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    <title>Blind Melon - Seed to a Tree - Solo</title>

    <description>My recording of the solo from Blind Melon's "Seed to a Tree"</description>

    <category>Music</category>

    <category>Music recording</category>

    <category>Guitar</category>

    <series order="20">2022 music project</series>

</glacius:metadata>

<p>

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Melon">Blind Melon</a> is kind of a 

    unique band guitar-wise: they had two guitarists

    that both played rhythm and lead, sometimes interchangeably. If you omit

    one of the guitar parts, the song sounds like trash. "The whole is

    greater than the sum of its parts", or whatever. A very synergistic collection.

</p>

<p>

    Blind Melon is most famous for their hit 

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Rain"><em>No Rain</em></a>

    and its wildly popular 

    <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qVPNONdF58">"Bee Girl" music video</a>.

</p>

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    <caption>The Bee Girl does a tap dancing routine to thunderous derision</caption>

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<p>

    Like most bands of that era,

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon_Hoon">one of the band members</a> 

    died of heroin or cocaine or speed or

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_(drug)#Notable_deaths_attributed_to_speedball_use">all 

    three</a>. So we got two albums and a

    "B-sides" thing. But <em>Seed to a Tree</em>, off of their 1992 self-titled

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind_Melon_(album)">debut album</a>, might be the most

    "hard rock" song that they did. It has two pretty sweet solos in

    it back-to-back, the first kind of a hard rock-blues thing, and the

    second a bunch of gratuitous pentatonics with a wah pedal.

</p>

<p>

    The first solo was performed by 

    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Stevens">Rogers Stevens</a> 

    and the second by Christopher Thorn.

</p>

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    <caption>

        <em>Seed to a Tree</em> solo from Blind Melon's 1992 self-titled album

    </caption>

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<h2>Recording</h2>

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    glacius:src="seed-to-a-tree-solo-480p.mp4" 

    glacius:thumbnail="seed-to-a-tree-solo-poster.jpeg" 

    type="video">

    <caption>

        Cover of Blind Melon's solo from <em>Seed to a Tree</em>

    </caption>

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    glacius:src="seed-to-a-tree-ardour-hydrogen.png"

    glacius:thumbnail="seed-to-a-tree-ardour-hydrogen-thumb.jpeg" 

    type="image">

    <caption>

        Screenshot of my 

        <a href="https://ardour.org/">Ardour</a>/<a href="http://hydrogen-music.org/">Hydrogen</a> 

        setup

    </caption>

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