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Episode 315 – Glenn Hughes – Addiction (Part 1)

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Lead up to the Album:

  • From Hughes’s Website: “Back to big rock again. I wanted the edge back. It was a dark period for me – relationship issues, acceptance issues, denial and anger – a perfect time to record this album. Marc, Mike Scott, and Jocke did a fine job. I sang with raw emotion, spitting out lyric after lyric of torment and destruction. ‘I Don’t Want To Live That Way Again.'”
  • CTC Fanzine, Issue #27, May 1997:
    • Glenn Hughes is trying to convince RAW journalist Mark Putterford (and probably himself) that his years of drug and alcohol addiction are over and that he can pick his career out of the gutter, dust it down, and try to fulfill his huge potential. Glenn Hughes in RAW 20: “If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a hundred times: ‘Glenn Hughes? Oh, yeah, the Cocaine King. He’s finished, man…’ And I laughed at it because I never thought I had a drug problem. Then last summer I woke up. It took me 16 years – 16 *stupid* years – to realize what an asshole I’d been, and to see my career was going down the toilet. I thought about all the deaths there’s been through cocaine, and I was addicted to that shit! I just thought, ‘I don’t wanna die, I wanna LIVE!'”
  • From CTC Fanzine, Issue #36 – Jocke Marsh met Glenn Hughes for the first time at the wedding of a mutual friend Paer Holmgren and his wife Eva.
    • JM: No, we had not met before. Paer had known Glenn a good while at the time, and he had told me about him and so on. So it didn’t feel as such a weird thing when I actually got to meet him. I was sort of prepared from Paer’s stories. And I am also a good friend of Thomas (Larsson) and Bojjan (Eric Anders Bojfelt) who were in Glenn’s band before. I had seen videos of them playing with Glenn, etc. We had just got our cover band together, and we were to play at Paer’s wedding, which was just perfect. And we realized that we had a superb opportunity to play with Glenn, so he was asked if he’d like to join us for a couple of songs just for fun.
    • LH: If you had not asked him, maybe you would have had regrets afterwards?
    • JM: Yeah, I don’t even want to think about it! So Paer asked him if he’d like to do it, and to do maybe Gettin’ Tighter and maybe something else. So we got to meet at the wedding, and the rest is history.
    • LH: As I understand, it wasn’t like you had any time to rehearse with Glenn before the wedding though?
    • JM: No, we had not rehearsed with him at all. I went through the arrangement of the songs with him during the dinner, and *that* was not a very easy thing. Paer and Eva (Paer’s wife) had placed me across the table of Glenn. And I thought it was sort of almost too much for me. Anyway, he came there and we said hello, and I did not manage to say a word for the first 20 minutes. And then I thought to myself, I have to break the ice, and we started talking. He’s such an easy guy to talk to, so it was no problem from then on. We went through the arrangement then and there, because we had put Way Back To The Bone right in the middle of Gettin’ Tighter, and then we had also the track You Gotta Dance To That Rock ‘N Roll in there. Do you know that song? 
  • LH: I have heard he was practically lying in bed sick and just got up to put down his vocals, and then went back to bed. JM: Yeah, he was in great pain. I was very impressed by the way he handled all that, and that he managed to sing so well considering that he was ill.
  • From CTC #21: GH: On the album, which is a very confrontational album… you see what I have done on the new album… it’s called Addiction for obvious reasons… it’s an album that… I wanted to be a bit more serious about my lyrics on this album. Wanted to a be bit more in depth and to have someone understanding what I was singing about, rather than singing about boy meets girl. What I did was opening my own wound and for my own rehabilitation, after five years of being clean, I wanted to go back and look to see what I have been doing. And see if it could help me as a person. So some of this stuff is very angry and some of it is very sad, but it’s a very good album. Have you heard it yet? 

Core Band:

  • Drums – Joe Travers
    • From Discogs: “American drummer, born August 20, 1968, engineer “vaultmeister”/ archivist & researcher for the Zappa Family Trust, a position he describes as “The person who looks after the tape vaults and knows all the necessary information to document the contents – and preserves the Zappa masters from getting damaged by the passing of time”.”
    • Played with Z on their two albums Shampoohorn and Music For Pets, worked with Mike Keneally and Beer for Dolphins
  • Guitar – Joakim Marsh*
  • Guitar, Keyboards, Producer – Marc Bonilla
  • Vocals, Bass, Producer – Glenn Hughes

Technical:

  • A&R [Shrapnel Records] – Mike Varney
  • A&R [Zero Corp] – Kazuo Uchiyama
  • Engineer [Assistant] – Tony Alvarez (2)
    • Only a few other credits on Discogs.
  • Producer, Engineer, Mixed By – Michael Scott
    • Worked with Carly Simon, Jose Feliciano, and would go on to work with HTP.
  • Executive-Producer, Management – Bill Hibbler
    • Only credits are this and Hughes’s previous album, “Feel.”
  • Legal – Edward Z. Fair*
  • Mastered By – Steve Hall
  • Producer – Michael Scott
    • Worked with Carly Simon, Van Halen, Quincy Jones, Dwight Shrute, Jim Halpert.

Album Art & Booklet Review

• Recorded at Entourage Studios. Mixed at Westlake Audio.

• Mastered at Future Disc Systems.

Tracks 11-13 Recorded Live in 1997 Liquid Room, Tokyo, Japan

℗ © 1996 Issued under license from Glenn Hughes to Shrapnel Records Inc.

℗ © 1997 Shrapnel Records Inc.

(Duration times only listed for studio tracks)

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Album Tracks:

Note from CTC Issue 22:

From: Par.Holmgren@svt.se Subject: CTC: The guitar(ist)s on ADDICTION All, Damien asked me to specify about who is playing what on the new album. Well, basically Joakim is playing on *his* three tracks and Bonilla on *his*. But with these exceptions: * I’m Not Your Slave; Joakim is doing the HEAVY riff around the chorus; 1.37-1.52 and at the end from 3.41. * Madeleine; MB plays the guitarsolo and the accoustic guitars. * Blue Jade; Again MB does the accoustics.

  1. Death of Me (Bonilla)
    • In an interview with CTC Marsh says that Bonilla had a lot of his mariarial in advance.
    • “Well, I’d say that Bonilla is very aware of contemporary modern music and keeps up to date on the alternative scene. And I think the musical mix on Addiction is kind of cool. It’s still based on hard rock, of course, which could appeal to the old Deep Purple fans. Personally, I just would have liked it to have more emphasis on guitar playing on it. Now the guitar playing is kept very strict and basic, because that’s what’s on the agenda today on the alternative scene. I would have liked some more guitar though!”
  2. Down (Axelsson, Bonilla, Hughes, Marsh)
    • Glenn’s favorite song on this album.
    • JM: “It was Bonilla’s idea and Mike Scott’s, the other producer, and Bill (Hibbler), the manager, and Glenn who was very interested to see what it would be like. I think they were afraid that if this wasn’t the musical direction then the album wouldn’t stand a chance of airplay if the album was to be released in the US. Wailing guitar solos are totally dead. I mean, it’s Smashing Pumpkins and stuff like that that rules the US radio. Anyway, we wrote some songs that, well, like Madeleine that was more straight compared to Down, that we also wrote, which was more like Soundgarden-ish.”
  3. Addiction (Bonilla, Hughes)
  4. Madeleine (Axelsson, Bonilla, Hughes, Marsh)
  5. Talk About It (Bonilla, Hughes)

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