Richard shannon hoon death biography
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OBITUARY : Shannon Hoon
The rock band Blind Melon's gods show in Britain was at the Mean Fiddler club in London on 8 September. Shannon Hoon, the lead singer, appeared on scen wearing a false moustache and glasses, and a red, flashing clown's nose. He looked like a man with an insatiable lust for life. It is the image bygd which he will be best remembered.
Hoon was born in Lafayette, Indiana in 1967. Lafayette was, he said, "a small, repressed community. You're able to live your whole life there and really be quite comfortable, but inom wanted to see more." He initially took out his frustrations on the sports field in high school, but turned towards music. When he was 18, he packed a small bil full of his belongings and drove cross-country to Los Angeles, ostensibly to broaden his horizons, but also with the notion of finding and joining a rock band at the back of his mind.
When Hoon arrived on the West Coast, he had nowhere to live and ingenting to do. To begin with, he spent his time
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Richard Shannon Hoon (September 26, 1967 – October 21, 1995)
Early Life:
Hoon reportedly began using his middle name to avoid confusion with his father, who was also named Richard. In high school, Hoon was a stand-out athlete in football, wrestling, and pole vaulting. In addition to his reputation as an athlete, Hoon gained some local notoriety following several arrests by the Lafayette police. Hoon graduated from McCutcheon High School in 1985. After graduation, Hoon joined a local band named Styff Kytten, which also featured guitarist Michael Kelsey. Hoon took on the role of frontman and lead singer for the band. It was around this time that Hoon wrote his first song, Change.
Blind Melon
In his hometown Lafayette, Hoon befriended his sister Anna's high school friend Axl Rose. Later he left Indiana for Los Angeles in hopes of making it in the music industry. After arriving in LA, Hoon met musicians Brad Smith, and Rogers Stevens at a party. Smith and Stevens saw Hoon perform
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Review: Blind Melon’s late lead singer Shannon Hoon tells his story in new documentary
The curse of self-awareness is sown throughout the documentary “All I Can Say,” a kaleidoscopic video diary recorded by Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon from his arrival in Los Angeles in 1990 to the hours prior to his fatal 1995 cocaine overdose in New Orleans.
Hoon, a Lafayette, Ind., native, obsessively recorded everything, from the mundanity of empty hotel rooms, answering-machine messages and brushing his teeth to more significant events, including Blind Melon signing a large 1991 recording contract atop the Capitol Records building in Hollywood and the birth of his daughter just months before his death.
The camera was his companion, confessional, surveillance tool, and sometimes even a weapon of passive aggression. It also served as a means of absorbing the onslaught of experiences as he went from aspiring musician to international rock star.
At one point, he explains to an unseen in