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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey everybody, it is Skip Clark, and welcome back to
another episode of Skip Happens.
You know it's a place wherestories matter, music lives and
real people shine.
I'm your host, skip Clark, andtonight I've got a truly
inspiring guest.
He's a combat veteran and waittill you hear the story Purple
Heart recipient and now one ofthe most talked about rising
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stars in country music.
We're going to touch on all ofthat tonight.
Get this, though.
After surviving 10 gunshotwounds and an unimaginable
battle that he had, he picked upa guitar found healing through
song.
He's real, he's raw, he'srewriting his story on his own
terms.
Get ready, because here it is.
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Tonight Scotty Hastings joinsthe conversation.
Scotty, hey, it's good to seeyou, man.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Good to see you too.
Thanks for having me.
I really love that hat.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, I like that hat too.
Funny story.
Funny story about the hat.
We'll just start off with that.
I was in Nashville for meetings.
You were hanging out and wewere at an event and I walked up
to this table and I saw thishat.
It looked like, all right,somebody put them on the table.
You know that's like promotingtheir artist or doing whatever.
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So I said all right, well, I'llhang on to the hat.
I don't know if it was laterthat night or the next day In
the hotel we went to one of thesuites and you happened to be
hanging out in one of the suitesand I saw the grateful hat.
I go oh dude, was this your hat?
Something like that and come tofind out you had given it to
another artist, who apparentlyleft it on the high top in the
venue or the restaurant we're in, and I stole it yeah, yeah, I
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gave it to prior bear originallyand then he left it on the
table.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
So, hey, I mean finders keepers, you know he
left it.
That.
He left it on the table.
So, hey, I mean finders keepers, you know he left it there,
it's his loss.
His loss absolutely the head isexactly what it says Grateful.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So, and that's what we're going to talk about
tonight, Scotty Hastings, firstof all, what led you?
Let's go back a little bit andstart from scratch.
Where are you first of all?
Are you in Nashville right now?
I when?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
are you?
First of all, Are you inNashville?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
right now I am, yes, cool, cool, but you've been
traveling, weren't you?
You were just at theDiamondbacks game.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, I was just in Arizona.
We played a show after aDiamondbacks game, which was
crazy.
First time I've ever played ina place that big I mean it was
49,000 seats, I think, orsomething like that.
It's insane, Absolutely insane.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Now tank or something like that's insane absolutely
insane.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Now you can say you played in a stadium, so you did
a stadium show, so did a lot of,did a lot of people hang out
afterwards and yeah, there was a, there was a good amount.
You know, unfortunately, thediamondbacks lost.
So you know when.
When they lose, of coursethere's going to be people who
leave in, like the seventhinning and they're just, you
know, fair weather but there was, there was a good.
You know, there was quite athousands of people there it was
.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It was amazing that is cool are?
Are you a diamondbacks fan?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I'm a reds fan, um, but I happened to meet the
owners of the diamondbacks at anevent one day and they were
like man, you need to come play.
And I was like, yes, I doabsolutely well, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You must like baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I love baseball.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, did you play baseball as a kid?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I did, I did.
I grew up playing baseball.
I even played semi-pro baseballbefore I joined the Army.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Really, yeah, at what level would that have been?
Would it have been like singleA, double A, triple A?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
No, technically it was an independent league.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Independent league.
I got you.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Independent, professional, semi-professional
league called the FrontierLeague.
It was Florence Freedom at thattime.
It was the Florence Yalls now.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Oh, that's cool.
That's cool, but you had thatconnection.
I'm sure there were scoutschecking people out and doing
what they do.
We're a big baseball family aswell.
We're all about used to be theNationals, now it's the Mets and
we're in Syracuse and the AAAteam here is the Syracuse Mets.
So we are one level below thebigs.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Heck yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's awesome.
We'll have to get you up hereand go to a game together.
We'd have a lot of fun, let'sgo.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I'm in.
I'm always down for going to abaseball game.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Matter of fact, you know I worked on PA at the
ballpark.
So it's like, and it's sofreaking cool, dude, to be able
to announce some of theseplayers that have been in the
bigs and they're back downeither rehabbing or maybe
they're just trying to give itanother shot, but it's so cool
to be there and be able to dothat.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I can only imagine.
I can only imagine, how coolthat would be.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, let's talk about you.
You though a little bit more.
Let's tell, tell me a littlebit about your early life and
what led you to join themilitary.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, you know, I grew up in the Cincinnati
Northern Kentucky area and, andyou know, I I was at the time
when I decided to join the army.
I was playing baseball.
I wasn't making any money doingit, I had a family that I
needed to support and I alwayshad this, this gut feeling, or
this, this yearning to be a partof something that meant
something.
You know, at the time I wasn'treally doing anything and and I
wanted to be a part of somethingbigger than just myself.
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And you know, I one day decidedto go and enlist and I enlisted
in the army and when I enlistedI wanted to you to.
You know, to me a soldier wasalways the, the guy who went and
fought, like that's what I sawas a soldier.
So when I went into the, to thearmy recruiting station, like
that's what I wanted to do, Iwanted to fight, I wanted to be
what I thought a soldier was.
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So I I went and became an 11bravo, which is the infantryman,
and I went to basic trainingand yeah, so when we say foots
on the ground, I mean you guysare usually the first in right,
that's.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
that's exactly what you were doing with the arms.
Yes, what was your mindset whenyou got called for deployment?
What was?
What was your mindset?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, you know it was crazy.
I mean, um, you know, I, I leftbasic training and three months
later we were in Afghanistan,and it was, you know, when I
first training, and three monthslater we were in afghanistan,
and it was, you know, when Ifirst got to my first duty
station, they were like, hey,you know, we're deploying, right
.
And I was like, uh, oh, allright, like I guess we're
deploying, um, okay, uh, and youknow, you don't, it doesn't
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really hit you, you know, untilyou get shot at for the first
time, and then it's like holycrap, like this is real, like
we're, we're actually here, youknow, you, you, you get shot at
for the first time and then it'slike holy crap, like this is
real, like we're actually here.
You know, you get toAfghanistan, you do a little bit
of training and then you go outon missions and stuff, but the
first time you get shot at,that's when it's really like
it's like oh crap Like we'rehere Like.
this is a bad spot.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Wow, what was it like .
Speaker 2 (06:26):
What was the weather like?
What it gets really hot right?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
yeah, it gets really really hot and you've done all
that gear on, so how do you staycool?
There was one day that we had.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It was like 120 ish degrees, I think, and uh, and
yeah, I mean you're, you'rewalking with 80, 100 pounds a
year at all times.
I mean it's, it's a lot.
You know you get your body getsused to it, though.
You get your body gets used toit, though you know your body
gets used to that being what itis you only sleep when you can
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oh, absolutely yeah, exactlyplus you got.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I mean you got to have your rifle right by your
side probably 100 of the time,whether you're sleeping or not,
your hands on it absolutelyalways yeah, wow, you know.
First of all, thank you for yourservice.
I mean, we wouldn't be able todo this if it wasn't for the men
and women like you, andespecially you, that you gave so
much.
Um, tell us a little bit aboutyou got shot.
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You're lucky to be alive, weknow that, and when I first met
you, I was just like totallyblown away and just maybe I
didn't know what to say, becauseit's like who survives getting
shot 10 times?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, you know, I don't know how I did, but I did
somehow.
You know, April 21st 2011 wasthe day that we were on patrol
and there was a guy hidingbehind a wall and he just saw me
and just opened fire.
He was maybe 15 feet from meand he just sprayed.
He just basically sprayed andprayed, you know, pulled the
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weapon from behind his back andjust hit the trigger and just
hoped for the best and he endedup hitting me 10 times, from my
thigh, to my hip, to my shoulder.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, it's probably good, that's where you got hit.
Absolutely, because I wouldn'tbe talking to you, and how did
your recovery shape who you aretoday as a person and also as an
artist?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, you know, I think that you know my recovery
is still ongoing.
You know, I don't think thatyou ever.
You know I still suffer fromPTSD depression anxiety.
I mean there's, you know Istill suffer from ptsd
depression anxiety.
I mean there's, you know, therecovery doesn't stop.
It's always, it's alwayshappening and um you know, I
think that that shaped me as aperson, to understand that you
know that life is short, man,and it can end like that, like
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those 10, those 10 gunshots were, I mean, in the blink of an eye
, I mean, and it happened in theblink of an eye, like I, I get
to be all over.
But in the blink of an eye,like I mean, and it happened in
a blink of an eye, like I can beall over in the blink of an eye
, like you have to live life tothe fullest.
And it really gives youperspective on what's important
and and finding, you know, justfinding the good in every
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situation, or trying to justenjoy what you have when you
have it.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, you know, scotty, do you ever get tired of
talking about it?
I know I've seen otherinterviews and everybody will
ask you about those 10 gunshots.
Does that affect anything bypeople like me asking you know,
does it bring back?
It must bring back the memoriesa little bit and maybe some of
the pain.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, you know it brings back the memories, but
you know I'm I'm at the point inmy life now and in my career
where, um, where I'm good withit.
You know I mean it happened andI'm trying to use it to bring
good.
You know I'm trying to use I'mtrying to take the bad and make
good out of it.
And, uh, and, and you know, Iit's important for me to share
that story, and it's importantfor me to share that because
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there could be someone out therewho's suffering just like I do,
and I'm sure there's something.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, we have an organization here, a victory for
vets, where they they go outand they get dogs and they train
the dogs to be with theveterans from PTSD, to help them
.
Just, you know, help, comfortthem and all that.
I don't know, do you havesomething like that?
Do you have a dog?
Or?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
anything.
Yeah, I used to have a servicedog.
Ok, I had a service dog for awhile.
I've seen service dogsabsolutely save people's lives.
I mean my service dog saved mylife.
I mean there's a reason why Ihave a song out called Good Old
Dogs and God and it's because ofthat, because I have watched
dogs truly save people's lives,and when I heard that song, I
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was like man, this is for thosedogs Like this is for those
people who understand that, whoget that connection, who who
have the ability to connect withsomeone like that or a dog like
that, like that.
And yeah, I mean it's, it'sincredible.
I mean the organizations likethat are saving people's lives
every day and that's that's soimportant.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And so I love um.
I I have never served, but Iemcee those events and it's just
, it's so heartwarming to seethe men and women, to see the
dogs, people that are in need ofsomething along those lines, so
just a great cause.
How has music helped you withyour healing?
Because, wait a minute.
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First of all, when did you pickup a guitar?
It wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, music is my healing.
You know, I started learninghow to play the guitar when
COVID hit as a way to get out ofmy head.
You know, I was shootingarchery with the US Paralympic
program and I was traveling allover the country and that's what
I used as therapy.
I would for seven seconds,right before that arrow released
, nothing in the world mattered.
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I was able to just live in amoment for seven seconds at a
time, and uh, in the world shutdown and all that was taken away
.
My therapy was taken away.
And when it?
You know, when it gets quiet iswhen the demon's not the
loudest.
And COVID was very quiet andnot the loudest.
And COVID was very quiet and uh, and I needed something.
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I needed something to get outof my head and one day I had a
guitar in the corner of my room.
I don't know why I had a guitarin the corner of my room.
I just I guess I thought, youknow, the ladies are gonna love
this, they're gonna think I'myou know.
Thank god none of them asked meto play it because I don't know
, at that time I didn't know.
I look good though yeah, but youknow, and one day I just I was
like man, I'm going to jump onYouTube and I'm going to learn
how to play this, like there's,I need to jump into something
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that I know is going to bechallenging and hard enough for
me to truly focus on and guitarwas it?
And I started learning how toplay the guitar and I started
learning how to play songs thatI grew up listening to and uh,
and then, slowly, from that, youknow, I found an escape in that
, and then from there I Irealized I had all these
thoughts and all these feelingsand I found out that songwriting
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was a thing and I was like man,I want to.
I want to take these feelingsand these thoughts and I want to
put them somewhere.
So then I jumped on YouTube andI started learning how to, how
to write songs and how songs aredone.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Thank you, YouTube.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
YouTube how to write songs and how songs.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Thank you, youtube, youtube, man, if you're.
If you're not using youtube tolearn dude, I use it to fix the
toilet upstairs, all right Imean, I went on youtube no
matter what you want to do.
It's crazy, but no, I get itexactly.
Exactly.
Have you, uh, always lovedmusic?
Is that you know why?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I mean, yeah, it had to be a little you know I grew
up singing um as a kid, but itwas just kind of like a hobby
and something I did in theshower or in the car and it was
never in front of anybody ever.
You know, that was very much athing you, I was not going to
sing in front of you, um, butthen you know it, just you know,
I I found songwriting and thenI found, you know, the world
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started opening up and I went toan open mic night one day and I
decided to get on stage andplay the first song I ever
learned how to play which shouldhave been a cowboy by Toby
Keith, and in that moment, thestage became my sanctuary and it
provided that escape and thatsense of purpose and that sense
of therapy that I have beenlooking for for so long.
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And, and you know, when I'm onstage, I'm able to live in a
moment which is so amazing tofind for someone who has PTSD,
depression, anxiety, like to beable to to truly live in a
moment is incredible.
I mean, I live in Afghanistanand I live with my best friends
that were killed, like that'swhat I think about and that's
where I live all the time.
So, in order, like for me to beable to jump on stage and to
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completely just be taken overwith living in a moment, like
that's magic.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I just, when you talk about Afghanistan and
everything, I know we're talkingabout the music.
But when you say, yeah, myfriends were killed and this,
and that I just I can't even Idon't know if I'd ever, well, I
guess you don't.
I mean, you don't get over that.
You don't get over that.
No, you don't.
Was there a real moment whenyou realized that music was more
than therapy?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, 100%.
I mean, when I went on, youknow when I well, I mean, I
don't know if I've ever yeah,there was actually.
It was I.
The first time I ever played a,I ever played like, really a
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truly like live show.
That meant something, was thefirst time I'd ever opened for
another artist.
I opened for Dave Grohl and coolyeah yeah, yeah, amazing guy um
I opened for dave grohl, but itwas a military specific thing,
so there were like 200 veteransin this room and for me, up
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until that point, music wastherapy, like that's.
That's what I used it for.
I used it as a form of therapyfor myself.
Um, I played how do you choose,which is a song that we
released it was the first singlethat I ever released with black
river and, uh, I played thatsong.
It was the first time I'd everplayed that song live and I
played it there.
And, uh, and it was the firsttime that I realized that my
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music and my therapy could dosomething that meant something
for somebody.
You know, it was the first timethat I was ever told by
somebody that my song, my words,my survivor's guilt that I put
in the words into the song, thatit gave them a voice to be able
to tell their friends andfamily how they're feeling, or
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it let them feel like they'renot alone.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Like that moment was when I realized that music, yeah
, so much more than just therapyfor me and it can be therapy
for so many more people what, um, what message do you hope that,
uh, viewers and listeners, um,you know, get from your music?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
what message I just want to you know from my music
and from my story I want them toto take that you know it
doesn't have to end with the bad.
You know, I mean that the badcan happen and you can push
forward and you can do thingsthat you never thought possible.
I mean, I I just played.
I just played a stadium show inarizona and I started playing
guitar in five years ago, likeright right what like if I can
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do this, anyone can do anythingum you know, and and yeah, I
think that I I hope that peoplesee me and I hope that they see,
hear my story and I hope thatthey listen to my music and they
realize that if I can do it,they can.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, 100 percent.
You know, I think everythingthat has happened has happened
for a reason.
And now you're out therehelping others In your situation
very similar and you get outand you speak to a lot of
different organizations,veterans and along those lines.
Yeah, yeah, I work with a lotof different organizations,
veterans and along those lines.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, yeah, I work with a lot of nonprofits.
You know not veteran nonprofitshelp save my life and I've
watched them save some of mybest friends lives, so I mean
it's so easy to want to be apart of that.
You know, I mean my wholemission with music.
My whole mission in life rightnow is to save people's lives
and to try to help them in someway, shape or form.
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And the best way that I can tryto do that along with you know,
my music and my story andsharing that is to partner with
organizations that are alreadytrying to do that Exactly.
So it's so easy to say yes to aveteran organization that I
know is truly doing something tohelp absolutely do you think?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
uh, you know, your experience as a veteran has
influenced your songwriting andyour performances 100,
absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Um, you know, I you know, being in the military
teaches you work ethic.
Uh, and I there's.
It's funny like I, like, I have, I have a.
I have an amazing team in blackriver.
Um, incredible family.
They are amazing people, um, butthe one thing that I always
told them, that I will alwaystell them, is they will never
outwork me and I would never letthem outwork me.
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Um, you know, that is somethingthat definitely the military
teaches you is that you, you'regoing to work your butt off for
what you want to do.
Um, you know to do.
Um, you know, I think you know,honestly, without without the
work ethic and without the theyou know perseverance and
without the you know the theability to just push forward
that the military teaches you, Iwouldn't be where I am right
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now.
Um, you know most people are inbroadway for 10 plus years
before anything happens.
You know most people are innashville and you know spend.
Oh yeah, it's trying to getjust where I'm at, like it's a
10-year town.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I mean, that's the old saying, it's a 10-year.
You know my air quotes, butit's a 10-year town and that
couldn't be more truthful yeah,absolutely you know, and I think
the military not only helped mewith that but also, you know,
helped me with.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
you know, yeah, with writing songs about you know
what I struggle with and what Igo through and what we as
veterans go through.
We have amazing people thatwere veterans in this industry,
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but I feel like the differencebetween them and me is that I
straight up open my chest andlet people see who I am and all
the struggles and all the badthat I deal with on a daily
basis, and hopefully that helpssomebody.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Mentally.
How do you stay grounded Pro?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
beer.
I truly hold on to and cling onto music in the idea that I can
try to do something good.
That means something.
And I hold on to my friends andfamily as well, and that's kind
of especially with what I wantto do.
I mean talking to people, likeI have to share my story in
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order for people to hear it, inorder for to help somebody, and
every time I share my story itbrings up the feelings and the
thoughts that I feel every timeand and yeah, I mean it's
important, but at the same time,like it is, it's still hard a
little bit, you know.
So it's I have to hold on tothe music and I have to hold on
to my friends and family veryclosely.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, have you always been a country music fan?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
oh yeah oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So what is it like?
You know it's been five yearsago.
You picked up the guitar, butyou've been listening to country
music since day one.
So this is 100.
So now you get that opportunityto play on stage with some
pretty big names.
I mean, yeah, in just the fiveyears that you've picked up a
guitar.
I mean you mentioned, you know,the diamondbacks the other
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night and being in that stadium,and then you know, now you go
out and do these other shows andyou're there with probably
artists that you've beenlistening to for a little bit.
Now you're part of that act.
Tell me a little bit about thatyeah, man, that is.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I don't know how I am .
This is my life.
Honestly, it's crazy, like theother day we were.
I was talking to someone and wewere talking about a show that
is coming up or something, andlee bryce has become a dear
friend of mine, which, yes,number one is crazy to say, uh,
because I've been listening tolee forever, for literally
forever yes, I love his music.
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He's an incredible person.
Um wait, a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Was he there in the suite that night with you?
No, no, no wait, I'm thinkingof some other, but lee was in
the area.
Yeah, okay, yeah, all right, Ihave a song with lee I have a
song with lee and dolly parton,which is crazy.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,whoa.
Hold on, dolly, how the helldid you get.
I mean, were you in the studiotogether, or was it your track
and then her track?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, so me and I got to watch Lee do his part.
I didn't get to watch Dolly doher part.
I wish, I wish, I was able to.
I know Dude, but yeah, I meandude, but yeah, I mean it's
crazy.
I was, I was talking, we weretalking about something to show
that was coming up and I waslike you know what, let me just
call lee.
And then, like, I stoppedmyself immediately and I was
like, did I just say let me calllee price?
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Like what, what just happened?
Like what, like it's just.
Yeah, man, I know, you know I Igrew up, you know, listening to
these guys, these guys that arelarger than life.
You know the gar Garth Brooks.
Garth Brooks knows me.
Me and him have talked multipletimes and it's like Garth
Brooks is the reason I fell inlove with country music.
Like what, what is going on?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I know you have to think like that.
Yeah, it's crazy I'm.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I'm a huge country music fan and I'm a huge fan
period of.
You know, every artist thatI've met has been so incredible
and so humble and just the.
The most amazing part about thecountry music community is that
everyone is there for eachother.
We're all, I was just gonna saythat and it's, it's so amazing
man, and it's, you know, it's somuch more than you you would
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ever think truly no, and it'shard to tell somebody.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
It's hard to tell somebody.
That's the way it is.
But but because I'm on thecountry radio side, you're
absolutely right.
Everybody is so humble and socool and you know I'll get.
I get phone calls from you knowpeople I've talked to and yeah,
you know, I hear them every dayon the radio and it's like crap
, is that, holy shit?
I pick up, he's calling,calling me.
(23:35):
Why is he calling me?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
you know, absolutely like I did a thing at the cma
awards yeah and I was likeduring intermission I was
walking around just meetingartists that like I've listened
to forever, and I was taking mydaughter around like oh hey,
good to meet you.
Like this is my daughter, youknow, like I don't I'm a fan,
like I'm gonna walk around andgo say hi to these guys.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Like Luke Combs, that was the first person I walked
up to.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I'm a huge Luke Combs fan and I was like Luke, I'm a
huge fan of yours.
Like you're amazing, like I was.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
just I was a little kid and he's so humble about it.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
He's so incredible, incredible him and his wife.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
both are just incredible people yeah, almost
all of them, if not all sothat's, pretty cool um, are you
uh working on various projectsright now?
I well, let me back up a littlebit.
You got pro beer, I do, and uhthat that came out.
That's a great summertime songit's a fun song, but I'm
watching the video and you didthat in front of a green screen.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
We did.
You know, the song is silly andit's fun and it's basically at
the root of it.
It's a song about just bringingpeople together and having a
good time and we're like we satdown and we're like, dude, like
the video has got to be sillyand it's got to be fun, like
let's just do it in front of agreen screen.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Let's just do something out there.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You know, green screen like let's just do
something out out there.
You know I loved it, so we didit.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
You had the two girls and they brought the grill in
and they, oh yeah, oh yeah,absolutely yeah, it was.
It was so much fun and it wasfun.
It was fun to shoot.
Awesome, awesome, was that?
Um, oh, you've had that out fora little.
They came out in march, was itmarch?
You dropped that I don't knowit wasn't that all that long ago
, but uh yeah, where do you,where do you see your music
taking you in the next few years?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I have no idea, just hope for the best.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Hold on, you're on a ride.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I'm on a crazy ride right now, an amazing ride, and
I'm holding on for dear life andI'm just trying to enjoy every
moment that I get.
Honestly, I just want people tohear my music and for it to
help them, and everything elseis just a bonus.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Awesome.
You know, when we met lastFebruary, just a couple of
months ago, was that the firsttime you had been at CRS, the
Country Radio Seminar.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That was the second time, second time.
Okay, very cool, that's anevent man.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
It's three or four days of no sleep, very little
sleep and a whole lot of alcohol.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It was, it was wild.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool.
Tell me a little bit more aboutlike, uh, if I was to go see
you in concert, uh, or at a show.
If I was to go to a show, what,what would I see?
A lot of energy.
I mean, you tell me about yourband, tell me about you, yeah,
yeah, you know I have asix-piece band, including myself
, so we are pretty big.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But you're going to hear we're moving into a country
rock sound.
Kind of like a country rock,southern rock sound.
It's just kind of it works formy voice.
It's kind of my comfort zone.
You know you're going to get alot of on tempo.
You're going to get a lot of ontempo, you're going to get a
lot of energy but at the sametime we were going to slow it
(26:41):
down and you're going to see myheart and soul and who I am as a
person and what I want to dowith my music, and you know
you're going to get.
I'm going to make you laugh,I'm going to make you have a
good time.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
And then I'm probably going to make you cry at some
point.
So it's just, if you can do allof that, you've succeeded.
Oh, thank you.
You realize I mean it's countrymusic.
That's what it's about.
You can, if you can, touch theheart of somebody, or absolutely
, I, I, I say it all the time.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I love it when people cry at my songs or at my shows,
because that means that Iactually did something yes, you
know, that means that they wereable to connect on a level that
you know.
I mean, it's easy to to fakehappiness and it's easy to fake,
you know, having a good time,but when you see tears it's like
I like, you feel this, you feelwhat I feel.
You feel what I feel like, yeah, that's amazing do you know
(27:29):
today's superhero day?
Today's superhero day today'ssuperhero day.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
If you could be a superhero, who would you be and
why?
Superman he was always myfavorite yeah, well, okay, I
asked that to tim mcgrath.
Yeah, uh, it wasn't today.
Actually I have to.
I have an interview with himtomorrow, which is pretty cool.
I just let the kid out but, um,in another phone conversation I
asked him.
I said if you could be asuperhero, who would you be?
(27:55):
And he goes, or what would youdo?
He goes?
I love to fly, but I'm alreadya pilot.
So I guess, if I could have anypower or be somebody like that
he goes, I'd want to beinvisible so nobody would know I
was there and I could just I'mgoing.
Okay, that's a little creepymaybe, but I don't know, that's
so funny.
Yeah, that's also, of course,tim mcgraw's a pilot of course
(28:16):
he is well I'm surprised youhaven't done that yet that's so
funny how come you haven't donethat?
I mean no, dude, you got dirks,you got.
Uh, who else flies?
Oh my god, mcgraw flies, dirks,flies.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Oh my, I know there's a few others I've already had a
near-death experience, I don'tneed another one, oh well, I
don't want you to have one.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I'm just saying, though, it seems like a lot of
these country artists are doingsomething like that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I don't know.
For a while I got a buddy thatflies helicopters and he was
trying to talk me into it.
For a while I was like maybe.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, then you see the one that went down in the
Hudson and you kind of go.
I don't know if I want to dothat.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, yeah, see, you want to do it less and less.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, what's a fun, unexpected hobby people wouldn't
guess that you're into.
Oh, I know, I'm just pickingout.
I have a few questions I wrotedown just for the fun of it.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, I mean, sports for sure is always a hobby, but
I don't know if that would befor sure, is always a hobby, but
I don't know if that would be.
Yeah, but I could see you doingsports.
I seriously, I mean, I, youknow, I get that.
Um man, what is a?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
hobby.
Did you watch the nfl draft?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I did not.
No, unfortunately I did not.
I you know, are you a footballguy invested into the nfl draft
and stuff and then, I stoppedlosing track of time because
time because I forget what dayit is most of the time.
And so by the time they werelike oh, the NFL draft is
happening.
It was like two days later andI was like oh, dang, I missed it
.
Yeah, pretty much.
(29:47):
But no, I'm a gamer, I likevideo games.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Do you yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I like to kind of escape into a world.
Absolutely Do you.
Yeah, I like to kind of escapeinto a world, absolutely so with
the video games.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I mean you being in the military, you must have a
little bit.
I'm just saying I have friends.
I had a couple of friends thatflew F-16s in Desert Storm,
going way back.
But you know, they were gamersand they said, man, if you could
play this game you could fly anF-16.
So it's like, okay, I guessthat's crazy, but I can't fly an
(30:20):
F-16.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You know it's funny, in Afghanistan we played a lot
of video games.
We played a lot of like Maddenand stuff.
We would have Maddentournaments and stuff throughout
the day, just to try to passtime and kind of try to take our
minds off of everything.
You know you're in a prettyterrible spot, you know, and
you're getting shot at every day, so it's kind of nice to kind
(30:42):
of get away and escape a littlebit.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Wow, I can't even imagine.
I just like I don't know.
I don't even know what to say.
But hey, you know, I'm going toask a question that I hate to
ask, because everybody in there,everybody and their brother,
asked this question.
Uh, what are your?
Who are your biggest musicalinfluences?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
garth brooks okay, you said that he's the reason I
fell in love with country musicum and really any 90s country
artist, that the 90s I'm gonnasay the 90s was the best time
for country music.
I'm gonna be real, the 90s wasthe best time.
I grew up in the 90s.
So, man, that those, those arewhat shaped what I Wanted to
(31:23):
hear is as country music andthat's that's what shaped like
the sound that I fell in lovewith.
You know, in the 90s it wasamazing because all the artists
sounded so much different, youknow, and if you knew exactly
who it was as soon as the, assoon as it came on, you were
like Alan Jackson.
As soon as it came on, garthBrooks, you know, you knew, you
knew who it was and yeah, it wasjust, the nineties was so
(31:43):
amazing for country music and asa radio guy, I'm saying there's
times I have to look and seewho it is, cause I think it'd be
one person and it's another.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
It's like why would an artist want to sound like
another artist?
I don't, I know.
I know, I get it, I get it, Iget it, but I don't know
something's working.
I'm not gonna say names youknow, something's working,
absolutely, absolutely so whatdo you do for fun?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
oh, you know, I like to spend time with my kids yeah,
how many kids do you have?
I have four kids oh my lordyeah, yeah, two boys, two girls,
um, and I just love spendingtime with them, man anytime I
get an opportunity.
I, I want to be outside, I wantto do something with them.
Um, yeah, it's just, they growso fast do they, they, oh, no
(32:34):
doubt.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I have three grown daughters, eight grandkids, and
my wife and I now we have a sonthat's 24, but he's down
syndrome and he's the best thingthat ever happened to us.
That's amazing.
So he is amazing.
He is amazing.
He kind of takes after his dada little bit.
We do a podcast called ZachAttack with Dad and every couple
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of weeks we do that here.
I have the whole.
This is like a whole pod zone.
I call it the pod zone.
It's it's an actual studio andhe just loves to come down and
sit here and we go on and wejust have fun.
It may not make much sense, butwe have fun and you know what
the whole thing is is spendingtime with your kids.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
A hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You know, it doesn't matter what you're doing If
you're spending time togetherand I'm sure you must look back
going I am so grateful for whatI have.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
For kids.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
And you know, if things didn't turn out the way
they were, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
It's crazy dude, it's so crazy the way that the world
works, or the way that lifeworks, you know.
I mean, if you know those fourwouldn't exist if I, you know,
ceased to exist, you know, soit's yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
So a couple of years ago you played at the Vineyard,
correct?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I did live in the Vineyard.
That was last year.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
But of years ago you played at the vineyard, correct?
I did live in the vineyard.
That was last year, but that'snot you.
I'm sorry, that's not you.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I mean, you put out a song like pro beer and the
vineyard's, like wine drinkingladies that are like, oh, I have
, you know my.
I say it all the time mygirlfriend has ruined me because
now I like wine.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I don't know why I don't know why you're looking
out of the corner of your eye soyou don't see her.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
She has ruined me because now I like wine.
I never liked wine before.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I'm just getting older, so I'm getting more
refined.
That could be, but no, it wasweird.
Wine country isn't really athing that I ever thought I
would be doing.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I just think it's funny.
I know your songs are prettyawesome, but you put out a song
like pro beer and then thenyou're talking about playing at
the vineyard.
I'm like okay, well he, he'snot there with a grill.
He doesn't have a red cup and abeer in it.
In his hand he's got a wineglass.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, no, it was.
It was so funny because theywere like do you want any?
Speaker 1 (34:52):
wine.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I'm like not really.
I'm not really a wine guy, butnow, who would guess A year
later?
Now I drink wine, so I don'tknow what's going on in my life.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I don't know.
My wife's the same way, and ifshe's having wine, chances are
I'll have a glass of wine.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
So I hear you and you kind of grow a liking to it,
you know yeah, yeah, it is whatit is.
It is what it is uh so what canwe um your music?
Where's all your music?
It's on all your socials, right?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
yeah you can go and get it yeah, on all the digital,
wherever you get your music.
Just look up scotty hasting andit's there.
Um, yeah, wherever it is.
And then all my social media isat scotty hasting music.
Um's very easy.
But yes, scotty Haston dot com,if you want to like, go see
where I'm going to be as far asdates and stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
But yeah, you got any really big shows coming up.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah, I'm playing the Opry again May 20th.
Oh, that's right Again tooAgain.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So it's yeah, you've been there.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
It's my second time.
It's yeah, You've been there.
It's my second time.
It's going to be my second.
I'm like that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Now do they?
Do they come and ask you andsay hey Scott, do you want to
play the play the Opry?
Or do you reach out to them?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
And then you never say no because it's the Opry.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah.
Well, if you were to say no,they're going to say screw you,
We'll ask somebody else nexttime you just don't say no
because it's the Opry, becauseyou're like, yeah, like what?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I will play the Opry anytime you want me to,
absolutely.
But, yeah, and then I have that, I have.
Yeah, I have the PBS MemorialDay special, the concert that
they do every year that I usedto watch as a kid, which is
crazy, but now I get to be apart of it.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
See, that kind of goes back to what I was saying
before.
I mean, you're at that agewhere a lot of these people you
watched that show, you listenedto those artists and now you're
part of it.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yeah, it's crazy.
I get to be a part of theMemorial Day concert with the
National.
Symphony and then the next dayI get to play the parade, which
is crazy Again.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Scotty, do you ever feel that it happened too fast?
Um, does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
yeah, you know what I mean there's so many stages
that I get on and I'm like howam I here?
Like what am what am I doing?
Like how, how did this work outto that me being here?
Like what?
It's just, it's crazy, you know.
I mean, like I said, I meanthere's people spend years,
decades, trying to get to whereI'm at, like I yeah, I mean that
(37:17):
that'll never go unnoticed byme that people like people would
kill to be where I am and I ambeyond grateful and I am so
blessed to be where I'm at yeah,absolutely, absolutely Nice hat
, by the way, as we mentioned inthe beginning, but I just I
love it.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
I couldn't wait to talk to you, to be able to put
my hat on.
I love it.
I love it so much I've worn itin other podcasts too.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
And it's even better that you stole it from Pryor.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
He's going to see this.
I mean, I had him on here notall that long ago.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Absolutely.
It means so much more that youtook it from him.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah, now Chris Young's on your label too.
Do you get to spend time withhim?
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Yeah, Chris is a great guy.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Absolutely amazing Again.
I've been listening to hisstuff forever, you know.
I mean, he's been around forwhat?
19 plus years?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Oh my God, yeah, I mean for what?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
19 plus.
Oh my god, he's, I mean it's,and his music is amazing and,
and you know, it's just againanother artist that I've looked
up to for so long and now is afriend, which is crazy man you
know, would you?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
um, I talked to a lot of independent artists as well,
but you're with the label uhand you know Black River.
But would you ever?
Well, I imagine not, because Iknow Black River is so cool.
They are a good bunch of peopleand some of the other companies
.
It's just, I don't know.
They seem to want to.
(38:43):
I don't know I'm going to getin trouble for saying this, but
it seems like they want tocontrol you and it sounds like
Black River kind of gives you alittle bit of uh room to wiggle,
so to speak.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
so yeah, yeah, you know I've been, I've been
incredibly blessed with blackriver, um, that they, you know,
they understand what I want todo with music and that I want to
help people, that I want to dosomething that means something
and they are right therealongside, they want to be a
part of it as well.
They want to do something thatmeans something.
They, they want to help peopleas well.
And it's amazing to you know,have, you know the label, you
(39:16):
know the people who help me makethe decisions Like it's amazing
to have them also want to be soso much a part of trying to
look like I am.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Yeah, now about your songwriting, your creativity.
It comes a lot from yourexperience, where you've been as
a veteran, as you mentionedbefore.
But when you get into thesewriter rounds, what goes through
your mind and how does it allcome to life?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Yeah, you know, I take a lot of it from my
experience, um and honestly I'mwriting more now Um, not just
veteran stuff, um, you know,taking I I mean I've lived a lot
of life, a lot of life I'vedone a lot of different things,
um, and you know I'm pullingfrom experience now of you know
all the other lives that I'velived.
(40:02):
You know I've you know themilitary and me getting shot.
That has that has helped mebecome who I am um, but there
was so much more before that andafter that as well, and I'm
able to kind of pull from thatnow, which is incredible.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Early on, you said you played baseball as a kid or
semi-pro, I guess.
What position did you play?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
First base.
Ah, first baseman yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Gotcha, I'm just a big target.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I was like 6'3, six, three at the time.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
That's good.
They need a big guy in first100 it's.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
It's hard to miss the big dudes, you know yeah, so
you watch the reds, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
So my wife is a huge cincinnati reds fan.
Of course we're a little bitolder, but she was a johnny
bench fan and, and she was yeah,crazy, and you know, win or
lose she was.
She backed the Reds.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yeah, I love the Reds .
I will support the Cincinnati.
I will support my Red Legsuntil I die.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Now do you go to the Sounds?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Oh yeah, I love Sounds games, absolutely.
There's just nothing like goingto a ball game.
There's nothing, absolutely.
There's just nothing like goingto a ball game.
There's nothing like it.
You know there's just one thingthat can never be taken away,
you know it just makes you feelgood inside.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Absolutely.
When you go to these games,does anybody know who you are?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
No.
No, that's a good thing.
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
No, I know.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
You know it's funny.
Every once in a while I'll havesomeone come up and be like
that hat, I know that hat.
Are you Scottie Gacy?
I'm like, oh, yeah, and I'lltake a picture or whatever.
A lot more in the veterancommunity, which is amazing,
which makes sense, because thatmeans that my story and my music
is reaching the people that I'mtrying to help, which is
(41:48):
amazing 100%.
But yeah, no, I haven't gottenthere yet.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
So have you been able to meet up with some of the
guys you served, with those thatdid make it home and those that
know what you went through, andmaybe have a beer and just kind
of talk about things?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
We stay in contact.
I stay in contact with some ofthem.
Um for sure, my buddy johnconnor is a really good friend
of mine.
He was at my grand alacritydebut uh I think he's coming to
the next one, um, but he's areally close friend of mine and
he's also in a song.
So there you go, the storiesthat they tell they're he's in
that song.
So I put him in the storiesthat they tell he's in that song
(42:30):
.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
How cool when I was listening to Pro Beer, you talk
about Joe Rogan in there.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
You've got to change that.
It's got to be Clark.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
I mean, if we can get Rogan you know hooking it up?
Speaker 1 (42:46):
No, I know exactly.
You know Jacob Smalley.
I don't think so.
He's an artist.
He just commented thank you foryour service, but he's an
artist.
I saw him spend a little timewith him at CRS as well, but a
lot of the artists watch this,and everybody's so you know.
You mentioned it before.
However, everybody's kind ofconnected and they respect each
(43:07):
other and just help each other.
Nobody's out to screw somebodyover.
You know what I mean.
When you reach this level,everybody wants to help each
other and they're so good to usas well, as you know, being on
the other side.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Absolutely.
And you know, the craziest partabout the industry is like,
once you like really get into it, you realize how small
Nashville is.
You know, everybody, knowseverybody, like everyone is
completely connected and it's,it's insane, absolutely insane.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
It's crazy.
It's crazy, but crazy Good,Crazy good crazy.
Good, you know you're gonnalaugh at me here too, because I
asked you about the Nashvillesounds.
I go on their website all thetime and buy their stuff.
I just, I just, and I wear itto the Syracuse games and I get,
I get people.
They come up to me and go isthat a sounds hat, is that?
(43:57):
You know?
It may just have the n on it ornash in the back or something,
but I go, yeah, it is, yeah itis.
Oh, is that a?
Even the shirt?
It may not say nashville sounds, but I'll have something else
on it.
They'll go that's a sound shirt.
So everybody's kind of you know, they know it's that league, I
guess.
Everybody's kind of connected aswell.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
I love it.
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Yeah, what do you drive?
Speaker 2 (44:18):
What do I drive?
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
A pickup truck.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
But okay, this is what I'm imagining.
What does Scotty Hastings drive?
All right, it's going to be aSilverado.
It's a Chevy, it could be a2,500.
1,500.
All right, okay, I had the1,500.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
There you go and a 2021 Harley Street Glide.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I wanted to get one.
My wife said if I brought ithome I'd be out.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
See, that's why you just buy a storage unit
somewhere and then it neveractually comes home.
Is that how it works?
Your wife's not going to likeme.
No, she already hates you, Iknow.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
She's probably watching now on a phone upstairs
or she might be out shopping,but I'm sure she's got it on.
But no, I've always wanted todo that.
That's cool, man.
Good for you, brother Get outand enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
You know, there's just something about getting
lost on a motorcycle.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Being on the open road and just go Absolutely.
I got friends that do that.
Like I say I'd be divorced.
Well, you know, do you everworry about that though, do you?
You know, I have friends thatride and they're like you got to
do this, you got to get this,you got to go.
You know, there's nothing likethe open road, just like what
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you just said.
But then it's like you hearabout all these wrecks and I
said, you know, I'm going totell you, I don't think it's the
guy riding the bike, it's notthe guy in the motorcycle, it's
somebody's not watching whenthey pull out.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Somebody's not.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
Yeah, most of the time it's not the guy on the
motorcycle, for sure, no, no,unless it's some, well, the
crotch rocket.
And then that you know, or?
Speaker 2 (45:57):
someone doing something dumb, which is always
the thing, but people do that incars, you know?
Um, yeah, you know, I don't, Idon't know.
I've never really thought aboutit.
I actually laid down my otherhardly I kind of wrecked it a
couple years ago.
That was fun, um, but yeah, ithappens um, that's why skip
happens so yeah, skip happens uhbut no, I mean it's.
(46:21):
You know, you just have to beincredibly defensive, um, when
you're out there, you know, butor just ride roads where there's
not any cars on j's sayingthat's my ride as well.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
So yeah, he's got it there, you go there, you go.
Well, you two got to gettogether and ride.
You're both artists.
I mean, go for it.
Do you ride with other artists?
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Oh yeah, I ride all the time Absolutely With anybody
.
Yeah, Very cool.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
You know, Scotty, it's been great chatting,
chatting with you, finding out alittle bit more about you,
digging into your life a littlebit, everything you've been
through.
You're an inspiration to somany and you know, I'm sure,
your life is not easy.
I mean, I don't know.
I say that because I don't knowwhat I would do if I was in
your shoes, Mentally, justeverything you've seen and
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everything you've been throughand you got, you never get over
it.
But you're, you seem to bedoing very well and thank you.
You're everything you're doingYou're doing for a reason,
Everything that has happened hashappened for a reason.
So, as I mentioned a fewminutes ago, just getting
getting out there, educatingothers, helping others get
through it, I mean, dude, justGod bless you.
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That is just so fricking Ishouldn't say awesome.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
But it is awesome.
I appreciate that.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Absolutely.
Before I let you go to get yourmusic again, it's on all
socials.
They can just look up ScottyHastings.
Yeah, do you have these hatsfor sale on a website?
Speaker 2 (47:43):
I do ScottyHastingscom.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
How much do I need to send you?
Do what I said.
How much do I need to send you?
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Nothing, nothing.
Listen, pryor lost out.
Okay, it's funny, because hewas like, oh man, you know, I
can't believe that I lost thehat.
I was like it's okay, I'm justnever going to give you another
one, so it's all right.
Pryor, are you guys like reallyclose friends?
(48:16):
Um, he's an incredible personand, uh, to the point, of where
he sings harmonies on all of mysongs.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
I love it oh my god.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
So when you're, when you're listening to my songs,
that's out pro beer, whiskey inthe bottle, whatever it is, that
song or that, that voice thatis behind mine, is prior I did
not know that he's.
He is one of the these, withouta doubt, the single most
talented person I've ever met ohmy god, that's so cool.
I had no idea he never told meunbelievable that son of a bitch
, never told me yeah, he is, heis, he is incredible and he's a
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dear friend, and that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Yeah, did you guys meet in nashville, did you guys?
Speaker 2 (48:50):
I actually met him, uh, at black river oh okay, very
cool yeah and then, uh, it justkind of, we just kind of grew
from there yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
That's cool.
How long ago was that?
Oh long time two years ago.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
Okay, all right two years ago.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
All right, a lot of years, yeah enough, okay enough.
All right, enough enough, allright, enough, enough, all right
, scotty, I want to say thankyou for joining me here tonight
on Skip Happens.
It's great to talk to you.
If you're watching this, you'relistening to this, whether it's
on the replay or we're liveright now but check out his
music.
You can go online, you can buyit off the internet.
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So do that, support the artist,because you know they're
putting out great music and andwe're going to be watching for
you.
We'll watch for you on the opry, we're going to watch for you
on these other shows.
You're going to be just outthere rocking it.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Man, that's I appreciate you so.
Thank you so much for this also.
Oh no, this is all goodhopefully.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Uh, you know, I just kind of wing it, like I said, so
we did great.
Oh, oh, wait a minute.
What Jake Jacobs said?
Oh hell yeah, baby Street glideall the way.
Okay, never mind, there we go.
He's in love with his bike,just like you are.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Same, I get it.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
So do you get quickly ?
Do you get offended if somebodycalls it a bike?
No, because I said that once.
I said, hey, look at all thebikes.
They're not bikes, they'remotorcycles.
I'm like.
I call it a bike all the time.
Okay, all right.
Yeah, no, that's what I thought.
I mean, I'm just saying, justsaying I got like yelled at, so
(50:24):
no way.
Anyways, well, oh well, buddy,too bad.
Scot Skip Happens, stay rightthere and let's say goodnight
everybody and thanks forwatching.
And don't forget, oh, before Ilet you go, you got to subscribe
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You got a YouTube channel, I do, all right.
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No-transcript.
Hey everybody, it is Skip Clark, and welcome back to
another episode of Skip Happens.
You know it's a place wherestories matter, music lives and
real people shine.
I'm your host, skip Clark, andtonight I've got a truly
inspiring guest.
He's a combat veteran and waittill you hear the story Purple
Heart recipient and now one ofthe most talked about rising
(00:22):
stars in country music.
We're going to touch on all ofthat tonight.
Get this, though.
After surviving 10 gunshotwounds and an unimaginable
battle that he had, he picked upa guitar found healing through
song.
He's real, he's raw, he'srewriting his story on his own
terms.
Get ready, because here it is.
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Tonight Scotty Hastings joinsthe conversation.
Scotty, hey, it's good to seeyou, man.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Good to see you too.
Thanks for having me.
I really love that hat.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, I like that hat too.
Funny story.
Funny story about the hat.
We'll just start off with that.
I was in Nashville for meetings.
You were hanging out and wewere at an event and I walked up
to this table and I saw thishat.
It looked like, all right,somebody put them on the table.
You know that's like promotingtheir artist or doing whatever.
(01:13):
So I said all right, well, I'llhang on to the hat.
I don't know if it was laterthat night or the next day In
the hotel we went to one of thesuites and you happened to be
hanging out in one of the suitesand I saw the grateful hat.
I go oh dude, was this your hat?
Something like that and come tofind out you had given it to
another artist, who apparentlyleft it on the high top in the
venue or the restaurant we're in, and I stole it yeah, yeah, I
(01:38):
gave it to prior bear originallyand then he left it on the
table.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
So, hey, I mean finders keepers, you know he
left it.
That.
He left it on the table.
So, hey, I mean finders keepers, you know he left it there,
it's his loss.
His loss absolutely the head isexactly what it says Grateful.
Speaker 1 (01:51):
So, and that's what we're going to talk about
tonight, Scotty Hastings, firstof all, what led you?
Let's go back a little bit andstart from scratch.
Where are you first of all?
Are you in Nashville right now?
I when?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
are you?
First of all, Are you inNashville?
Speaker 1 (02:03):
right now I am, yes, cool, cool, but you've been
traveling, weren't you?
You were just at theDiamondbacks game.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, I was just in Arizona.
We played a show after aDiamondbacks game, which was
crazy.
First time I've ever played ina place that big I mean it was
49,000 seats, I think, orsomething like that.
It's insane, Absolutely insane.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
Now tank or something like that's insane absolutely
insane.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Now you can say you played in a stadium, so you did
a stadium show, so did a lot of,did a lot of people hang out
afterwards and yeah, there was a, there was a good amount.
You know, unfortunately, thediamondbacks lost.
So you know when.
When they lose, of coursethere's going to be people who
leave in, like the seventhinning and they're just, you
know, fair weather but there was, there was a good.
You know, there was quite athousands of people there it was
.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
It was amazing that is cool are?
Are you a diamondbacks fan?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
I'm a reds fan, um, but I happened to meet the
owners of the diamondbacks at anevent one day and they were
like man, you need to come play.
And I was like, yes, I doabsolutely well, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
You must like baseball.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I love baseball.
Speaker 1 (03:07):
Yeah, did you play baseball as a kid?
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I did, I did.
I grew up playing baseball.
I even played semi-pro baseballbefore I joined the Army.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Really, yeah, at what level would that have been?
Would it have been like singleA, double A, triple A?
Speaker 2 (03:20):
No, technically it was an independent league.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Independent league.
I got you.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Independent, professional, semi-professional
league called the FrontierLeague.
It was Florence Freedom at thattime.
It was the Florence Yalls now.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
Oh, that's cool.
That's cool, but you had thatconnection.
I'm sure there were scoutschecking people out and doing
what they do.
We're a big baseball family aswell.
We're all about used to be theNationals, now it's the Mets and
we're in Syracuse and the AAAteam here is the Syracuse Mets.
So we are one level below thebigs.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Heck yeah.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
That's awesome.
We'll have to get you up hereand go to a game together.
We'd have a lot of fun, let'sgo.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
I'm in.
I'm always down for going to abaseball game.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Matter of fact, you know I worked on PA at the
ballpark.
So it's like, and it's sofreaking cool, dude, to be able
to announce some of theseplayers that have been in the
bigs and they're back downeither rehabbing or maybe
they're just trying to give itanother shot, but it's so cool
to be there and be able to dothat.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
I can only imagine.
I can only imagine, how coolthat would be.
Speaker 1 (04:21):
Yeah, let's talk about you.
You though a little bit more.
Let's tell, tell me a littlebit about your early life and
what led you to join themilitary.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Yeah, you know, I grew up in the Cincinnati
Northern Kentucky area and, andyou know, I I was at the time
when I decided to join the army.
I was playing baseball.
I wasn't making any money doingit, I had a family that I
needed to support and I alwayshad this, this gut feeling, or
this, this yearning to be a partof something that meant
something.
You know, at the time I wasn'treally doing anything and and I
wanted to be a part of somethingbigger than just myself.
(04:55):
And you know, I one day decidedto go and enlist and I enlisted
in the army and when I enlistedI wanted to you to.
You know, to me a soldier wasalways the, the guy who went and
fought, like that's what I sawas a soldier.
So when I went into the, to thearmy recruiting station, like
that's what I wanted to do, Iwanted to fight, I wanted to be
what I thought a soldier was.
(05:16):
So I I went and became an 11bravo, which is the infantryman,
and I went to basic trainingand yeah, so when we say foots
on the ground, I mean you guysare usually the first in right,
that's.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
that's exactly what you were doing with the arms.
Yes, what was your mindset whenyou got called for deployment?
What was?
What was your mindset?
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Yeah, you know it was crazy.
I mean, um, you know, I, I leftbasic training and three months
later we were in Afghanistan,and it was, you know, when I
first training, and three monthslater we were in afghanistan,
and it was, you know, when Ifirst got to my first duty
station, they were like, hey,you know, we're deploying, right
.
And I was like, uh, oh, allright, like I guess we're
deploying, um, okay, uh, and youknow, you don't, it doesn't
(05:58):
really hit you, you know, untilyou get shot at for the first
time, and then it's like holycrap, like this is real, like
we're, we're actually here, youknow, you, you, you get shot at
for the first time and then it'slike holy crap, like this is
real, like we're actually here.
You know, you get toAfghanistan, you do a little bit
of training and then you go outon missions and stuff, but the
first time you get shot at,that's when it's really like
it's like oh crap Like we'rehere Like.
this is a bad spot.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
Wow, what was it like .
Speaker 2 (06:26):
What was the weather like?
What it gets really hot right?
Speaker 1 (06:27):
yeah, it gets really really hot and you've done all
that gear on, so how do you staycool?
There was one day that we had.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
It was like 120 ish degrees, I think, and uh, and
yeah, I mean you're, you'rewalking with 80, 100 pounds a
year at all times.
I mean it's, it's a lot.
You know you get your body getsused to it, though.
You get your body gets used toit, though you know your body
gets used to that being what itis you only sleep when you can
(06:52):
oh, absolutely yeah, exactlyplus you got.
Speaker 1 (06:55):
I mean you got to have your rifle right by your
side probably 100 of the time,whether you're sleeping or not,
your hands on it absolutelyalways yeah, wow, you know.
First of all, thank you for yourservice.
I mean, we wouldn't be able todo this if it wasn't for the men
and women like you, andespecially you, that you gave so
much.
Um, tell us a little bit aboutyou got shot.
(07:17):
You're lucky to be alive, weknow that, and when I first met
you, I was just like totallyblown away and just maybe I
didn't know what to say, becauseit's like who survives getting
shot 10 times?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Yeah, you know, I don't know how I did, but I did
somehow.
You know, April 21st 2011 wasthe day that we were on patrol
and there was a guy hidingbehind a wall and he just saw me
and just opened fire.
He was maybe 15 feet from meand he just sprayed.
He just basically sprayed andprayed, you know, pulled the
(07:53):
weapon from behind his back andjust hit the trigger and just
hoped for the best and he endedup hitting me 10 times, from my
thigh, to my hip, to my shoulder.
Speaker 1 (08:03):
Well, it's probably good, that's where you got hit.
Absolutely, because I wouldn'tbe talking to you, and how did
your recovery shape who you aretoday as a person and also as an
artist?
Speaker 2 (08:15):
Yeah, you know, I think that you know my recovery
is still ongoing.
You know, I don't think thatyou ever.
You know I still suffer fromPTSD depression anxiety.
I mean there's, you know Istill suffer from ptsd
depression anxiety.
I mean there's, you know, therecovery doesn't stop.
It's always, it's alwayshappening and um you know, I
think that that shaped me as aperson, to understand that you
know that life is short, man,and it can end like that, like
(08:35):
those 10, those 10 gunshots were, I mean, in the blink of an eye
, I mean, and it happened in theblink of an eye, like I, I get
to be all over.
But in the blink of an eye,like I mean, and it happened in
a blink of an eye, like I can beall over in the blink of an eye
, like you have to live life tothe fullest.
And it really gives youperspective on what's important
and and finding, you know, justfinding the good in every
(08:57):
situation, or trying to justenjoy what you have when you
have it.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Yeah, you know, scotty, do you ever get tired of
talking about it?
I know I've seen otherinterviews and everybody will
ask you about those 10 gunshots.
Does that affect anything bypeople like me asking you know,
does it bring back?
It must bring back the memoriesa little bit and maybe some of
the pain.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Yeah, you know it brings back the memories, but
you know I'm I'm at the point inmy life now and in my career
where, um, where I'm good withit.
You know I mean it happened andI'm trying to use it to bring
good.
You know I'm trying to use I'mtrying to take the bad and make
good out of it.
And, uh, and, and you know, Iit's important for me to share
that story, and it's importantfor me to share that because
(09:39):
there could be someone out therewho's suffering just like I do,
and I'm sure there's something.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
Yeah, we have an organization here, a victory for
vets, where they they go outand they get dogs and they train
the dogs to be with theveterans from PTSD, to help them
.
Just, you know, help, comfortthem and all that.
I don't know, do you havesomething like that?
Do you have a dog?
Or?
Speaker 2 (10:02):
anything.
Yeah, I used to have a servicedog.
Ok, I had a service dog for awhile.
I've seen service dogsabsolutely save people's lives.
I mean my service dog saved mylife.
I mean there's a reason why Ihave a song out called Good Old
Dogs and God and it's because ofthat, because I have watched
dogs truly save people's lives,and when I heard that song, I
(10:26):
was like man, this is for thosedogs Like this is for those
people who understand that, whoget that connection, who who
have the ability to connect withsomeone like that or a dog like
that, like that.
And yeah, I mean it's, it'sincredible.
I mean the organizations likethat are saving people's lives
every day and that's that's soimportant.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
And so I love um.
I I have never served, but Iemcee those events and it's just
, it's so heartwarming to seethe men and women, to see the
dogs, people that are in need ofsomething along those lines, so
just a great cause.
How has music helped you withyour healing?
Because, wait a minute.
(11:02):
First of all, when did you pickup a guitar?
It wasn't that long ago.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Yeah, yeah, no, I mean, music is my healing.
You know, I started learninghow to play the guitar when
COVID hit as a way to get out ofmy head.
You know, I was shootingarchery with the US Paralympic
program and I was traveling allover the country and that's what
I used as therapy.
I would for seven seconds,right before that arrow released
, nothing in the world mattered.
(11:27):
I was able to just live in amoment for seven seconds at a
time, and uh, in the world shutdown and all that was taken away
.
My therapy was taken away.
And when it?
You know, when it gets quiet iswhen the demon's not the
loudest.
And COVID was very quiet andnot the loudest.
And COVID was very quiet and uh, and I needed something.
(11:47):
I needed something to get outof my head and one day I had a
guitar in the corner of my room.
I don't know why I had a guitarin the corner of my room.
I just I guess I thought, youknow, the ladies are gonna love
this, they're gonna think I'myou know.
Thank god none of them asked meto play it because I don't know
, at that time I didn't know.
I look good though yeah, but youknow, and one day I just I was
like man, I'm going to jump onYouTube and I'm going to learn
how to play this, like there's,I need to jump into something
(12:10):
that I know is going to bechallenging and hard enough for
me to truly focus on and guitarwas it?
And I started learning how toplay the guitar and I started
learning how to play songs thatI grew up listening to and uh,
and then, slowly, from that, youknow, I found an escape in that
, and then from there I Irealized I had all these
thoughts and all these feelingsand I found out that songwriting
(12:32):
was a thing and I was like man,I want to.
I want to take these feelingsand these thoughts and I want to
put them somewhere.
So then I jumped on YouTube andI started learning how to, how
to write songs and how songs aredone.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
Thank you, YouTube.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
YouTube how to write songs and how songs.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Thank you, youtube, youtube, man, if you're.
If you're not using youtube tolearn dude, I use it to fix the
toilet upstairs, all right Imean, I went on youtube no
matter what you want to do.
It's crazy, but no, I get itexactly.
Exactly.
Have you, uh, always lovedmusic?
Is that you know why?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I mean, yeah, it had to be a little you know I grew
up singing um as a kid, but itwas just kind of like a hobby
and something I did in theshower or in the car and it was
never in front of anybody ever.
You know, that was very much athing you, I was not going to
sing in front of you, um, butthen you know it, just you know,
I I found songwriting and thenI found, you know, the world
(13:23):
started opening up and I went toan open mic night one day and I
decided to get on stage andplay the first song I ever
learned how to play which shouldhave been a cowboy by Toby
Keith, and in that moment, thestage became my sanctuary and it
provided that escape and thatsense of purpose and that sense
of therapy that I have beenlooking for for so long.
(13:45):
And, and you know, when I'm onstage, I'm able to live in a
moment which is so amazing tofind for someone who has PTSD,
depression, anxiety, like to beable to to truly live in a
moment is incredible.
I mean, I live in Afghanistanand I live with my best friends
that were killed, like that'swhat I think about and that's
where I live all the time.
So, in order, like for me to beable to jump on stage and to
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completely just be taken overwith living in a moment, like
that's magic.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I just, when you talk about Afghanistan and
everything, I know we're talkingabout the music.
But when you say, yeah, myfriends were killed and this,
and that I just I can't even Idon't know if I'd ever, well, I
guess you don't.
I mean, you don't get over that.
You don't get over that.
No, you don't.
Was there a real moment whenyou realized that music was more
than therapy?
Speaker 2 (14:35):
Yeah, 100%.
I mean, when I went on, youknow when I well, I mean, I
don't know if I've ever yeah,there was actually.
It was I.
The first time I ever played a,I ever played like, really a
(14:56):
truly like live show.
That meant something, was thefirst time I'd ever opened for
another artist.
I opened for Dave Grohl and coolyeah yeah, yeah, amazing guy um
I opened for dave grohl, but itwas a military specific thing,
so there were like 200 veteransin this room and for me, up
(15:17):
until that point, music wastherapy, like that's.
That's what I used it for.
I used it as a form of therapyfor myself.
Um, I played how do you choose,which is a song that we
released it was the first singlethat I ever released with black
river and, uh, I played thatsong.
It was the first time I'd everplayed that song live and I
played it there.
And, uh, and it was the firsttime that I realized that my
(15:39):
music and my therapy could dosomething that meant something
for somebody.
You know, it was the first timethat I was ever told by
somebody that my song, my words,my survivor's guilt that I put
in the words into the song, thatit gave them a voice to be able
to tell their friends andfamily how they're feeling, or
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it let them feel like they'renot alone.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Like that moment was when I realized that music, yeah
, so much more than just therapyfor me and it can be therapy
for so many more people what, um, what message do you hope that,
uh, viewers and listeners, um,you know, get from your music?
Speaker 2 (16:19):
what message I just want to you know from my music
and from my story I want them toto take that you know it
doesn't have to end with the bad.
You know, I mean that the badcan happen and you can push
forward and you can do thingsthat you never thought possible.
I mean, I I just played.
I just played a stadium show inarizona and I started playing
guitar in five years ago, likeright right what like if I can
(16:45):
do this, anyone can do anythingum you know, and and yeah, I
think that I I hope that peoplesee me and I hope that they see,
hear my story and I hope thatthey listen to my music and they
realize that if I can do it,they can.
Speaker 1 (16:58):
Yeah, 100 percent.
You know, I think everythingthat has happened has happened
for a reason.
And now you're out therehelping others In your situation
very similar and you get outand you speak to a lot of
different organizations,veterans and along those lines.
Yeah, yeah, I work with a lotof different organizations,
veterans and along those lines.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, yeah, I work with a lot of nonprofits.
You know not veteran nonprofitshelp save my life and I've
watched them save some of mybest friends lives, so I mean
it's so easy to want to be apart of that.
You know, I mean my wholemission with music.
My whole mission in life rightnow is to save people's lives
and to try to help them in someway, shape or form.
(17:39):
And the best way that I can tryto do that along with you know,
my music and my story andsharing that is to partner with
organizations that are alreadytrying to do that Exactly.
So it's so easy to say yes to aveteran organization that I
know is truly doing something tohelp absolutely do you think?
Speaker 1 (17:59):
uh, you know, your experience as a veteran has
influenced your songwriting andyour performances 100,
absolutely.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Um, you know, I you know, being in the military
teaches you work ethic.
Uh, and I there's.
It's funny like I, like, I have, I have a.
I have an amazing team in blackriver.
Um, incredible family.
They are amazing people, um, butthe one thing that I always
told them, that I will alwaystell them, is they will never
outwork me and I would never letthem outwork me.
(18:27):
Um, you know, that is somethingthat definitely the military
teaches you is that you, you'regoing to work your butt off for
what you want to do.
Um, you know to do.
Um, you know, I think you know,honestly, without without the
work ethic and without the theyou know perseverance and
without the you know the theability to just push forward
that the military teaches you, Iwouldn't be where I am right
(18:48):
now.
Um, you know most people are inbroadway for 10 plus years
before anything happens.
You know most people are innashville and you know spend.
Oh yeah, it's trying to getjust where I'm at, like it's a
10-year town.
Speaker 1 (19:02):
I mean, that's the old saying, it's a 10-year.
You know my air quotes, butit's a 10-year town and that
couldn't be more truthful yeah,absolutely you know, and I think
the military not only helped mewith that but also, you know,
helped me with.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
you know, yeah, with writing songs about you know
what I struggle with and what Igo through and what we as
veterans go through.
We have amazing people thatwere veterans in this industry,
(19:39):
but I feel like the differencebetween them and me is that I
straight up open my chest andlet people see who I am and all
the struggles and all the badthat I deal with on a daily
basis, and hopefully that helpssomebody.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
Mentally.
How do you stay grounded Pro?
Speaker 2 (19:56):
beer.
I truly hold on to and cling onto music in the idea that I can
try to do something good.
That means something.
And I hold on to my friends andfamily as well, and that's kind
of especially with what I wantto do.
I mean talking to people, likeI have to share my story in
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order for people to hear it, inorder for to help somebody, and
every time I share my story itbrings up the feelings and the
thoughts that I feel every timeand and yeah, I mean it's
important, but at the same time,like it is, it's still hard a
little bit, you know.
So it's I have to hold on tothe music and I have to hold on
to my friends and family veryclosely.
Speaker 1 (20:40):
Yeah, have you always been a country music fan?
Speaker 2 (20:42):
oh yeah oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:44):
So what is it like?
You know it's been five yearsago.
You picked up the guitar, butyou've been listening to country
music since day one.
So this is 100.
So now you get that opportunityto play on stage with some
pretty big names.
I mean, yeah, in just the fiveyears that you've picked up a
guitar.
I mean you mentioned, you know,the diamondbacks the other
(21:06):
night and being in that stadium,and then you know, now you go
out and do these other shows andyou're there with probably
artists that you've beenlistening to for a little bit.
Now you're part of that act.
Tell me a little bit about thatyeah, man, that is.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
I don't know how I am .
This is my life.
Honestly, it's crazy, like theother day we were.
I was talking to someone and wewere talking about a show that
is coming up or something, andlee bryce has become a dear
friend of mine, which, yes,number one is crazy to say, uh,
because I've been listening tolee forever, for literally
forever yes, I love his music.
(21:40):
He's an incredible person.
Um wait, a minute.
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Was he there in the suite that night with you?
No, no, no wait, I'm thinkingof some other, but lee was in
the area.
Yeah, okay, yeah, all right, Ihave a song with lee I have a
song with lee and dolly parton,which is crazy.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,whoa.
Hold on, dolly, how the helldid you get.
I mean, were you in the studiotogether, or was it your track
and then her track?
Speaker 2 (22:03):
Yeah, so me and I got to watch Lee do his part.
I didn't get to watch Dolly doher part.
I wish, I wish, I was able to.
I know Dude, but yeah, I meandude, but yeah, I mean it's
crazy.
I was, I was talking, we weretalking about something to show
that was coming up and I waslike you know what, let me just
call lee.
And then, like, I stoppedmyself immediately and I was
like, did I just say let me calllee price?
(22:23):
Like what, what just happened?
Like what, like it's just.
Yeah, man, I know, you know I Igrew up, you know, listening to
these guys, these guys that arelarger than life.
You know the gar Garth Brooks.
Garth Brooks knows me.
Me and him have talked multipletimes and it's like Garth
Brooks is the reason I fell inlove with country music.
Like what, what is going on?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
I know you have to think like that.
Yeah, it's crazy I'm.
Speaker 2 (22:49):
I'm a huge country music fan and I'm a huge fan
period of.
You know, every artist thatI've met has been so incredible
and so humble and just the.
The most amazing part about thecountry music community is that
everyone is there for eachother.
We're all, I was just gonna saythat and it's, it's so amazing
man, and it's, you know, it's somuch more than you you would
(23:10):
ever think truly no, and it'shard to tell somebody.
Speaker 1 (23:14):
It's hard to tell somebody.
That's the way it is.
But but because I'm on thecountry radio side, you're
absolutely right.
Everybody is so humble and socool and you know I'll get.
I get phone calls from you knowpeople I've talked to and yeah,
you know, I hear them every dayon the radio and it's like crap
, is that, holy shit?
I pick up, he's calling,calling me.
(23:35):
Why is he calling me?
Speaker 2 (23:36):
you know, absolutely like I did a thing at the cma
awards yeah and I was likeduring intermission I was
walking around just meetingartists that like I've listened
to forever, and I was taking mydaughter around like oh hey,
good to meet you.
Like this is my daughter, youknow, like I don't I'm a fan,
like I'm gonna walk around andgo say hi to these guys.
Speaker 1 (23:58):
Like Luke Combs, that was the first person I walked
up to.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
I'm a huge Luke Combs fan and I was like Luke, I'm a
huge fan of yours.
Like you're amazing, like I was.
Speaker 1 (24:08):
just I was a little kid and he's so humble about it.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (24:11):
He's so incredible, incredible him and his wife.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
both are just incredible people yeah, almost
all of them, if not all sothat's, pretty cool um, are you
uh working on various projectsright now?
I well, let me back up a littlebit.
You got pro beer, I do, and uhthat that came out.
That's a great summertime songit's a fun song, but I'm
watching the video and you didthat in front of a green screen.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
We did.
You know, the song is silly andit's fun and it's basically at
the root of it.
It's a song about just bringingpeople together and having a
good time and we're like we satdown and we're like, dude, like
the video has got to be sillyand it's got to be fun, like
let's just do it in front of agreen screen.
Speaker 1 (24:52):
Let's just do something out there.
Speaker 2 (25:01):
You know, green screen like let's just do
something out out there.
You know I loved it, so we didit.
Speaker 1 (25:03):
You had the two girls and they brought the grill in
and they, oh yeah, oh yeah,absolutely yeah, it was.
It was so much fun and it wasfun.
It was fun to shoot.
Awesome, awesome, was that?
Um, oh, you've had that out fora little.
They came out in march, was itmarch?
You dropped that I don't knowit wasn't that all that long ago
, but uh yeah, where do you,where do you see your music
taking you in the next few years?
Speaker 2 (25:18):
I have no idea, just hope for the best.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Hold on, you're on a ride.
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I'm on a crazy ride right now, an amazing ride, and
I'm holding on for dear life andI'm just trying to enjoy every
moment that I get.
Honestly, I just want people tohear my music and for it to
help them, and everything elseis just a bonus.
Speaker 1 (25:38):
Awesome.
You know, when we met lastFebruary, just a couple of
months ago, was that the firsttime you had been at CRS, the
Country Radio Seminar.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
That was the second time, second time.
Okay, very cool, that's anevent man.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
It's three or four days of no sleep, very little
sleep and a whole lot of alcohol.
Speaker 2 (25:59):
It was, it was wild.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
Yeah, that's pretty cool.
That's pretty cool.
Tell me a little bit more aboutlike, uh, if I was to go see
you in concert, uh, or at a show.
If I was to go to a show, what,what would I see?
A lot of energy.
I mean, you tell me about yourband, tell me about you, yeah,
yeah, you know I have asix-piece band, including myself
, so we are pretty big.
Speaker 2 (26:21):
But you're going to hear we're moving into a country
rock sound.
Kind of like a country rock,southern rock sound.
It's just kind of it works formy voice.
It's kind of my comfort zone.
You know you're going to get alot of on tempo.
You're going to get a lot of ontempo, you're going to get a
lot of energy but at the sametime we were going to slow it
(26:41):
down and you're going to see myheart and soul and who I am as a
person and what I want to dowith my music, and you know
you're going to get.
I'm going to make you laugh,I'm going to make you have a
good time.
Speaker 1 (26:58):
And then I'm probably going to make you cry at some
point.
So it's just, if you can do allof that, you've succeeded.
Oh, thank you.
You realize I mean it's countrymusic.
That's what it's about.
You can, if you can, touch theheart of somebody, or absolutely
, I, I, I say it all the time.
Speaker 2 (27:06):
I love it when people cry at my songs or at my shows,
because that means that Iactually did something yes, you
know, that means that they wereable to connect on a level that
you know.
I mean, it's easy to to fakehappiness and it's easy to fake,
you know, having a good time,but when you see tears it's like
I like, you feel this, you feelwhat I feel.
You feel what I feel like, yeah, that's amazing do you know
(27:29):
today's superhero day?
Today's superhero day today'ssuperhero day.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
If you could be a superhero, who would you be and
why?
Superman he was always myfavorite yeah, well, okay, I
asked that to tim mcgrath.
Yeah, uh, it wasn't today.
Actually I have to.
I have an interview with himtomorrow, which is pretty cool.
I just let the kid out but, um,in another phone conversation I
asked him.
I said if you could be asuperhero, who would you be?
(27:55):
And he goes, or what would youdo?
He goes?
I love to fly, but I'm alreadya pilot.
So I guess, if I could have anypower or be somebody like that
he goes, I'd want to beinvisible so nobody would know I
was there and I could just I'mgoing.
Okay, that's a little creepymaybe, but I don't know, that's
so funny.
Yeah, that's also, of course,tim mcgraw's a pilot of course
(28:16):
he is well I'm surprised youhaven't done that yet that's so
funny how come you haven't donethat?
I mean no, dude, you got dirks,you got.
Uh, who else flies?
Oh my god, mcgraw flies, dirks,flies.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
Oh my, I know there's a few others I've already had a
near-death experience, I don'tneed another one, oh well, I
don't want you to have one.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
I'm just saying, though, it seems like a lot of
these country artists are doingsomething like that, yeah.
Speaker 2 (28:45):
I don't know.
For a while I got a buddy thatflies helicopters and he was
trying to talk me into it.
For a while I was like maybe.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Yeah, then you see the one that went down in the
Hudson and you kind of go.
I don't know if I want to dothat.
Speaker 2 (28:54):
Yeah, yeah, see, you want to do it less and less.
Speaker 1 (29:02):
Yeah, what's a fun, unexpected hobby people wouldn't
guess that you're into.
Oh, I know, I'm just pickingout.
I have a few questions I wrotedown just for the fun of it.
Speaker 2 (29:10):
Yeah, I mean, sports for sure is always a hobby, but
I don't know if that would befor sure, is always a hobby, but
I don't know if that would be.
Yeah, but I could see you doingsports.
I seriously, I mean, I, youknow, I get that.
Um man, what is a?
Speaker 1 (29:24):
hobby.
Did you watch the nfl draft?
Speaker 2 (29:26):
I did not.
No, unfortunately I did not.
I you know, are you a footballguy invested into the nfl draft
and stuff and then, I stoppedlosing track of time because
time because I forget what dayit is most of the time.
And so by the time they werelike oh, the NFL draft is
happening.
It was like two days later andI was like oh, dang, I missed it
.
Yeah, pretty much.
(29:47):
But no, I'm a gamer, I likevideo games.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
Do you yeah?
Speaker 2 (29:53):
I like to kind of escape into a world.
Absolutely Do you.
Yeah, I like to kind of escapeinto a world, absolutely so with
the video games.
Speaker 1 (29:58):
I mean you being in the military, you must have a
little bit.
I'm just saying I have friends.
I had a couple of friends thatflew F-16s in Desert Storm,
going way back.
But you know, they were gamersand they said, man, if you could
play this game you could fly anF-16.
So it's like, okay, I guessthat's crazy, but I can't fly an
(30:20):
F-16.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You know it's funny, in Afghanistan we played a lot
of video games.
We played a lot of like Maddenand stuff.
We would have Maddentournaments and stuff throughout
the day, just to try to passtime and kind of try to take our
minds off of everything.
You know you're in a prettyterrible spot, you know, and
you're getting shot at every day, so it's kind of nice to kind
(30:42):
of get away and escape a littlebit.
Speaker 1 (30:45):
Wow, I can't even imagine.
I just like I don't know.
I don't even know what to say.
But hey, you know, I'm going toask a question that I hate to
ask, because everybody in there,everybody and their brother,
asked this question.
Uh, what are your?
Who are your biggest musicalinfluences?
Speaker 2 (31:02):
garth brooks okay, you said that he's the reason I
fell in love with country musicum and really any 90s country
artist, that the 90s I'm gonnasay the 90s was the best time
for country music.
I'm gonna be real, the 90s wasthe best time.
I grew up in the 90s.
So, man, that those, those arewhat shaped what I Wanted to
(31:23):
hear is as country music andthat's that's what shaped like
the sound that I fell in lovewith.
You know, in the 90s it wasamazing because all the artists
sounded so much different, youknow, and if you knew exactly
who it was as soon as the, assoon as it came on, you were
like Alan Jackson.
As soon as it came on, garthBrooks, you know, you knew, you
knew who it was and yeah, it wasjust, the nineties was so
(31:43):
amazing for country music and asa radio guy, I'm saying there's
times I have to look and seewho it is, cause I think it'd be
one person and it's another.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
It's like why would an artist want to sound like
another artist?
I don't, I know.
I know, I get it, I get it, Iget it, but I don't know
something's working.
I'm not gonna say names youknow, something's working,
absolutely, absolutely so whatdo you do for fun?
Speaker 2 (32:12):
oh, you know, I like to spend time with my kids yeah,
how many kids do you have?
I have four kids oh my lordyeah, yeah, two boys, two girls,
um, and I just love spendingtime with them, man anytime I
get an opportunity.
I, I want to be outside, I wantto do something with them.
Um, yeah, it's just, they growso fast do they, they, oh, no
(32:34):
doubt.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
I have three grown daughters, eight grandkids, and
my wife and I now we have a sonthat's 24, but he's down
syndrome and he's the best thingthat ever happened to us.
That's amazing.
So he is amazing.
He is amazing.
He kind of takes after his dada little bit.
We do a podcast called ZachAttack with Dad and every couple
(32:55):
of weeks we do that here.
I have the whole.
This is like a whole pod zone.
I call it the pod zone.
It's it's an actual studio andhe just loves to come down and
sit here and we go on and wejust have fun.
It may not make much sense, butwe have fun and you know what
the whole thing is is spendingtime with your kids.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
A hundred percent.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
You know, it doesn't matter what you're doing If
you're spending time togetherand I'm sure you must look back
going I am so grateful for whatI have.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
For kids.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
And you know, if things didn't turn out the way
they were, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (33:30):
It's crazy dude, it's so crazy the way that the world
works, or the way that lifeworks, you know.
I mean, if you know those fourwouldn't exist if I, you know,
ceased to exist, you know, soit's yeah.
Speaker 1 (33:45):
So a couple of years ago you played at the Vineyard,
correct?
Speaker 2 (33:48):
I did live in the Vineyard.
That was last year.
Speaker 1 (33:56):
But of years ago you played at the vineyard, correct?
I did live in the vineyard.
That was last year, but that'snot you.
I'm sorry, that's not you.
Speaker 2 (33:59):
I mean, you put out a song like pro beer and the
vineyard's, like wine drinkingladies that are like, oh, I have
, you know my.
I say it all the time mygirlfriend has ruined me because
now I like wine.
Speaker 1 (34:07):
I don't know why I don't know why you're looking
out of the corner of your eye soyou don't see her.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
She has ruined me because now I like wine.
I never liked wine before.
Speaker 1 (34:17):
I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
I'm just getting older, so I'm getting more
refined.
That could be, but no, it wasweird.
Wine country isn't really athing that I ever thought I
would be doing.
Speaker 1 (34:30):
I just think it's funny.
I know your songs are prettyawesome, but you put out a song
like pro beer and then thenyou're talking about playing at
the vineyard.
I'm like okay, well he, he'snot there with a grill.
He doesn't have a red cup and abeer in it.
In his hand he's got a wineglass.
Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, no, it was.
It was so funny because theywere like do you want any?
Speaker 1 (34:52):
wine.
Speaker 2 (34:52):
I'm like not really.
I'm not really a wine guy, butnow, who would guess A year
later?
Now I drink wine, so I don'tknow what's going on in my life.
Speaker 1 (34:58):
I don't know.
My wife's the same way, and ifshe's having wine, chances are
I'll have a glass of wine.
Speaker 2 (35:04):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:05):
So I hear you and you kind of grow a liking to it,
you know yeah, yeah, it is whatit is.
It is what it is uh so what canwe um your music?
Where's all your music?
It's on all your socials, right?
Speaker 2 (35:16):
yeah you can go and get it yeah, on all the digital,
wherever you get your music.
Just look up scotty hasting andit's there.
Um, yeah, wherever it is.
And then all my social media isat scotty hasting music.
Um's very easy.
But yes, scotty Haston dot com,if you want to like, go see
where I'm going to be as far asdates and stuff.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
But yeah, you got any really big shows coming up.
Speaker 2 (35:40):
Yeah, I'm playing the Opry again May 20th.
Oh, that's right Again tooAgain.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
So it's yeah, you've been there.
Speaker 2 (35:48):
It's my second time.
It's yeah, You've been there.
It's my second time.
It's going to be my second.
I'm like that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (35:52):
Now do they?
Do they come and ask you andsay hey Scott, do you want to
play the play the Opry?
Or do you reach out to them?
Speaker 2 (35:58):
And then you never say no because it's the Opry.
Speaker 1 (36:03):
Yeah.
Well, if you were to say no,they're going to say screw you,
We'll ask somebody else nexttime you just don't say no
because it's the Opry, becauseyou're like, yeah, like what?
Speaker 2 (36:10):
I will play the Opry anytime you want me to,
absolutely.
But, yeah, and then I have that, I have.
Yeah, I have the PBS MemorialDay special, the concert that
they do every year that I usedto watch as a kid, which is
crazy, but now I get to be apart of it.
Speaker 1 (36:26):
See, that kind of goes back to what I was saying
before.
I mean, you're at that agewhere a lot of these people you
watched that show, you listenedto those artists and now you're
part of it.
Speaker 2 (36:37):
Yeah, it's crazy.
I get to be a part of theMemorial Day concert with the
National.
Symphony and then the next dayI get to play the parade, which
is crazy Again.
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:50):
Scotty, do you ever feel that it happened too fast?
Um, does that make sense?
Speaker 2 (36:55):
yeah, you know what I mean there's so many stages
that I get on and I'm like howam I here?
Like what am what am I doing?
Like how, how did this work outto that me being here?
Like what?
It's just, it's crazy, you know.
I mean, like I said, I meanthere's people spend years,
decades, trying to get to whereI'm at, like I yeah, I mean that
(37:17):
that'll never go unnoticed byme that people like people would
kill to be where I am and I ambeyond grateful and I am so
blessed to be where I'm at yeah,absolutely, absolutely Nice hat
, by the way, as we mentioned inthe beginning, but I just I
love it.
Speaker 1 (37:36):
I couldn't wait to talk to you, to be able to put
my hat on.
I love it.
I love it so much I've worn itin other podcasts too.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
And it's even better that you stole it from Pryor.
Speaker 1 (37:44):
He's going to see this.
I mean, I had him on here notall that long ago.
Speaker 2 (37:48):
Absolutely.
It means so much more that youtook it from him.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
Yeah, now Chris Young's on your label too.
Do you get to spend time withhim?
Speaker 2 (37:56):
Yeah, Chris is a great guy.
Speaker 1 (37:58):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (37:59):
Absolutely amazing Again.
I've been listening to hisstuff forever, you know.
I mean, he's been around forwhat?
19 plus years?
Speaker 1 (38:07):
Oh my God, yeah, I mean for what?
Speaker 2 (38:08):
19 plus.
Oh my god, he's, I mean it's,and his music is amazing and,
and you know, it's just againanother artist that I've looked
up to for so long and now is afriend, which is crazy man you
know, would you?
Speaker 1 (38:22):
um, I talked to a lot of independent artists as well,
but you're with the label uhand you know Black River.
But would you ever?
Well, I imagine not, because Iknow Black River is so cool.
They are a good bunch of peopleand some of the other companies
.
It's just, I don't know.
They seem to want to.
(38:43):
I don't know I'm going to getin trouble for saying this, but
it seems like they want tocontrol you and it sounds like
Black River kind of gives you alittle bit of uh room to wiggle,
so to speak.
Speaker 2 (38:54):
so yeah, yeah, you know I've been, I've been
incredibly blessed with blackriver, um, that they, you know,
they understand what I want todo with music and that I want to
help people, that I want to dosomething that means something
and they are right therealongside, they want to be a
part of it as well.
They want to do something thatmeans something.
They, they want to help peopleas well.
And it's amazing to you know,have, you know the label, you
(39:16):
know the people who help me makethe decisions Like it's amazing
to have them also want to be soso much a part of trying to
look like I am.
Speaker 1 (39:27):
Yeah, now about your songwriting, your creativity.
It comes a lot from yourexperience, where you've been as
a veteran, as you mentionedbefore.
But when you get into thesewriter rounds, what goes through
your mind and how does it allcome to life?
Speaker 2 (39:41):
Yeah, you know, I take a lot of it from my
experience, um and honestly I'mwriting more now Um, not just
veteran stuff, um, you know,taking I I mean I've lived a lot
of life, a lot of life I'vedone a lot of different things,
um, and you know I'm pullingfrom experience now of you know
all the other lives that I'velived.
(40:02):
You know I've you know themilitary and me getting shot.
That has that has helped mebecome who I am um, but there
was so much more before that andafter that as well, and I'm
able to kind of pull from thatnow, which is incredible.
Speaker 1 (40:18):
Early on, you said you played baseball as a kid or
semi-pro, I guess.
What position did you play?
Speaker 2 (40:24):
First base.
Ah, first baseman yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:29):
Gotcha, I'm just a big target.
Speaker 2 (40:31):
I was like 6'3, six, three at the time.
Speaker 1 (40:33):
That's good.
They need a big guy in first100 it's.
Speaker 2 (40:36):
It's hard to miss the big dudes, you know yeah, so
you watch the reds, oh yeah.
Speaker 1 (40:41):
So my wife is a huge cincinnati reds fan.
Of course we're a little bitolder, but she was a johnny
bench fan and, and she was yeah,crazy, and you know, win or
lose she was.
She backed the Reds.
Speaker 2 (40:57):
Yeah, I love the Reds .
I will support the Cincinnati.
I will support my Red Legsuntil I die.
Speaker 1 (41:03):
Now do you go to the Sounds?
Speaker 2 (41:05):
Oh yeah, I love Sounds games, absolutely.
There's just nothing like goingto a ball game.
There's nothing, absolutely.
There's just nothing like goingto a ball game.
There's nothing like it.
You know there's just one thingthat can never be taken away,
you know it just makes you feelgood inside.
Speaker 1 (41:19):
Absolutely.
When you go to these games,does anybody know who you are?
Speaker 2 (41:22):
No.
No, that's a good thing.
Yes, thank you.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
No, I know.
Speaker 2 (41:28):
You know it's funny.
Every once in a while I'll havesomeone come up and be like
that hat, I know that hat.
Are you Scottie Gacy?
I'm like, oh, yeah, and I'lltake a picture or whatever.
A lot more in the veterancommunity, which is amazing,
which makes sense, because thatmeans that my story and my music
is reaching the people that I'mtrying to help, which is
(41:48):
amazing 100%.
But yeah, no, I haven't gottenthere yet.
Speaker 1 (41:55):
So have you been able to meet up with some of the
guys you served, with those thatdid make it home and those that
know what you went through, andmaybe have a beer and just kind
of talk about things?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2 (42:09):
We stay in contact.
I stay in contact with some ofthem.
Um for sure, my buddy johnconnor is a really good friend
of mine.
He was at my grand alacritydebut uh I think he's coming to
the next one, um, but he's areally close friend of mine and
he's also in a song.
So there you go, the storiesthat they tell they're he's in
that song.
So I put him in the storiesthat they tell he's in that song
(42:30):
.
Speaker 1 (42:32):
How cool when I was listening to Pro Beer, you talk
about Joe Rogan in there.
Speaker 2 (42:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:38):
You've got to change that.
It's got to be Clark.
Speaker 2 (42:42):
I mean, if we can get Rogan you know hooking it up?
Speaker 1 (42:46):
No, I know exactly.
You know Jacob Smalley.
I don't think so.
He's an artist.
He just commented thank you foryour service, but he's an
artist.
I saw him spend a little timewith him at CRS as well, but a
lot of the artists watch this,and everybody's so you know.
You mentioned it before.
However, everybody's kind ofconnected and they respect each
(43:07):
other and just help each other.
Nobody's out to screw somebodyover.
You know what I mean.
When you reach this level,everybody wants to help each
other and they're so good to usas well, as you know, being on
the other side.
Speaker 2 (43:19):
Absolutely.
And you know, the craziest partabout the industry is like,
once you like really get into it, you realize how small
Nashville is.
You know, everybody, knowseverybody, like everyone is
completely connected and it's,it's insane, absolutely insane.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
It's crazy.
It's crazy, but crazy Good,Crazy good crazy.
Good, you know you're gonnalaugh at me here too, because I
asked you about the Nashvillesounds.
I go on their website all thetime and buy their stuff.
I just, I just, and I wear itto the Syracuse games and I get,
I get people.
They come up to me and go isthat a sounds hat, is that?
(43:57):
You know?
It may just have the n on it ornash in the back or something,
but I go, yeah, it is, yeah itis.
Oh, is that a?
Even the shirt?
It may not say nashville sounds, but I'll have something else
on it.
They'll go that's a sound shirt.
So everybody's kind of you know, they know it's that league, I
guess.
Everybody's kind of connected aswell.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
I love it.
That's amazing.
Speaker 1 (44:16):
Yeah, what do you drive?
Speaker 2 (44:18):
What do I drive?
Speaker 1 (44:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (44:20):
A pickup truck.
Speaker 1 (44:22):
But okay, this is what I'm imagining.
What does Scotty Hastings drive?
All right, it's going to be aSilverado.
It's a Chevy, it could be a2,500.
1,500.
All right, okay, I had the1,500.
Speaker 2 (44:38):
There you go and a 2021 Harley Street Glide.
Speaker 1 (44:42):
I wanted to get one.
My wife said if I brought ithome I'd be out.
Speaker 2 (44:47):
See, that's why you just buy a storage unit
somewhere and then it neveractually comes home.
Is that how it works?
Your wife's not going to likeme.
No, she already hates you, Iknow.
Speaker 1 (45:00):
She's probably watching now on a phone upstairs
or she might be out shopping,but I'm sure she's got it on.
But no, I've always wanted todo that.
That's cool, man.
Good for you, brother Get outand enjoy it.
Speaker 2 (45:10):
You know, there's just something about getting
lost on a motorcycle.
Speaker 1 (45:13):
Being on the open road and just go Absolutely.
I got friends that do that.
Like I say I'd be divorced.
Well, you know, do you everworry about that though, do you?
You know, I have friends thatride and they're like you got to
do this, you got to get this,you got to go.
You know, there's nothing likethe open road, just like what
(45:33):
you just said.
But then it's like you hearabout all these wrecks and I
said, you know, I'm going totell you, I don't think it's the
guy riding the bike, it's notthe guy in the motorcycle, it's
somebody's not watching whenthey pull out.
Speaker 2 (45:51):
Somebody's not.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (45:51):
Yeah, most of the time it's not the guy on the
motorcycle, for sure, no, no,unless it's some, well, the
crotch rocket.
And then that you know, or?
Speaker 2 (45:57):
someone doing something dumb, which is always
the thing, but people do that incars, you know?
Um, yeah, you know, I don't, Idon't know.
I've never really thought aboutit.
I actually laid down my otherhardly I kind of wrecked it a
couple years ago.
That was fun, um, but yeah, ithappens um, that's why skip
happens so yeah, skip happens uhbut no, I mean it's.
(46:21):
You know, you just have to beincredibly defensive, um, when
you're out there, you know, butor just ride roads where there's
not any cars on j's sayingthat's my ride as well.
Speaker 1 (46:30):
So yeah, he's got it there, you go there, you go.
Well, you two got to gettogether and ride.
You're both artists.
I mean, go for it.
Do you ride with other artists?
Speaker 2 (46:39):
Oh yeah, I ride all the time Absolutely With anybody
.
Yeah, Very cool.
Speaker 1 (46:44):
You know, Scotty, it's been great chatting,
chatting with you, finding out alittle bit more about you,
digging into your life a littlebit, everything you've been
through.
You're an inspiration to somany and you know, I'm sure,
your life is not easy.
I mean, I don't know.
I say that because I don't knowwhat I would do if I was in
your shoes, Mentally, justeverything you've seen and
(47:07):
everything you've been throughand you got, you never get over
it.
But you're, you seem to bedoing very well and thank you.
You're everything you're doingYou're doing for a reason,
Everything that has happened hashappened for a reason.
So, as I mentioned a fewminutes ago, just getting
getting out there, educatingothers, helping others get
through it, I mean, dude, justGod bless you.
(47:28):
That is just so fricking Ishouldn't say awesome.
Speaker 2 (47:32):
But it is awesome.
I appreciate that.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (47:35):
Absolutely.
Before I let you go to get yourmusic again, it's on all
socials.
They can just look up ScottyHastings.
Yeah, do you have these hatsfor sale on a website?
Speaker 2 (47:43):
I do ScottyHastingscom.
Speaker 1 (47:46):
How much do I need to send you?
Do what I said.
How much do I need to send you?
Speaker 2 (47:51):
Nothing, nothing.
Listen, pryor lost out.
Okay, it's funny, because hewas like, oh man, you know, I
can't believe that I lost thehat.
I was like it's okay, I'm justnever going to give you another
one, so it's all right.
Pryor, are you guys like reallyclose friends?
(48:16):
Um, he's an incredible personand, uh, to the point, of where
he sings harmonies on all of mysongs.
Speaker 1 (48:18):
I love it oh my god.
Speaker 2 (48:19):
So when you're, when you're listening to my songs,
that's out pro beer, whiskey inthe bottle, whatever it is, that
song or that, that voice thatis behind mine, is prior I did
not know that he's.
He is one of the these, withouta doubt, the single most
talented person I've ever met ohmy god, that's so cool.
I had no idea he never told meunbelievable that son of a bitch
, never told me yeah, he is, heis, he is incredible and he's a
(48:43):
dear friend, and that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (48:47):
Yeah, did you guys meet in nashville, did you guys?
Speaker 2 (48:50):
I actually met him, uh, at black river oh okay, very
cool yeah and then, uh, it justkind of, we just kind of grew
from there yeah, that's cool.
Speaker 1 (48:59):
That's cool.
How long ago was that?
Oh long time two years ago.
Speaker 2 (49:03):
Okay, all right two years ago.
Speaker 1 (49:05):
All right, a lot of years, yeah enough, okay enough.
All right, enough enough, allright, enough, enough, all right
, scotty, I want to say thankyou for joining me here tonight
on Skip Happens.
It's great to talk to you.
If you're watching this, you'relistening to this, whether it's
on the replay or we're liveright now but check out his
music.
You can go online, you can buyit off the internet.
(49:27):
So do that, support the artist,because you know they're
putting out great music and andwe're going to be watching for
you.
We'll watch for you on the opry, we're going to watch for you
on these other shows.
You're going to be just outthere rocking it.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Man, that's I appreciate you so.
Thank you so much for this also.
Oh no, this is all goodhopefully.
Speaker 1 (49:45):
Uh, you know, I just kind of wing it, like I said, so
we did great.
Oh, oh, wait a minute.
What Jake Jacobs said?
Oh hell yeah, baby Street glideall the way.
Okay, never mind, there we go.
He's in love with his bike,just like you are.
Speaker 2 (49:58):
Same, I get it.
Speaker 1 (49:59):
So do you get quickly ?
Do you get offended if somebodycalls it a bike?
No, because I said that once.
I said, hey, look at all thebikes.
They're not bikes, they'remotorcycles.
I'm like.
I call it a bike all the time.
Okay, all right.
Yeah, no, that's what I thought.
I mean, I'm just saying, justsaying I got like yelled at, so
(50:24):
no way.
Anyways, well, oh well, buddy,too bad.
Scot Skip Happens, stay rightthere and let's say goodnight
everybody and thanks forwatching.
And don't forget, oh, before Ilet you go, you got to subscribe
.
You got a YouTube channel, I do, all right.
So you look up Scotty Hastingson YouTube, give it a subscribe.
You look up Skip Happens onYouTube, you subscribe, and I
don't want you to miss anotherone of these great interviews.
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