Brad Smith of Blind Melon talks No Rain, Shannon Hoon, songwriting, music biz more

Not only did Brad Smith write a generationdefining song in No Rain but he also works wonders with a hammer and nails. His knowledge of construction acoustics is both fascinating and wellapplied to his Studio Wishbone. But before all that he was just a boy from Mississippi, new to LA, busking future hit songs on Venice Beach, eventually forming a band called Blind Melon then Unified Theory, Abandon Jalopy among others. Brad fills in the blanks and tells the rest of the story on success, death, fame, so