Myles Kennedy was just a young boy when his father passed away. On his debut solo album, Year of the Tiger, the Alter Bridge frontman powerfully channeled the unresolved pain and loss into its 12 tracks. In this 2018 interview, Kennedy opens up about how the bereavement affected him and wonders what might have been...
“I have very few memories of my father,” says Myles Kennedy on the phone from his home in Spokane, Washington. “I remember him pushing me on a swing, and another time where he’s sitting at the dinner table, but that’s about it. Everything that I’ve heard from my mother and people who knew him was that he was an incredible man and a very honest human being. I’m proud of that.”
Richard Bass died when Myles was just four years old. The singer’s mother and father were entrenched in the Christian Science faith, a religion developed by Mary Baker Eddy in the mid-19th century. In her 1875 book, Science And Health With Key To The Scriptures, she wrote that one of the faith’s key tenets is the power of healing through prayer.
