Blind Melon - St. Andrew's Fall (Live on 2 Meter Sessions, 1993)

[@caliblue2]

Ong this is the best ever. Literally an angel in our presence 💜

[@irisliniado5270]

Whenever I hear him I become 16 again. I always wanted to be 16, and free.

[@BlindMelonband]

Thanks for sharing this, much love!

[@nilsazambrano4229]

That's so beautiful ❤️

[@chazpayne2226]

Such a great song from my favorite band! Every version of this song is amazing!

[@camkime21]

Love you guys soo much , 😁🤙

[@marandamurray7358]

A blessing that has been present for my entire life ❤️

[@MeLoNHeAd00]

Miss Shannon like crazy !!

[@EV1LDE4D]

4 guitars! 4 Guitars to make this wall of Blind Melon sound. Their riffs have always been so amazing!

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

Rogers Stevens, Brad Smith, drummer all from Mississippi.

[@cameronnorton5898]

Dude I found out there is a super sad story behind this song. "One night we were playing in Detroit at this old church that had been converted into a music hall, called St. Andrew's Hall. And after the show, we were standing up in our dressing room, and it had these windows so you could look down and see all the people leaving the club. And I was standing there looking out when I noticed all these people starting to congregate over on the corner. We were arguing about a monitor mix or something stupid from the gig, I don't know. But my attention was caught by all these people on the corner. I thought man... is there a fight going on or something? Then I see someone point up and I look and there's this girl on the edge of the building, 20 floors up. It wasn't someone from the show; it was a hotel next door to the club. I was like, 'Holy s--t, you guys, there's a girl up there.' We had the most horrific view. There's about two hundred people, all watching by now, and of course you get all the heartless ones that start heckling and screaming when you should really understand that someone for whatever reason is deliberating life or death here. It was unbelievable. There were people yelling 'Jump!' I thought, 'My God, what's going on here?' All of a sudden there was this dead calm, and this girl stood up and she jumped, and we were all standing there. And I mean it seemed like it took forever for her to fall. It was one of those situations where you don't want to look but something in your mind makes you watch and will not let you take your eyes away from it, because you're going to learn something from it. I mean, not only did I learn that monitor mixes were irrelevant to life, it just... phoosh! Nobody was able to say a thing for the next three hours. We just got in the van and drove. Rogers [Stevens - Blind Melon guitarist] had actually left the hall and was down on the street when it happened. It was something that really scarred us all. She was just 26, and no one knew why she jumped. She took her secret with her. They thought she might have tested positive for AIDS, but she wasn't. She wasn't pregnant, she had a job... she just suffered from depression. It could have been anybody. It was really sad. And that's what 'St. Andrew's Fall' is all about."

[@SeanmanBand]

wow

[@Edgepotts01]

Where is this quote taken from?

[@akrup8702]

@@Edgepotts01 it is a quote from Shannon from Greg Prato’s book about Shannon & Blind Melon. I’m sure theres other places w/ citations👍🏽

[@simonesmith7302]

Thank you for sharing. This so sad and so powerful

[@larryfreeman389]

Why didn't they Fucking catch her

[@jdm3137]

Such a beautiful man. Rest easy Shannon ❤

[@PaulWalker-t8s]

So many people don't know how sweet this music is. Buy the sky

[@Mike-o5i4j]

Hand and hand and hand with a three armed man

[@guitarded82]

He was so ridiculously talented

[@Olde1Fortran]

Yes,absolutely.

[@maryhannahsmith9307]

This version is so beautiful. He had such an amazing voice. RIP Shannon❤

[@EV1LDE4D]

A voice that haunts us, even 30 years after his death :(

[@ricardoburil5229]

Shannon reminds me somewhere in a good place. Used to listen Blind Melon during 90's with my brother and we still listen 20 years after, with the same love. Eternal Shannon!

[@DragondelRey]

2:20 discover blind melon was a experience cant describe pink floyd as well, same feeling...

[@mh-so8fk]

The great Shannon Hoon! Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.

[@bradleylovej]

What an incredible song! Their collection is so deep, you can just stumble across great songs easily with this band

[@Vercingetorix.Rising]

For me , this is it . Their greatest moment. Maybe the greatest moment ever, just , in the world

[@jordanpaulk]

3155 views and half of them are me.

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

A monster of a band.👍👍

[@itsonlylovehere2]

Loved this group!! Such a loss!

[@paulinacarlisle7389]

Shannon makes daisies and sunshine float through my brain ..... precious soul .. he's all around us 💛

[@sandroca3446]

This song is so precious 🤍

[@kevinclair9642]

Im so blessed to have seen them twice.

[@jessicanixon9557]

I just weep to hear him. Every time.

[@SMC84601]

This one fills me with love !✌

[@Rustybits]

This is my favorite song from them. Can't get enough!

[@wirmeth]

Amazing voice of Shannon! He sang so effortlessly, flawlessly beautiful. I did not know about this live session! Thank you for sharing this.

[@kevinclair9642]

I got to see them 2 times . The first time was in a club that n Long Island ..

[@micheleimparato7649]

Love all the 2 meter session recording 💞💞

[@riffjohnson22]

How many Blind fans know Shannon was backup vocals for G&R Use your illusion 1&2..?!!! In the Don’t Cry Video!!

[@checkyourhead9]

All of them

[@checkyourhead9]

All of us

[@tomd7536]

Wonderful

[@bmlsb]

Great song first time I ever heard it

[@jjrrbb]

Forever Shannon!🤍

[@iapetus1080]

Beautiful, God bless the boys.

[@Sunchild714]

Damn, this is so good! RIP Shannon

[@iwonakrsnalila8312]

Beautiful 💚

[@muzikmind77]

this is pure gold. Shannon was a good person he had a problem. Check on your friends

[@danielvanheurck5305]

Bedankt 2 meter sessions voor deze prachtige live opnames van deze unieke band Blind Lemon.

[@sgwinc7644]

Shannon Honn come Layne Staley aveva una voce unica. Un musicista sensazionale...

[@bsakoff]

Shannon Hoon was so damn talented. RIP Shannon

[@SlugLyfe]

Love this song. So cool to find a version like this. Thanks!

[@LanceWard-s8o]

If I could hang out with one person, it would be Shannon Hoon

[@virginiacarvalho2643]

thanks for sharing this video!

[@adrianamonroy83]

I love you Shannon! I'm obsessed with you !

[@TheMichwolverines21]

This Netherlands 2 Meters Sessions show is phenomenal! All acoustic show, just wish it were longer! One of my favorites for sure though.. and probably the most sober Shannon seems to have been in front of a camera, compared to any other live show I've seen with Shannon in them. They are on their A GAME this particular show! My favorite version(s) of Candy Says (he did The Velvet Underground justice in respect to Doug Yule particularly), Paper Scratcher (the only acoustic version of that song recorded that I'm aware of), No Rain (Ripped Away), and this St. Andrew's Fall. Also an eerily awesome first verse and chorus of Me & Bobby McGee. His cadence and voice on that makes it one of the best imaginable renditions of Janis Joplin imho.

[@2metersessies]

[@TheMichwolverines21]

@Mariana Frusciante I wish!

[@laurentrousseau5433]

He was a great melodist.

[@kentkentar6529]

incredible beautiful

[@tessoshea8209]

Blind Melon = Autumn 🍂

[@stereo6216]

Memories... ❤️

[@zbeauty4654]

Dude’s a genius on the music level… damn straight only one way to be…

[@jnewsom1979]

Incredible VOICE..... man

[@SgeSabzi]

♥♥♥♥♥ We miss you, Shannon

[@adboxcreative]

Great Quality!!! R.I.P. Shannon Hoon......?

[@SaraJillianStanford]

I went to all girl private catholic high school I hated. So on days when we had presentations that involved sharing music or writing papers on the subject matter I of course used Blind Melon…. lol and maybe the Doors too. This band was so point on their brilliance on all of the underlying innuendos to a particular ticket company was the best way to give them the middle finger Beverly Hillbilly Hello 😊

[@treylyde999]

I dig! Hit up my channel too. I’m bout to cover some of these live. Never my voice could get that natural grit his voice has. I try though

[@bster007]

This was my fav band for a few years. My best friend and I would drive around listening to Melon constantly. No other band hit me like that. Now i love psychedelic jam band type stuff like Ozric Tentacles. Check them out, clean your brain :)

[@Suzanne-goes-Carnivore]

Prachtig

[@christianluisguerramarca5205]

Amo este tema siempre lo amare y se hace amar aun mas por lo que inspiro a shannon a escribirlo

[@leefaller9873]

Big stretch and not much sleep I got a couple of plam trees on each side of my cheek And it's a bright blue Saturday And the rummage sells the rubbish to me But if I could buy the sky that's hangin' Over this bed of mine If I could climb these vines And maybe see what you're seein' If you were standing on the corner staring straight Into the eyes of Jesus Christ One porch, one dog, one cockroach only way to be I got sewage fruit and it's growing out back from roots I don't know if they belong to me But if I could buy the sky that's hangin' Over this bed of mine And if I could climb these vines And maybe see what you're seein' Sittin' at the edge of this building, Twenty stories below, A' twenty stories below Twenty stories below Twenty stories below I can't tell you how many ways that I've sat, And viewed my life today, but I can tell you I don't think that I can find easier way So if I see you walking hand in hand in hand With a three armed man, you know I'll understand But you should have been in my shoes yesterday You should have been in my shoes yesterday

[@BornToBeALoner]

Here in the studio is preceded by a request to play something that they have not demonstrated from their work before. After a few seconds of reflection... st. Andrew's fall

[@progessorbaken]

The most punk rock!

[@pedrosilva6692]

Increíble q este muchacho muriera tan joven

[@saltyoperator7435]

If I see you walking hand in hand.... oh I’ll understand. I understand

[@laura.sefchik]

St. Andrew's Fall - lyrics Big stretch, not much sleep A big palm tree rubs against my cheek Bright blue Saturdays of rummage sales Are rubbish to me But if I could buy the sky that's hangin' Over this bed of mine And if I could buy these vines Or rather climb 'em straight up to the sky Standin', lookin' straight in the eyes of Jesus Christ One porch, one dog, one cockroach, only one way to be I got sewage fruit It grows out back from roots and I don't know if they belong to me But if I could buy this sky that's hangin' Over this bed of mine - yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah And if I could climb these vines And maybe see what you see You - if you're sittin' on the edge of this building Lookin' twenty below Twenty below, twenty below, twenty below And I can't tell you how many ways that I've sat And viewed my life today, but I can tell you That I can't seem to find an easy way So if I see you walkin' hand in hand in hand With a three armed man, I'll understand Should have been in my shoes (Yesterday you should have seen the guilt I felt inside) Should have been in my shoes yesterday (Yesterday you should have seen the guilt I felt inside) ohh In my shoe yesterday (Yesterday you should have seen the guilt I felt inside) In my shoe yesterday - yeah - yeah - yeah (Yesterday you should have seen the guilt I felt inside) In my shoe yesterday yesterday, yesterday, yesterday, yesterday - hey - hey - hey - hey - ohoo

[@深圳-q2k]

Broo how did you figure out what Brad was singing. I’ve been looking 4ever trying to figure out the ending

[@LucindaRhiannon]

I was searching for some Lou Reed songs in the early days of KZbin and I came across one of my favorite songs by Velvet Underground. Although I had been a BM fan years before that, Candy Says brought me to 2 Meter Sessions and I ended up watching it in it's entirety. This is my second favorite 2 meter songs. I am curious though, did Paul ever get the coffee stains out that Shannon threw at him? 😂

[@BetoKaosZDejavu]

Live in Peace boy.

[@leesmith6481]

Can someone tell me the lyrics Brad Smith sings at 2.55

[@robertc7788]

I been trying to figure that out for at least two or three years since I first heard this on some other channel. :(

[@drtgyhujwertyu]

"Yesterday should have seen again how it felt indside". I think. I downloaded the song and changed the pitch on the vocals but it's still hard to hear the "again" so I'm not sure that's the correct word.

[@leesmith6481]

Upon listening again, could it be 'Yesterday you should've seen the girl, how it felt inside' as it's about a girl jumping from a building? maybe wrong though

[@robertc7788]

I have spent an hour listening at 50% and 75% playback rate, and watching with what little lip-reading skills I can hack, at the three places in this video where you can hear AND see Brad sing these lyrics. It's difficult because he stretches some syllables out over triplet notes, which makes it hard to identify the three notes as one word. I am not 100% on it empirically, but for myself, I have concluded what I must conclude that they be so I can be done with this. "Yesterday you shoulda seen the guilt how it felt inside" with the first syllable of "inside" being sung as a triplet. Between listening and watching how his physical movements look, that's the only thing that I could line up consistently with three occasions when we see and hear him sing it. (He does it later towards the end at 3:34 with camera view from below his mic, which is what helped me convince myself of this. It's nothing profound to us, but it is what a songwriter does. It's almost like Shannon's part is the emotional reaction that has no time to process something. Brad's vocal, whether I'm right or not about the lyrics, is a softer and more introspective lyric after understanding what happened. With few and simple words. I can't imagine what it must have felt like to witness what they saw and process it afterward.

[@laura.sefchik]

(Yesterday you should have seen the guilt I felt inside) In my shoes yesterday (Yesterday you should have seen the guilt I felt inside) ohh In my shoe yesterday (Yesterday you should have seen the guilt I felt inside) In my shoe yesterday (Yesterday you should have seen the guilt I felt inside) In my shoe yesterday yesterday, yesterday, yesterday, yesterday - ohoo

[@leggythe4th399]

Wow x ..

[@wdcegtjdh]

Pourquoi ce sont toujours les gentils qui meurent les premiers 😢

[@BankzRobber1]

They should’ve kept Brad Smith’s harmony for the album version

[@celetaalicethomas]

❤ love's

[@floorsbychrisable]

🥺

[@ErK82]

Gone too soon

[@Nad11ya]

Царствие небесное!

[@Dopeking420]

I actually cried at that solo it was magnifecent and im also high af

[@Dopeking420]

Oh nvm wrong video im so fucked up rn

[@Dopeking420]

This is also beautiful tho also cried and pissed and shat my pants all at the same time

[@jasonpierson2304]

Shannon we love you..if you scroll i have said same thing over years

[@radiodead745]

The Boston song!

[@JamesJones-cx5pk]

2025🤩😍

[@NO_CLASS_BEATS]

The Detroit Song

[@LuisJuarez-c2r]

someone can hear what is saying the chorist?

[@loremipsumverbatim]

2022

[@rvdnagel1963]

So happy he was willing to give it a third try.

[@ryandvernychuk7033]

I look like this dude

[@pedrosilva6692]

Increíble q este muchacho muriera tan joven