“We are not trying to present our sides of a battle,” said Cadogan the day before a June concert in San Lorenzo, CA, advertised as “Original Members Of Influential 90’s Band Play Their 1997 Debut Album!” The two are planning a show celebrating the anniversary of the debut later this month at a popular San Francisco brewer y.Ĭadogan left the band in 2000 after seven years, voted out by the three other members, including Salazar. They say that has led to numerous cease-and-desist letters from Jenkins, who owns the trademark to commercial use of the name “Third Eye Blind,” and, according to previous lawsuits, has referred to other band members as contract employees. But as the band nears the twentieth anniversary of its debut, now-former members Cadogan and Salazar have begun playing the songs they co-wrote at small clubs around the Bay Area. Third Eye Blind now has five albums to its name, including 2015’s Dopamine. What followed was firings, replacement members, lawsuits, courtrooms, and bitterness that remains to this day. Infighting splintered Jenkins, bassist Arion Salazar, guitarist Kevin Cadogan, and drummer Brad Hargreaves years ago. Of course, the band that stepped on stage at Grant Park isn’t the same Third Eye Blind that’s responsible for those hits. Not that it stopped the band from drawing one of the largest non-headlining crowds at Lollapalooza a couple of weeks later. This summer has seen a resurgence in attention for singer Stephan Jenkins, who’s made headlines by reportedly r escuing paddle boarders in North Carolina, enraging Republican fans at a Cleveland fundraiser during the RNC, and following it up the next week with a Black Lives Matter song that perhaps didn’t quite get the reactions Jenkins envisioned.
San Francisco band Third Eye Blind enjoyed half a decade of mainstream success with their six-times-platinum 1997 self-titled album and 1999’s Blue.
To millions who came into adolescence in the late ’90s, the names of the songs still jump off the page: “Semi-Charmed Life,” “Jumper,” “How’s It Going to Be.” The melodies still impart a longing sense of nostalgia.
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