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Two voices in his head
Continuing with the Glenn’s promotion blitz, here are two more interviews.
In the first one, Glenn talks to the Now Spinning Magazine:
Glenn Hughes joins me for an exclusive in-depth interview about CHOSEN, his first solo album in nine years — and possibly his final rock album.
In this emotional and deeply personal conversation, Glenn opens up about:The spiritual themes behind Chosen
Writing from a place of recovery and awareness
Preserving his iconic voice through breathwork and Buddhist practice
Why this might be his last album with Frontiers Records
A potential return to the soul and funk of Feel and F.U.N.K.
Reflections on loss, love, and legacy — from Tommy Bolin to Ozzy Osbourne
This is one of the most candid interviews Glenn has ever given, and it’s a powerful portrait of an artist who remains a force of nature, still reaching for truth through music.
The second interview is with The Metal Voice podcast.
Thanks to Daniel Bengtsson once again.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
Yikes! Glenn’s always had a healthy ego on him, even by rock star standards. But here? He’s always referring himself in the third person. Very weird. For example, “…that’s what I consider to be the pure Glenn Hughes voice.” And “The only thing you wanna hear, if you’re coming to see Glenn, is that voice.” And “People say, ‘Is Glenn the last man standing from his peer group?’ And finally, “But I really do enjoy being Glenn.” How full of himself is this guy! He’s in love with his own legend. Referring to himself in the third person repeatedly is peak rock star narcissism. Let us all just bask in The Voice of Glenn. Still, I don’t care. He’s probably my favorite singer and earned the right to gloat. A little. But this comes off as egomaniacal, self-worshipping.
August 5th, 2025 at 01:16(suspiciously …) Are there a lot of spiritual themes Glenn touches upon in these interviews too?
https://i.imgur.com/ElP3U1p.gif
August 5th, 2025 at 04:15Ohhh…
Dont wanna be rude!
But isn’t this a tiny bit weird?
August 5th, 2025 at 08:45I am the universe and light passes through me …
😑
No, you’re not, Glenn, you’re a single child from Cannock named after Glenn Miller with a special talent in singing and bass playing plus a severe cocaine abuse track record which you – admirably so – have overcome. You’re also economically comfortable because your talent got you a job with DP for three years and three albums some 50 years ago. Let’s not get carried away on some esoteric hogwash trajectory.
Come back from the grave Ronnie James Dio (look, Karin changes her mind all the time too, why shouldn’t I?), all that is not forgotten is herewith forgiven, I’ll never complain about your dragons, dungeons & damsel lyrics again, anything is better than Phil Aston and Glenn getting together for this half hour of dreary transcendental worship.
August 5th, 2025 at 21:42Done with The Metal Voice interview now too, I’m happy to hear that in the course of one interview to another Glenn has morphed from this universal, light-filled supernatural being to “we’re all water-based, amen to that, any other spiritual elements he wants to shapeshift to in the near term like earth, wind & fire?
So Frontiers Records pushed him for another rock record (his last one, allegedly) because they don’t really know how to market a funk record. Now that is very earthly news for once.
I think I now need a drink and a good story about ping-pong balls played with vaginal thrust. Over and out.
August 5th, 2025 at 22:25Flash thought: I do like the way unser Herr Adminführer Nick used the term Blitz with all its positive and innocent connotations in his description above! 😈
https://youtu.be/q5pESPQpXxE
It’s always the nicest German words that get remembered.
August 6th, 2025 at 00:17Go Uwe, strike while the iron is hot. Regarding Phil, he is a nice chap and all and good luck to him with his music reviews. However he is much too ‘fawny’ for me and that was over a few cd box sets. I did guess this would be along the lines of what a few here are saying. I don’t watch any Glenn interviews, or Ritchie’s missus either, too much ‘new age’ dribble for me. I have heard plenty of that talk from hippy new age trendsetters throughout my entire adult life. Thanks for the humour chaps. Esoteric hogwash trajectory indeed, good humour. Now back on planet earth………………………Cheers.
August 6th, 2025 at 07:54@4
“(look, Karin changes her mind all the time too, why shouldn’t I?)”
– well not ALL the times! Now and then I do when there is a very good reason for it.
I will never change my mind regarding certain butter tenors.
But had Elvis lived today, and there in this forum had been people who were deeply hurt over my opinions, I would moderate myself to a certain extent, but never change my taste in this wonderful world of music.
I do think it’s very refreshing with all the different opinions we have in here 🤩
August 6th, 2025 at 11:06But no need to hurt anyone…
Phil Aston is a nice guy and always well-intentioned, but he has the air and the demeanor of a vicar. He’d likely would have been a good one too for his parish.
August 6th, 2025 at 16:23Compared to the esoteric nebulae that escape Glenn’s gnashers from time to time, Candice is a working mom with both feet planted firmly on the ground. There is a difference to being a romantic and liking glass pebbles on a beach to how life shapes us and the pretentious spiritualism Glenn peddles. My god, the guy hails from an industrial region where people worked for a living in grimy factories, what the hell happened?
Spirituality is just modern day paganism with scent candles.
August 6th, 2025 at 21:41@ 9- yes indeed, the local vicar, ha ha ha. Phil does have that demeanour. Although it probably wouldn’t be a good look when unboxing the latest Black Sabbath box set, not to also mention a few others brands. Cheers.
August 7th, 2025 at 00:35Candice a working mom? I would say RB was the foundation for establishing BN, not Candice 🙂 Glenn has worked solidly since becoming sober more than 30 years ago, so I wouldn’t accuse him of sitting on the couch. Let him be spiritual if that approach works for him. You don’t have to agree with it. Focus on the musical side of things instead, where he will be bringing it almost certainly. A different discussion when it comes to RB and DC, both now retired.
August 7th, 2025 at 05:46I enjoyed these recent interviews with the focus being on Glenn’s new album. I have enjoyed Phil Aston’s Now Spinning Magazine YouTube channel too.Phil is coming from the right place in his approach to interviews or reviews he does. His interview with Tony Carey was great too by the way.Of course there’s nothing stopping any of us from starting a Channel/Podcast and doing things differently! In the interview Glenn personally invited Phil to meet him at a forthcoming show in the U.K. That alone is testament to Phil’s approach and what a personable chap Phil is!
August 7th, 2025 at 09:40And what’s this with Glenn’s new pet theory that there is no point in albums anymore? While that is to some extent (not totally, Swifties buy albums physically or digitally galore and religiously listen to all tracks in sequence) true for certain segments of pop music, Glenn’s aging baby boomer audience with high nerd content (I should know!) is not one on the lookout for streaming individual songs.
Glenn is a septuagenarian (what a great word! 😆) playing niche music somewhere in the no-man’s land between funk/RnB, 70s rock and 90s grunge with a liberal sprinkling of Deep Purple nostalgia plus his (utterly deserved) cult hero image among fellow musicians. His music and lyrics are, however, absolutely irrelevant to the great majority of streamers between 15 and 35. He’s not Billie Eilish with a bass guitar around her neck you know. 😆 He plays to a biologically dwindling baby boomer congregation who are not waiting for his next “hit” to be streamed, but would gladly dish out their pension funds for a double-album of his.
If a man who during his 60-year-long music career has seen any single chart action exactly once (in the early 90s with a freak Rave hit where he contributed some vocals) suddenly thinks streaming individual songs only is the way for him to go then that is where I begin to get worried. 🙄 Glenn’s light-filled early morning inspirations (in the ’ere and now one assumes or wherever these transcendentally spontaneous combustions of mind, matter plus inner & outer voices may happen), personally transmitted to him from other worlds and spheres of existence, sure have an air of unreliability and incongruity to them. Just don’t bank on it, Glenn, and in the meantime invest those Mk III & IV royalties wisely, now that’s a stream that really does something for ya!
But maybe I’m wrong and Glenn’s next stand-alone streaming releases of only individual songs will all be hits and find him a new audience. 😂
August 7th, 2025 at 14:07For (again) the record: Phil is a lovely person and I like his nasal, children’s TV moderator’s, very English voice. All power to him. I mean the man ties his body into knots and bends over backwards to be understanding and empathetic in his interviews!
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRcbXjwmOmX1WAnHMzNW5OwZ6d2VVLOu5vxZ5E4yOF4YczyGUco317WZpLb_3-4LYSIvvo&usqp=CAU
https://www.yogaatwork.co.uk/
And I don’t believe I have to document my support for Glenn’s bass playing, singing and songwriting in the past – especially here or do I really? I was already an ardent fan of his style when most of you were still going chug-a-chug in circles around the Roger Glover Christmas tree. 🤣
August 7th, 2025 at 17:39Daniel, help me, where exactly did I state that Ritchie did not work for BN’s success (and continues to do so, his health allowing)? I have a hard time finding it. 😂
That said, Candice’s ability to stay by his side and cajole him to do things so he doesn’t fall into complete grumperdom cannot be honored enough or weighed up in gold.
And while we’re at it: For those people that don’t go to BN gigs hoping that Ritchie digs out the Strat and does a little DP or Rainbow, Candice is alongside Ritchie unquestionably the major asset in the band. People miraculously eat from her hands, I’ve witnessed it often enough given the number of times I’ve seen BN. I’m anything but a BN fan, but there is no BN without Candice.
August 7th, 2025 at 17:53@16 ….’complete grumperdom’…😁
Very true. BN covers and most songs are pure kitsch…but on stage they can move people – including yours truely – to tears. Ritchie with his playing when he really takes off one or two times a show and Candice with her kindness and ability to make everyone feel comfortable.
August 7th, 2025 at 22:20It was just the working mom comment that puzzled me, Uwe. Custodian of Ritichie, yes 🙂
August 8th, 2025 at 04:15The Phil Aston interview was one of the better ones of those which have surfaced recently, so I am not sure why he (too) is being criticized.
August 8th, 2025 at 04:18I really need to make this comment:
GH is alright, that’s for sure, but no way is he as competent like this guy:
https://youtu.be/MlC7m7wPZp8?si=BDOOrenUhTU7xNiP
He really can touch people 😂😂😂
August 8th, 2025 at 09:21Daniel @18: Very little sums Ritchie – both in the past and today – up better than: He’s a piece of work. 🤣
PS: I love Ronan Keating’s bass playing and his contributions to heavy rock music in the last fifty years too, they are really invaluable, you slotted that in nicely, Karin, sticking to the subject like only a woman can(not). Yes, Ronan is more competent than Glenn. Now that Ozzy is dead, we should really change the holy trinity of Brit heavy bands to Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin & … uhum … Boyzone!
August 8th, 2025 at 13:50@21
My sentiments exactly 🤣😆
Ronan Keating has a certain je n’ai sais quoi when it comes to irritate and alarm the male population 😄
All those boybands emerged for a reason Uwe! Do you know why?
August 9th, 2025 at 04:17So the male population could step up a bit regarding the female population!
We have felt neglected for years and years! So when those fine young boys came along, they put a bit of pressure on you all.
Very healthy I have to say 😄
Weren’t the Bay City Rollers a boy band too? I never had issues with them.
https://youtu.be/585Yjy2sL-w
The only thing that really rubs me the wrong way with boy (and girl) bands is that they regularly are just vocal groups. I prefer people to play their own music rather than do choreography on stage with their underwear sticking out.
August 9th, 2025 at 12:51@22 Neglected? For years? And years? How’s that? Poor Scandinavia. Must be something in the water…no, make this: coffee!…that made the male population ingnore the other half. Whatever it was – it must have been hard on you…I mean how desperate can you get to find Ronan Keating is the answer to your prayers?
August 9th, 2025 at 14:58@24
Ok, I may have exaggerated a bit 😄
I never said Ronan K was the answer to any of my prayers! But I do like that little song: Life is a rollercoaster! It’s light, romantic and he sings with a smile in his voice.
August 9th, 2025 at 22:43@23
Bay City Rollers? Well, ok ☺️
So you don’t like vocal groups!
That goes for these guys too then?
August 9th, 2025 at 22:46https://youtu.be/nqxVMLVe62U?si=q_s6aFDa8VGSylnG
“Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin & … uhum … Boyzone!” Ha ha ha ha, that has a rather strange look to it doesn’t it. It could work though, we just have to let our mind go somewhere that it has never been before. Cheers.
August 9th, 2025 at 22:47@27
“It could work though, we just have to let our mind go somewhere that it has never been before.”
– 🤣🤣
Well, I do need to say that my heart beats only for Purple!
I have never cultivated any kind of passion for boybands.
However, if there is a nifty little song, made by a boyband, my nose isn’t so stuck up that I won’t listen to it.
When I was younger I even danced to this guy:
https://youtu.be/VDlvPD9qCao?si=ba27y6UCc8yUbHqV
And this:
https://youtu.be/ygfA1A45tn8?si=xE-mo8VnrtpWcCfR
Oh he certainly isn’t or wasn’t boyband material, but he has made good thought provoking songs 😊 (maybe this isn’t one of them 😄 but it is a cutie)
August 10th, 2025 at 08:34Karin, where did you get it from that the Jackson Five were just a vocal group just because they appeared in a vid without their instruments for once? 😂
https://youtu.be/ho7796-au8U
I don’t mind vocal groups at all but let’s not get carried away and put Boyzone and other boy bands in the same category as these guys ok?
https://youtu.be/gdVjVtpr55M
https://youtu.be/tnlPCnb1hrI
https://youtu.be/NYF–g9XHn4
https://youtu.be/chOBmVbOrXw
August 10th, 2025 at 13:42“Even this guy …”? WTF?!!!
Leo Sayer is one of Britain’s iconic singer-songwriters, young lady! Nothing “even”‘about him. He’s a small stature musical giant.
https://youtu.be/O6gEkfwozhE
https://youtu.be/GnIlo91CrBw
https://youtu.be/obC0MFHWJ0A
https://youtu.be/S2o2kdd_Veo
August 10th, 2025 at 15:12@29
Oohhhh bugger! 😄😄
I have a lot on my mind these days and had actually forgot about their musicalities.
Well Uwe, one of these days I’ll catch you on your wrong leg – or how you express that sentiment in English!
No matter what, I will get the better of you 😄
(Maybe someone in here could be if some assistance?👐🏼)
“let’s not get carried away”
– ohh really, and why not?
As I have mentioned before, I’m not at all into boybands, or girl bands or even Ms Swift, but do I stumble over a nice tune, I’m not so superficial and stuck up that I won’t listen to it based alone on the fact that it isn’t a ‘proper’ group of people that have made it!
Even the little blind chick can find a corn! And I honestly do believe that people are withholding a lot of fine stuff from them only because of snobbery 😃
(Calm down now, I didn’t call you snobbish 😄)
At the moment listening to ‘The Battle rages on’, from the ‘Hell or High Water’ tour, and I just have to say: ohh boy RB was something else….
August 10th, 2025 at 16:35@ 30 -Uwe, you forgot to mention that Leo Sayer is now an Australian. Surely that in itself raises the bar somewhat? Seriously though, yes he did co- write a few classics and I do enjoy the couple that he and David Courtney wrote for Roger Daltrey to record on his debut solo album in 1973. One Man Band and Giving It All Away. And I have always liked Leo’s outlook on life too, a rather down to earth guy. Now if you will excuse me while I wrap my Australian flag around myself and then go for a walk down the street to sing Giving It All Away and of course One Man Band. As long as no-one films it and puts it on YouTube. Karin, do not go there! Cheers.
August 10th, 2025 at 23:38You’re of course right, Herr MacGregor, I should have clarified Leo turning into a marsupial, forgive me.
He does bare-chested gardening too?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCiFm31O7AY
August 11th, 2025 at 16:18@30
Btw:
“Even this guy …”? WTF?!!”
Just a moment Sir, because you misunderstood me again! The word “even” wasn’t directed at Leo! It was directed at me – dancing! I was very shy as a teen, the eternal wallflower! THAT’S how you ought to have read it 😃
And yes Leo was great. But have to be honest, I did and do prefer the more rock inspired bands 😃
August 11th, 2025 at 17:18@32
“Karin, do not go there!”
– of course I will 😄😄
I have just heard this band today:
https://youtu.be/IksRDCMYnn8?si=IhDG6opmr-I_ehXH
It’s a Danish band, and this tune is quite old, but very nice I think 😊
August 11th, 2025 at 17:27@ 35 – I remember that instrumental from years ago. That synthesiser melody and of course all the percussion. Night club music, not that I would do such a thing. Cheers.
August 12th, 2025 at 08:51“Uwe, you forgot to mention that Leo Sayer is now an Australian.”
Help me, what was he sentenced for again? 😈
August 12th, 2025 at 12:03@36
August 12th, 2025 at 16:04But the drums are breathtaking 😃
Karin @35, not sure how to put this without tearing up old wounds or max out the subject, but aren’t you a bit, uhum, mature for rave parties?
https://media3.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTZjMDliOTUyajNpdWg2cDNva2R4bG5pNWxjcG9yNTJzZzV2cW0xMm81YmMxNDRwayZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/v6LHovgJAefW8/source.gif
But if you must go, by all means do not take those little colorful pills they offer you to stay fit for dancing until the early morning!
Is Anton drug-detection trained, asking for a friend?
August 12th, 2025 at 16:41@39
“aren’t you a bit, uhum, mature for rave parties?”
– yes, indeed I am..
“do not take those little colorful pills they offer you to stay fit for dancing until the early morning!”
– are you advising from personal experience?
“Is Anton drug-detection trained”
– it is common knowledge that especially lightly overweight, very mature, spoiled rotten, Danish Swedish farm dogs are trained for that.
😄
August 12th, 2025 at 21:45“But the drums are breathtaking.”
Yeah, I’m sure someone must have spent a whole afternoon programming them! 🤖
August 12th, 2025 at 22:14@41
Well Uwe, please tell me when Edith is returning home. Obviously you cannot manage so much time alone 😸
August 13th, 2025 at 08:36… are you advising from personal experience?
Naw, my drug experiences are limited to one bout of alcoholic poisoning at age 16/17 (unpleasant, hurts too), twice cocaine in the late 80s (uneventful) and maybe a dozen times hash in digestible form via tea or cookies (as a nonsmoker I can‘t inhale Mary-Jane without coughing) in the last forty years. I‘m practically a drug virgin! A friend once said: You’re too cerebral, rigid and self-controlled plus too remote from anything that is less than ‘real’ for drugs to really work with you! 😆 Not sure whether that was a compliment.
It was never a particular virtuous decision by me or even one fueled by fear of addiction, my drug experiences were simply never otherworldly, nothing you‘d crave to go back to. I haven’t taken a drug yet that came near an orgasm though Steven Tyler once said that smack (heroin) is as close as it gets. But that opportunity never arose and I‘d probably chicken out if it did now.
You‘re either an addictive personality – then you need to watch out – or you‘re not.
August 13th, 2025 at 16:41@ 43 – “Naw, my drug experiences are limited to one bout of alcoholic poisoning at age 16/17 (unpleasant, hurts too), twice cocaine in the late 80s (uneventful) and maybe a dozen times hash in digestible form via tea or cookies (as a nonsmoker I can‘t inhale Mary-Jane without coughing) in the last forty years.” I AM APPALLED Uwe. I can’t believe it, cocaine of all things. Ha ha ha ha, Seriously I am impressed in a way. Not with the cocaine, but I never ever thought you would even go THAT far to hash or pot cookies. Well done. Is this why you appreciate some Hawkwind and that detestable band of simplicity, Pink Floyd. Well done. Some good news here for a change, he he he. Oh hang on, I cannot resist “A friend once said: You’re too cerebral, rigid and self-controlled plus too remote from anything that is less than ‘real’ for drugs to really work with you! 😆 Not sure whether that was a compliment.” Do you want me to tell you or shall we leave that to Karin. I am sure she will, he he he. Go Karin. Cheers.
August 13th, 2025 at 22:05Similar to DP, who also push all the right Teutonic buttons, there is something very Germanic to Pink Floyd, it’s our national Schwermut I guess. Wish You Were Here is essentially a Krautrock album, it was a blueprint of how most German bands wanted to sound at the time. Even Roger Waters has called it “our Krautrock album”.
Hawkwind (never really popular in Germany except for Silver Machine) always appealed to me via Bob Calvert’s image and lyrics/poetry, “I’m an urban guerrilla, I make bombs in my cellar …“, oh my, how lovely! 😂 It was clever, anarchic and Dadaist artsy. That to me Ronnie Dio’s ramblings never were, you really can’t let Americans do something like that, they’re not intellectually playful enough.
Ok, Frank Zappa was! And Alice Cooper – always a good lyricist – too. Marilyn Manson as well – I give up, it wasn’t a very good argument! 🤣
August 13th, 2025 at 23:52@44
“…shall we leave that to Karin.”
This is gonna be good… got the popcorn ready and everything.
August 14th, 2025 at 01:24@43
“I‘m practically a drug virgin”
– well me too! I did smoke cigarettes when I was very young, but quitted because I saw what that did to the skin. And now being a mature lady (sorry Max, but I have become addicted to that expression 😃) I am really glad I quit when I did, because woah smoking multiply wrinkles… oh and I guess it isn’t that good for your health either ☺️🤣
In Denmark it has become very popular for young people to do snuff. (Is that the right word? Some tobacco you put under the lip?!)
Well, in my clinic young people come who almost can’t be without that for the hour it takes me to measure them and give them remedies.
I haven’t seen a lot of younger people smoking cigarettes, but they are using snuff big time.
I truly am afraid that in a number of years we will see an explosion of cancer in the mouths of those youngsters.
“Steven Tyler once said that smack (heroin) is as close as it gets”
– ok then, why not get the real deal? Somehow a twosome sounds a lot more fun than doing ‘smack’ on your own? But maybe that’s just me 😊
“You‘re either an addictive personality – then you need to watch out – or you‘re not.”
– I guess I’m not. I like to keep all my brain cells 😄 It’s not that I don’t enjoy drinking a glass of wine or a well-stored whiskey, but drinking so much that I don’t know who I am or where I am, that is not appealing to me at all.
It has always been me driving the car home, and taking care of the other people so they came home safe. And luckily there are no embarrassing pics of me anywhere 😅
Yes Uwe, please chicken out of that opportunity ever came near you.
August 14th, 2025 at 05:43@44
“Do you want me to tell you or shall we leave that to Karin. I am sure she will, he he he. Go Karin.”
– 😂
August 14th, 2025 at 05:52Well MacGregor and Uwe, I do prefer to be some sort of self controlled, so I cannot say anything that hasn’t already been said 😄
@46
“This is gonna be good… got the popcorn ready and everything.”
August 14th, 2025 at 06:57– 🤣 Hope you didn’t choked!
@43 & 44
Forgot this:
https://youtu.be/aEL6gh1Vz6s?si=ZcHHJqpOUJHOefed
August 14th, 2025 at 08:56Same with me, I drink alcohol for the taste of it (mostly red wine) in combination with food, not for recreational purposes or to loosen up. And I never enjoyed being really drunk again – that alcoholic poisoning as an adolescent taught me a lifetime lesson.
August 14th, 2025 at 10:35@45
“Wish You Were Here”
– ohh a beautiful song! But what is a Krautrock album?
I have never in my life heard that expression before 🤔
August 14th, 2025 at 13:14“I do prefer to be some sort of self controlled …”
Pah, wimmin and their lip service! If Kari(a)n had a one-on-one with her formerly falsetto-screaming Schatzi, you could see that alleged self-control fly out the window faster than the weather changes in East Jylland …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RP0_8J7uxhs&list=RDRP0_8J7uxhs&start_radio=1
Great song btw.
August 14th, 2025 at 14:32@52:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krautrock
https://youtu.be/dvaWcS0cPDI
https://youtu.be/LPjF4ZHuIko
https://youtu.be/7g95yNZkuPM
https://youtu.be/OPhUWrQx1zY
https://youtu.be/22m57uHa8AA
https://youtu.be/A0rqEqn0b5o
August 14th, 2025 at 22:30@49
Didn’t even touch the popcorn as your response was anticlimactic at best.
August 15th, 2025 at 05:13@53
Uwe! Now you’re going a little bit nuts again 😄😄
I would love to talk with Ian, of course! I have a lot of questions to the great man, but I promise you this: my self control will be in perfect order 😁
Btw: if you could ask Ian a question, what would it be?
And no, I don’t like the song you linked to. Have always thought she sounds just the second before she start crying 😢 it’s rather depressing in the tone me thinks..
August 15th, 2025 at 07:36@55
Yay! I’m improving 😃
August 15th, 2025 at 10:40Btw: if you could ask Ian a question, what would it be?
Probably: Would you still vote LEAVE in the 2016 Referendum if you could do it all over gain?
Or: Your greatest musical regret?
Alternatively: What‘s your happiest memory with Ritchie?
August 16th, 2025 at 13:30@58
??? No personal questions at all? 😃
If you could ask him ANYTHING you want?
I would ask him: – how much coffee do you consume daily? – have you regretted the white socks in the open shoe-incident? – what scent do you use in the shower? – would you mind writing a new autobiography and read it out loud to us? – have you ever wanted to be an actor? – etc ☺️😉
August 17th, 2025 at 05:24Anything? Then still the BREXIT question, because I found it particularly ill-advised how as a member of an internationally touring band he of all people could vote for something that has more or less ended touring of smaller UK bands in Europe. Purple as a professional organization can navigate the pitfalls BREXIT has created for cross-border touring, smaller bands have just given up. And he’s aware of that, he’s mentioned it in interviews, yet as a grown man you are accountable for the decisions you took “just for the heck of it” or because you falsely believed the “EU regulates curvature of bananas”-lie as Big Ian unfortunately did.
Ian’s coffee consumption is irrelevant to me, his political views are not.
Well perhaps one personal question: When you were reinvited to Purple for TBRO, what were your immediate thoughts, what did Bron say and how long did you think it would last the third time round?
August 17th, 2025 at 21:14@60
Well, that’s the difference between you and me I guess!
I would NEVER dive into deep personal matters of my favourite vocalist!
Guess it has to be tiring to answer all kinds of inappropriate questions 😄
But how the great man takes his coffee is very interesting indeed.
August 20th, 2025 at 16:32You see: if I ever got to meet him, I would know how to serve him his coffee. And a lot of wasted time was prevented and I could instead use the hours to listen to his stories 😄
Yes, we know. Serve coffee. With animal grace and alluringly so.
August 23rd, 2025 at 05:05@62
🤣🤣🤣
Well Uwe, even you can’t call me a cougar in that situation, right?
BTW: is an older man pursuing a younger female also a cougar? Or what is such a person called? (No! Not DOP!)
August 23rd, 2025 at 10:06