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."
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!
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.
St. Andrew's Fall - lyrics Big stretch, not much sleep A big palm tree runs against my cheek Bright blue Saturdays of rummage sales And 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
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 :)
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
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 😊
I was searching for some Lou Reed songs in the early days of CZcams 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? 😂
"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.
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
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.
(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
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
Whenever I hear him I become 16 again.
I always wanted to be 16, and free.
Thanks for sharing this, much love!
That's so beautiful ❤️
Such a great song from my favorite band! Every version of this song is amazing!
Love you guys soo much , 😁🤙
A blessing that has been present for my entire life ❤️
Miss Shannon like crazy !!
This version is so beautiful. He had such an amazing voice. RIP Shannon❤
He was so ridiculously talented
Yes,absolutely.
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."
wow
Where is this quote taken from?
@@Edgepotts01 it is a quote from Shannon from Greg Prato’s book about Shannon & Blind Melon. I’m sure theres other places w/ citations👍🏽
Thank you for sharing. This so sad and so powerful
Why didn't they Fucking catch her
The great Shannon Hoon! Gone but not forgotten. R.I.P.
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!
2:20 discover blind melon was a experience cant describe
pink floyd as well, same feeling...
I just weep to hear him. Every time.
Loved this group!! Such a loss!
For me , this is it . Their greatest moment.
Maybe the greatest moment ever, just , in the world
Shannon makes daisies and sunshine float through my brain ..... precious soul .. he's all around us 💛
Amazing voice of Shannon! He sang so effortlessly, flawlessly beautiful. I did not know about this live session! Thank you for sharing this.
3155 views and half of them are me.
This song is so precious 🤍
A monster of a band.👍👍
Shannon Honn come Layne Staley aveva una voce unica. Un musicista sensazionale...
This is my favorite song from them. Can't get enough!
I got to see them 2 times . The first time was in a club that n Long Island ..
This one fills me with love !✌
Beautiful 💚
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.
@Mariana Frusciante I wish!
Love all the 2 meter session recording 💞💞
Im so blessed to have seen them twice.
Damn, this is so good! RIP Shannon
Shannon Hoon was so damn talented. RIP Shannon
Prachtig
What an incredible song! Their collection is so deep, you can just stumble across great songs easily with this band
Incredible VOICE..... man
He was a great melodist.
Great song first time I ever heard it
Bedankt 2 meter sessions voor deze prachtige live opnames van deze unieke band Blind Lemon.
thanks for sharing this video!
Beautiful, God bless the boys.
I love you Shannon! I'm obsessed with you !
Memories... ❤️
St. Andrew's Fall - lyrics
Big stretch, not much sleep
A big palm tree runs against my cheek
Bright blue Saturdays of rummage sales
And 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
Love this song. So cool to find a version like this. Thanks!
incredible beautiful
Dude’s a genius on the music level… damn straight only one way to be…
Amo este tema siempre lo amare y se hace amar aun mas por lo que inspiro a shannon a escribirlo
Forever Shannon!🤍
If I see you walking hand in hand.... oh I’ll understand.
I understand
Great Quality!!! R.I.P. Shannon Hoon......?
this is pure gold. Shannon was a good person he had a problem. Check on your friends
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 :)
Blind Melon = Autumn 🍂
Increíble q este muchacho muriera tan joven
If I could hang out with one person, it would be Shannon Hoon
Live in Peace boy.
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
They should’ve kept Brad Smith’s harmony for the album version
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 😊
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
I was searching for some Lou Reed songs in the early days of CZcams 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? 😂
♥♥♥♥♥ We miss you, Shannon
Wow x ..
Can someone tell me the lyrics Brad Smith sings at 2.55
I been trying to figure that out for at least two or three years since I first heard this on some other channel. :(
"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.
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
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.
(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
The Boston song!
🥺
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
Shannon we love you..if you scroll i have said same thing over years
❤ love's
Gone too soon
2022
I look like this dude
Царствие небесное!
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