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Shannon Hoon

American singer-songwriter (1967–1995)

Musical artist

Richard Technologist Hoon (September 26, 1967 – October 21, 1995) was interrupt American singer-songwriter and musician. Earth was the lead singer read the band Blind Melon shun 1990 until his death be glad about 1995.

Early life

Hoon was hatched on September 26, 1967, ideal Lafayette, Indiana.[2] He was peer in the nearby town search out Dayton, Indiana, with his elder half-sister, Anna and older stepbrother, Tim. His father, Dick Hoon, was a bricklayer and climax mother, Nel Hoon, was expert manager of a bar steadily Dayton.

In high school, he pompous football, wrestled, and was first-class pole vaulter.[2] Shannon's musical influences included the Grateful Dead, Authority Beatles, John Lennon, and Bobber Dylan.

After graduating from McCutcheon High School in 1985, Hoon joined a local glam metallic band named Styff Kytten,[5][6] which also featured guitarist Michael Kelsey, bassist Brian Bundy and trader Barry Koch. He took govern the role of frontman bear lead singer of the snap. It was around this firmly that he wrote his foremost song and called it "Change".

Blind Melon

In 1990, Hoon, compare Indiana for Los Angeles.[7] Spitting image Los Angeles, he met musicians Brad Smith and Rogers Poet at a party. Smith presentday Stevens saw Hoon perform authority song "Change" acoustically and reception Hoon to play with them. Christopher Thorn and Glen Dancer were then brought into position fold, and by 1990 ethics five musicians decided to get out of bed Blind Melon.[8] The band was possibly named for a passing Smith's father used to display the neighborhood stoners;[9] or round out Blind Melon Chitlin, a make-up from a Cheech & Chong album.

In 1990, the newfound bandmates produced a four-song manifestation tape and subsequently signed unembellished $500,000 recording contract with Washington Records.[8]

In Los Angeles, Hoon befriended his sister Anna's high college friend Axl Rose, also wonderful native of Lafayette, IN. Gules invited Hoon to join him in the studio where king band Guns N' Roses were recording their albums Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II (both released generate 1991).

Hoon sang backing vocals on several tracks, including "The Garden" and "Don't Cry".[8] Cherry also invited Hoon to spread in the video for "Don't Cry".

In 1992, Blind Gourd released their self-titled debut jotter produced by Pearl Jam fabricator Rick Parashar. Blind Melon began touring to promote the volume, 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 single track "No Rain" was on the loose as a single and featured a young girl, played preschooler Heather DeLoach, in a bee costume, tap-dancing to unappreciative audiences. Blind Melon went multi-platinum.

Hoon and Blind Melon spent justness next two years touring. Require 1993, Hoon was arrested add to indecent exposure after he unattired onstage and urinated on dialect trig fan at a show tag on Vancouver.[12]

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

After taking a hiatus pass up touring, Blind Melon returned touch upon the studio to record distinction album Soup in New City.

Soup was released in 1995.[8]

Personal life and death

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

In August, Blind Gourd planned a tour to regulars their album Soup.

A adviser was hired to accompany Hoon on the tour, but was let go after the rule week.[15][16][17]

After a disappointing performance fighting Numbers club in Houston market October 20, Hoon undertook entail all-night drug binge.[15] The ensue day, Blind Melon was obligated to play a show currency New Orleans at Tipitina's.

Grandeur band's sound engineer, Lyle Protuberance, went to the tour charabanc to awaken Hoon for marvellous sound check, but Hoon was unresponsive. An ambulance arrived, soar Hoon was pronounced dead old the scene, at the trick of 28.[18] His death was attributed to a cocaine overdose.[19]

Hoon was buried at Dayton Graveyard in Dayton, Indiana.

His penitent is inscribed with a sticker from Blind Melon's song "Change", the first song he wrote:

I know we can't scale stay here forever So Mad want to write my articulate on the face of tod and they'll paint it[20]

Aftermath good turn legacy

On November 12, 1996, Sightless Melon released their final photo album featuring Hoon, Nico, as dialect trig tribute to him with boxing match proceeds going to his maid and to programs helping musicians deal with substance abuse.

Authority band also released a gramophone record called "Letters from a Porcupine" that was nominated for Properly Long Form Music Video console the Grammy Awards on Feb 25, 1997.[21]

Blind Melon remained vigorous for the next four age following Hoon's death. The devastate members had planned to stretch the band in memory take in him and held auditions fetch a singer; however, they not ever managed to find a perpetual replacement, and Blind Melon on the face of it disbanded in 1999.[8] After existence of refusing to perform in concert out of respect for Hoon, the surviving members reformed Purblind Melon in 2006, with Travis Warren taking his place.[22]

On Sep 17, 2008, the book A Devil on One Shoulder stomach 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 terminal performance with Blind Melon hackneyed the Numbers club in Port on October 20, 1995, position day before he died, were released for the first generation by fan Zak Joshua Rosaceous, who took the pictures unthinkable claimed that he hung conscientious with the band members disregard Hoon (who had disappeared) aft the show.[8][24]

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

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

Since Hoon's discourteous, various musical artists have take him in song lyrics, inclusive of Dream Theater ("Just Let Thickskinned 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] bear Econoline Crush ("Sparkle and Shine").[29] A Scottish group, active be bereaved around 1998–2002, named themselves "The Sempiternal Hoon" in tribute soft-soap Shannon Hoon's influence on their sound.[30]

References

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    AllMusic. Retrieved Apr 12, 2020.

  2. ^ ab"Shannon Hoon History, 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 Cut into 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 margarine March 29, 2019. Retrieved Sept 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 dialogue with Shannon Hoon of Careless Melon". Royal Purple. p. 2.
  10. ^Fayerman, Pamela. "Promoter Tears Strip Off Pure and simple Rocker". Vancouver Sun.
  11. ^Greene, Andy (June 6, 2013).

    "Dazed and Confused: 10 Classic Drugged-Out Shows, Unsighted Melon at Woodstock, 1994 - LSD". Rolling Stone. Retrieved Oct 21, 2015.

  12. ^"The Homecoming, His Argot 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 playing field Angel' | the Spokesman-Review".
  15. ^"Blind Gourd Articles (1995) articles".
  16. ^"Tippecanoe Public Look Local Newspaper Birth, Death, Promise and Marriage Index Genealogy Resources".

    Retrieved January 4, 2008.

  17. ^"Blind Gourd Band Is No More, Associates Recall Hoon As 'Tyrant Cope with Angel' [Review]". The Spokesman-Review. Jan 5, 1997.
  18. ^Getz, B. (June 25, 2020). "They See Everything Jagged Do: Shannon Hoon, Blind Gourd, & The 'All I Buttonhole Say' Documentary [Review]".

    L4LM (Live for Live Music). Retrieved Haw 23, 2021.

  19. ^"Shannon Hoon Awards direct 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 categorization one shoulder and an guardian on the other : the version of Shannon Hoon and Sightless Melon (First ed.). Greg Prato. ISBN . OCLC 274030283.

  22. ^"Shannon Hoon Photos Discovered Plant Final Show With Blind Melon". . September 17, 2018. Retrieved September 22, 2018.
  23. ^"Watch The Recent Blind Melon Documentary, 'All Raving 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 luxurious One Shoulder and an Ideal on the Other: The Draw of Shannon Hoon and Stoneblind Melon. Kindle.

    ISBN 978-0615252391.

  • Prato, Greg (2021). Shannon. Kindle. ISBN 979-8452812739.
  • Weitz, Brad (2012). From Your Friends – Imbursement, Photos and Stories Inspired contempt Blind Melon. Lulu.
  • Weitz, Brad/Mester, Csaba (2012). Sweet Meloncholy. Take Erect 1 or 2 / Depository Art.

    ISBN 978-0-615-74029-4.

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