The Way It Is (Glenn Hughes album)
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The Way It Is is a studio album by former Deep Purple
, Black Sabbath
and Trapeze
vocalist/ bassist Glenn Hughes. It was released in 1999 on Nippon Crown
, SPV
and Shrapnel Records
records and was Hughes’ sixth solo studio album.
edge of Addiction was replaced with funk
infused one. However, unlike 1995’s Feel
, which had definite funk
, pop
and soul
sounds, The Way It Is keeps the hard rock
Hughes is best known for.
This was Hughes’ second album to feature long-time guitarist Jocke ‘JJ’ Marsh, the two of them worked closely on the album, locking themselves away in Hughes’ Los Angeles
home in November 1998. The album also features two songs co-written with funk guitarist Stevie Salas
and performed by Hughes, Salas and former Guns N' Roses
, now Velvet Revolver
drummer Matt Sorum
. The three of them had originally planned to put an album together, but this did not appear. You Kill Me and Second Son are the only tracks by the three of them to be released http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/glennhughes.html.
Other musicians on the album include guitarist/ keyboardist Marc Bonilla
, who worked closely with Hughes on Addiction, but has a lesser role on this album. Keith Emerson
provides organ parts on two songs and Hughes’ usual drummer of the period Gary Ferguson performs on all the non-Salas/Sorum numbers.
A cover of Jimi Hendrix
’s Freedom
(originally from The Cry of Love
) is featured on the album and additional remix of the song appears at the end of the record, although it is not listed on the album sleeve-notes.
Deep Purple
Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. Along with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, they are considered to be among the pioneers of heavy metal and modern hard rock, although some band members believe that their music cannot be categorised as belonging to any one genre...
, Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath are an English heavy metal band, formed in Aston, Birmingham in 1969 by Ozzy Osbourne , Tony Iommi , Geezer Butler , and Bill Ward . The band has since experienced multiple line-up changes, with Tony Iommi the only constant presence in the band through the years. A total of 22...
and Trapeze
Trapeze (band)
Trapeze were an English rock band formed in March 1969, by vocalist John Jones and guitarist/keyboardist Terry Rowley , with guitarist Mel Galley, singer/bassist Glenn Hughes, and drummer Dave Holland...
vocalist/ bassist Glenn Hughes. It was released in 1999 on Nippon Crown
Nippon Crown
is a Japanese record label originally established as Crown Records on 6 September 1963. It is a spin-off of Nippon Columbia and is currently owned by karaoke maker Daiichikosho.-Artists:Artists signed to Nippon Crown Music include:* Hanaboy* Kimeru* Metis...
, SPV
SPV GmbH
SPV GmbH is an independent German record label.Founded on January 1, 1984, it has slowly grown to be one of the largest independent distributors and record labels worldwide....
and Shrapnel Records
Shrapnel Records
Shrapnel Records is a guitar-oriented record label started in 1980 by record producer Mike Varney. Guitarist Marty Friedman , one of the label's most successful artists, first appeared on the album Unsung Guitar Heroes II in 1980 with the band Vixen. Vixen would later change their name to Hawaii...
records and was Hughes’ sixth solo studio album.
History
While Hughes’ previous album, 1996’s Addiction had a serious, quite dramatic and heavy sound with songs that focused on the turmoil in his life, it’s follow up, The Way It Is has a distinctly lighter tone. The metalHeavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...
edge of Addiction was replaced with funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
infused one. However, unlike 1995’s Feel
Feel (Glenn Hughes album)
Feel is a studio album by former Deep Purple, Black Sabbath and Trapeze vocalist/ bassist Glenn Hughes. It was released in 1995 on Zero Corporation and SPV records and was Hughes’ fourth solo studio album.-History:...
, which had definite funk
Funk
Funk is a music genre that originated in the mid-late 1960s when African American musicians blended soul music, jazz and R&B into a rhythmic, danceable new form of music. Funk de-emphasizes melody and harmony and brings a strong rhythmic groove of electric bass and drums to the foreground...
, pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
and soul
Soul music
Soul music is a music genre originating in the United States combining elements of gospel music and rhythm and blues. According to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, soul is "music that arose out of the black experience in America through the transmutation of gospel and rhythm & blues into a form of...
sounds, The Way It Is keeps the hard rock
Hard rock
Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...
Hughes is best known for.
This was Hughes’ second album to feature long-time guitarist Jocke ‘JJ’ Marsh, the two of them worked closely on the album, locking themselves away in Hughes’ Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
home in November 1998. The album also features two songs co-written with funk guitarist Stevie Salas
Stevie Salas
Stevie Salas is a guitarist known for his work on George Clinton's albums, his collaborations with Koshi Inaba of B'z, and Hardware. He was in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, providing the fingerwork for George Carlin's guitar solo....
and performed by Hughes, Salas and former Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses
Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...
, now Velvet Revolver
Velvet Revolver
Velvet Revolver is an American hard rock supergroup consisting of former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan, and Matt Sorum, alongside Dave Kushner formerly of punk band Wasted Youth. Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland was Velvet Revolver's lead singer from their formation until...
drummer Matt Sorum
Matt Sorum
Matthew William Sorum is an American rock drummer and percussionist. Sorum is most famous for his 7-year stint in Guns N' Roses and supergroup Velvet Revolver , which is comprised in part of former Guns N' Roses members Duff McKagan and Slash .-Early career :Matt Sorum was born Matthew William...
. The three of them had originally planned to put an album together, but this did not appear. You Kill Me and Second Son are the only tracks by the three of them to be released http://www.melodicrock.com/interviews/glennhughes.html.
Other musicians on the album include guitarist/ keyboardist Marc Bonilla
Marc Bonilla
Marc Bonilla is a guitarist. He has worked with Keith Emerson , Glenn Hughes , David Coverdale and Kevin Gilbert...
, who worked closely with Hughes on Addiction, but has a lesser role on this album. Keith Emerson
Keith Emerson
Keith Noel Emerson is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice , he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer , one of the early supergroups, in 1970...
provides organ parts on two songs and Hughes’ usual drummer of the period Gary Ferguson performs on all the non-Salas/Sorum numbers.
A cover of Jimi Hendrix
Jimi Hendrix
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix was an American guitarist and singer-songwriter...
’s Freedom
Freedom (Jimi Hendrix song)
"Freedom" is a Jimi Hendrix song released in 1971 from the album The Cry of Love. The album was released posthumously in 1971 and became a major hit. This was the only single released from the album and was somewhat successful on the charts, reaching number 59 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart...
(originally from The Cry of Love
The Cry of Love
-Personnel:Band members*Jimi Hendrix – lead vocals, guitars, backing vocals on tracks 3 and 9, piano on track 1, production on all tracks except 5*Billy Cox – bass on all tracks except 5 and 10...
) is featured on the album and additional remix of the song appears at the end of the record, although it is not listed on the album sleeve-notes.
Track listing
- "The Way It Is" – 5:44 (Sampo Axelsson, Hughes, Marsh)
- "You Kill Me" – 3:31 (Hughes, Salas)
- "Neverafter" – 5:13 (Hughes, Marsh)
- "Rain On Me" – 5:26 (Hughes, Marsh)
- "Curse" – 4:49 (Axelsson, Hughes, Marsh)
- "Freedom" – 4:18 (Hendrix)
- "The Truth Will Set Me Free" – 3:38 (Hughes, Marsh)
- "Stoned In The Temple" – 4:08 (Bonilla, Hughes)
- "Too Far Gone" – 4:54 (Hughes, Marsh)
- "Second Son" – 3:39 (Hughes, Salas)
- "Take You Down" – 4:35 (Hughes, Marsh)
- "Don't Look Away" – 5:37 (Axelsson, Hughes, Marsh)
- "Freedom (Shagmeister Mix)" – 5:10 (Hendrix)
Credits
- Glenn Hughes – Vocals/ BassBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
- Joakim Marsh – GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s on all except tracks 2,8&10 - Marc BonillaMarc BonillaMarc Bonilla is a guitarist. He has worked with Keith Emerson , Glenn Hughes , David Coverdale and Kevin Gilbert...
– GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s/ KeyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
/ StringsString instrumentA string instrument is a musical instrument that produces sound by means of vibrating strings. In the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of musical instrument classification, used in organology, they are called chordophones...
on tracks 1,3,4,5,8,9&12 - Gary Ferguson – DrumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s on all except tracks 2&10 - Stevie SalasStevie SalasStevie Salas is a guitarist known for his work on George Clinton's albums, his collaborations with Koshi Inaba of B'z, and Hardware. He was in Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, providing the fingerwork for George Carlin's guitar solo....
– GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s on tracks 2&10 - Matt SorumMatt SorumMatthew William Sorum is an American rock drummer and percussionist. Sorum is most famous for his 7-year stint in Guns N' Roses and supergroup Velvet Revolver , which is comprised in part of former Guns N' Roses members Duff McKagan and Slash .-Early career :Matt Sorum was born Matthew William...
– DrumDrumThe drum is a member of the percussion group of musical instruments, which is technically classified as the membranophones. Drums consist of at least one membrane, called a drumhead or drum skin, that is stretched over a shell and struck, either directly with the player's hands, or with a...
s on tracks 2&10 - Hans Zermüehlen – KeyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
on tracks 3,4,5&11 - Keith EmersonKeith EmersonKeith Noel Emerson is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice , he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer , one of the early supergroups, in 1970...
– OrganOrgan (music)The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...
on tracks 8&12 - George Nastos – Street Funk GuitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
on track 11