“I saw a line of people wrapped way down the block. I thought maybe Bill Clinton was in town, but it was for our show”: Rogers Stevens on how a young Blind Melon made it big with No Rain

CHOCHILINO “I saw a line of people wrapped way down the block. I thought maybe Bill Clinton was in town, but it was for our show”: Rogers Stevens on how a young Blind Melon made it big with No Rain %

(Image credit: Keith Isola) When Rogers Stevens recorded the guitars for Blind Melon’s 1992 hit No Rain he was 19 going on 20, and hardly prepared for what was to come. “I’d been playing seriously for about four years,” he tells Guitar World. “I was just starting to listen to other players in a way that was meaningful.” No Rain originated before Blind Melon formed, when original bassist Brad Smith wrote and sang it while busking in Venice Beach…

“I saw a line of people wrapped way down the block. I thought maybe Bill Clinton was in town, but it was for our show”: Rogers Stevens on how a young Blind Melon made it big with No Rain

Channeling Dickey Betts and using different gear paid off for the band in 1992. But it wouldn’t have happened if their label hadn’t been so supportive, the guitarist says