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Individual
Discography
Blind
Melon
Discography |
GLEN GRAHAM
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Birthdate:
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December 5, 1968 |
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Past Projects:
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Blind Melon |
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Other Artists
Worked With:
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Abandon Jalopy, Jas. Mathus And His
Knockdown Society, Joe Tullos |
Commentary:
Glen was raised in Columbus, Mississippi.
He was playing in the band Cafe Des Moines and attending his second year
of college at Mississippi State University when he got a call from Rogers
inviting him out to L.A. For months Shannon, Rogers, Brad and Christopher
had scoured L.A for a suitable drummer, one with finesse, but with no luck.
It was then that Rogers and Brad remembered Glen from back in Mississippi
whom they had met on the club circuit. Ironically, on the day he
got the call from Rogers the band he was in had just lost its guitarist
and he took the timing as an omen. He quit school and set out for
California with $25 in his pocket and a minimalist jazz kit that the other
band members took great delight in scorning.
After the members of Blind Melon decided
to go their own ways after the death of Shannon glen has been the least
active. He appeared on a couple of tracks of Brad's solo record which
became Abandon Jalopy Mercy. He also played on Joe Tullos'
debut record and on a record put together by Jas Mathus of the Squirrel
Nut Zippers.
It was announced on the official Blind
Melon website that Glen had moved back to North Carolina and was writing
his own songs and putting together a band but nothing has emerged.
Glen jammed with the remaining Blind Melon members at Danny Clinch's book
release of "The Discovery Inn" in New York but other than that they claim
to have had little contact with him. In February 2001, Glen put up
the drum kit he used for the majority of Blind Melon's career for sale
on Ebay but no-one bid for it. |