What are your solo and HTP tour plans?
Next week Chad and I are going to play at Sammy Hagar's joint in Cabo and then the following week I come home to edit the DVD and then I'm going to be in Japan. We start a 9 or 10 week tour with HTP. We start in Japan and finish in the UK in the middle of April. Then in May I'll do the next Glenn Hughes solo album to be released next year. In June and July I'll be in South America on a solo tour.
In the 30 plus years you've been touring, is there any place you haven't played that you want to?
Yes, China and India.
Is that possible?
India would be viable now. China I don't know. I really think in the next five years that's going to happen. I'm playing more different countries now than I did even in Deep Purple. Joe and I are going to 17 countries in the next three months. At a time when most artists in my age group aren't working so much, I have to tell you, I'm tired! I need a break. (laughs) Right now is a good time for me, creative wise and professionally to be playing and singing. I have to do this.
Most importantly, I want you to know I'm a human being, a child of God. I'm not this rock star guy that lives the rock star life. I'm very much a family and home person. I have two characters: the Glenn Hughes character that I bring out on the stage. Then after two hours I put him a box and he goes away. I don't like that whole rock star lifestyle.
It's amazing you're still making music after some of the excesses of your younger days.
Anybody that knows my history in the 80s knows I don't remember that decade too much. In the 80s I only played 27 concerts. That's not very many shows. I was so out of it. I didn't want anyone to see me. The fact of the matter is that I was so into my disease and so ill that when I finally got help 12 years ago it was a godsend to me.
You also have your own record label. Is that for releasing your own material exclusively, or do you plan on releasing stuff from other artists as well?
Pink Cloud was originally for me, my friends and other artists that were releasing stuff that wasn't so rock oriented, like R&B or jazz. I call it late night music. I've only released two albums so far because I've been so busy releasing other works. I've been releasing an album a year, whether it's mine or HTP. I don't really want to have so much out there at one time, so maybe in the next couple of years there will be another Pink Cloud release and maybe some other artists as well.
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