The Cult's DIsastrous Reunion For Beyond Good and Evil Ian Asbury, Billy Duffy & Matt Sorum

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With former Guns N' Roses, The Cult and Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum releasing his new book 'Double Talkin' Jive' there's a good story about the Cult's disastrous reunion in 2001 when the band released Beyond Good and Evil. The Cult would breakup following the release of their 1994 self titled album, but in 2000 they would reunite, do a club tour and team up with former producer Bob Rock who worked on 1989's Sonic Temple. In 2001 they would release 'Beyond Good and Evil' and the tour would be a disaster despite the fact that they had good attendance and opened for Aerosmith.

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Sorum would serve as Guns N’ Roses drummer until 1997 when he was fired by frontman Axl Rose after an argument in the studio in which he defended his former bandmate Slash who had left the band a year earlier. Making things worse was that the drummer sold his publishing stake in the band and stopped receiving royalties from Guns N’ Roses. Following a stint in rehab and downsizing his life. Sorum would recall in his recently released book Double Talkin’ Jive how he was one night watching tv and saw a new band called Buckcherry on TV and called up his ex-bandmate guitarist Billy Duffy, Saying billy i said i a saw a band on tv and they are look like a watered down poor man’s version of The Cult. I think rock n’ roll should be coming back. We talked through a lot of shit after that what had been going down since I left GNR, what he was up to, which wasn’t much. Eventually I said. let’s go to the band together, let’s book a tour and go to the press and say the Cult is back. Duffy would agree and soon reconnected with Astbury. Duffy for his part would fly to Los Angeles and stay with Sorum for a bit. The Cult would soon organize a sold out theatre tour and It was around this time that record labels started sniffing around including Atlantic and Warner Brothers. And up until this point in time The Cult’s career had never been offered a million dollar contract. The most the band had previously gotten according to Sorum was around $100,000, but now record labels were offering deals in the high 6 figures and low 7 figures range. The band would eventually sign a million dollar deal with Atlantic records. During Sorum’s previous time with the band he was a hired gun and never played on any of the band’s records. But this time around things were different As he was a full fledged member and making good money. The working title of the The Cult’s new album that they were working on was called bring me dave grohl’s head, which was in reference to an interview that the Foo Fighters frontman had given disparaging the Cult. Eventually the title would be changed to beyond good and evil. And as the band began work on their new record tensions were brewing in the band. Bassist Martin LeNoble tried to contribute song ideas but quickly met resistance. Sorum would recall in his book Billy had come up with a bunch of riffs and we began rehearsing, but then one day when our bassist Martin LeNoble said something like what do you think about trying this billy just stared at him and without batting an eyelid he said Ian and i write the songs for The Cult and you just play your bass and i’ll give you the ideas. Each time we wrote songs it was the same story. No one but Ian or Billy was allowed a say and i remember Martin coming over to me one day and whispering why are we even here ? I don’t know I said with a shrug. And eventually Martin would leave the band and would be replaced by Chris Wyse.Helping produce the record was old friend of the band Bob Rock who had worked with the Cult on their 1989 record Sonic Temple and was well known for working with metallica during the 90’s

The sessions for the record would drag on and eventually the band would temporarily relocate to Hawaii where Bob Rock lived. He owned a studio perched on a hill overlooking an ocean at the time. The band would spend $750,000 making the record, meaning there wasn’t even a $100,000 left for each of the members for their advance. Released in 2001, Beyond Good and Evil would mark the first Cult album in over 6 years and the album was a commercial disappointment only peaking at number 26 on the album charts in the US and selling about 500,000 copies. Regardless the band soon toured behind the record and according to Sorum Astbury and Duffy soon got bored with being on the road. Sorum would tell the record label the guys aren’t doing meet n greets. ] they ain't kissin any babies they just don’t want to do the work. And according to Sorum it was that attitude that didn’t help reca.

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