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Living To Extremes With COREY GLOVER From LIVING COLOUR · HEAVY Music Interviews

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  Hey, it's Corey Glover from Living Color. We are on tour with Extreme
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  in Australia this September. Are you heart for Corey? Thanks for joining us
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  today, my friend. How are you doing? Oh? Very well?
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  Thank you so good good, very good good dear. Here's let's you say.
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  Living Color hit Australia with Extreme for a run of show starting in Longbood
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  on September fourth, before hit in Perth and Adelaide and then back to Melbourne
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  and Sydney and finishing in Brisbane on September thirty eight. So she's getting cos
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  you're packard ready to go. Yeah, well, we're already on the road.
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  We us an extremer on the road in North America right now during parts
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  of the Northeast right now and hitting west right But there's a decent run of
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  shows for you too, bro, Like you're a long way from home with
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  a decent run of show. So how do you prepare eventually and physically for
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  a choll like this? Will? You just have to be You just have
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  to know you're not going home, you know, you have to feel aware
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  that you know you're gonna be away from home for a long time, and
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  you have to get your family situation right. You have to get your mind
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  right and know that you're gonna be out here, just out here, sleeping
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  on a bus and you're lost out of here. Very a couple of years
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  ago might So what's change with anything? Nothing really has changed. It's all
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  the same, folks, it's all the same, the same music. We're
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  gonna we're going to try and you know, we have a good time when
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  we come to Australia. We always have a good time there. We always
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  have a good time on stage with each other. So you can expect to
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  have a good time and both bands are on point and it's gonna be a
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  really good time. So what can we expect from you sides? You saw
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  them? I'm pretty sure if mamby last time you're out you played the whole
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  album anniversary chow yes. So what's what do we expect this son? Well,
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  it depends on what's going on when we get there, you know.
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  As like you said, we have a catalog of a lot of songs that
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  we are going to put into the hopper and see what comes out. And
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  plus we're gonna try to work in some new, newer things and stuff from
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  newer albums. Stuff some maybe even some maybe even some new songs that we're
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  like sort of road testing to see what happens. And a last a much
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  you guys, they've wielded an awesome drum solo in the darky actlowsticks structure his
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  drumsticks and it looks fantastic, Like have you got anything special? Any surprises
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  like that lined up this sn if if it was a surprise, you wouldn't
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  you wouldn't know about it now. Very good answer And as we said earlier
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  on, are you going to be toured with extreme? Like what? Why
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  do YouTube bands make good touring partners? Do you think? You know?
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  I think we have. We share the same sort of musical uh ethos that
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  that you know it's and the way it's set up is very similar. It's
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  based drum, guitars and vocals. We're both doing that. Both amazing guitar
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  players you know, doing their things and a really good and a really good
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  band and it just seems to work really really well thus far. So if
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  you go back in history a little bit with living Tali made like Burdon started
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  the band back in nineteen eighty four, with you joining two years later,
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  Like when do you join. What did you bring to the band like this
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  was it? Did you have the same visions as Burdon back then? I
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  think yeah. I think initially we we all wanted to. You know,
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  we're all coming from particular sort of i uh, ideological sort of bent musically,
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  and we're really trying to deal with the emotional impact of being where we
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  were, how we were at that particular point in time, you know,
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  to be sort of outsiders and sort of uh sort of add living outside the
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  box and trying to throw rocks at the box and trying to get in the
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  box and then trying to get out of the box. It's all all weird
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  metaphors that we sort of all agreed on. Any of the chimes A band,
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  like the music industry, I guess in the music scene has undergone a
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  lot of changes. Mate, like I Live in Color the sort of band
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  who tried to adapt and change with the chimes or any more stuck to your
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  own path. I think we can. You know, as time goes,
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  we evolve and things do evolve. We and if our records or any evidence
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  of what we where we are Vivid is not the same as Kaleidoscope is not
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  the same as staining is not the same as cheering the doorway. So none
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  of our records sort of truck on our past, so we try to keep
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  evolving. And you mentioned Vivid like that was your dayoo author came out in
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  ninety eighty eight, and it's fair to say that changed the landscape of music
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  forever, mate, Like when do you guys finish recording that? Or what
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  are you in the process recording that? Like did you have any eighth way
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  that there was going to be such a game changer? We knew if we
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  stuck to our guns and we just kept hacking away and playing our our dynamic
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  musically was enough to was very compelling that people when when we played people listened,
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  and that we thought that if we kept doing that and maybe enough people
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  would hear us. It wasn't it wasn't our game plan to sort of take
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  over the world immediately. We were trying to do it in steps, very
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  gradual steps. It just so happens that we sort of hit on something that
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  really sort of really resonated with people, and our success came from that.
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  And it's fair to say that you definitely took a lot of risks on that
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  album, like you said, there's a lot of things musically there that hadn't
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  been done before at any stage during that process. If you think maybe you've
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  gone too far, or maybe people might not get what you're going for,
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  I don't think we weren't concerned as much about going too far. We were
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  trying to figure out where the limit was. Every day we are looking to
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  see what we can take and how we can push it further. Even now,
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  even what songs that we've already are already recorded, so we limits are
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  not are not the issue. It's where can it how far can it go?
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  Now? You've actually need me to get a future so it's not made
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  that you have actually started working on a follow up album. Were we're in
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  the very very beginning stages of making a new album. Yeah, we're going
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  and song the song and seeing what works and what doesn't work, and what
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  we can add and or subtract to it, and just doing all the math
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  that's required to making songs that we can we would be satisfied with, because
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  you know, when we make a record, uh song or whatever, that's
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  just the that's the basement of its musical expression. We're trying to take it
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  all the way to the top of what it is live, so that the
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  the actual song is a actually recorded song is the foundation and we'll figure out
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  whether where we can go. And you mentioned you might be playing a few
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  of the new songs when you're over here. Is that right? Maybe and
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  maybe not. You never know. We're trying to figure out what works and
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  what doesn't work. So again here there's a surprises you've been asking about.
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  Thanks buddy, you're just a new thinking with having Russian bands that we interview
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  for a few songs for a Spotify playlists are three different playlists that we're making
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  up. So can you give us they're all your songs? Can you give
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  us a living color song to get your fired up to party, living color
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  song that's gonna save your marriage, and a living color song that could potentially
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  end your marriage? Okay, so you said a song that gets me up
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  get fired up to party's fired up to party? I like freedom of expression
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  for that. You said something that would get me married or sing the marriage
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  would saved my marriage. Nothing could save my marriage. That just want to
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  let you know there's no amount of music that saved my marriage. Your mom
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  and you're there, believe in music was not the problem. But let's see
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  what nothingness I think would probably help and what would end my marriage other than
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  me asshole? Cool well answer all right, come, well, thanks very
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  much for your time today. Let me thank you with extreme from September the
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  fourth, so I'll be at the Brisbane show mode so I'll be waving at
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  you from the crowd. Cool, I'll see you there