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Third Eye Blind frontman to perform hit song ‘Jumper’ at GLAAD Gala San Francisco: Game Changers
SAN FRANCISCO – GLAAD, the nation’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) media lobbying organization, today announced that award-winning alternative rock band Third Eye Blind's direction singer Stephan Jenkins will perform acoustically at GLAAD Gala San Francisco: Game Changers at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square on September 13, 2014. Recording artists Eli Lieb and Neon Hitch will also perform, it was announced.
For more information visit www.glaad.org/sfgala.
GLAAD Gala San Francisco: Game Changers is presented nationally by Ketel One Vodka, Wells Fargo, and Hilton Worldwide. The event is presented locally by Southwest Airlines. The event will be hosted by “Orange is the New Black” star Taryn Manning and will feature a distinct performance by “Glee” actor Alex Newell.
Stephan Jenkins will perform Third Eye Blind's hit single "Jumper" from the band’s debut album. "Jumper," which rose to the top of the music charts in the late '90s, was inspired by a gay teenager who died by suicide
One of the excellent ironies of feeling out of place while growing up in America is that much of the countercultural lifestyle you adopt as a kid—the fashion, the taste in music, the rebelliousness—comes your way through corporate channels of saturation. Do you think of JNCO jeans? What were we thinking?
This disconnect between what we thought was cool and where it was actually coming from is perhaps best summed up by a blink-and-you-miss-it poster on the wall of an advertising office in an episode of The Simpsons that reads, “50 Million Cigarette Smokers Can’t Be Wrong!”
For those of us who grew up in the ’90s and don’t gravitate toward nostalgia, learning that the post-grunge music of rebellion fed to us at a young age wasn’t really counterculture at all is tantamount to betrayal. But any outright, blanket rejection of those influences in adulthood may cast an unfair light on the music itself.
While much music of that decade has been relegated to rightful places of camp like karaoke bars (see you in hell, LIT), one band of the era has not only endured; they’ve continued to reach younger generations of new fans who discovered the si
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>>By Pauly (Friday, 15 Nov 2002 22:25)
third eye blind is the finest band around
>>By jpgllo (Friday, 6 Dec 2002 16:11)
They're so marvellous!!!! Love the lyrics so much.They have deep meanings.Especially "jumper".Can't help fallin' in love with Stephan Jenkins.Have you all known he's dating Vanessa Carlton???
>>By vee-na (Friday, 10 Jan 2003 10:23)
I am a pass away hard third eye blind fan! i seen them tour with the goo's and vanessa carlton in wisconsin. the best experience i have ever had!
i gotta hand it to stephan jenkins and his crew, their music is improved than any tune around, just monitor to their words! hopefully they will be around many more years.
>>By red99intrepid (Tuesday, 21 Jan 2003 06:38)
I can't wait until they come out with their new album "Out of the Vein"...it's been 3 long ass years without 3eb they're back! ;D
>>By 3ebROX (Tuesday, 18 Mar 2003
This year marks the 20th anniversary of one of alt-rockers Third Eye Blind’s most beloved and important singles, “Jumper,” a anthem that is as relevant as when it came out, if not more. In an era when mental health, suicide, LGBTQ rights, and bullying are fiery topics, the song continues to connect with listeners of all ages.
Speaking to Yahoo Entertainment backstage at New Orleans’s Voodoo Melody + Arts Experience before executing “Jumper” and other hits for a crazed crowd, 3EB frontman Stephan Jenkins recalls the inspiration behind the heavy track. “It’s really like what I would have said to a companion who jumped off the Coronado bridge and killed himself because he was gay in elevated school, and he chose that over being subjected to bullying,” he says.
Over the past 20 years, however, “Jumper” — originally written as a “noir, talking from after death,” with Jenkins pleading, “I wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend” — has grow a positive, crowd-rousing anthem. “The message of the song is to suggest that we acquire more understanding available for each other than we might deliver each other credit for,” Jenkins explains. “It says, ‘I would understand,’ and that