The Black Crowes to reunite

[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by EPodolak

Thought the brothers wouldn't reconcile, apparently they've never liked each other much. Good news though.

They make a LOT more money together as "The Black Crowes" than they do with CRB or The Magpie Salute

[eDave]

Originally Posted by EPodolak

Thought the brothers wouldn't reconcile, apparently they've never liked each other much. Good news though.

Originally Posted by rabblerouser

They make a LOT more money together as "The Black Crowes" than they do with CRB or The Magpie Salute

Among recollections of disputes and violent episodes, Gorman described Rich’s brother, singer Chris Robinson as “the angriest person I’ve ever known.” He recalled an incident when Howard Stern asked the Crowes to play his 60th birthday party in 2014, and the band proposed to perform for free to thank Stern for his support during its early years. “‘'**** Howard Stern. I don’t owe that mother****er anything,’ he said, according to Gorman, who claims the singer wanted $150,000 personally to do the gig. He didn’t get it, and he forbade his bandmates from playing it without him.”

The report also noted that Gorman had “dreamed” of leaving the band before it finally broke up in 2015. “Chris wanted 75 percent of all the band’s income. That was quite an upgrade from the 33 1/3 percent share he had been receiving,” the drummer wrote, adding that he refused the suggestion of becoming a salaried employee of the band he helped form. “And that was the end of the Black Crowes.”

Read More: Why Jimmy Page Abandoned Tour With Black Crowes in 2000 | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimm...edium=referral

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[rabblerouser]

Originally Posted by eDave

Among recollections of disputes and violent episodes, Gorman described Rich’s brother, singer Chris Robinson as “the angriest person I’ve ever known.” He recalled an incident when Howard Stern asked the Crowes to play his 60th birthday party in 2014, and the band proposed to perform for free to thank Stern for his support during its early years. “‘'**** Howard Stern. I don’t owe that mother****er anything,’ he said, according to Gorman, who claims the singer wanted $150,000 personally to do the gig. He didn’t get it, and he forbade his bandmates from playing it without him.”

The report also noted that Gorman had “dreamed” of leaving the band before it finally broke up in 2015. “Chris wanted 75 percent of all the band’s income. That was quite an upgrade from the 33 1/3 percent share he had been receiving,” the drummer wrote, adding that he refused the suggestion of becoming a salaried employee of the band he helped form. “And that was the end of the Black Crowes.”

Read More: Why Jimmy Page Abandoned Tour With Black Crowes in 2000 | https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimm...edium=referral

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/jimm...k-crowes-tour/

It's simply one of the best RnR books I've ever read (not to go all Ubeja on you, but I've read a lot of 'em).

The exchange between Ed and Sting at some festival in Europe had me in stitches, but the funniest part may have been at the 1992 MTV VMAs, where Kurt and Courtney Love pissed off Axl Rose and Axl wanted to beat Cobain's ass for mocking him :

Axl : "You better shut your bitch up!"
Kurt, turns to Courtney : "Shut up, bitch."
Axl seeths with anger.

So Axl says he's going to beat Cobain's ass. MTV producers are worried, Nirvana and GNR crew are worried...and The Black Crowes' trailer is right in between Nirvana and GNR's backstage.

Gorman walks out of the trailer : "I just want to let all you assholes know that the Black Crowes are ready to fight GN'R and Nirvana, RIGHT ****ING NOW."

Marc Ford is sitting outside as Kurt and Courtney walk by, and drawls, "awwww, well he's just a little feller..."

Which Marc Ford, king of tossing off some of the most face melting guitar leads since Hendrix with the stone faced expression of someone reading a newspaper, has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, so to imagine him deadpanning that line at that moment...brought a few chuckles out of me, for sure.