the label, and were dealing with it ourselves. We hated the cover, nobody who worked on it was credited, and it was put together without any consideration for our wishes. Last year, we worked closely with Capitol to release the "best of" and "live at the metro" releases, but some new people took over and just didn't care for our input. If you go to itunes Australia or England, you'll see the cover that we picked, which fits the theme of the other releases. Brad and Christopher spent a week mixing this thing and got no credit. Lyle Eaves (our live sound engineer) facilitated the recording...and again no credit. We wanted to honor our crew members who stuck with us through some unbelievably difficult touring...again no credit. We stand by the quality of the show and recording, but cannot remain silent about what they did with it. It's a shame, too, because Capitol treated us very well to this point. As always, we appreciate your support......

Rogers Stevens
Blind Melon guitarist

19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Track screwup?!, April 5, 2006

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K. McCarthy "Master of Reality" (Portland, Oregon United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Live at the Palace (Dig) (Audio CD)

As review above stated, the track list is completely wrong. This is the worst mistake I've ever seen from a major label, bar none. Great show, tracks are wrong. This would get a 5 star review for the quality of the recording and production, but sheesh, the magnitude of the track errors is so overwhelming it cost it a star.

For anyone who's interested, here's the CORRECT order of the tracks as they appear on the CD:

Galaxie
Toes Across the Floor
Tones of Home
Soup
Soak The Sin
Change
No Rain
Wilt
Vernie
Walk
Skinned
Time

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Live at the Palace (The Real Version), November 22, 2006

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Tom Sides (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live at the Palace (Audio CD)

This is a phenomenal album with the CORRECT TRACK LISTING, unlike the other release by the same name. Too bad they don't make bands like they used to, and the only problem with this album is it's way too short. Amazing sound quality.