Black Country Communion: Afterglow

Eh, I dunno. I'm only going by what I've read in Glenn's on-line babbling. Maybe he's drinking again.

The new album is great! Album of the year!

MEGATRON wrote:

The new album is great! Album of the year!

Would you say it's better than the first 2?

I would, more consistent to my ear.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

MEGATRON wrote:

The new album is great! Album of the year!

Would you say it's better than the first 2?

Yeah, I'd say so. This album has more focus, more attitude - not that the first two albums were lacking in either.

Absolutely LOVE the first two albums, and have listened to them on consistent basis. I have listened to this one on Spotify a couple of times. Just didn't grab me like the first two. I'll have to listen to it again. From what I had read, I think Joe was not as involved on Afterglow, and I think that might be what was missing.

Joe pretty much confirming that he's done with BCC, but if they want to continue on without him, he's fine with it...

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Black Country Communion guitarist Joe Bonamassa admits he became disillusioned with the band during their 2011 tour.

He says he’s “happily not involved any more” with the supergroup, months after a public spat with frontman Glenn Hughes came close to derailing the release of third album Afterglow.

The musicians fell out after Hughes expressed his frustration that Bonamassa wouldn’t go on the road to support the record with live shows – one of a series of outbursts that led to the cancellation of a one-off concert in the UK planned for January.

Now the blues guitarist tells PremierGuitar: “As far as I’m concerned my involvement is pretty much done.

“Originally I did it for the same reasons I did the stuff with Beth Hart and Rock Candy Funk Party: it was an excessive to play a different kind of music that I don’t get to play normally.

“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.”

But Bonamassa remains proud of his work with the band, also featuring Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian and producer Kevin Shirley.

“The first two records were a blast,” he says. “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.

“It just wasn’t fun for me any more. 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.”

He’s previously given his blessing for BCC to continue without him, a move that both Hughes and Bonham have hinted at in the past. “I’m just not the guitar player for that band,” he says. “Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any out-of-work guitar players in LA 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.

“I’m happily not involved any more – 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.”

That sucks but not too surprising either

I love Glenn, but I think he killed it. Everyone had other gigs except him, and he was probably pressuring everyone to commit solely to it.

Bonham seems to want to carry on.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Bonham seems to want to carry on.

Well they are a really good band. So I hope they will carry on.

I do too, Joe is a phenom but he's not irreplaceable. It's good to hear Glenn doing this.

I thought it was interesting to see BCC post this on their Facebook page:
http://www.classicrockmagazine.com/news/black-country-communion-joe-bonamassa-fury-at-glenn-hughes-bullying/

Nooooo, not more soap opera.

Dark Horseman wrote:

Nooooo, not more soap opera.

Joe Bonamassa's BCC is coming to a dive bar near you, featuring and all star line up. I hear he's got Rudy Sarzo on bass.

Poor Rudy, just trying to stay in the music world.

nevermore wrote:

Dark Horseman wrote:

Bonham seems to want to carry on.

Well they are a really good band. So I hope they will carry on.

Glenn's starting up a new band unfortunately. BCC is most likely over.

MEGATRON wrote:

nevermore wrote:

Dark Horseman wrote:

Bonham seems to want to carry on.

Well they are a really good band. So I hope they will carry on.

Glenn's starting up a new band unfortunately. BCC is most likely over.

Where did you read that Glenn was starting up a new band?

deathisgain wrote:

MEGATRON wrote:

nevermore wrote:

Dark Horseman wrote:

Bonham seems to want to carry on.

Well they are a really good band. So I hope they will carry on.

Glenn's starting up a new band unfortunately. BCC is most likely over.

Where did you read that Glenn was starting up a new band?

Glenn's Twitter account. An announcement will be made in a month or two.

I'll be touring this year with a new band~ we are now recording our debut album to be released late summer

— Glenn Hughes (@glenn_hughes) February 21, 2013

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...just so it's crystal... BCC is over... Joe left & 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...

deathisgain wrote:

;(

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...just so it's crystal... BCC is over... Joe left & 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...

That's interesting because that comment is in direct contrast to the quote I posted from Joe earlier. He claimed to be fine with BCC continuing on without him, no mention of him holding on to naming rights.

So who's telling the truth here?

MetalGuy71 wrote:

deathisgain wrote:

;(

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...just so it's crystal... BCC is over... Joe left & 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...

That's interesting because that comment is in direct contrast to the quote I posted from Joe earlier. He claimed to be fine with BCC continuing on without him, no mention of him holding on to naming rights.

So who's telling the truth here?

I would guess Joe, only because this all became a cluster**** when Hughes opened his mouth about BCC unable to tour due to Joe's already busy schedule, which I am sure they all knew ahead of time.

Could be. I have no idea. Just wondering out loud, ya know.

I wonder if it's a case where Joe spoke out in that interview, then his agent or manager or whomever pulled him aside and said "Whoa, hold on there buddy. You've got naming rights in your contract. They don't record as BCC without YOU."

I never understand how one guy can keep all the others from using the name.

Dark Horseman wrote:

I never understand how one guy can keep all the others from using the name.

Neither can Geoff Taint.