All I Can Say (Shannon Hoon documentary) released today (1 Viewer)

[superchuck500]

The film is largely based on hundreds of hours of personal footage shot by Hoon himself before his overdose death in New Orleans in October 1995 just hours before the band was to play a show at Tipitina's.

UPDATE: All I Can Say will arrive in “virtual cinemas, record stores and music venues” on June 26th.

All I Can Say — the long-in-the-works documentary about late Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon — has added Double E Pictures and Live Nation Productions as executive producers on the film, which is currently on the festival circuit. It’s expected to drop in the U.S. in 2020.

Photographer and co-director Danny Clinch initially launched a Kickstarter in 2015 to finance the documentary; Clinch and Hoon were close friends, and the photographer had unfettered access and over 200 hours of footage that spanned from 1990 to Hoon’s overdose death shortly after the release of Blind Melon’s sophomore LP Soup in 1995.

“He was really an endearing character,” Clinch told Rolling Stone in 2015. “He could just become your best friend straight away. His energy was great. He was really creative and super friendly. He definitely liked to have a good time and he enjoyed the rock & roll lifestyle for sure.”

This review is good:

They See Everything You Do: Shannon Hoon, Blind Melon, & The 'All I Can Say' Documentary [Review]

A Hi-8 video camera in the hands of Shannon Hoon provides the perspective on the incredible new Blind Melon documentary, 'All I Can Say'.

liveforlivemusic.com

 

[zeetes]

one of the very few artists i was truly upset about when he passed. i loved blind melon.

i can't watch.

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I remember when it happened.. i was working in downtown NOLA at the time, and IIRC he OD’d on their tour bus which was parked in one of the parking lots in the CBD, like on Carondelet i think.. I’m not really a big enough fan of their music to watch a doc on them in ordinary times, but since we’re in quarantine, who knows maybe i will

 

[Booker]

They've been working on this for years, glad they're finally releasing it (I think it might have debuted earlier this year, or it was at least scheduled to but the pandemic may have scuttled the planned initial showings). They were a really good band (the replacement singer they have now is alright, but he can't write as well as Hoon did). I remember trying to figure out how I was going to get to that Tipitina's show, and then finding out he died.

 

[Booker]

I remember when it happened.. i was working in downtown NOLA at the time, and IIRC he OD’d on their tour bus which was parked in one of the parking lots in the CBD, like on Carondelet i think.. I’m not really a big enough fan of their music to watch a doc on them in ordinary times, but since we’re in quarantine, who knows maybe i will

If all you know is No Rain, you're missing out...

 

[superchuck500]

I remember when it happened.. i was working in downtown NOLA at the time, and IIRC he OD’d on their tour bus which was parked in one of the parking lots in the CBD, like on Carondelet i think.. I’m not really a big enough fan of their music to watch a doc on them in ordinary times, but since we’re in quarantine, who knows maybe i will

I believe it was Royal Street.

 

[superchuck500]

If all you know is No Rain, you're missing out...

I usually skipped No Rain - not that I didn't like it, but it was really poppy and on the radio so much. I remember wearing out my Soup CD. Great record.

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

"No Rain" is an obvious cry for help.

I could name a few Kurt Cobain songs too.

 

[Booker]

"No Rain" is an obvious cry for help.

I could name a few Kurt Cobain songs too.

The whole Soup album is a cry for help, it's like an exposed raw nerve. I couldn't listen to it for years after Hoon died, but it's forking brilliant, and the Soup outtakes that ended up on Nico were the highlights of that album. The band was really on fire when they recorded it (at Kingsway Studios in New Orleans, btw).

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

The whole Soup album is a cry for help, it's like an exposed raw nerve. I couldn't listen to it for years after Hoon died, but it's forking brilliant, and the Soup outtakes that ended up on Nico were the highlights of that album. The band was really on fire when they recorded it (at Kingsway Studios in New Orleans, btw).

Most people just remember the Bee Girl.

This guy was in serious pain.

 

[Booker]

Most people just remember the Bee Girl.

This guy was in serious pain.

Here’s some trivia — that song was actually written by the bass player, Brad Smith, not Hoon...

No Rain - Wikipedia

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[UndeadSnoopy]

Here’s some trivia — that song was actually written by the bass player, Brad Smith, not Hoon...

No Rain - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

That's right.

It was talked about on another thread.

I screwed it up both times.

Duh.

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

I'll try to redeem myself.

Cries for help.

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

Pretty much all of In Utero.

 

[Booker]

I think Change was Shannon Hoon's defining song, which they actually played on Letterman the day Kurt Cobain's body was found...