I recently had the pleasure of speaking to Glenn Hughes, a man whose career spans several decades and includes Trapeze, Deep Purple, Hughes-Thrall, Black Country Communion. We spoke about his new band, California Breed whose debut album comes out on May 19th. Your latest project is called California Breed. First of all, where did theI recently had the pleasure of speaking to Glenn Hughes, a man whose career spans several decades and includes Trapeze, Deep Purple, Hughes-Thrall, Black Country Communion. We spoke about his new band, California Breed whose debut album comes out on May 19th. Your latest project is called California Breed. First of all, where did the name come from? The hardest part is that everyone's got the name now. If we'd decided to call it "Purple Tiger" for instance someone will probably already have a band by that name, so we as a collective of the band members would discuss on the phone and someone would say "I've got a really cool name", then we'd Google it and find someone's already got it. So Andrew said last September, six months after we got into this, "Why don't you look at your lyrics book and maybe there's a word there". So I went through it and there were things like Avalon, things that I really like, King Arthur and stuff, then I came across in "Solo" which is a bonus track, the line "California Breed acceleration", kind of a fast moving California dude, which kinda I am, been living there three quarters [...]
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