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

[UndeadSnoopy]

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

Kurt hurt the most.

I made a dumb joke to a friend that Kurt was voted "most likely to commit suicide in his high school yearbook"

A few days later...

 

[barristerboy]

thanks for posting this. much appreciated

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

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.



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

Has Netflix picked it up?

Or available for rental?

I guess I could look it up.

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

 

[Cage1]

I admit my knowledge of them extends only as far as No Rain. But I did like that one at the time.

 

[UndeadSnoopy]

Here you go.

I may rent it.

ALL I CAN SAY - The autobiography of Shannon Hoon

Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the rock band Blind Melon, filmed himself from 1990-95 with a Hi8 video camera, recording up until a few hours before his sudden death at the age of 28. His camera was a diary and his closest confidant. In the hundreds of hours of footage, Hoon meticulously...

allicansay.oscilloscope.net

 

[sonicboom]

Was a shocker to hear of his passing back then. R.I.P. Shannon.

I really like Tones of Home.





Kurt's death was far more tragic for me.

Maybe record companies need to start providing mental health care for their artists?!?! A visit with Dr. Drew at least every 3 months.