Black Crowes interview: ‘We're the last of the trouble-makers’ OCD, money feuds, and a $100,00-a-year cannabis habit: the now reunited Robinson brothers reveal why they didn't speak for six years 8 March 2021 • 5:00am ‘It was easier for us to pretend that it didn’t happen and just keeping moving on’, says Chris Robinson on the band's break-ups Following the breakup of the Black Crowes, on the penultimate day of 2014 the group’s front man, Chris Robinson, played a concert for a thousand people at the Cervantes Masterpiece Ballroom, in Denver. Trading under the name the Chris Robinson Brotherhood, the band were on the road in a van; not just this, they were setting up their own equipment, too. They had to – the singer needed the money.