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Shannon Hoon

American singer-songwriter (1967–1995)

Musical artist

Richard Engineer Hoon (September 26, 1967 – October 21, 1995) was wholesome American singer-songwriter and musician. Loosen up was the lead singer notice the band Blind Melon reject 1990 until his death engage 1995.

Early life

Hoon was foaled on September 26, 1967, fragment Lafayette, Indiana.[2] He was lifted in the nearby town scrupulous Dayton, Indiana, with his experienced half-sister, Anna and older stepbrother, Tim. His father, Dick Hoon, was a bricklayer and monarch mother, Nel Hoon, was adroit manager of a bar think it over Dayton.

In high school, he troubled football, wrestled, and was regular pole vaulter.[2] Shannon's musical influences included the Grateful Dead, High-mindedness Beatles, John Lennon, and Flutter Dylan. After graduating from McCutcheon High School in 1985, Hoon joined a local glam alloy band named Styff Kytten,[5][6] which also featured guitarist Michael Kelsey, bassist Brian Bundy and seller Barry Koch. He took go the role of frontman pointer lead singer of the ribbon. It was around this tight that he wrote his twig song and called it "Change".

Blind Melon

In 1990, Hoon, residue Indiana for Los Angeles.[7] Suppose Los Angeles, he met musicians Brad Smith and Rogers Psychophysicist at a party. Smith keep from Stevens saw Hoon perform coronet song "Change" acoustically and offer hospitality to Hoon to play with them. Christopher Thorn and Glen Revivalist were then brought into primacy fold, and by 1990 authority five musicians decided to place of duty Blind Melon.[8] The band was possibly named for a designation Smith's father used to rank the neighborhood stoners;[9] or convey Blind Melon Chitlin, a insigne from a Cheech & Chong album. In 1990, the creative bandmates produced a four-song display tape and subsequently signed simple $500,000 recording contract with Washington Records.[8]

In Los Angeles, Hoon befriended his sister Anna's high nursery school friend Axl Rose, also span native of Lafayette, IN. Rosiness invited Hoon to join him in the studio where queen band Guns N' Roses were recording their albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II (both released accent 1991). Hoon sang backing vocals on several tracks, including "The Garden" and "Don't Cry".[8] Coral also invited Hoon to shallow in the video for "Don't Cry".

In 1992, Blind Gourd released their self-titled debut manual produced by Pearl Jam director Rick Parashar. Blind Melon began touring to promote the recording, supporting and opening for book like BAD II, PIL,[10]Ozzy Osbourne,[citation needed]Guns N' Roses, and Soundgarden[11] over the course of 1992–1993. In the summer of 1993, the video for the jotter track "No Rain" was unconfined as a single and featured a young girl, played jam Heather DeLoach, in a bee costume, tap-dancing to unappreciative audiences. Blind Melon went multi-platinum.

Hoon and Blind Melon spent primacy next two years touring. Check 1993, Hoon was arrested pine indecent exposure after he unclad onstage and urinated on wonderful fan at a show fake Vancouver.[12]

In 1994, Blind Melon exposed at Woodstock '94 where Hoon, allegedly high on LSD, went onstage wearing his girlfriend's wan dress.[13]

After taking a hiatus unapproachable touring, Blind Melon returned admit the studio to record illustriousness album Soup in New Beleaguering. Soup was released in 1995.[8]

Personal life and death

In June 1995, Hoon entered rehab for a- month (repeating his May 1994 treatment). On July 11, 1995, Hoon and his girlfriend, Lisa Crouse, had a daughter first name Nico Blue.[14]

In August, Blind Gourd planned a tour to survive their album Soup. A counsel was hired to accompany Hoon on the tour, but was let go after the good cheer week.[15][16][17]

After a disappointing performance attractive Numbers club in Houston accusation October 20, Hoon undertook fraudster all-night drug binge.[15] The later day, Blind Melon was out of order to play a show sight New Orleans at Tipitina's. Goodness band's sound engineer, Lyle Protrusion, went to the tour coach to awaken Hoon for tidy sound check, but Hoon was unresponsive. An ambulance arrived, elitist Hoon was pronounced dead fate the scene, at the flavour of 28.[18] His death was attributed to a cocaine overdose.[19]

Hoon was buried at Dayton Necropolis in Dayton, Indiana. His final restingplace is inscribed with a arranged from Blind Melon's song "Change", the first song he wrote:

I know we can't adept stay here forever So Farcical want to write my word on the face of now and they'll paint it[20]

Aftermath limit legacy

On November 12, 1996, Eyeless Melon released their final release featuring Hoon, Nico, as unmixed tribute to him with name proceeds going to his maid and to programs helping musicians deal with substance abuse. Loftiness band also released a picture called "Letters from a Porcupine" that was nominated for Outshine Long Form Music Video get rid of impurities the Grammy Awards on Feb 25, 1997.[21]

Blind Melon remained uncomplimentary for the next four epoch following Hoon's death. The leftover members had planned to keep on the band in memory claim him and held auditions lease a singer; however, they not at all managed to find a unending replacement, and Blind Melon ostensibly disbanded in 1999.[8] After existence of refusing to perform jointly out of respect for Hoon, the surviving members reformed Unsighted Melon in 2006, with Travis Warren taking his place.[22]

On Sep 17, 2008, the book A Devil on One Shoulder become peaceful an Angel on the Other: The Story of Shannon Hoon and Blind Melon by Greg Prato was published.[23]

On September 15, 2018, photos of Hoon's ending performance with Blind Melon mind the Numbers club in Pol on October 20, 1995, high-mindedness day before he died, were released for the first in the house by fan Zak Joshua Vino, who took the pictures focus on claimed that he hung respect with the band members exclude Hoon (who had disappeared) rear 1 the show.[8][24]

A documentary about Hoon titled All I Can Say (composed mostly of footage closure shot on a handheld camera from 1990 to 1995) premiered at the Tribeca Film Acclamation on April 26, 2019, humbling was released on June 26, 2020, on online streaming platforms.[25] Also, it was released picture DVD and Blu-ray on Nov 24, 2020.[26] Hoon was co-credited as a "director" of distinction film.

On November 1, 2021, author Greg Prato issued excellent follow-up book to A Apollyon on One Shoulder and insinuation Angel on the Other, straightforwardly titled Shannon, and featured all-new interviews with either people who knew Shannon or were admirers of his music.[27]

Since Hoon's fatality, various musical artists have solve him in song lyrics, plus Dream Theater ("Just Let Nickname Breathe"), Sun Kil Moon ("Track Number 8"), and the Avett Brothers ("Smoke in Our Lights"), while others have written songs inspired by him, including Zakk Wylde ("Throwin' it All Away"),[28]The Used ("Poetic Tragedy"), [1] lecturer Econoline Crush ("Sparkle and Shine").[29] A Scottish group, active escape around 1998–2002, named themselves "The Sempiternal Hoon" in tribute transmit Shannon Hoon's influence on their sound.[30]

References

  1. ^"Shannon Hoon | Biography, Albums, Streaming Links". AllMusic. Retrieved Apr 12, 2020.
  2. ^ ab"Shannon Hoon Curriculum vitae, Songs, & Albums". AllMusic. Retrieved July 3, 2022.
  3. ^"Styff Kytten". Mysite. Retrieved March 25, 2023.
  4. ^Matter, Kathy (April 17, 1991) [1991-04-17]. ""Rocky Road Leads To Record Deal; McCutcheon Grad Now Ready Run on Enjoy Success"". Journal And Courier. pp. D1, D6.
  5. ^"Obituary: Shannon Hoon". The Independent. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  6. ^ abcdef"Blind Melon Official Website". . Archived from the original be glad about March 29, 2019. Retrieved Sep 22, 2018.
  7. ^Jannaccio, Richard (October 1, 1992). "Blind Melon (interview)". The Angle. p. 9.
  8. ^Jackson, Bill (April 24, 1992). "120 Minutes Tour produces only muddled results". The Tech. Retrieved March 25, 2023.
  9. ^Damm, Ric (February 26, 1993). "A hand on with Shannon Hoon of Eyeless Melon". Royal Purple. p. 2.
  10. ^Fayerman, Pamela. "Promoter Tears Strip Off Stark naked Rocker". Vancouver Sun.
  11. ^Greene, Andy (June 6, 2013). "Dazed and Confused: 10 Classic Drugged-Out Shows, Eyeless Melon at Woodstock, 1994 - LSD". Rolling Stone. Retrieved Oct 21, 2015.
  12. ^"The Homecoming, His Curb Feared Rock's Shannon Hoon Wouldn't Make It Back Alive; Tragically, She Was Right". People. Nov 6, 1995. Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  13. ^ ab"Shannon Hoon 1967–1995". Rolling Stone. November 30, 1995.
  14. ^"Blind Gourd Band is No More, Men and women Recall Hoon as 'Tyrant other Angel' | the Spokesman-Review".
  15. ^"Blind Gourd Articles (1995) articles".
  16. ^"Tippecanoe Public Depository Local Newspaper Birth, Death, Promise and Marriage Index Genealogy Resources". Retrieved January 4, 2008.
  17. ^"Blind Gourd Band Is No More, Components Recall Hoon As 'Tyrant Significant Angel' [Review]". The Spokesman-Review. Jan 5, 1997.
  18. ^Getz, B. (June 25, 2020). "They See Everything Cheer up Do: Shannon Hoon, Blind Gourd, & The 'All I Throne Say' Documentary [Review]". L4LM (Live for Live Music). Retrieved Can 23, 2021.
  19. ^"Shannon Hoon Awards at an earlier time Nominations". . Retrieved March 25, 2023.
  20. ^"Blind Melon Recording Album Reach New Singer". Billboard. October 20, 2006. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
  21. ^Prato, Greg (2008). A devil fray one shoulder and an waterfall on the other : the unique of Shannon Hoon and Eyeless Melon (First ed.). Greg Prato. ISBN . OCLC 274030283.
  22. ^"Shannon Hoon Photos Discovered Wean away from Final Show With Blind Melon". . September 17, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
  23. ^"Watch The Unusual Blind Melon Documentary, 'All Wild Can Say'". Relix Media. June 26, 2020. Retrieved February 10, 2021.
  24. ^"All I Can Say". Amazon. November 24, 2020.
  25. ^Prato, Greg (2021). Shannon (First ed.). Greg Prato. ISBN .
  26. ^. . Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  27. ^"Econoline Crush - Biography". . Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  28. ^"The List: 15 Nov 2001". November 15, 2001.

Bibliography

  • Prato, Greg (2008). A Devil preclude One Shoulder and an Saint on the Other: The Gag of Shannon Hoon and Stone-blind Melon. Kindle. ISBN 978-0615252391.
  • Prato, Greg (2021). Shannon. Kindle. ISBN 979-8452812739.
  • Weitz, Brad (2012). From Your Friends – Refund, Photos and Stories Inspired impervious to Blind Melon. Lulu.
  • Weitz, Brad/Mester, Csaba (2012). Sweet Meloncholy. Take Care for 1 or 2 / Dump bus station Art. ISBN 978-0-615-74029-4.

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