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What goes on between the ears
Couple of recent interviews with Glenn Hughes promoting his upcoming album Chosen.
The first one is with the Brutally Delicious Podcast, complete with a rather long-winded introduction from one of the hosts:
The second interview is with Dr. Music. Here Glenn reveals, among other things, that the recent Black Country Communion shows in Europe were recorded for a live album due “early next year”, and there also are plans to do a BCC studio album number 6 and tour behind it:
Thanks to Uwe Hornung for the heads-up.
Unauthorized copying, while sometimes necessary, is never as good as the real thing
For someone who often gets criticised for being too full of himself, he comes across as quite down to earth, doesn’t he?
July 25th, 2025 at 10:52Ok, listening to him is like, for me, to smell freshly cut grass, you know when you just have mowed the lawn! Very very NICE!
Looking forward to give his new record a good listening to!
July 25th, 2025 at 16:17A wonderful evening with BCC ….An der schönen blauen Donau. That concert album will be wonderful.
July 25th, 2025 at 19:23Jeff Beck, Jon Lord & John Bonham as Glenn’s dream line-up of deceased musicians? Some choice!
July 25th, 2025 at 21:45Wot, Karin is writing nice things about Glenn Hughes – I am beginning to find this unsettling … What is this woman up to next?
PS: Daniel, in that first interview, Glenn looked like he hadn’t yet had his morning coffee, maybe that is why he came across as so unusually demure! 😂
July 26th, 2025 at 01:31careful Uwe, you have just suggested a way that Karin could get even more connected to Glenn Hughes, by making him a cup of coffee. I am shocked too at Karin’s latest incursion into the realm of other DP vocalists. Another cauldron mix is being concocted as we speak no doubt. Hang on, maybe she already has made Glenn a herbal tea that relaxes, a Chamomile tea perhaps with an added relaxer or two. Karin, no more coffee for Glenn. Cheers.
July 26th, 2025 at 09:24@5
😁
Well Uwe, any woman listening to this!
https://youtu.be/MYxTX1dGUeA?si=dy4hZcWnk8sEiDJW
isn’t quite ordinary!
What I love about this song though is that it’s so very melodic, a beautiful tune, and not like heavy normally is, which my skin crawling 😝😧
And regarding Glenn H, I am maturing (remember the other post from your neighbour in Germany!) And mature ladies do not talk ill about others I was told by my darling mum.
July 26th, 2025 at 09:27Glenn says that one project he still would like to do is some of his own material with a classical orchestra – having gotten a taste of it on the Rock Meets Classic gigs he did in spring (this lowly scribe reported about it to very much muted interest here).
I’m all for it, but then I want to hear Send Me No More Letters in its original easy listening strings arrangement!
https://youtu.be/rflfRyT1TyY
I luv that song in all its 60s cheese! 😂
July 26th, 2025 at 18:04Only our small, but vocal German expat community here will be able to share my elation about discovering how Glenn’s early attempts at pop even inspired our very own ex-Les Humphries Singers/‘Bett im Kornfeld”-Barde/König von Mallorca Jürgen Drews:
https://youtu.be/UwnxGkSfjWU
There is sogar an Englische fffershen:
https://youtu.be/gEkzRJnLNAo
Glenn has now finally arrived in the pantheon of greats!
https://youtu.be/RwHcohP7y3I
(Treat this discreetly: Max liked this before he even liked Smokie, but why drag this into the open now, my lips are sealed.)
July 26th, 2025 at 19:43And regarding Glenn H, I am maturing (remember the other post from your neighbour in Germany!) …
How could I ever forget that nadir of decorum Max so unfortunately plunged this forum of fora in, liebste Karin?! It’s good that you have made a – however small – mental note of it …
https://youtu.be/_1KLaF51jzM
July 26th, 2025 at 23:03@10
Nice link Uwe 😊
And it’s some “Irene” from Denmark who requested that song! Wonder what your neighbour has done to upset her….😄
July 27th, 2025 at 11:15@8
Oh that is an interesting tune!
July 27th, 2025 at 11:22But what is ‘all its 60s cheese!’? Maybe you mean rock’n’roll before it found its own solid legs? (Sorry, Tour de France has been blasting out of the tv all 3 weeks, so my metaphors may be a bit in that cycling direction!
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Jürgen Drews, ok he is ‘60s cheese’ I guess?
“Treat this discreetly: Max liked this before he even liked Smokie, but why drag this into the open now, my lips are sealed.”
– I wouldn’t dream of it 😃
Ohhh so Jürgen Drews is the gentleman with the big smile when Les Humphries Singers are, well, singing 😃
July 27th, 2025 at 11:29Indeed …the original version of Bett im Kornfeld, Let your Love flow, I did like instantly back then…and to this day I can find some nice offerings in the Bellamy Brothers oeuvre.
I don’t want nothing heavy
Just my baby in the back of my Chevy
To kiss away my blues in the full moon light…
Well, yes. Other faves at the time for 12 to 13 year old me were Rhinestone Cowboy and the Free Electric Band. And I have to say: wise chouces all of them.
July 27th, 2025 at 11:35Send me no more Letters stuck out for me too and for the same reasons too when I first heard the first Trapeze album, Uwe.
Karin, for a new band releasing its first album in 1970, Trapeze’s Send Me No More Letters – though tuneful – sounded incredibly quaint and dated – like something from 1966. That the Moody Blues had taken Trapeze under their wings via their Threshold record label certainly played a role – that Trapeze debut is full of Moody Blues’isms that harkened back to the 60s. In contrast, Coast To Coast as a ballad released by Trapeze not too much later was with both feet in the 70s and an interesting release for a – by then – hard rock trio with its soul-jazzy chords and the country’esque steel guitar which somehow worked with the RnB nature of the song:
https://youtu.be/rlGLgZCUFzw
Re Jürgen Drews, he didn’t have a massive voice (kind of on the thin side), but he could hold a note and actually did audibly sing with The Les Humphries Singers (not all members did, some where just there for ethnic looks) even if he never sang lead on hits like fellow member John Lawton did. Here you can hear them both together, but of course John (who would join Uriah Heep half a year later) is in the lead again:
https://youtu.be/MRvVH98vZqg
When John Lawton joined Heep, his Les Humphries Singers background was initially quite an albatross around his neck and there were a lot of snide comments in Germany (though David Byron had done Easy Listening recordings prior to joining UH too, but that was conveniently forgotten), yet he overcame those eventually with the strength of his voice.
https://youtu.be/_RtuUsXM0Jg
https://youtu.be/eyaT2Hk3sCc
https://youtu.be/qmPAXu9nsa0
https://youtu.be/RJVPHtTLCSA
And Max: I didn’t think Ein Bett im Kornfeld dreadful either, but like you preferred the Bellamy Brothers original. Just as I did like their follow-up hit with the cute wordplay in the title …
https://youtu.be/4UplOPxY7yg
Nothing wrong with Glenn Campbell or Albert Hammond either, I only saw the latter live a few years ago and his oeuvre of hits penned for other people and himself is impressive. Re Glenn Campbell, I really liked The Band Perry’s version of one of his signature tunes some years back:
https://youtu.be/BuVJEn9wk9Y
I’m relatively unashamed in my New Country tastes. 🤗
https://youtu.be/6FWo1Jeb66s
July 28th, 2025 at 13:10@15
“Just as I did like their follow-up hit with the cute wordplay in the title …”
Ohhh man 🤭 Max und Uwe, Ich bin sehr dumm…. I have always thought of the title as: “you get in big trouble if you say I have a beautiful body”, and I never understood that 😄 why would anyone be angry about hearing that nice statement?
All that ‘pretend to be insulted’ – oh come on! All women in the world like to be gewünscht! Nicht wahr? (Please ask your wives/girlfriends, I’m sure they agree with me!)
Thanks for the links Uwe:
Ok have never been a melody Grand Prix kind of girl! Not even when Denmark won with: ‘Fly on the wings of love’, bet I was the only one NOT humming that song 😄 nothing wrong with the Olsen Brothers:
https://youtu.be/JF8fkHK0AWs?si=zMcCUgsiqt1cyzAY
But it was so overwhelming with that song for a whole year (2000)
Ohh well, the rest of the links…. and you’re making fun of Oasis?!!!
Sorry, maybe I live in the wrong country, or maybe I’m way too cynical, but that is really not my kind of music 😄
Whereas – well, take a listen to this, s’il te plaît:
https://youtu.be/SRg_1i1SFuM?si=KROEZbd6ZRaZZGcP
And this!
https://youtu.be/UqCRB3ajw-U?si=Wjd7b-C5g1uienO3
🤩🤩🤩
And why not this!
July 28th, 2025 at 15:22https://youtu.be/RtRaMhVQfhU?si=GZPE1CPBAo7EMV34
And to be honest: Don’t think the vocalist ever have sounded better!
The nearly hidden point of great curiosity to me in one of these interviews is Glenn’s apparently renewed interest in releasing some of the “new” material, (which is now some 20+ years old), that he recorded together with Pat Thrall back in the early 2000’s.
New(er) Hughes/Thrall recordings are definitely something that I know a lot of people would be interested in hearing if an actual release can ever be managed…
July 28th, 2025 at 17:54I’d like to hear that unreleased Hughes Thrall stuff too. Last I heard, ten or 15 years ago, Glenn disowned the new recordings he had been working on with Pat, remarking that it just took the two too long to get anything finished due to Pat being so perfectionist and never wishing to leave the studio. He dramatically announced then that he was withdrawing from any further cooperation with Thrall. Now there seems to be a(nother) change of heart, but that is Glenn for you! 🤗
You know what, Karin? Sabbath/Ozzy and Oasis have one thing in common: slow moving, s t r e t c h e d o u t vocal melodies that hardly show any rhythm. That can get kind of dreary (for me) after a while. Neither Ozzy nor the Gallagher Bros were/are exactly Steven Tyler
https://youtu.be/h3Yrhv33Zb8
https://youtu.be/mrEC8xGc3ZM
if you know what I mean. I do rate rhythmic capability in a singer. Ian Gillan has that.
https://youtu.be/rCksar3pglM
In comparison, both Ozzy and Oasis have that relatively monotonous vocal drone going on which can overstay it’s welcome with me.
July 28th, 2025 at 22:17@18
Oh yeah, I get what you mean…..
But Liam’s voice is certainly more exciting than the ‘ragdoll’-singer and also OO.
Of course you’re right no one can sing like IG ☺️😉
July 29th, 2025 at 04:21@18
Jeez… If you’re going to use Steven Tyler as an example the least you could do is choose some good songs.
Sorry, I’m not trying to be an asshole or anything. Just want to make a point.
I have corrected that for you with these examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqAhD1-_IeI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJbgrxDaERQ (Obviously not 1977 as the title states… as Steve & Joe aren’t all geeked out on coke. Pretty sure it’s not Houston either)
Also, you forgot to mention that unlike Ian Gillan, Steven Tyler has much better fashion-sense.
July 29th, 2025 at 07:26Tyler is to me a superb frontman with impressive pipes and a mesmerizing stage demeanor plus – you’re right, Russ – a flamboyant dress sense. The whole band always had outlaw chic and musically the Bostonians are one of the best US hard rock bands ever, never mind the occasional made-to-order cheesy ballad for commercial reasons. Hey, everyone has to earn a buck sometimes.
I remember hearing ‘Let The Music Do The Talking’ first in the early 80s when the Joe Perry Project (it was the opening song of their debut) supported Alice Cooper (Special Forces Tour) at Cobo Hall in Deeeetroit, it was their raucous opener and that’s tour was obviously also the beginning of a lifelong friendship between ole Vince and Joe —> The Hollywood Vampires.
Here is some 70s Aerosmith and further evidence for Tyler’s undeniable strength in rhythmic delivery:
https://youtu.be/3qb3MDqtYOE
Aerosmith are to me a pillar of American hard rock and effortlessly combine some of the best elements of US Blues-inspired music. In what they do, there is no Brit band who can touch them, their sense for rhythm really makes them stand out and Tyler (a former drummer) is a huge part of that.
July 29th, 2025 at 12:49And Karin: Granted, Liam has acquired a nice timbre over the decades, I too like his voice today better than in the 90s, but Mr rhythmic accentuation he still isn’t. Which is kind of strange given that Manchester was one of the hubs of Northern Soul so he should have been exposed to music with more rhythmic vocals early on.
I wish his vocal style had developed into something more along the lines of this here …
https://youtu.be/aatK_l9Yuyk
July 29th, 2025 at 13:02@22
Uwe, you know what? I am perfectly ok with the fact that not all singers are at the same level as Ian!
Maybe you ought to obtain that tranquility in your mind too 😁
Who is that you’re linking to?
Heard it in my headphones and my ears are still confused, like the rest of me….
Sorry Uwe, but Liam is a way better singer than that guy, listen here please:
https://youtu.be/V3mhhT3c7oY?si=qzvXCLpGh_JiwEhP
And now please retract all those evil comments of his voice you’ve presented in here 😄
July 29th, 2025 at 14:52@22
And be a lamb and give this a listen too
https://youtu.be/oAVlZxt1GHU?si=9o3mMcG2FuVZnQjP
July 29th, 2025 at 14:59@22
And last, but not least:
Liam has a very similar voice to John Lennon, so if you stubbornly keep your weird opinions, then you don’t like John Lennon’s way of singing!
Is that true Uwe???
DON’T YOU LIKE JOHN LENNON’S WAY OF SINGING?
July 29th, 2025 at 15:27(A little bit shame on you, I have to say that 🤔)
Not true, Lennon (no doubt a major influence on Liam) could do both laconic long note vocals AND rhythmic accentuated stuff, just think of Come Together.
I‘m not saying that Liam can‘t sing, just that his brother has a certain way of writing vocal lines for him, which is not exactly rhythmically adventurous. No aspect of Oasis‘ music is, they are very “white bread” as a band. Or unfunky as hell, hüftsteif even.
But am I mistaken that Black Music and Black Music-influenced bands just do not really rank that high in your listening habits, liebe Karin? Mk II, GILLAN, ELO, Oasis … not exactly a Harlem Apollo bill of bands, is it?
We will have to widen your musical education somewhat, dear:
https://youtu.be/RQa7SvVCdZk
https://youtu.be/i7iQbBbMAFE
https://youtu.be/R8AOAap6_k4
https://youtu.be/WeiufBduVE8
https://youtu.be/BNirQXe8HOA
Just because you can move your butt to it, doesn’t mean it lacks brains!
Ah, I remember you said you liked Prince a while back, now that is a decent place to start …
https://youtu.be/bfHsF6FKgb4
July 29th, 2025 at 21:57@20
“Also, you forgot to mention that unlike Ian Gillan, Steven Tyler has much better fashion-sense.”
– 🤣 What’s the matter with you all in here! Why is it so important with the clothing??
It’s not a fashion show where the bands and vocalists are judged on their appearance!
😆😆😆 come on guys!
I will always prefer a delightful voice and an exciting band where their clothes are the last thing on their minds, than some boyband where all the external things are perfect but they can’t play or sing even if their lives were at stake 😄
It’s the inside of a person that is exciting! Not if he or she wears the right brand or colour!
And to show you exactly how upset I am, I can tell you that I’m in fact drinking tea 😱😱😱
July 29th, 2025 at 23:04@26
Uwe!
As I have tried to explain so many times in here, my music-listening-time is quite restricted when I’m not having time off as I have this week, so I do need to pick out the music I love the most.
I do know all the ladies and gentlemen you linked to!
And I appreciate them all!
But if I have, let’s say 1 (one!) hour of listening to music pr day, I am so old fashioned and matured that I do prefer all kinds of Ian Gillan!
Then shoot me! 😂
When I one day retire (when that will be I don’t know, maybe when all people around me are well, alive and kicking) I will dwell into all kinds of different music ☺️
Prince was certainly something else!
I really like this one:
https://youtu.be/H9tEvfIsDyo?si=lPVuYetArwqCqBi4
Yes, I know Tom Jones made it too, but NO ONE is better at falsetto than Prince! (Regarding this song I mean!)
July 30th, 2025 at 12:16Ritchie was always very conscious of his wardrobe, so was Jon Lord. Mk I were laughed at by the Brit music press for NOT looking Woodstock scruffy.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/e7/55/42/e7554266d5a888a0199fc39c9b7ff102.jpg
DC was a salesman for men’s clothing so he was naturally fashion-aware but so was Glenn Hughes:
https://img.nzz.ch/2024/04/15/6d2b2418-f5ec-42e2-93ca-8cdd1cc487ef.jpeg?width=1120&height=783&fit=bounds&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=6217,4347,x0,y0
https://www.goldminemag.com/.image/t_share/MTY4MzU0OTk5NDI5NTcyMDU3/image-placeholder-title.jpg
And Tommy Bolin was outright flamboyant in his dress sense:
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/f2/8c/bf/f28cbfcf2942cbe2aa47068aac4fab4d.jpg
https://townsquare.media/site/295/files/2022/09/attachment-Deep-Purple-75-76.jpg?w=780&q=75
Mk II were likely the least fashion-conscious line-up, but they would dress up for promo shots too:
https://enciklopedija.lv/api/image/thumbnail?name=98339f4d505d-63879780-ded4-4591-a2c4-a9068d2444cc.jpg&size=multimedia
Ian Gillan back then still did as he was told, even donning a leather flight jacket and leather pants to emphasize his Jim Morrison likeness
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRxuFABdG84romaef7d36zspn6H-SqD7J8xCw&s
which Ritchie had noticed and found so appealing for Purple’s new image in the approaching 70s:
https://www.mediastorehouse.com/t/767/ian-gillan-lead-singer-deep-purple-rock-group-21680283.jpg.webp
https://i.pinimg.com/474x/f5/84/1e/f5841e0ba442ac7b604deb5b80efda54.jpg
So DP, at least as young men, while not really glam (though Tommy was getting there), always dressed as rock stars. Sure they were fashion- and image-conscious and tried to look theirs best as young men in rock bands invariably do, it’s called showbiz and it relies on selling illusions, Karin!
PS: And Steven Tyler and Joe Perry always looked especially fucking awesome together:
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQpEK0C5r4PEefnuwOfuMlsuWXpOVsB8NSUcg&s
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSWKlr06V1KocCcE3YiZm9_0qRiNjnRkFnlbA&s
https://ds.static.rtbf.be/article/image/1920×1080/0/b/4/5531a5834816222280f20d1ef9e95f69-1686725470.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/236x/25/67/9f/25679f15a285b10f39f654980a141e88.jpg
They were also honest enough for Tyler to admit in a mid 70s interview that the New York Dolls had been a sartorial influence on them:
https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRdLExYfy0u4VGK0ErpX02J4pRk_481wKY0-hMF6LyEZNl-nhwEj4CvV_V_mncOSG1HE1gu44BJ3aecLhd_3nOkCA
https://youtu.be/GvmvMFXWzc8
July 30th, 2025 at 16:10@29
“it’s called showbiz and it relies on selling illusions, Karin!”
– 🤣🤣🤣 well, thank you Uwe!
What I really meant was this: when a guy is singing like Ian does, and did, I don’t look twice at his outfits, and that goes for the rest of the band too!
However, if the singer and the band are awful, I might look at their appearances!
The front singer from New York Dolls, doesn’t he look remarkably like the vocalist from Rolling Stones? (And now I guess you tell me that he is the illegitimate son of MJ 😂)
Btw:
July 31st, 2025 at 16:18Liam Gallagher has been mocked a great deal because he always wears that poncho! But I hadn’t seen it, I really had not!, until I read about it. And why not Uwe? Because I really dig their music 🤩
For all I care he could dress like Santa and I would still enjoy, well this one:
https://youtu.be/LEqDCp_C-jE?si=fku0jDYiYU-AcQL8
Yes, David Johansen of NYD heard the Mick Jagger comparison re his face a lot – as did Steven Tyler!
Oasis are totally a fashion band, there is a strict code what to wear and what not to wear with Oasis fans and within the band. Same goes for the haircuts, when Liam wore his hair too long
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01838/liam_gallagher_1838353c.jpg?imwidth=680
for his brother’s taste, Noel complained to their mother to tell Liam to get it cut! 🤣 He’s also said When you join Oasis, the first things you need are a proper haircut and the right pair of shoes! 😂
When Oasis are good, their songwriting reminds me of Slade, it has that same Beatles vibe:
https://youtu.be/5_ntIYnqMi4
https://youtu.be/gh1HzdPxilc
But that’s hardly a surprise given how Noel is a Slade fan and rates this number as one of his all time favorites:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FqBnAUtU8sM
https://youtu.be/iugEDEbw04Y
August 1st, 2025 at 01:30@31
“But that’s hardly a surprise given how Noel is a Slade fan “
– that may be, but Liam is a die hard fan of Beatles and especially John Lennon!
“for his brother’s taste, Noel complained to their mother to tell Liam to get it cut! 🤣”
August 1st, 2025 at 11:45– oohhh, so Noel is a sissy, gossiping to mother! 😂😂
Slade were Beatles fans too so that Beatles —> Slade —> Oasis connection makes absolute sense.
August 1st, 2025 at 17:11