THE BLACK CROWES drummer and founding memeber Steve Gorman recently spoke with Jeb Wright at Classic Rock Revisited. An excerpt from the interview is available below.

Jeb: This is a bittersweet interview because I love the new CD but I hate that we will be talking about another hiatus.

Steve: "We have been pounding it hard for last six years. We have done this long enough that we can tell when everyone is starting to get a little frayed at the edges. We feel like we are really in synch right now but we know we would not feel like that if we worked another year."

Jeb: Was Crowology more to do with the 20th anniversary of the band or more about the upcoming hiatus?

Steve: "It was for the 20th anniversary. We were sitting around thinking about how we can celebrate and acknowledge the fact we made it two decades. We're not the kind of band to set off a confetti bomb and talk about how the first time we were in Topeka we got drunk at the museum. We just play music. We just thought that people probably want more music from us for the anniversary. Twenty years is just a way that we use to mark the time period, not just about Crowes music. When we were doing this album I was actually thinking that the first time I played a particular song I had never heard of Bill Clinton, the Berlin Wall was still in place and Tiananmen Square had not yet happened. It means different things to different people but we knew that our fans would want another album and more shows from us so that is what we gave them."

Jeb: The Black Crowes are a band that has always done what they wanted to do. People call you rock, jam band and this, that and the other. You are not easy to pigeonhole.

Steve: "Labels tried to pigeonhole us. What labels have been good at doing are shortening careers and killing artist development. People are always going to attach labels to you. It has been very important for us to not allow people to label us and even more important for us to not label ourselves. It would be very easy to go around and say, “We are the 'Hard to Handle' band, lets do a whole lot of songs just like that. In 1987, when we were unsigned, unpopular and, truth be told, not very good at all, we were still changing every month. We would write one song and get rid of another one. We were never very good at fitting in. We didn't go out and try to get a record deal. We just figured we would do it our way and eventually we would get a record deal and see what happens. Even now, if I am doing a session as a drummer in Nashville, there is usually a mindset that you wonder who you are doing this for and who will be doing this with you. We never thought about those things at all on any level. We never thought that Geffen was signing rock bands and we never even thought that MTV was playing rock videos. We just did what we did."

Go to this location for the complete interview.