Hailing from the dry counties of Kentucky, Black Stone Cherry has taken the modern day definition of a Rock Star and redefined it. Remaining incredibly focused on their music and live delivery, the boys in BSC have the occasional beer but want to keep in best form for the road.
TheConcertMan: How's the road treating you?
Jon: Just great, we got back from our first tour in Europe with Hinder and had a blast with all those guys. Just a lot of fun to be on the road and watch those guys every night.
TheConcertMan: Did you enjoy playing for an overseas crowd and how was it different from the states?
Jon: It was the first time any of us had even been overseas so playing music for people in Sweden and England was a trip. Here we are, a southern rock band from Kentucky playing to a crowd that is just going off. The crowds are incredibily hungry for rock and are very open minded and accepting of new music.
TheConcertMan: What does the band do on its off time on the road?
Jon: We write music all the time. At any one time, we can have about 20-80 songs that we are working with. Those songs are our babies and that's how we treat every one of them. Some new songs might have parts from older songs that we like, its a hybrid mix of our collection.
TheConcertMan: How did you guys form what is today Black Stone Cherry?
Jon: We've been together since June 4th 2001 and we've worked really hard. That day was the first day all four of us sat together in the practice house and wrote a song. That night we decided this was it, just the four of us. No more and no less.
When we first got together, Ben was 15 years old I believe and we were still all in high school. Everyday we would get out of school around 3pm. By 3:10pm, we were at the practice house all plugged in and going. We would practice from ten after 3 until ten or eleven o'clock at night every night during the week and on weekends we would get down there around ten or eleven in the morning and just go all day until the wee hours of the morning. This is how we did it for five years before we started getting out and touring and everything. We absolutely have killed ourselves on making sure that we know how to play and that we were writing songs that were meant to be written by us.
TheConcertMan: What is a crazy story that you can share with us from the road?
Jon: Well, It was at the end of the Buckcherry tour that we were on the support bill. They came out on stage during our last song with Ninja masks pulled down over their heads. They also had these garbage bags filled with packaging peanuts. They dumped them all over the stage and all over us. Then they started taking John Fred's drum set away one piece at a time. They took everything but his snare, kick and hat. That was my favorite because that was the first time that a band had done something like that to us. Saliva messed with us a little bit, but they didn't go ‘all out' like that. We did get Buckcherry back that night though because we all got those crazy bitch boy cut panties, we all put them and we all went onstage in nothing but that! It was hilarious! We sold quite a bit of records that night as well from that incident.
Make sure to check out Black Stone Cherry's official website at www.BlackStoneCherry.com and at a town near you!
