Third Eye Blind Whatever Happened to the Band & Stephan Jenkins

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Today we take a look at whatever happened to the 90s band Third Eye Blind following the huge success of their self titled debut album that spawned three huge singles including "Semi Charmed Life", "Jumper" and "How's It Going to Be" in addition to frontman Stephan Jenkins

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what's going on my fellow rock-and-rollers. Now success lawsuits infighting and feuds as well as backstabbing those are the words that I would use to describe Third Eye Blind career , so whatever happened to the bandwell you're gonna find out in today's video. Now I love the fact that I grew upin the 90s I can't imagine being a kid
growing up in today's world political
correctness has infected everything and
they just don't make music or movies
like they used to and the late 90s were
a weird time in rock music. Grunge and
alternative rock was on his way out it and it
was replaced by this weird mishmash of
post grunge groups like Bush, Better than
Ezra, Days of the New and more poppy
commercial rock like Goo Goo Dolls Third
Eye Blind and Sugar Ray and then you had
new metal. Now when I think of the more
memorable parts of my childhood I think
of some of the great teenage comedies
including can't hardly wait and American
Pie and the common bond between these
two movies was the rock band Third Eye
Blind who had music featured in both
films. Now Third Eye Blind was huge in
the late nineties and had some big
singles, but whatever happened to those
guys. Nw to say that Third Eye Blind had
overnight success would not be true.
Bandleader and singer Stephan Jenkins
fine-tuned his craft in the Bay Area
during the early to mid 90s before the
band found huge success in 1997 with their
self-titled debut album and the band
would be formed four years prior by the
songwriting duo of Stephan Jenkins and
Kevin Cadogan in San Francisco and
Jenkins influences were pretty eclectic
including parliament-funkadelic
to Joy Division to Cat Stevens and
during his time in college Jenkins would
be diagnosed with chronic fatigue
syndrome, which took away a lot of his
youthful energy for several years but
once he recovered from that condition
Jenkins turned his attention back to
music. But with no label he along with
Cadogan would record a demo of songs
with other local musicians but the
problem was that the demo didn't really
fit in with what was popular on rock
radio at the time, but it would be luck
that truly helped the band out a close
friend of the band became their manager
and they met engineers David Gleason and
Erick Dodd who agreed to work with the
group on their songs.
And at one point Gleeson even helped the
band sneak into George Lucas's Skywalker
Ranch way they recorded some songs It
would be Third Eye Blind demos of how's
it going to be and slow motion that
caught the attention of recording labels
including Dave Massey of Epic Records
who would meet with the band and by the
end of that meeting
Stephen Jenkins had secured an opening
slot for Oasis who were playing San
Francisco that same week Jenkins would
reflect on that meeting saying I think he
liked my directness he wasn't threatened
by it the same way some people were. Now
the opening slot for Oasis was a dream
come true
Third Eye Blind had become used to
playing for dozens of people, but they
were now plaintiff thousands of people
opening for one of the world's biggest
rock bands. And following the opening
slot for Oasis, a bidding war ensued from
record labels and the band would end up
signing with Elektra Records and it
would prove to be one of the biggest
deals for any unsigned bands at that
point in time now. From the moment Third
Eye Blind hit they were inescapable. the
band's debut album would produce three
huge singles with Semi-Charmed Life
Jumper and How's it Going To Be in
addition to two other well-known songs
from the band's catalogue including
Graduate and Losing a whole year Now
those songs would be played to death on
radio and television even to this day
and the band at the end of the day would
sell six million copies of their debut
album just in the US alone and they also
got a highly coveted guest spot on
Saturday Night Live. Now what separated
Third Eye Blind from their peers was
that they were singing about some pretty
dark stuff. It would probably help that
from end Stephan Jenkins was obsessed
with Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground
and their debut album was filled with
lyrics about drug addiction, abuse and
suicide as exemplified in the song Semi
Charmed Life and Jumper but these tracks
were packaged with catchy hooks and
up-tempo feel and poppy choruses and the
lyrical matter did little to dissuade
radio stations from not playing their
tunes now 1999