What's So Bad About The Black Crowes?

Below is an excerpt of an article that originally appeared in RS 605 from May 30, 1991. Rosetta Stone V3 This issue and the rest of the Rosetta Stone archives are available via Rosetta Stone Plus, Rosetta Stones premium subscription plan. If you are already a subscriber, you can click here to see the full story. Thats amazing, man!" howls Chris Robinson, staring incredulously at the front page of todays paper. "I never thought Id be on the cover of the Atlanta Journal unless I killed someone." In fact all he did was shoot his mouth off onstage. But it was enough to get his band a banner headline in the hometown newspaper: "Atlantas Black Crowes Kicked off ZZ top tour." "Man, I never thought wed pop along and start causing so much trouble," says Robinson excitedly, waving the paper in the air triumphantly. "Its cool, though. Someone needs to do it, and we do it with our own little bit of finesse." What Robinson, the Black Crowes singer and resident superyap, actually said during their opening set last night at the 16,000-seat Omni Coliseum, in Atlanta, was innocent enough. Indeed, hed been saying the same thing every Cheap Rosetta Stone Software night on the ZZ Top tour for the past three months. "Theres one point of the show where we break it down, and Id point out to people that this is real, in the flesh," says Robinson. "Its rock roll, theyre not watching TV, and theres not going to be any commercials." It was, he claims, "more of a comment toward those bands who look at what they do as commercials: Heres my three-minute commercial for my album. " Bill Ham, ZZ Tops manager and director of the groups Lone Wolf Productions, and Miller Lite, which is sponsoring the tour, didnt see it that way. Robinson says he was periodically warned by Lone Wolf emissaries to drop the rap. Pete Angelus, the Black Crowes manager, says he received a call from Ham, who strongly suggested that he restrain Robinson from saying "anything about commercialization, commercials, sponsorship or endorsements." "Basically, the sponsorship and the management tried to censor what to me was just a statement about what we, the Black Crowes, are," Robinson contends. "Doing the best we can, being free to be what we are. And that music is really the only thing we have control over in our lives. "I said, Dont tell me what to say. Kick us off. And they did." Ham abruptly fired the Crowes after the second show of what was supposed to be a three-night homecoming stand Rosetta Stone German V3 at the Omni; tour promoter Don Fox relayed the bad news just minutes after me band came offstage.

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