The war of words goes back to early September, when Hughes began telling journalists that Bonamassa's solo touring schedule was preventing BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION from touring and fulfilling its potential. He stated that if the situation didn't change, "Afterglow" could be the group's last recording project.
Asked about the current status of BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, Bonamassa tells PremierGuitar.com: "As far as I'm concerned, my involvement is pretty much done, and I'll
tell you why: Originally, I did it for the same reasons I did the stuff
with Beth Hart and ROCK CANDY FUNK PARTY — it was an excuse to play a different kind of music that I don't get to play normally.
"The
first two records were a blast — the band is fantastic when the Ritalin
kicks in, the ADD goes away, and everyone's focused. It's a
devastatingly good rock band of the early-1970s type, and Glenn is a fantastic singer — just one of the best ever. So I did it and did a nine-week tour in 2011 that really, by the end of it, wasn't fun for
me. It wasn't because I didn't like the cats in the band, but it was
just too much — too much involved in getting people from place to place
and getting the band onstage. Everybody seemed to be very tense, and it
made my crew very tense, and it's not the way I like to tour. I run a
family — I have 21 people who go on the road with me all the time, and
if you asked them who was the cause of the least of their problems, they would say me. Unless there was no Diet Coke — then it's a huge
[expletive] problem, and either I'm going to the supermarket or somebody else is. [laughs]
"But it just wasn't fun for me anymore. All the stuff that Glenn says in the media, essentially pinning it on me — that I was the reason for the band's lack of touring and the band's lack of future. It became rapidly not fun at all. It would be dishonest of me to get onstage and
pretend like I'm having fun to please the band. I'm just not the guitar
player for that band, but, unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be any
out-of-work guitar players in L.A. that they can get. There are so many
guys that can fill that role and I would be the first guy to queue up
and buy a ticket. So that's my story with it. I'm happily not involved
anymore, but I'm happy with the legacy that I left with that band and
happy with the records we made. It was a great three years for me."
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