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Still best friends with everybody
Chaoszine.net publishes an extensive and insightful printed word interview with Glenn Hughes. He explained a change of setlist for the recent Scandinavian shows (these were dates rescheduled from his Purple tour), spoke about his latest solo album Chosen, the plans with the ever so fickle project called BCC, the best drummer he played with (spoiler: Paicey is not even in the top 3), and the sting with Rainbow circa 2015 that never was.
There’s that story that’s been everywhere — that you were asked to join Ozzy Osbourne’s band in the late ’70s and all that. But you declined, so there’s no need to go into that anymore. A couple of years ago, I interviewed former Rainbow keyboard player David Rosenthal. Do you remember him?
Glenn Hughes: Yes.
And he told me in my interview that when Ritchie was putting together Rainbow in 2015, he was asked to join the group to play keyboards — but you were also asked to join the band then. Is that correct?
Glenn Hughes: I said no, and I’ll tell you why. I got a call from his mother — Ritchie’s wife’s mum, you know — asking, ‘How would you like to sing lead vocals and play bass with Rainbow?’ And I went, ‘Let me think about it.’ I spoke to some people, and then thought to myself, well, it would be nice to see him again, have a dinner, maybe share some jokes, and I could do it for a little while.
Then I was supposed to fly to New York, and the day before I go, his mother-in-law called me and said, ‘Glenn, Ritchie has found a new singer and would like to know if you would like to play bass and sing second vocals like you did with David Coverdale.’ I started laughing and said, ‘What? You want me to do that same thing again?’ And I said, very nicely, I said, ‘Absolutely not. There’s no way I’m doing that.’
Read more in Chaoszine.net.
Thanks to Daniel for the heads-up.
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