Willie Chats with Gavin Rossdale from Bush

Willie Chats with Gavin Rossdale from Bush. This Summer, Bush hits the Road with Candlebox and Jerry Cantrell.

Episode Transcript

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What's up, Gaby Gabby? Uhmy man? All right, so hey,
welcome to the show, bro youron your own live. Took a
minute to uh connect up with you, but glad, glad we got you
through. Now, Gavin, youmay not realize who this is, but
this is the uh, this isthe studio calling in the studio where you

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came. You came in. Iwas saddened by the news of Chewie.
Man, I'm so sorry about that. But you and Chewie came in,
took over the studio. You signedthe station's call letters as you were the
first person to uh to sign theold studio wall over there. And then
uh, then we had you atPiller's Green, which is looking like your
your back at Fillers Green coming inAugust. So yeah, man, a

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little catch up. Thanks for callingin the show man. How you doing,
brother? Everything everything is good.We're excited to come back, and
I guess it's gonna be It's gonnabe a great summer. Yeah, big
summer for you. What a uhYou've just released Loaded, which is kind
of like the Greatest Hits ninety fourthrough twenty twenty three. You had to

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it had to be wild man,you ever think you would get to the
position of doing the greatest hits album. And I never thought it was crazy.
Ever thought I get one hit?Yeah right, I never I thought
one would be a lot. SoI think twenty six hits or something,
I'll take it. I'll take it. Yeah, man, twenty four million
records sold, a billion plus streams. It's just unreal. The run and

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to put it together something like this, it's got to be a blast.
Imagine imagine that was dollars. Imagineif you've got a dollar for a stream,
I'd be I wouldn't have been onthe phone the Caribbean, right,
Yeah, man, wouldn't that benice? Yeah? Not the case,
unfortunately, you know the case.But yeah, yeah, yeah. In

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another way, it is got tobe wild because you know, from what
we saw last time you were throughtown in twenty two, do you be
there for the fans? There's definitelyconnection. I remember that super fan we
brought backstage, and because to spendsome time with you when I interviewed you,
it for you. It's got tobe wild to be able to get
back up and see everybody come tolife when you take stage, sing the

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songs with you and just plug in. Uh, and be that big of
a you know, a mind andmemory for him. Yeah. I mean
the thing is is that if youthink about it, or most most every
day, it was like you gotto choose between things two doors, one
door or the other door, youknow, all day long. And the
best thing about music is there's nodoors. It's just like everyone's together having

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a shared experience. It's beautiful.Yeah, man, fresh off of Jimmy
fallon performance, how that go lastnight? Was it last night you did
that? It's such a blur.Actually was the night before. But it's
just like I did the Tonight show, the Today's Shows NBC like a talking

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head on a news show. Dude, ask me a question. I was
not ready for a question, wasresponding, and he turned to me and
he said, what's your fallback positionabout something? I don't know what he
was talking about. I was like, oh my god. Inside it's like
the matrix in my head. ButI pulled it out and thought about something
I was thinking about, So itwas cool. But I was just I

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was like, I'm on a talkingheadshow. I'm about to sound like an
idiot, But hey, what abusy run, what a crazy schedule?
Man? For you know for youback, especially doing this promoting this big
tour with the lineup. You havecandlebox, heer at Kendrell. That's awesome
in its own right. So probablya big you know, just media blitz

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for you over the next several days, Yeah, for sure. And then
today is all is all radio.That's been like TV and print and stuff
and a couple of podcasts, andtoday is like back wall to wall radio
because you know, when you wantto sort of get out there and let
everyone know, doing a big tour, you gotta you gotta tell everyone because
no one, no one's listening.It was like it was triping about their

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own lives. So you got hey, I said, bushes playing in the
summer. Oh my god, mybad? Great? Uh, no doubt,
man. What's it's keeping you busy? It's creating a you know,
a big ramp up obviously, youknow you at Fiddlers, especially with Jerry
Cantrell. That's that's gonna be coolto see a candlebox. Friends of yours,
how did you? How did youpick them? Uh? Well we

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done. I opened for Alison Changelast year. We went on tour with
them. We did a nice bigpackage with them and a few times.
I got to go out and singuh man in the box with with Alison
James, which is really gone cool. I couldn't believe it. It was
so cool. I be in therooms talking with some people, Hey,

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I gotta go. I mean Alisonchains, I can't say sing a song
that's great and they sound you know, and going on stage of them,
it's like it's like power lifting withSchwartz new or or something. The way
they play. The way they playis very just wrong. How did that

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come about? How did that comeabout? The conversation like, when was
the first time Jerry the Boys askyou to do that? That had to
be what a surprise, right Ithink I can Yeah, yeah, well
I don't know. I think Ican't not without Will because it's really hard
hung to things. So it wasjust Jenner for them, you know,
because you know, we're on tourwith them. And then I think Jerry

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came out and played with us.So I don't know. I can't remember.
I think I was always shocked whenhe asked me that I can't remember
anything before us. Yeah, Imean, did you have time to practice
it or was it just like onenight? Hey, Gatvin, once you
come out and do Man in thebox with this. Well a little bit
in between I had to make outlike I hadn't practiced it, but obviously

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I had. Yeah, that's awesome, cool man. Well, I imagine
it's gonna be a fired up tourone that's uh gonna bring a lot of
people in. You look at justthe career man from ninety four to twenty
twenty three. Man, it's it'sinsane that you know, you and just

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a handful of artists have been doingit that long. And you know when
when you look at some of thestuff unloaded, like everything's in, you
know, more than machines, thenewer head, the newer one, but
machine had little things, some stufffrom sixteen stone. It's gotta be it's
gotta be pretty awesome when you knowwhen you're firing ever sing. But you

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know, my favorite thing is rightis that some people only know there are
Survival or the Kingdom more than machinesor something, and they're like, what's
all this? These are the songs? And then some people only know the
first law and they go machines andwhat I thought the machine had No,
No, it's more than machine.Oh and it's so cool because we kind

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of everyone meets in the middle andyou just you know, and people call
the show. Now you hear thosegrades hits in one place. You don't
have to troll through eight nine recordsor something like that. So it's just
it's just it's a vibe, youknow, make it strengthens the tribe,
brings everyone together in the tribe.Yeah. Absolutely, man. Well,
I'm glad it's coming through here.Looking forward to having you come back in

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the studio, maybe do another studiotakeover. That was always a blast,
and the show in August. Ticketsgoing on sales soon. Okay, thanks
so much. Next Friday, ticketson sale. They told me, all
right, next Friday. Awesome Friday. Thanks man, and we'll chat with
you soon, buddy. Thank you. Take care.