CRIMSON GLORY - "Strange And Beautiful Was Always Intended To Be A Double Album"
August 21, 2009, 15 years ago
Another excerpt from BW&BK;'s in depth and exclusive interview with CRIMSON GLORY guitarist Jon Drenning is available. In the latest installment Drenning discusses the band"s 1991 flop, Strange And Beautiful, and its connection to their 1999 comeback album Astronomica, which featured vocalist Wade Black in place of original singer Midnight.
"Some of the songs we recorded for Astronomica, like ‘War Of The Worlds’ and ‘Touch The Sun’, they were written back in the Strange And Beautiful days," says Drenning. "You may not know this, but Strange And Beautiful was always intended to be a double album. Midnight, myself and Jeff (Lords / bass) were writing a double album, with the Strange part being the heavier songs that didn’t get used on the album because the record company didn’t want us to do a double record. They wanted a single record and weren’t as keen on the heavy material as we were, so the Beautiful side became the whole record. Heavier songs like ‘War Of The Worlds’ got put on the shelf and used on Astronomica."Go to this location for the complete excerpt. Click here for Drenning"s comments on Midnight's recent passing, and here for information on the band's upcoming ProgPower USA to Midnight.
