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  Shannon Hoon - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Richard Shannon Hoon (September 26, 1967 – October 21, 1995) was the lead singer of the band Blind Melon.
Hoon's big moment came in 1992 with the release of their self-titled debut album (produced by Pearl Jam's Rick Parashar) or to be more precise, the release of the single and video of "No Rain." With images of Hoon and the Bee Girl imprinted on viewer's minds, Blind Melon ended up going multi-platinum.
Shannon was taken back to Lafayette where he was buried in his favorite t-shirt that said "Amsterdam" and at his sister's suggestion, bare feet as Shannon would go with out shoes as often as he could.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Shannon_Hoon   (974 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon Biography - hotshotdigital.com
Shannon Hoon was born on September 26, 1967 in Lafayette, Indiana.
Hoon's big moment, and to many pop culture skeptics, his 15 minutes of fame, came the next year in 1992 with the release of the band's self-titled debut, which featured the track "No Rain." The song and its accompanying video almost instantly catapulted the band to stardom.
Hoon is remembered to this day by all who were touched by his music and his uniquely compelling and varyingly rude, friendly, and troubled presence.
www.hotshotdigital.com /WellAlwaysRemember.2/ShannonHoonBio.html   (1548 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Richard Shannon Hoon (September 26, 1967 – October 21, 1995) was the lead singer of the band Blind Melon.
In 1993, Hoon was arrested for indecent exposure after he stripped naked onstage and urinated on a fan at a show in Vancouver.
An ambulance was summoned and Hoon was pronounced dead on the scene at the age of 28.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shannon_Hoon   (953 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Shannon Hoon (26 de septiembre de 1967 - 21 de octubre de 1995) era el vocalista principal de la banda Blind Melon.
Sin embargo Shannon murió de sobredosis el 21 de octubre de 1995 en el bus de su gira promocional para su segundo disco llamado Soup.
En 1996 editan Nico en memoria de Shannon.
www.guajara.com /wiki/es/wikipedia/s/sh/shannon_hoon.html   (225 words)

  
 Mrs Brow(n)stone - Shannon Hoon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Richard Shannon Hoon was born on 26 September 1967 in Lafayette, Indiana.
Whilst in the studio Shannon was invited to add backing vocals to the song "Don't Cry" and eventually went on to appear on a number of other songs on the two record set.
After Shannon's tragic death the remaining members of the group released one last record, "Nico", which was a collection of outtakes which included several songs Shannon had recorded alone on which they had added extra instrumentation or had left as they were.
www.stormpages.com /brownstone/shannonhoon/shannonhoon.html   (621 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon Information
Born Richard Shannon Hoon in Lafayette, Indiana, USA, Hoon reportedly began using his middle name to avoid confusion with his father, who was also named Richard.
An ambulance was summoned and Hoon was pronounced dead on the scene at the age of 28.
The cause of death was attributed to an intense accidental cocaine overdose.
www.bookrags.com /Shannon_Hoon   (942 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon Page in Fuller Up, Dead Musician Directory
Shannon Hoon, lead singer of the rock group Blind Melon, died on Saturday in the band's tour bus in a parking lot in New Orleans.
Hoon moved back to Lafayette with his girlfriend of 10 years, Lisa Crouse, and a daughter, Nico Blue, was born to them this summer.
Hoon was consumed by a habit that he freely videotaped and one that band mates described as fun at first, as a simple feeding of the beast at the spiraling end.
www.elvispelvis.com /shannonhoon.htm   (1191 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon - hotshotdigital.com
Shannon Hoon, the lead singer of Blind Melon, lived out many of the aspects of the rock star stereotype, however his music deserves serious recognition.
Hoon and his band released two more albums in the coming years, neither of which were received well by critics or the mainstream audience, but were artistically much more important than their debut.
Hoon was very proud of his daughter in the few months after she was born before he died.
www.hotshotdigital.com /WellAlwaysRemember.2/ShannonHoon.html   (519 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon | The Bear Rocks
Born September 26, 1967 in Lafayette, Indiana, Hoon began singing and playing music as a teenager, in addition to being a star high school athlete (wrestling, pole vaulting, etc.) and troublemaker (he was arrested several times).
Hoon's angelic voice was often compared to Janis Joplin's (he was also a talented lyricist), and the group created an automatic buzz in L.A., eventually leading to a record deal with Capitol Records.
Hoon was in and out of a few drug rehabs prior to the release of their sophomore effort, 1995's Soup.
www.thebearrocks.com /performer/87751/shannon-hoon   (507 words)

  
 The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
Born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana, Hoon reportedly began using his middle name to avoid confusion with his father, who was also named Richard.
In 1993, Hoon was arrested for indecent exposure after he stripped naked onstage and urinated on a fan at a show in Vancouver.
An ambulance was summoned and Hoon was pronounced dead on the scene at the age of 28.
www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Shannon_Hoon   (942 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon Tribute Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Shannon was allowed to start touring again under the condition that he would be accompanied by a drug counselor.The counselor became less and less effective and eventually became unemployed after a week on the road.
Shannon was needed for a soundcheck in the club, so one of the band's soundmen climbed onto the bus to wake Hoon to come into the club.
Shannon Hoon left behind his music, his bandmates, and hours and hours of home footage that Shannon taped for his daughter to someday get to know him.
www.personal.psu.edu /users/j/s/jsg222/assign5.html   (1184 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon
Richard Shannon Hoon was born on September 26th 1967 in Lafayette, Indiana.
Whilst in the studio Shannon was invited to add backing vocals to the song "Don't Cry" and eventually went on to appear on a number of other songs on the two record set.
After Shannon's tragic death the remaining members of the group released one last record, Nico, which was a collection of outtakes which included several songs Shannon had recorded alone on which they had added extra instrumentation or had left as they were.
www.blindmelon.org /melon/shannonhoon.htm   (208 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon Drug Overdose - Associated Content
Shannon Hoon, the lead singer of the band Blind Melon, died in 1995 due to an accidental cocaine overdose.
In Hoon's early years he was frequently arrested which eventually led him to leave his hometown of Lafayette, LA in order to escape from the many problems he had there.
Shannon Hoon's death was not as roundly ignored as you seem to believe.
www.associatedcontent.com /article/27555/shannon_hoon_drug_overdose.html   (694 words)

  
 shannon hoon, shannon hoon death, shannon hoon biography blind melon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Hoon and his new band, Blind Melon, sign a $500,000 recording contract with Capitol Records.
At the invitation of Axl Rose, Hoon sings backup vocals and appears in the Guns n' Roses video, "Don't Cry," a major MTV hit.
Hoon becomes a father, when girlfriend Lisa Crouse gives birth to a girl.
www.musiceffect.com /cemetery/shannon_hoon.html   (408 words)

  
 Interview with Shannon Hoon
Shannon Hoon, Blind Melon vocalist, died on a tour bus on October 21st in a hotel parking lot in New Orleans.
And where Axl was in an L.A court fighting court cases brought by his ex-wife and ex-fiancee, Shannon Hoon was settled down with his girlfriend in a ramshackle house with old cars and junk in the front yard in the untrendy Midwest, bringing up their new baby daughter.
Hoon’s philosophy — where the world was a multi-coloured, neo-hippy kind of place fuelled on happy-pills — was to face life with a wide grin, a sarcastic slacker shrug and a lot of drugs.
blindmelon.org /articles/53.htm   (2840 words)

  
 The Thresher Online: Blind Melon (February 21, 1997)
On the day that Nirvana's Kurt Cobain died, lead singer Shannon Hoon of Blind Melon appeared on the "Late Show" with a question mark painted on his head to symbolize the uncertainty of life.
Hoon's death marked the end of Blind Melon, a band that was at the zenith of its success.
A partial answer to that question was provided last November when the surviving members of the group, led by guitarist Christopher Thorn, compiled out-takes, demos and informal recordings of Hoon's singing, added their own background instrumentation and released the compilation as a tribute to Hoon's career and as a gift to those who remembered him.
www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/84/970221/AE/Story01.html   (1310 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon - Glasglidius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Richard Shannon Hoon (September 26 1967 – October 21 1995) was the lead singer of the band Blind Melon.
In high school, Hoon was a stand-out athlete in football, wrestling, and pole vaulting.
Hoon was buried in Dayton, Indiana; his grave is inscribed with the words to the first song he wrote, Change:
www.glasglow.com /e/?title=Shannon_Hoon   (930 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon at AllExperts
Born Richard Shannon Hoon in Lafayette, Indiana, USA, Hoon reportedly began using his middle name to avoid confusion with his father, who was also named Richard.
Inspired by the success of fellow Lafayette native Axl Rose (who was an acquaintance of Hoon's sister), Hoon left Indiana for Los Angeles in hopes of making it in the music industry.
The cause of death was attributed to an intense accidental cocaine overdose.
en.allexperts.com /e/s/sh/shannon_hoon.htm   (1023 words)

  
 Definition of Shannon Hoon
Shannon Hoon (September 26, 1967 - October 21, 1995) was the lead singer of the band Blind Melon.
After the release of the Blind Melon album in 1992, he was arrested on drug charges and was in various rehab clinics for the next three years.
Despite the birth of his daughter, and a tour to support Blind Melon's second album Soup, Hoon relapsed into drug use and died of an overdose on October 21, 1995.
www.wordiq.com /definition/Shannon_Hoon   (180 words)

  
 Blind Melon Nico CD
Blind Melon: Shannon Hoon (vocals, acoustic guitar); Christopher Thorn (acoustic & lap steel guitars, guitar, banjo, Mellotron, bell, tambourine); Rogers Stevens (acoustic & electric guitars, Hammond B-3 organ, congas, shakers, background vocals); Brad Smith (flute, acoustic bass, bass, dumbek, congas); Glen Graham (Mellotron, drums, hi-hat, congas, dumbek, percussion).
Named for the late Shannon Hoon's infant daughter, NICO is a collection of outtakes, previously-unreleased originals and a pair of covers.
Shannon Hoon is truely a talented musician with an amazing, soothing, loud voice.
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/1108346/a/Nico.htm   (533 words)

  
 Shannon
Shannon Hoon had a gift that very few people have or have had; he was a lyrical and musical genius.
Shannon Hoon was a beautiful human being, he loved and loved and loved untill the day he died.
Shannon Hoon was an entrancing artist of whose soul we all share through his poetry and music.  But, we must remember, he had one voice and one skill which contributed to the aesthetic body.
www.blind-melon.com /tribute.html   (16493 words)

  
 donewaiting.com friendship farm :: View topic - Shannon Hoon/Blind Melon
I interviewed Shannon Hoon a year before the first Blind Melon CD came out (they were opening for Soundgarden and I was looking for a way to score free tickets).
The interview was pretty average until I asked Shannon to tell me what bands that Blind Melon would love to share a bill with.
Shannon and I started talking about serial killers and a true friendship was born.
www.donewaiting.com /forum/viewtopic.php?t=889   (376 words)

  
 Shannon Hoon - AOL Music
Blind Melon is an alternative rock band, whose most notable work dates from 1992 to 1995, and ceased with the death of lead vocalist Shannon Hoon.
Shannon Hoon Biography - Shannon Hoon bios, Shannon Hoon tributes and Biography trivia.
Shannon Hoon official AOL Music site for Shannon Hoon music videos, Shannon Hoon songs, Shannon Hoon photos, Shannon Hoon live performances and more information on Shannon Hoon.
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 Shannon Hoon
This section of the page is Dedicated to Shannon Hoon, whom I think was a great person and role model who lived his life like he wanted, and tried his best to achieve his goals, but most important he knew who he was and where he came from.
I'm not going to get into Shannon's death, because I feel he should be remembered for what he was when he was alive, but I'm going to give you a few pointers for if you want to know more about him.
Shannon had a house where he planned to live with his daughter Nico and his girlfriend Lisa, and open an antiques store, the house is located near his mothers house in Indiana.
www.fortunecity.com /tinpan/dylan/68/shannon.htm   (364 words)

  
 Blind Melon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frontman Shannon Hoon and Axl Rose (who was a friend of Hoon's sister) re-metsang back-up on several Guns N' Roses tracks, including "Don't Cry".
Hoon and the rest of the band began recording their sophomore album in New Orleans with producer Andy Wallace.
Hoon was found dead of a cocaine overdose on October 21, 1995 in New Orleans.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blind_Melon   (1197 words)

  
 Sleaze Roxx: Shannon Hoon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Born in Lafayette, Ind., Shannon Hoon launched his musical career from Los Angeles, but New Orleans was the city where he felt most at home in recent years.
Hoon was an addict who had been through two month long rehab programs, in May 1994 and again in June 1995.
Hoon took time out to appear in Guns n' Roses' video fro "Don't Cry" at the invitation of Axl Rose, a pal from Indian.
www.sleazeroxx.com /rip/shannonhoon.shtml   (1136 words)

  
 DeadNetCentral - Blind Melon - shannon hoon r.i.p.
Shannon Hoon was one of the most talented songwriters and singers in the 90's, a decade in which there are very few decent bands coming out.
I met Shannon Hoon when I lived in Lafayette and he was such a sweet, down to earth guy, so sensitive.
I think Shannon died from an cocaine overdose, not heroin...i see there is a live cd out also...
archive2.deadnetcentral.com /WebX?128@54.dbunayBKy4w.0@.ee7a7e4   (900 words)

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