PipemanRadio Interviews Glenn Hughes about 50 Years of Burn

0:04 Hey, you listening to such? Sure, I'm come for ce Why for Wake Up of America. It's time for the Adventures. So pipe Man on w four cy dot com West pom Beats, his number one internet radio station. Here's your host, the Pipe Man. This is the Pipe Man here on the Adventures the Pipe Man, w f C Y Radio. And I'm here with our next guest, who is an absolute legend. And oh my god, there's some exciting stuff to talk about. And not only that, but I'm also going to wish them a happy birthday because it's it's birthday today.

1:07 How about that? See and so welcome to his show, Glenn Hughes. How are you? Thank you? Another another trip around the sun. So I'm very grateful for that, of course, I know right, you know it, those trips around the sun. They keep getting faster and faster, don't they. And you know something, Dean, they do when you get older, They just keep fly right on by. But I'm look, I'm enjoying the moment, enjoying the beautiful day here in Manhattan in New York. Nice. I love it. And so I think one of the best celebrations of your birthday is this fiftieth anniversary, which kind of blows my mind because thank you. I remember being a kid and I think I stole my brother's album to listen to this album when I was a kid and man.

1:59 To have a fiftieth anniversary of burn, just it must blow your mind too, I'm sure, like how quick that fifty went? You know, Dean, you know when I was very young. You're talking about somebody of my age right now you just think it's so old or you but we all we're all in this together. You know, we're all gonna get old at some point. I don't think about that so much. I'm just look, Dean, as you know, I've lost We've lost a lot of famous or not friends or whatever reasons, and I am one. There's two members of these people no longer with us. I'm one of the lucky ones that got my life together all those years ago and change my lifestyle, if you will, and making album up to album and doing this legacy show I'm doing. How grateful am I today? It's more than more than one was? Can oh?

3:00 I'm telling you absolutely, And I look at people like you, they've been around so long. I think the reason you are alive is because of the music. You know. I look at others in your group and that are still here. I'm like, the only reason they're here is the music. I have a very active mind, if you will, or brain or whatever you want to call it. I'm just very active in what I do. And and I am a musician. I've been writing songs for so long. I'm a songwriter first of all. But people know about my voice of course, which I'm very grateful for. But I will slow down. When I slow down, I've got I mean, I've just finished Black Country album number five last week. Wow, I'm doing this legacy tour for the next eighteen months. I have a full plate, Dean, So I am on course. To music is the healing, absolutely and I love it. I always say when people say stuff to me, I'm like, I'll sleep when I die. I'll have playing a time then. Yeah, you know.

4:10 For me, I like to keep busy. I'm a very active person. I love being at home, don't don't forget. I love being back home in LA. But this summer is a really busy for me. Well, and you're lucky you're nine La right now. With the hurricane right, Oh my god, my poor animals at home without daddy. Oh no, yeah, I live in Florida, so I know where it's like dealing with hurricanes for sure. Yeah, it's really bad out there. Right now. I'm checking in with my housekeeper and it's okay today, so hopefully we're all good. Well, glad to hear that, because I lived out there too and spend enough. You have to deal with every other national disaster and natural disaster and now this, you know, but very strange. It's very strange.

5:01 But you know global warming hello that yeah, right, exactly a perfect thing right there. And so this tour you're going to go on with Engvy, I mean, this is this is pretty amazing. Tell us how it all came about that You've decided with all the things you're doing, you got so much on your plate that this was something that you know, went to the forefront for you. I got a new American touring agent about nine months ago and my manager was talking to him, and I've known Engvay since nineteen eighty three. What good friends and England played Mistreated my song with me in London twelve years ago and we spoke about doing something like this together all those years ago, and here we are now. His agent is my agent, so it made sense to come together. So that's why I'm doing it with him with co headline as you know. So it's going well and it's going fantastic.

6:10 We can't wait to come down to see you with Bloda. Yeah you'll be here. You know what's funny about that, You'll be here in Fort Laurdale during hurricane season. Oh well, wish me luck, I know, right, So yeah, you guys will be here on September twenty second at the Parker Playhouse in Fort Laerdale. But yeah, you're gonna be a lot of other cool places too, you know. And I think it's just amazing. What does it feel like, okay to play that album after fifty years? Well, I do it, I think I do. I do it justice. These songs are very important to me. I created these songs with the purple and the look. Look, they're iconic songs. There's an iconic album, so I pay a lot of respect to those songs. And I have great, great team of players with me, so I'm really honing in on the arrangements. The sound of the song is going to be appropriate with the right instrumentation, and there are iconic songs to play live, Dean.

7:23 So I'm really excited by that. Oh, I'm really excited too. And I'm really excited about your new album because I know there's been kind of a delay because of everything that's crazy that's been going on in the world, and we're going to finally see your new album. Huh. Well, there's a black country album just finished last week with job on him after Jason Bonham and Derek Schuni in this album number five. The album should be coming out first quarter of next year. Everyone, Dean next year, early next year, and we're excited for people to hear Black Country five. I love it. So I always ask artists like you, after doing it for so long, how do you still keep coming out with great material that you can write about it? You know, I think of it and it's gonna be like it's sometimes you may run out of things to say, but sometimes there's even more things to say. We know when. For me, and this is a very very good question because for me, writing new music has been integral for me as the growth of me as a human being. To be a writer.

8:39 Look, I love to sing and play, you know that, but to song to write songs every year I've been doing it for so long that I've never lost the appetite or energy or ability to sit and write all those songs. And I have been doing that for so long. So as long as I'm continuing songwriting, and I do it pretty much every day. I've got a studio at home. As long as I'm songwriting, I think everything is just going to be fine. I love it because it is like some of the best therapy, isn't it Like for us as the listener, it's great therapy, but for an artist to write those songs, it's like it's the best therapy there is. It is. I only write about the human condition. I don't write about fiction. I write about us as people.

9:28 You know. I try to help people heal as good as I can and carry the message if you will, that we're all here for a look, every one of us listening here right now, we all have a lights purpose. If you haven't found out what it is, I wish you the best because we're all here for a reason. We've all got our own message too to pass on. So hopefully all of us are doing that. Those are definitely great words, and that that's why you're still such a great artist because of thoughts like that, and you know, just helping people throughout the world. I mean, that's that's what it comes down to, and yourself.

10:09 At the same time, we're all the same being. We're all flesh and blood, we're all carrying. Look, we're all we're all connected on our planet, every single human and animal, we're connected. We're all souls. We're not physical beings, we're spiritual beings living a human experience, you know. So for me, it's always about souls and and the and the in a being of spirituality. Nice, And I think what better birthday present than to be playing Times Square tomorrow night. Yeah, come on now, so excited, we're so excited about that. But tomorrow show, yes, of course. Yeah, of all places, that's that's the iconic place to play for sure. And so we are, we're all we're all ready to rock in Time Square tomorrow right at August twenty second at the Ladium. Nice.

11:05 So, what's the craziest story ever in your whole musical career that you can remember? Well, there's been quite a few, really, But you know, for me, crazy being crazy or crazy weird crazy or you know, I think it's whatever we mean it to be like to me, it's just a memory, like something that stands out good or bad more than anything else. Well, I was just okay, it's a crazy one for you. So it's nineteen seventy four. I am in somewhere in the Midwest, and I'm partying in my room with a few guys and there's I can hear a guy next door yelling stop, shut up, you know, and I didn't.

11:56 We didn't shut up. So about half an hour later, I get an knock on the door. Now I don't know if you know how old you are doing, but the guy knocking on my door was an act of call. You'll Brenner. Oh yeah, your brunner, was it? Your Brunner was a famous actually was in the Ten Commandments. And remember this is the seventies, so you know he wasn't that old. I got this guy, you know, this fairer on in the movie Ten Commandments, banging on my door telling me to show up. And I opened the door and all I can see was him in the movie The Jeebers out of Me. He was really angry at me, and he should have been, because I was quite loud. But kind of a spooky story for you. That is so wild. That's that is a great story. I'm glad I asked because that is pretty cool. Also another one, John John Wayne. I met him in the lobby of the of the Beverly Wilsher in LA and he asked me if my autograph for his daughter. So I signed my autograph on the heel of his boot. Wow, that's you know, are you like sitting there away He's asking you for your autograph on what's going on here? Well, and trust me, trust me. I went to him for his autograph right, and then he then he found out who I was, you know, in this band. So he was very nice and big, tall fellow,

13:28 but he was a very Look there's something I'll take with me for the rest of my life. So I've met some incredible people in America, so and long may that continue. I'm very very grateful to be here. Well, we're grateful to have you here. We're grateful for you to be on tour doing this fiftieth anniversary of Burn and your new music and all that stuff. Everybody's going to check you out at Glen Hughes dot com or your Facebook at your Facebook is Glen Hughes Online. Go ahead, Glen Use Glen us dot, Glen News Online on Instagram and Glenn Underscore Hughes on Twitter. Two ends. There you go, and so I hope everybody connects with you. I hope they check out everything because you are one cool legend that has been everywhere.

14:18 And happy birthday to you too. Thank you, Dean, Dean, thank you. Listen fort Lord of Dale on the twenty second and clear Water? Is it on the twenty third? Right? Yep? Capitol Theater and Clearwater? Yea, so the twenty second in Lord of Dale twenty third, Capitol Theater in clear Water. I'm coming for you in Florida. You know you see me in the Dead Day two years ago. One of my favorite states in the world to play is Florida. I'm coming for you. Get ready. Thank you so much, Dean. It was a great birthday message for me. Thank you so much. In Florida. I'm coming for you. Thank you so much. Dean, Well, thank you, and thank you for being on the Adventures of Pipe Man. Thank you, Dan. I have a great day, my friend. Hey, this is Glenn Hughes and you'll listen to the Pike Man w Ford p Y Radio. Thank you for listening to the adventures of Pipman. I'm W four Cui Radio