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article1 Third Eye Blind Rock Their Tits Off JamTV May 6, 1999 Under cover of the cock-rockesque rubric Tittie, Third Eye Blind will preview material from the follow-up to their self-titled platinum debut tonight (May 6) at San Francisco watering-hole the Paradise. Assuming the songs don't send people running for the exits, the quartet will enter the studio next Monday to begin recording the new album. This time around, guitarist Kevin Cadogan has written some of the songs, and by all accounts we can expect a slightly different direction for the band. "It's going to be a guitar-driven rock record, longer songs, much less pop format," Cadogan explained. "But we're not going to get experimental with our second record, like the cliche shit. We're going to stretch out a bit. We've got some really great songs. I'm really excited about them. I don't even want to play the old stuff anymore. I have a couple songs that I've written. We have nineteen songs that we've fleshed out, out of thirty ideas. Over the next few weeks we'll probably whittle that to thirteen or fourteen." The lean, blond guitarist is coming into his own -- in more ways than one. Two weeks ago, Cadogan made the first overtures of reconciliation to 3EB's sworn enemy Green Day. The two bands became adversaries after that little debacle at last year's KROQ Weenie Roast, when 3EB bassist Arion Salazar leapt onstage during Green Day's set and wrapped their bassist, Mike Dirnt, in a bear hug. Dirnt pushed Salazar aside and Green Day bodyguards stepped in. Backstage, after the tussle, Dirnt was struck over the head by a bottle and ended up in a nearby hospital. Despite the earlier conflagration, 3EB strongly denied that their camp had anything to do with the incident. Green Day hired a private investigator to solve the case, but turned up nothing. Since then, the bands have had no contact, despite the fact that they live mere miles from one another. But an opportunity for peace presented itself when Cadogan was in a Berkeley flower shop near his home buying a card for a fifteen-year-old boy who was stabbed with a screwdriver in a nearby town. The guitarist had read about the incident in the local paper and contacted the boy to ask if they could meet; he planned to give him one of the guitars he used on 3EB's last tour, autographed by the entire band. "Since I grew up in this area, I can't stand hearing about any sadistic violence occurring," Cadogan said. "So I decided to hang out with this kid one day. I didn't want him to develop Mean World Syndrome if I could help it." As luck would have it, Cadogan ran into Dirnt and his daughter at the flower shop and decided it was the right time to heal the breach. "The last time I saw Mike Dirnt, he looked like Braveheart, with blood running down his face," Cadogan recalled. "It was a beautiful day, he wasn't going to try to kick my ass in the flower shop, so I introduced myself, and said, 'Hey, how's it going?'" Cadogan said. "The guy completely disarmed me. He was just so charming, pleasant and a really nice guy. He was very reconciliatory in his tone. Mike offered to sign a card for the kid, and wrote something very, very nice: 'We all take a beating sometimes, but it's how you recover that makes a difference.' He had to write the best fucking thing. We're all like, 'Hey get better dude.' And Mike Dirnt writes poetry." Back to articles