Black Country Communion
Black Country Communion 01 - by Miki
My first painting of the Supergroup “Black Country Communion”, featuring Glenn Hughes and Joe Bonamassa, . As often with my music paintings, this is painted in a mixed technique involving ink, pastel and digital art.
I have never seen any of them live.. no wonder, considering that I have been introduced by Kev Moore to Joe Bonamassa’s music only about one year ago and to Glenn Hughes some years before that. Two giants of Rock music, and when both join forces, then it is simply divine.
Well, yesterday evening we made the fabulous spontaneous decision to attend the Black Country Communion concert in Loket, Czech republic, on the 17th of July 2011. We will first spend some days in Prague, which we both always wanted to visit, and then some days in Loket. One week altogether. Concert tickets are bought, Flights are booked, now just browsing the net in search of the right accommodation: this is FUN!
Needless to say we are both super-excited! Last time I attended a big live concert was in Toulouse, France, Pink Floyd were on.. I am speaking about the year 1974!!!! I hope to be able then to make some other paintings featuring these rock gods.. and some travel sketches of Prague and Loket of course!
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For those who need some more “technical” info about BCC, here it is:
“…Black Country Communion is an English-American rock supergroup featuring Glenn Hughes, Jason Bonham, Derek Sherinian, and Joe Bonamassa.
Formation and Black Country (2010–2011)
Glenn Hughes has stated that he and Bonamassa had been working together for over a year when they both performed at the Guitar Center: King of the Blues event in Los Angeles in November of 2009 and decided to record together. Producer Kevin Shirley then suggested the group work with John Bonham’s son, Jason Bonham. Bonamassa did not want the band to be a power trio, so he and the others decided to add former Dream Theater keyboard player, Derek Sherinian, to the lineup on the recommendation of Kevin Shirley.[4] The band began having sessions in Shangri La Studios in Malibu,CA. According to Bonham the group were recording as early as January of 2010. He claims, “I just literally went into the studio last week for two days with one person I’d done an album with before, very quickly, and then the other was a friend of my father’s I got to meet later on, Joe Bonamassa and Glenn Hughes, and we’re working on a new project with a working title of Black Country.” The group took their name from the English industrial area where both Hughes and Bonham hail from.
Second album (2011–present)
Glenn Hughes has revealed that he is already writing the band’s second album during an exclusive interview with EspyRock. “What I am doing is writing a follow up album right now for Black Country Communion; I’m writing a second album.”
On January 12, 2011, frontman Glenn Hughes has announced that the band would be releasing their second studio album in June 2011, a mere nine months after their debut album. Hughes has said that the release of the album will coincide with the band’s summer 2011 tour, and that the first batch of songs for the album were already recorded….”
Street Musician in Pietrasanta in Italy
Street Musician in Pietrasanta in Italy - by Miki
One more from my series
“Street Musicians from around The World”
I saw him in Italy some weeks ago, more precisely in the wonderful little town of Pietrasanta not far from the marble town Carrara. I spent 3 days in Pietrasanta, and I saw that guy twice, at different places downtown. Once he had only his guitar and he was reading, in the posture featured on the painting, where I could not see his face. The second time, he was just sitting, looking around, with all that stuff in front of him, apart from the guitar. If I remember well, he had a long grey beard… to be honest, I am not sure if he even played one of these instruments, or is they were there just for “decoration”….in any case a spectacular apparition! I combined both appearances in this one painting. As all my Street Musicians, the painting is done in a mixed technique involving an ink drawing, pastel chalk, gouache and digital art.
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