Tonight I saw some new Behind the Music episodes on VH1. For a long while I’d seen every episode.. several times.. and didn’t want to watch. Tonight I saw Green Day Behind the Music and Blind Melon Behind the Music. Green Day’s was really cool… how Billie Joe was talking about not wanting to be a 40-year old kid (he’s only 29), about wanting to grow up, to have his music grow up, to be an adult, to be a good husband and father. It makes him so attractive.. and of course Tre Cool always is .

The Blind Melon story was so sad. There were commericals that the Sublime Behind the Music was going to be on later and I can imagine that their story is similar. In both cases the bands quickly found fame, the lead singers rose up, got involved with drugs, had a kid and died of an overdose just as they were starting to "make it". Blind Melon’s story was mostly the story of Shannon Hoon and I bet Sublime’s was the story of Brad Nowell. Shannon’s daughter was 3 months old when he died and Brad’s son was 1 year. I love Sublime and for the longest time I was so angry with Brad Nowell. I feel myself slipping and becoming a Behind the Music Junkie once again.