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A message from Rogers Stevens (Blind Melon guitarist)

Rogers Stevens | New York | 04/06/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Dear friends of the Melon,



We are very disappointed with the new "Live at the Palace" release. I have not seen a hard copy of the disc yet, but I was aware several months ago that the track list was scrambled when they made an aborted attempt to put it on Itunes, but did not know that this was off on the disc as well. We've been around the bend with Capitol about this, and they pretty much did what they wanted to anyway. The band does not have a manager now, so we didn't have anyone to run interferece with the label, and were dealing with it ourselves. We hated the cover, nobody who worked on it was credited, and it was put together without any consideration for our wishes. Last year, we worked closely with Capitol to release the "best of" and "live at the metro" releases, but some new people took over and just didn't care for our input. If you go to itunes Australia or England, you'll see the cover that we picked, which fits the theme of the other releases. Brad and Christopher spent a week mixing this thing and got no credit. Lyle Eaves (our live sound engineer) facilitated the recording...and again no credit. We wanted to honor our crew members who stuck with us through some unbelievably difficult touring...again no credit. We stand by the quality of the show and recording, but cannot remain silent about what they did with it. It's a shame, too, because Capitol treated us very well to this point. As always, we appreciate your support......



Rogers Stevens

Blind Melon guitarist"

Track screwup?!

K. McCarthy | Portland, Oregon United States | 04/05/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"As review above stated, the track list is completely wrong. This is the worst mistake I've ever seen from a major label, bar none. Great show, tracks are wrong. This would get a 5 star review for the quality of the recording and production, but sheesh, the magnitude of the track errors is so overwhelming it cost it a star.



For anyone who's interested, here's the CORRECT order of the tracks as they appear on the CD:



Galaxie

Toes Across the Floor

Tones of Home

Soup

Soak The Sin

Change

No Rain

Wilt

Vernie

Walk

Skinned

Time"

TRACKS ARE WRONG!

the velvet jones | 04/04/2006

(4 out of 5 stars)

"This is a good show, but that tracks are all listed in a totally wrong order, even here on Amazon. Listen to the samples. I don't know how a major label makes a mistake like this, I have never seen anything like it.



The fans deserve better than this, and so does Blind Melon."