{"id":973651,"date":"2019-11-21T13:57:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=916115"},"modified":"2019-11-21T13:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T20:57:16","slug":"documentary-about-late-blind-melon-singer-shannon-hoon-nears-2020-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/documentary-about-late-blind-melon-singer-shannon-hoon-nears-2020-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary About Late Blind Melon Singer Shannon Hoon Nears 2020 Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/all-i-can-say-doc.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><em>All I Can Say \u2014 <\/em>the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/see-blind-melons-shannon-hoon-get-naked-and-bring-pizza-to-guns-n-roses-53954\/\">long-in-the-works documentary<\/a> about late <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/blind-melon\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blind-melon\" data-tag=\"blind-melon\">Blind Melon<\/a> singer Shannon Hoon \u2014 has added Double E Pictures and Live Nation Productions as executive producers on the film, which is currently on the festival circuit. It\u2019s expected to drop in the U.S. in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">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\u2019s overdose death shortly after the release of Blind Melon\u2019s sophomore LP <em>Soup<\/em> in 1995.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cHe was really an endearing character,\u201d Clinch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/see-blind-melons-shannon-hoon-get-naked-and-bring-pizza-to-guns-n-roses-53954\/\">told&nbsp;<i>Rolling Stone<\/i><\/a> in 2015<i>.<\/i> \u201cHe 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 &amp; roll lifestyle for sure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After raising $100,000 through Kickstarter, Clinch and co-directors Taryn Gould and Colleen Hennessy went about combing through the footage Hoon left behind. \u201cCreated with his own footage, voice and music, this intimate autobiography is a prescient exploration of experience and memory in the age of video,\u201d producers said of <em>All I Can Say<\/em>. \u201cHoon\u2019s footage provides an inside look into his family, his creative process, his television, his band\u2019s rise to fame, and his struggle with addiction.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Four years later, <em>All I Can Say<\/em> is revving up toward a wider release following a film festival run that included a screening at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. On Thursday, Double E Pictures \u2014 the company behind the Grateful Dead doc L<em>ong Strange Trip<\/em> \u2014 and Live Nation Productions signed on as executive producers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI am pleased to be partnering with everyone on such a quality film,\u201d Double E\u2019s Eric Eisner said in a statement. \u201cThere are many important layers to this film that hit you with a soft, emotional touch.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/blind-melon-shannon-hoon-documentary-916115\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All I Can Say \u2014 the long-in-the-works documentary about late Blind Melon singer Shannon Hoon \u2014 has added Double E Pictures and Live Nation Productions as executive producers on the film, which is currently on the festival circuit. It\u2019s expected to drop in the U.S. in 2020. Photographer and co-director Danny Clinch initially launched a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 22:38:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}