GLENN HUGHES To Take Part In LIve Online Chat Next Sunday
February 22, 2010, 14 years ago
GLENN HUGHES will take part in a live online chat, on Sunday, February 28th from 1 - 3 PM (EST) / 9 - 11 PM (GMT) / 10 - 12 AM (CET).
He'll be here to answer your questions LIVE.
If you know you can't make it on the day or you're unable to connect, you can email your questions to chat@glennhughes.com, to be passed along to Glenn.
A transcript will be made available for later viewing should you be unable to make it.
Hughes recently had a lengthy conversation with Tony Conley of the Rock Guitar Daily online blog to talk about BLACK COUNTRY, his new band formed with JASON BONHAM, JOE BONAMASSA and DEREK SHERINIAN.
The following is an excerpt:
I spoke with Glenn at length yesterday about this exciting new band. Here's what he had to say:
"I had a bit of a vision, a dream," Hughes begins, "I had a follow-up to last year's record (the excellent First Underground Nuclear Kitchen, F.U.N.K.) fully written and ready to go, but there had to be a hold up to the follow-up. As you know, I played with Joe at the Guitar Center show in November, shortly after I had wrapped up my world tour. He had asked me to come up and do a couple of my old tunes, 'Mistreated', and 'Medusa', and as we played I looked over at Joe, he back at me, and I said that's it; this is a band!"And so it was born, Black Country.
There's ample proof of the chemistry shared between the two over on YouTube, and it is pretty obvious that this is not just two successful solo acts getting together for a one-off project. Black Country is their new group, a band, a tribe from and of the black country of England, the home of both Hughes and Bonham.
"I've known Jason since he was a child, what is he? about mid-forties now, and we've played together through the years, on occasion, and when we started playing with Joe and Derek, he just smiled."Hughes points out that in spite of himself and Bonamassa both having very busy careers, this record may upset things a bit.
"There will be proper touring, not just going out for a few shows here and there. My voice gets stronger as I work, and this will be a touring band. We've got all the songs written, titles are in place, and Joe has clearly told me, 'I want to be in a rock band,' so he's got some Zeppelin in him, and some times he's as bluesy as Kossoff (Paul Kossoff, legendary guitarist for Paul Rodgers' Free). He's singing and writing great stuff as well."Read more at this location.
In other news, Glenn and his solo band will open the 2010 touring season with 2 shows in the Ukraine in March:
March
20 - October's Palace - Kiev, Ukraine21 - Musical Theatre - Odessa, Ukraine
In a recent video message (see below), Hughes and Bonamassa issue an update on Black Country.
A previous video message from Hughes can be seen below.
In regards to the new band, BraveWords.com recently received the following press release:
A new super group has been formed with Jason Bonham, Glenn Hughes, Derek Sherinian and Joe Bonamassa.. They are calling themselves Black Country, taking their name from the industrial area in England from which Bonham and Hughes both hail. The band is currently in the studio with producer Kevin Shirley (BLACK CROWES, AEROSMITH, LED ZEPPELIN) cutting tracks for an upcoming album to be released in late 2010 or early 2011.
With Bonham (Led Zeppelin, FOREIGNER) on drums, Sherinian (DREAM THEATER, BILLY IDOL, ALICE COOPER) on keyboards, Hughes (DEEP PURPLE, TRAPEZE) on bass and vocals and Bonamassa on guitar and vocals, the band already has six tracks cut. The next recording session will take place in March and the band hopes to finish recording in early April. Shirley made the announcement on his website: "So there it is folks - the cat is out the bag! This is Black Country. The songs are all original and what a lineup. They are all the very best players in the world, for my money!"
Shirley added, "Jason Bonham is a totally unique drummer and a supreme, yet oh-so-tasty powerhouse. Derek Sherinian is super versatile, and is playing mostly overdriven Hammond organ in this ensemble and is the color on the palette. Glenn Hughes plays bass and sings with a range very, very few can even get close to, and Joe Bonamassa, perhaps the best Blues Rock guitarist around, plays hard riffing guitar as well as adding his signature vocals alongside Glenn. You'll just have to wait - we're planning to get this out late summer, and it's promising to be phenomenal!"
Recently named "The Blues Rock Titan" by Guitar World Magazine, Bonamassa's new solo album, Black Rock, will be arriving March 23rd, 2010. Produced by Shirley, who has produced Bonamassa's last six solo albums, it will be released on Bonamassa's own J&R; Adventures label.
For more information:
(Thanks - Coast To Coast: The Official Glenn Hughes Fanzine)
