SteveAJones Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 I'm not sure who could replace Joe, Jimmy obviously would be fantastic. I think Slash is busy doing his own stuff... Glenn's level of ambition with BCC has become far greater than Joe's and it now leaves Kevin Shirley to play referee. You can forget Jimmy. Slash is still quite busy touring the world in support of 'Apocalyptic Love'. Black Country Communion Communication Breakdown. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 Three webisodes were uploaded on September 19th to promote the release of 'Afterglow'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted October 7, 2012 Author Share Posted October 7, 2012 On September 7th 2012 Glenn Hughes discussed 'Afterglow', the third Black Country Communion album, with Pete Feenstra for Get Ready to ROCK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reids Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 Kevin posted on his Facebook page recently, that a "bend in the road is not necessarily an end in the road"... So, all BCC fans out there, there's still a chance. R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators sam_webmaster Posted October 19, 2012 Administrators Share Posted October 19, 2012 Bonham admits BCC frustration October 19 2012 (pic Christie Goodwin) Black Country Communion drummer Jason Bonham admits he’s frustrated over the band’s inability to tour new album Afterglow. He says he was told the supergroup would be hitting the road to promote its release – despite Joe Bonamassa’s insistence that everyone knew he didn’t have time to do so. On Wednesday the guitarist broke his silence over the fall-out between him and Glenn Hughes, saying he was upset that the frontman had tried to “bully” him into playing live. Now Bonham tells Classic Rock: “It is kinda sad that we do this product, then when it comes to touring there’s no plans. I find that really amazing. “When I started this project I didn’t know what we were doing. As it took off I thought we were bound to start working more. I’m not blaming anybody in particular – but we should tour. I love everyone in the band and I’d love to take it on the road. Certain powers-that-be are holding us back.” The drummer says he wasn’t aware that Bonamassa wouldn’t be available – and if he wasn’t, he wonders why BCC went into the studio to record Afterglow when they did. “All I know is, when we did the album there was talk of touring to promote it,” he reports. “I thought there would be. “I can go on the internet and I can see Joe’s schedule – he’s booked up throughout the whole year. So I felt: what was the rush to start the album when we did? Surely we should have done it when we had time, and Joe had time, to promote it?” Bonamassa has said he refused to appear at BCC’s one-off show in Wolverhampton because he was worried Hughes would “make some stupid fucking announcement on stage” relating to whether the band had a future. Asked if he can explain exactly what happened, Bonham says: “I have no idea. I’ve had no contact with the other guys except Glenn. I tried to get a reaction from Joe’s management but they just said there were complications. “I could sense there was something up – somebody was upset somewhere about something. “It’s very fucking frustrating: I absolutely adore Joe to bits. He’s one of the best guitar players around. But I just wish we could tour. “I know he’s busy; I get it, I do get it. But Glenn, myself and Derek Sherinian, we’d love to tour. Maybe we’ll figure out some way to do it. Who knows? I just hope we can work something out.” Afterglow, BCC’s third album in two years, is released on October 29. Find out more at www.bccommunion.com http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/jason-bonham-admits-black-country-communion-frustration/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feather in the wind Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 i got no love for Glenn. he should call it quits for himself, long time ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the chase Posted October 19, 2012 Share Posted October 19, 2012 i will have zero interest in this band if they lose Joe Bonamassa over something so stupid... No offense to Jason. Nobody could do for this band what Joe does. I'm glad he spoke up too. They ALL have 10,000 other projects going on..... ESPECIALLY GLENN "the voice of Rock" HUGHES.. This man's ego is huge..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lambeau Leap Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 Great band but Hughes is an ego maniac and attention whore; not surprised it's gone down this road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St. Mark's Place Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 My take on BCC: I love the band, love the music and l love the live performances. I think they 'get it.' They are reminiscent of the hard rock bands of the early 1970s and yet they don't sound outdated; if anything, they have relevance. It would be a literal travesty if the band were to fall apart over something as seemingly trivial as not wanting to tour or not desiring to do so a decent amount of time after their third album is released. In short: you can be in a rock band or you can be in your own band, but not many people can do both. In all seriousness, I hope this resolves favorably. BCC is, in my opinion, the spiritual heir to Led Zeppelin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted October 21, 2012 Author Share Posted October 21, 2012 The ongoing power struggle and trust issues between Glenn Hughes & Joe Bonamassa have probably killed this band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedjeffy Posted October 21, 2012 Share Posted October 21, 2012 It's basically turned into a he said - he said argument. SHUT UP AND JAM! Interview: Joe Bonamassa speaks out about Black Country Communion's future Since their formation three years ago, Black Country Communion have been a remarkably productive, drama-free enterprise. Comprised of blues-rock guitar star Joe Bonamassa, bassist-vocalist Glenn Hughes, drummer Jason Bonham and keyboardist Derek Sherinian, the band pumped out two high-wattage, hard-kicking albums in as many years. The stage was set beautifully for the release of Afterglow (due out 30 October), the group's third offering and their best overall. But trouble broke out late last August when, during an interview with ABC News, Hughes said that Afterglow could be the quartet's final record. Stating that he needed to be in a heavy touring band, Hughes put the blame for Black Country Communion's sporadic roadwork squarely on Bonamassa's shoulders, citing the guitarist's extensive solo tour schedule. Bonamassa was wounded by Hughes' assertions – and then angered. A BCC gig that had been scheduled for 5 January at the Wolverhampton Civic Hall in Wolverhampton, England, was cancelled. Soon after, Bonamassa tweeted, "I am very sorry about the Black Country Communion canceled gig. But principle still stands for something in 2012. I ready to move on." Hughes' tweeted response confirmed the icy conditions between the two parties: "Me too." Back home from a swing throughout Southeast Asia and Australia (with a gig in Honolulu thrown in for good measure – nice), and ahead of a two-month US run, Bonamassa sat down with MusicRadar to discuss the current state of Black Country Communion. So, obviously, it's been a difficult time for the band. "The weird thing is, I heard about this nonsense second-hand. You know what I mean? I'd look on Blabbermouth and I'd see 'Glenn Hughes, and I'd be like, 'Oh!' 'Cause I knew he was doing the press tour. See, going into making the record, I had a lot on the table, a real whirlwind of activity. But everybody knew that was the deal for me. These were all facts on the table, and everybody knew that. And we had a great time making the record. "The impetus of the songs was really on Glenn's shoulders, and he was happy to take the responsibility. He came up with some good songs. Listening to number three, I'm not sure if it's our best one. One is the best, or at least it's my favorite. The first one was the shit – it even sounded like 1972. "But a lot of this stuff I fell into second-hand – you know, I'd read a blog, or I'd read this or I'd read that. I was going, 'Why all of a sudden is it my fault?' That I'm doing what I said I was going to do for the last three years, and now because somebody changes his mind, that's now my fault? At first, it didn't really faze me. You know, journalists do like to take liberties; they do like to start shit. But then it's time and time again, and then I read the Classic Rock article, and it went from slightly annoying to supremely not cool. "I never would have done that to my friend, Glenn Hughes, no matter how I felt about the situation. If Glenn Hughes had been offered the Deep Purple reunion Mach III for a two-year world tour, he would've dropped Black Country Communion and put that on hiatus to go do that in a heartbeat. The fact that I tour religiously in the spring, religiously in the fall and do 125 shows – you can set your watch to that. And you could have set your watch to that in 2000 or 1999, and you can set your watch to it in 2012." "The thing that became more than slightly annoying to me was getting e-mails and negative stuff coming at me, basically unsolicited, from kids in Brazil going, 'My lifelong dream is to see Black Country Communion, and because Glenn Hughes says you don't want to do it, now you're the fucking blues antichrist.' I wouldn't have done that to anybody. No matter what the situation is internally, you never air that dirty laundry and those grievances out in public. You call me on the phone, you know? And he never did. "So, at the end of the day, when the time came for the gig... there's two things that I told myself, the threshold I'd never cross: I'll never make music that I don't want to make. I'd rather be living in a trash can on the street rather than do that. But I love the music we make with Black Country Communion, so that didn't come into play. "But I'll never do a gig out of obligation to just fleece the fans and have this 800-pound gorilla in the room, with everybody going, 'Well, this could be the last' and waiting for Glenn to make some stupid fucking announcement on stage. We'll all have egg on our faces. When it came down to it, I said, 'At this point in time, it's probably best for me to just step away from the situation and chill out – and not break up the band, not say it's over, and not say anything other than 'I choose not to participate in that event at this particular time.' "That's really it. I still have a lot of love for Glenn Hughes. I still have a lot of love for Jason and Derek. And I feel sorry for Jason and Derek – they got caught up in this thing unfairly." Has anything changed in the situation at all? "The state of things is the same as it was a month ago. You know, if everybody gets on the phone or gets in a room – and most likely it's going to have to be me and Glenn to hash this thing out – then I don't rule out ever doing it again. At all. I'm actually particularly proud of this facet of my career. I just rule out doing it in the short term and next year, because at the end of the day, I'm not going to be bullied into doing something that was never on the table from day one because some cat changes his mind and figures out that it's the best thing he's got going on – thus it's going to drag us all into it. That's not fair. It's not fair to me." Obviously you felt blindsided by Glenn's comments – "Well, I was hurt. I mean, here's quote-unquote your friend, and to make matters worse, it's one of your musical idols doing it, too. And all of a sudden I'm like persona non-grata and the reason why some Brazilian kid isn't getting his hard rock fix. That's wrong." Black Country Communion 2012. (from left) Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian, Glenn Hughes and Bonamassa. © Christie Goodwin But in an interview, Glenn said that if it was going to be the last album, he'd better make some "pretty wild and epic tracks." Did he say anything in the studio to indicate that he thought it would be the last record? "Well, see, here's the rub, too, and this is where Kevin Shirley and I get out noses bent out of shape. At the end of the day, he doesn't come in and tell me where to play, tell Kevin where to put the faders, and tell Jason how to play drums and Derek how to play keys. "I mean, to hear these songs come in initially, they're pretty rough sketches. I mean, yeah, they're Glenn's tunes, but to take sole credit for it all and not to give any credit to Kevin – you know, I'm out; he doesn't like me. But to give no credit where credit's due, I mean, Kevin really makes these things what they are. And you read this stuff and you're like, 'OK, fair enough. You said you needed sole writing credit for everything. And dude, it's OK. It's not about that… ' But to make it like we're a bunch of studio musicians is laughable. Why treat us like we had nothing to do it in the first place, like he could get any bunch of minions in there and do the same thing? "That's the way I read a lot of this stuff. It's 'All hail King Hughes, for we are all your surfs and servants.' It's not true. Bottom line, it's not true. I choose not to participate in that behavior. This thing has become a bit transparent in my world, to see where the true colors are." Have you picked up the phone? Are you waiting for him to do so? "I don't feel the need to pick up the phone. I said my piece. I sent him an e-mail a while ago and said, 'I don't really appreciate this. I don't mind a little wind-up on the record – that's how you sell records. But don't make it TMZ.'" It's unfortunate this is all going on, because the record is so strong. "I'm a little close to it. But conceptually, I think it's the most cohesive. I think that my lack of participation in the writing and singing helps it in that way. It used to be eight songs with Glenn singing, two with me, and then a few harmony vocals, which always meant that every four songs there'd be a blues-rock track. "We did this in six or seven days all in. The second one took the longest, but we really didn't need all the time – we had two weeks, and I think we used 11 days. The first one was four and a half days of shear terror. That's kind of why I liked it – I think it yielded the best songs." The song Crawl on the new album features so many different guitar sounds. Was that live off the floor, or were those effects put in later? "That song was for the second one, but we never used it. The album ran very long, so we kept the track and used it on this one. I think mostly it was cut live, but Kevin edits most of this stuff in the takes. He kind of builds the solo, unless it's just cohesive all the way through. I don't really know. It's like I eat the hamburgers, but I don't know how the cows are killed. That mostly likely was cut between takes. Halfway through the solo of take two, I might have hit the wah-wah pedal or some flanger, and then he grabs something from take one. But it was all done with the same rig. It wasn't like we overdubbed different tones." Bonamassa warms up before playing with BCC in Wolverhampton in 2011. © Christie Goodwin Did Dandelion start as an acoustic number, or did it begin with the heavy guitar riff? "Glenn played the acoustic on that, and it was really wonderful, like a Jethro Tull thing. When he started showing me the riff, I said, 'You can show me the riff all you want, but you have such a feel for this. You should play it.' That was the right way to go. He had a really great take on it. The heavy riff, we built that up over the three or four hours we worked on it." Glenn sings his ass off on Midnight Sun. Truth be told, he gets stronger and stronger. "Yeah, what can you say about that voice of rock? He's a freak of nature. I mean, there's a cat who can sing anything that comes into his head. Very few people have that ability. Aretha Franklin has that ability. Steve Marriot, for a short period of time in the '70s, he had that ability and it kind of went away. Glenn has wonderful control over his voice. You read these articles, and it's kind of unfair to him: 'For his age…' For any age! I defy you to find a 20 year old who can sing like that. Hats off, and rightfully so." Well, it's a great record. It'd be terrific to see you guys out there. "You know, never say never. But he's going to have to explain himself first." Because it's not all about your touring. Jason has the Led Zeppelin Experience, Derek is playing with a few people… "If Glenn had just replaced the word 'Joe' and used 'the guys' or 'we,' I would've had no problem with anything he said. But the fact that it was used to really cattle prod me... I'm not going to cancel shows. I have to book three years in advance to get theatres. It's my life. That's what it is. But I… I think it'll be fine. I'm not worried about it." http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/interview-joe-bonamassa-speaks-out-about-black-country-communions-future-565671 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knebby Posted October 23, 2012 Share Posted October 23, 2012 The sad fact is Glenn does not live in the real world. He's been cosseted, pampered and told he was a God since he was a young man, it's all he has ever known. His talented is absolutely without question but his personality is, to say the least, bizarre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reids Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 They have amazing chemistry and kudos to Kevin for bringing them together, creating an environment for them to work on the songs and for all of them to bring their individuality into the songs. The live feel of the recordings is such a rarity in today's music scene. They really have a timeless classic sound while being so current, too. I do hope they can work something out about touring (even something like do a double bill tour - example: BCC and Joe Bonamassa do a set each for a tour (for shows that Joe already has booked, if they cannot get any other time to do shows together in the next year). R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dallas Knebs Posted October 24, 2012 Share Posted October 24, 2012 Your post causes me to think reids. If BCC have a live feel, I have missed it. If BCC have a classic sound, I have missed it. They have amazing chemistry and kudos to Kevin for bringing them together, creating an environment for them to work on the songs and for all of them to bring their individuality into the songs. The live feel of the recordings is such a rarity in today's music scene. They really have a timeless classic sound while being so current, too. I do hope they can work something out about touring (even something like do a double bill tour - example: BCC and Joe Bonamassa do a set each for a tour (for shows that Joe already has booked, if they cannot get any other time to do shows together in the next year). R Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted August 9, 2013 Author Share Posted August 9, 2013 Jason Bonham signing autographs (for charity) Lambert Airport in St. Louis, MO Sun, June 12, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Duck Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 The ongoing power struggle and trust issues between Glenn Hughes & Joe Bonamassa have probably killed this band. I have a question for posters who are more familiar with how the music industry works. Would it have been possible for Black Country Communion to record their third album when they did, but hold off on releasing it until Joe Bonamassa was free to tour with the band? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveAJones Posted August 10, 2013 Author Share Posted August 10, 2013 I have a question for posters who are more familiar with how the music industry works. Would it have been possible for Black Country Communion to record their third album when they did, but hold off on releasing it until Joe Bonamassa was free to tour with the band? In a word, yes, but it likely would have exacerbated what have become irreconcilable differences between Hughes and Bonamassa. No new album release would have meant less leverage for Hughes to push for live dates. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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