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Artist News
Black Crowes split in dispute over band ownership
By Andy Malt | Published on Monday 19 January 2015
The Black Crowes have split up. That’s the news. They’d been a bit on/off for the last five years anyway, but now they’re just off.
Guitarist Rich Robinson said in a statement last week: “It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up. I hold my time with the Black Crowes with the utmost respect and sincerest appreciation. It is a huge swath of my life’s body of work. I couldn’t be more proud of what we accomplished and deeply moved by the relationships people created and maintained with my music. That alone is the greatest honour of being a musician”.
So far, so seemingly amicable. It’s OK though, it’s totally not amicable. Robinson continued: “I love my brother [frontman Chris Robinson] and respect his talent but his present demand that I must give up my equal share of the band and that our drummer for 28 years and original partner, Steve Gorman, relinquish 100% of his share, reducing him to a salaried employee, is not something I could agree to”.
This is not the first time the band have split, having done so in 2002, after Gorman quit. They reunited again in 2005 and continued with varying line-ups until another hiatus in 2011. They last performed together in 2013.
