I have been a Black Crowes fan since 1990 and they are one of the few bands I can say that I was there from the very beginning to their untimely and unfortunate demise. As a fan of the Black Crowes, it’s never been a secret of the inner turmoil within the band, especially it’s three founding members: Steve Gorman (Drums), Chris Robinson (Vocals/Guitar), and Rich Robinson (Guitar). As a huge fan, I always wanted know exactly what it was that was going on inside the band and it looks like we’ll get to learn all about it this year in Steve Gorman’s book Hard To Handle: The Inside Story of the Black Crowes. I can only imagine the things we’ll hear about. Will we hear more about Jeff Cease’s departure after Shake Your Money Maker? Will we find out the true reason behind why Gorman wanted nothing to do with 2005 reunion where he was replaced by NYC based jazz drummer Bill Doborow? Below is what Amazon had to say about the book:
The Black Crowes played big, Southern rock and became popular precisely while hair bands and grunge were rebelling against it. They stayed on the radio through hip-hop’s rise to the mainstream and dominated the charts no matter what the tastes of the day might have been. They’ve sold 35 million albums and they continued to tour up until they finally had enough of each other in 2013. Even then, more than twenty years after Rolling Stone named them the Best New American Band in a 1990 cover story, they drew thousands of fans across the country at over 120 nearly sold-out dates on what ended up being their final tour.
That last tour was so successful that they planned to do a bigger, truly final 25th anniversary tour in 2015. Unfortunately, the animosity between the three founding members didn’t allow that to happen. Instead, they reverted to their old habits of fighting, blaming each other, drinking too much, and indulging all the other demons that the music industry seems to feed upon. While Steve Gorman may have felt relief at not having to head back out on the road, he did feel bad for the band’s fans. He felt he owed them one final show. This book is that final show.
The book is set to be released on September 24th. Hopefully this will be enough time for Gorman to get lawyers to cockblock the Robinson’s from having this tell all book released. More news will be posted here as it becomes available.
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