CINDERELLA Bassist: 'Our Last Record Cost $1.2 Million To Make'

July 21, 2011

Adam Hammer of SCTimes.com recently conducted an interview with CINDERELLA bassist Eric Brittingham. A couple of excerpts from the chat follow below.

On what keeps CINDERELLA coming back:

Eric Brittingham: Fred [Coury, drums] and I were even talking and wondering why we don't still have the original bus driver. (Laughs) We tried adding a new member back in '95 on the "Still Climbing" record and it just wasn't the same. The album wasn't successful and the record label dropped us and the band, we split up for a few years. We got together in '98 to do a one-off benefit show and we were like, "Wow, this feels pretty good. Maybe we should rethink this whole split-up thing." So we did another tour and we try to go out every other year since and just have fun doing it. We're old enough to put some of the past things behind us and we just have fun with it.

On what has changed for CINDERELLA in the last 25 years:

Eric Brittingham: Not much has really changed. We still do what we do; we put on a straight-ahead rock show and we put a lot into our production. We don't try to go out on a shoestring budget and try to do things as cheaply as possible to make the most money. We like to go out to put on a good show so fans want to come back to see us next time. That's always been our philosophy.

On whether there are plans to record a new CINDERELLA album:

Eric Brittingham: Not at this time. I know everyone's done their side projects ... . In the musical climate these days and the way we like to do things, it's not really worth doing it anymore. But that's not to say it won't happen; it may. I'm sure Tom [Keifer, vocals/guitar] has a couple hundred songs ready to go. Our last record cost $1.2 million to make and the cheapest record we've ever made was $400,000. You can't do that these days because no one even sells $400,000 worth of records, CDs or downloads. Everything's changed. Everyone makes records in their bedrooms basically for next to nothing and in my opinion, most of them sound like it. That's not what we're about.

Read the entire interview from SCTimes.com.

Photo credit: Gene Ambo

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