Broken Hope – Planning To Reunite?
Guitarist Jeremy Wagner (LUPARA, ex-BROKEN HOPE) recently revealed the following interesting tidbit to Chronicles of Chaos:
“Well, I’m going to tell you something now that I haven’t mentioned to any other website or magazine. Three months ago, the original BROKEN HOPE sat down for the first time, face to face, in about six years, and we discussed — like the BLUES BROTHERS — putting the old band back together. I’ll tell you how it happened real quick: Shaun Glass heard from Joe Ptacek, who I haven’t heard from in years, and over time a lot of bands have been referring to BROKEN HOPE as one of their influences — the guys from SLIPKNOT are big friends of mine, for example, and when they brought out their first album, they actually went and said that BROKEN HOPE had been a huge influence on them. And as time has gone on, a lot of bands have been coming out of the woodwork and talking about us. Then in the last year, we’ve had a couple of booking agents get in touch with us, and they’ve talked about putting us together and putting us on tour. So I talk to Shaun all the time anyway, he mentioned that he and Joe had been speaking and that he was really into the idea of getting back together again. Brian Griffin is the tour manager for LAMB OF GOD these days, so he’s busy as fuck, and Shaun Glass is busy with SOIL all the time. But long story short, the four of us communicated, agreed to meet up when time allowed, and that happened about three months ago. So the way it will work is that once we all have a bit of downtime, we’ll put aside a couple of weeks to rehearse and we’ll play a couple of shows to start us off. The only way we’re doing it, is doing it fucking right — full spectrum of all the albums, booked properly and advertised properly, and if it happens it will be a proper reunion with all the members. Then we’ll go from there, and see where it all takes us. Some of the people that have approached us are the people that helped put OBITUARY back together, so there you go.”
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