A heartwarming sight ...

[uwe]

... and not just for the short glimpse of a TBird:

[gearHed289]

God bless Glenn Hughes! The California Breed record is a genuinely great ALBUM.

[uwe]

The ole banshee!  But his voice has held up well. I saw California Breed recently - it's always entertaining to see Glenn (over-)playing and (over-)singing on stage, but that kid on the guitar ... I dunno. Nowhere near the league of other guitarists Glen has played with (Galley, Blackmore, Bolin, Thrall, Iommi, Bonamassa). His solos failed to capture any attention from me whatsoever, so I actually concentrated on him for a while ... I fail to see what Glenn sees in him, especially on a solo level. Non-descript is the word.

[gearHed289]

Funny, I feel the exact same way about the guitarist for Rival Sons - another retro-rock n roll band. Cool band, great singer, but the solos don't really take me anywhere.

[Basvarken]

Funny, I feel the exact same way about the guitarist for Rival Sons - another retro-rock n roll band. Cool band, great singer, but the solos don't really take me anywhere.

+1!!

[uwe]

I heard the "new" or better current Rival Sons album only recently - I was expecting another rock scribe hype and the onstensibly garage production had me sighing already (that White Stripes sound has been overdone, what's wrong with a production sounding like it cost some money?), but then I listened the whole thing thru and and if you ignore the overt Zeppelinisms and Bad Co'ishness there is a band lurking there that is prepared to take some chances and spread its wings. I was pleasantly surprised.

The guitarist? I was neither awe-struck nor disappointed. But I'm biased - I noticed some early seventies Blackmore mannerisms in his playing and immediately wetted my panties ...  Besides he plays Firebirds, the most beautuful electric guitar ever.

[Basvarken]

I saw them twice live.
First time was in the smaller concert hall of Melkweg in Amsterdam. The band was eager and played (and sounded) as a team.
Their singer is a nice mix of Jim Morrisson, Michael Hutchence and Paul Rodgers. And the bass player had some great melodic basslines which were nice counter parts for the somewhat sloppy guitar riffs and solos.

The second time I saw them was in the larger hall of Melkweg, Amsterdam. It was one big ego trip of the guitarist. Longwinded solos (still sloppy btw).
But the biggest issue was the fact that the guitar was twice as loud as the drums and the bass. This wasn't a band anymore. It was a guitarist with a big ego and a singer, accompanied by a rhythm section that was left in the dark at the back of the stage. I couldn't hear any of those melodic bass lines.

To me it was obvious the band had changed from a team into the Scott Holiday Quartett.
I left the concert early during the umpteenth (sloppy) guitar solo.

I understand their (excellent) bas player left shortly after that tour. Makes perfect sense to me.

[TBird1958]

I noticed some early seventies Blackmore mannerisms in his playing and immediately wetted my panties ...  Besides he plays Firebirds, the most beautuful electric guitar ever.

My influence you 

I can't imagine you saying that back at Pit, you're coming along nicely!

[uwe]

I've learned all BAD things from you, Mark.

Twice as loud as the rest of the band, you say, Rob? He learned even more from the Man in Black than I thought then. A younger Blackmore would even bribe the DP soundman to turn him up louder than the rest of the band. Didn't help, that Hammond beast kept cutting through.

The bass player on the current CD - the blond, somewhat stout one - ist that the new guy or the one who left? I did like the bass playing on that recording.

"Their singer is a nice mix of Jim Morrisson, Michael Hutchence and Paul Rodgers."

That, dear Rob, is a perfect description of him.

[Basvarken]

Robin Everhart (original bass player):





Dave Beste (new bass player):

[uwe]

Beste reminds me of Phillip Seymour Hoffman. And you can't fault his brand taste, can you?

[Basvarken]

Saint Beste, patron of the Gibsonites

[uwe]

Alas, Bruder Rob, I have this vivid vision now of his anointed body ruptured by despicable maple bolt-on Fender necks ...

[TBird1958]

Lol!

7ender is Satan!   

[gearHed289]

AND California Breed is no more... 

http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/california-breed-is-over/