Glenn Hughes / BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION

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Pari Glenn Hughesin laulamaa levyä tuli hankittua jokin aika taaksepäin, eli Hughes/Thrall ja John Norumin Face The Truth. Molemmat ovat kelpo levyjä ja varmasti herran faneille luulisi uppoavan. Jos ei ole ennestään tuttuja, niin kannattaisi ehdottomasti tutustua. Molemmat levyt tyyliltään lähinnä melodista hard rockia. Ja tuo Hughes/Thrall on alunperin julkaistu 1982, vaikka tuo Allmusicin sivusto muuta väittääkin.


Hughes/Thrall: Hughes/Thrall
John Norum: Face The Truth

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Onkohan kukaan ostanut vielä tätä kirjaa, jos on, niin onkohan minkä tasoinen teos kyseessä?

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Vocalist, bassist and songwriter Glenn Hughes is a living, breathing personification of British rock, and the arc of his career and attendant lifestyle make for a compelling story. Starting with the Midlands beat combo Finders Keepers in the 1960s, he formed acclaimed funk-rock band Trapeze in the early 70s before joining Deep Purple at their commercial peak. Flying the world in Starship 1, the band's own Boeing 720 jet, Hughes enthusiastically embraced the rock superstar's lifestyle while playing on three Purple albums, including the classic Burn. When the band split in 1976 Hughes embarked on a breakneck run of solo albums, collaborations and even a brief, chaotic spell fronting Black Sabbath. All of this was accompanied by cocaine psychosis, crack addiction and other excesses, before Hughes survived a clean-up-or-die crisis, and embarked on a reinvigorated solo career enriched by a survivor's wisdom. In his autobiography, Hughes talks us through this whirlwind of a life with unflinching honesty and good humour, taking us right up to date with his triumphant re-emergence in current supergroup Black Country Communion. "I had a constant fascination with the darkside. It is another world, bordering on insanity, and demonic possession, or what I thought was my own Soul Bending personal nirvana. Its good to be back in the middle of the boat, instead of hanging on for dear life in the last life boat." - Glenn Hughes, April 2011

[Jussi K]

^ itse ajattelin ostaa, kun ei maksa kuin 16,40€ adlibriksessä (atm ilman toimituskuluja!), jopa Joel McIveristä huolimatta. Kuitenkin Glenkka kiinnostaa vaiheineen sen verran ja tämä vaikuttaa ihan hyvältä teokselta.

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GLENN HUGHES With TRAPEZE - 1969 Live Footage Surfaces
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GLENN HUGHES Says 'Afterglow' May Be BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION's Final Album
During an interview last Thursday with ABC News Radio, Hughes revealed that "Afterglow" may be BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION's last CD due to Bonamassa's heavy solo touring commitments. "I hate to break it to you, but it just may be, because I need to be in a band that tours on a regular basis," he said.

"If I had a magic wand," he added, "I would wave it over everybody's head and go, 'Hey, you guys, we're gonna go and do 200 shows [in 2013] and we're gonna be a huge rock 'n' roll band globally. It's not gonna happen."

Hughes explained that the prospect of "Afterglow" being BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION's swan song helped inspire him to write what he believes are some of the band's strongest tunes for the new record.

"I figured that if this was to be the last album…then I need to come in with some pretty wild and epic tracks," he noted. "So, I'm really proud of this album."

Hughes also revealed to ABC News Radio that he has formed a new group called KINGS OF CHAOS with several of the other musicians who took part in the ill-fated Rock 'N' Roll Allstars tour of South America in April. The new band's lineup also features Joe Elliott (vocals; DEF LEPPARD), Duff McKagan (bass; GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER, DUFF MCKAGAN'S LOADED), Matt Sorum (drums; GUNS N' ROSES, VELVET REVOLVER, THE CULT) and Steve Stevens (guitar; BILLY IDOL).

According to Hughes, KINGS OF CHAOS will "tour pockets of the world — the exotics, if you will, and the tropics and even America," beginning with an April 2013 South American trek. The band will also record "a series of EPs," each featuring "three covers and one original song. And… the lineups with the KINGS OF CHAOS, vocally, will change," he explained. The core band will be the same. So, it's gonna be always moving and changing."

A slightly different version of KINGS OF CHAOS — featuring the aforementioned musicians minus Hughes — will make its recorded debut on the forthcoming DEEP PURPLE tribute album "Re-Machined" which will be released on September 25 via Eagle Records.

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BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION Is Officially 'Over,' Says GLENN HUGHES
BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION — the Anglo-American rock group comprising vocalist/bassist Glenn Hughes (DEEP PURPLE, TRAPEZE), drummer Jason Bonham (LED ZEPPELIN, FOREIGNER), Derek Sherinian (DREAM THEATER, ALICE COOPER, BILLY IDOL) and blues-rock guitarist/vocalist Joe Bonamassa — is officially "over" following Bonamassa's decision to exit the project. Hughes writes on his Facebook page: "Joe left and will not allow us to keep the name... Nice, huh? Jason, Derek and I will continue with a different name when the time is right."

BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION released its third album, "Afterglow", last October amid a public feud between Hughes and Bonamassa.

The war of words goes back to early September, when Hughes began telling journalists that Bonamassa's solo touring schedule was preventing BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION from touring and fulfilling its potential. He stated that if the situation didn't change, "Afterglow" could be the group's last recording project.

Asked about the current status of BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, Bonamassa told PremierGuitar.com earlier this month: "As far as I'm concerned, my involvement is pretty much done, and I'll tell you why: Originally, I did it for the same reasons I did the stuff with Beth Hart and ROCK CANDY FUNK PARTY — it was an excuse to play a different kind of music that I don't get to play normally.

"The first two records were a blast — the band is fantastic when the Ritalin kicks in, the ADD goes away, and everyone's focused. It's a devastatingly good rock band of the early-1970s type, and Glenn is a fantastic singer — just one of the best ever. So I did it and did a nine-week tour in 2011 that really, by the end of it, wasn't fun for me. It wasn't because I didn't like the cats in the band, but it was just too much — too much involved in getting people from place to place and getting the band onstage. Everybody seemed to be very tense, and it made my crew very tense, and it's not the way I like to tour. I run a family — I have 21 people who go on the road with me all the time, and if you asked them who was the cause of the least of their problems, they would say me. Unless there was no Diet Coke — then it's a huge [expletive] problem, and either I'm going to the supermarket or somebody else is. [laughs]

"But it just wasn't fun for me anymore. All the stuff that Glenn says in the media, essentially pinning it on me — that I was the reason for the band's lack of touring and the band's lack of future. It became rapidly not fun at all. It would be dishonest of me to get onstage and pretend like I'm having fun to please the band. I'm just not the guitar player for that band, but, unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any out-of-work guitar players in L.A. that they can get. There are so many guys that can fill that role and I would be the first guy to queue up and buy a ticket. So that's my story with it. I'm happily not involved anymore, but I'm happy with the legacy that I left with that band and happy with the records we made. It was a great three years for me."

[Finnish Eddie]

Harmi etteivät (no Bonamassa etupäässä) olleet halukkaita sovittamaan soolouraansa BBC:lle sopivaksi ... Voi tosin olla että levyt/keikat taisivat myydä sittenkin paremmin kuin mitä äijät olettivat alunperin ja siksi pitivät bändiään vain "harmittomana hauskanpitobändinä" joka voidaan haudata heti jos/kun joku haluaa tehdä omaa juttuaan?