The remaining band members were split up physically with Christopher and Brad living in Seattle, Rogers in New York and Glen in Chapel Hill, NC.  They all met up again for Brad’s wedding and decided to continue as a band with a new name and new songs.

In the summer of 1996, they placed an ad in the New York paper ‘Village Voice’ announcing they were looking for a new lead singer. After the item was picked up on MTV News and CNN, the group's manager Chris Jones received over 2,000 tapes in the mail. Rogers said, “It’s pretty depressing listening to tapes of singers at times.  You realize how really amazing Shannon was.”

There were many rumors of different people landing the new singers job but there was no official announcement.  On Halloween 1997, it was announced that the band had been writing and recording in Seattle for the past two months with Brad handling the lead vocals.  This announcement was left on the official band web site for some time with no updates.  Fans eagerly anticipated the new material but a year passed with no further announcement.  On March 4, 1999 it was announced on the official web site that the band had split up and gone their separate ways.

In 2001, after over a year of on again off again rumors, VH1 aired their "Behind The Music" documentary special on Blind Melon on September 9, 2001.  The show featured a lot of previously unseen footage and interviews with Brad, Christopher, Rogers, manager Chris Jones and members of Shannon's family including his girlfriend Lisa, and his mother and sister.  Since the initial broadcast, it has been shown on several other occasions.  To coincide with the "Behind The Music" special, the band released their grammy nominated video "Letters From A Porcupine" on DVD with over an hour's worth of footage not on the original VHS release.

Blind Melon’s music still crops up regularly. No Rain appeared in Howard Stern’s hugely successful movie “Private Parts” in 1997, and in 1999 Three is a Magic Number appeared in "Never Been Kissed" starring Drew Barrymore.

The year 2002 saw the release of "Classic Masters," a compilation disc featuring twelve songs chosen by the band and liner notes penned by Rogers.  Around this time Rogers also hinted that the band was considering compiling a live album but this has yet to emerge.

"Three is a Magic Number" also popped up in another movie, this time in the comedy Slackers.