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| Mathijs |
It seems Rock and Roll died a bit more today...one of the last remaining "true" Rock & Roll bands The Black Crowes called it quits today....
It's a sad, sad old day...
Mathijs
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Sad but true
Posted at 11:46 a.m. EST Thursday, January 10, 2002
Black Crowes break up
The Black Crowes are dead ducks. After more than 10 years of hits and hell-raising, the swaggering Southern rockers - anchored by battling brothers Chris and Rich Robinson - have called it quits, reports The New York Post.
Sources close to the band are blaming the bust-up on Chris Robinson's wife, actress Kate Hudson, best known for her role as a groupie queen in Cameron Crowe's "Almost Famous."
Though stopping short of branding Hudson rock's latest Yoko Ono, who was widely blamed for the breakup of The Beatles, a source says: "Ever since Chris married Kate the whole band dynamic has changed. He's just not around the guys the way he used to be."
The band's longtime publicist, Mitch Schneider, said that Chris Robinson has decided to pursue a solo career and that the Crowes "are taking a hiatus, for the time being." He added that drummer Steve Gorman has left the group for "personal reasons."
Schneider shot down rumors that Robinson had broken up the Crowes via a fax that announced his solo career and declared the band "irrelevant."
"There was no fax," Schneider said. "Rich talks regularly with his brother. In fact, they spent Christmas together in Aspen."
The Black Crowes rocketed up the charts with their rollicking 1990 debut "Shake Your Money Maker," featuring the hits "She Talks to Angels" and "Hard To Handle," which drew comparisons to the Rolling Stones and the Faces.
But from the start, the Atlanta-bred band was plagued by the stormy, often violent relationship between frontman Chris Robinson and lead guitarist Rich.
The brothers frequently got into fistfights onstage and bickered during interviews.
Chris recently told an interviewer: "We're definitely older and wiser, but the fact is we are brothers. Brothers are supposed to fight. We're getting along better now than ever. You have to go through rough times to get tighter."
The band spoofed its notoriously bad behavior by touring last year with Oasis, whose Liam and Noel Gallagher have also scrapped onstage, and calling it the Brotherly Love tour.
The Crowes can currently be heard covering The Beatles' "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" on the soundtrack to "I Am Sam."
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| Jane Wyman |
Sad but...after their first two excellent records they were already finished |
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| Cardinal Ximinez |
Right you are Jane. I think they shot the wad on those first 2 albums, and the rest was academic. I ended up trading most of the rest of their CDs in. |
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