Life isn't a tiptoe through the tulips.

After taking a hiatus from touring Blind Melon returned to the studio to record the album Soup in New Orleans. Christopher Thorn and Glen Graham were then brought into the fold and soon the five musicians decided to form Blind Melon. It featured a young pudgy girl played by Heather DeLoach in a bee costume tap dancing to unappreciative audiences who finally finds an entire crowd of people similarly dressed who welcome her.

He was the frontman and lead singer of the band Blind Melon until his death from a cocaine overdose in 1995.