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September 25, 2025 13 mins
I'm not going to say no to hearing the words of Chris Daughtry, espicially when they are about great music. Earlier this year Daughtry released the EP Shock to the System (Part One) and now they have released Shock to the System (Part Two.) Another EP and the journey has already begun for another Daughtry song to get the absolute crap played out of it on North American rock radio with "The Bottom." But there's a special sound to this version of Daughtry that sees him hitting his 90s roots a little more than previous releases. Chris Daughtry is here to break it down this week on Cutter's Rockcast.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Attention please and no it cutters rock cast. Can you
hear it?

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Yeah, I can hear you. Fine. I just want to
make sure I had good, good levels because that's important
in what we do. Yes, Oh you changed your name.
Good for you.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
I did. Look at me all right.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Chris Daughtry, Jonan Us. It's good to see. Did you
get more blackout tattoos since the last time I saw you?

Speaker 1 (00:23):
I don't know when. When Did you do it.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Right at the release of Shocks of the System Part one?

Speaker 1 (00:28):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, this happened after. This happened right around November. I
didn't have any blackout until until I got.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
It all okay, So because we talked about it last year, Yeah,
we talked about it. It just maybe it's because you're
wearing hardly a shirt and I could just see all
of it, so I just yeah, yeah, second, that's all
right man, looking good over there, Chris Doughtry, You're very welcome.
So last time we talked, Shock to the System Part

(00:59):
one had just come out. Obviously a couple of big
singles from that. It does well, it's an EP. Now
it's time for Shock to the System Part two. This
came quicker than I thought it was gonna.

Speaker 1 (01:10):
Yeah. Likewise, I was a little you know, we were It.

Speaker 3 (01:17):
Was a little daunting going into it, especially after feeling
so good about the first half that I was like,
how are we gonna you know, how are we going
to top this? We didn't really have anything finished or
started well.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
We did have a bunch.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Of song starts that that kind of proceeded stuck to
the system part one that were started a little bit
before that, and they just kind of we kept circling
the drain with them and didn't really get anywhere with them,
and then we kind of revisited them a few of
them and they took on new life and became The

(01:55):
bottom was a song that that LVO, our keyboard player
and I started back before Dearly Beloved, like and we
just never cracked the code on it and it turned
into like two songs before it became the bottom. And yeah,
so once I think the first like fresh song in

(02:17):
Depart two was The Day I Die and that was
the one that kind of was like, Okay, we know
where we're going with this.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
We know the tone, we know the the the energy
behind this. So that kind of opened up the door
on where we can go.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
With these other songs that we had already kind of
started or at least.

Speaker 1 (02:37):
Toyed around with. And yeah, we kind of.

Speaker 3 (02:45):
In a way, knowing the first half was at least
we felt was so good, we almost kind of took
the pressure off ourselves to try to beat it because
we're like, well, if this was like a whole album,
you know, you've got the first half is great, that's
all the singles.

Speaker 1 (03:03):
The second half we can have a little freedom with.

Speaker 3 (03:06):
And because we kind of went into that mindset it it.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Kind of.

Speaker 3 (03:13):
Ironically was better than than than us. Then what would
have been if we would have been like, oh, we
need this radio single, we need this, you know, and
we just we just we just created from from our
heart and and and uh, I'm I'm I think in

(03:34):
some ways happier with this half than I was the
first half.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
It's it's wild, just to go back to what you
said about the bottom, It's wild how sometimes a song
like that can stick around and for so many years
and just kind of be in the back of your
mind and then all of a sudden, something just clicks
on it and now it's something completely else a decade later,
but it's a completely different idea. And it's the song
that I was always meant to be.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Yeah, I can't even think of it any other way now.
And and it was a song that that we were
trying so desperately to force into the into the catalog
for a while, and we just could never cracked the
code on the chorus, and and even melodically it changed

(04:20):
even in the verses, but that energy and that that
that vibe was always kind of there. But yeah, it
turned into something way better than we could have imagined.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
Okay, So to go into the sound then of this,
because you know, Shot to the System Part one had
a certain sort of style it did, and you even
mentioned it. They're in talking about it. Shot to the
System Part two is a little different, but a little
like were you consciously going, Okay, this is going to
be a part two, it has to match part one.
But like you said, we can have the more freedom.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
You know, I don't think we I think we were
probably thinking it had to in the beginning, but.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
I think once we once the.

Speaker 3 (05:07):
Day I Die happened and it felt like we were
leaning into that.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
Grunge, uh kind of modern grunge a little bit. It
kind of opened the door to that direction.

Speaker 3 (05:18):
For us, and it still felt like it worked with
Part one, but it also became its own thing. And uh,
I really really liked that about the second half and
and kind of playing it seems like it it really
still go on a lot of my influences, you know,

(05:42):
from uh, from you know, growing up and being such
a fan of the grunge era.

Speaker 1 (05:49):
You know, we really wanted to kind of.

Speaker 3 (05:53):
Kind of play with that a little bit, but in
a in a way that still felt modern and and
cohesive with with Part one.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
Hey man, I said this, I think a couple of
weeks on this show and of nice of men here
and they're talking about their new single being a nineties
kind of style song. I'm never gonna get mad at that.
Never gonna get mad at that.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
You know.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Yeah, but with but like you said, with that modern
kind of idea, with that modern sort of sound and feeling,
it does give it a fresh take, and I dig it.
It sounds great.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
Man.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
You did a fantastic job.

Speaker 1 (06:26):
With the CP. But I appreciate it with it.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Being a little different. You could have almost just left
us all hanging man. You could have just went, you
know what, it's a completely different album. Said something else
and then when five years from now, you and I
have been having this conversation somewhere backstage, and I'm going,
whatever happened to the Shock to the System Part two?

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Yeah? Yeah, we just really liked the title part one.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
We just left it there exactly exactly. Of course, with
all this, you know that means Daughtries back out on
the road and you will be again and shooting in
a couple of weeks with see either.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Yeah. Yeah, we're really excited about that.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
I bet co headlining tour. That's what this is, right, Yeah, yeah,
so you get to do the full headline you both
are doing the full headline set.

Speaker 3 (07:15):
Yeah, yeah, that's it's going to be a big night,
big night for both of us.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
It can be an undertaking. I have a feeling as
far as you know, the lights and in ye soundscapes
and you know, video screens and things like that to
have to match.

Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, We've got rehearsals coming up, and as of right now,
I have no idea what it's going to be like.
So you know, all of that tends to take shape,
you know when it should, I guess. But at this
point I've got a set list and that's about That's
about as far as the fainting has gone, but we'll
get it all worked out.

Speaker 2 (07:53):
How involved are you personally in that? Because when you
go see it, I mean just even the last time
I saw you, there were so many lights it was incredible,
and what it was doing to the music and matching everything.
How involved are you personally or the band even in
as far as designing that that sort of look that
you see see a Doctry live show.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
I I only get involved when I.

Speaker 1 (08:17):
Don't like it, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (08:21):
That's the best way to do.

Speaker 3 (08:22):
It, you know, Otherwise I I want to be surprised.
I want to I want to give you know, we
have an incredible uh l d. He's he's been with
us for years, and I like to give Jerome a
chance to you know, you know, see what kind of
creativity gets jarred in his brain from listening to the

(08:45):
music and and and if and if I see it
and I'm like, I'm not really feeling that, then that's
when you know, I'll talk to him and we make
some adjustments or whatever, which usually happens after like the
first couple shows, you know, and and unless we catch
it at rehearsal. But you know, sometimes it's.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
A it's a mood, it's a you know.

Speaker 3 (09:10):
Or I'll give him notes on like I'm kind of
seeing this vibe for this song, and then you go, yeah,
got it, and he'll run with it and he'll nail it.
And then there's times where what he thought I was
meaning was maybe a little different than what he was seeing,
and we'll we'll have to kind of meet.

Speaker 1 (09:27):
Up and figure that out.

Speaker 3 (09:28):
But but yeah, I think, you know, stage plot and
stuff like that. I'm pretty hands on with in the
early stages. Just but it's good to have a team
to take some of that off your plate, you.

Speaker 2 (09:41):
Know, absolutely, yeah, good, I need to do that. Shot
to the system. Part two is, of course, the new
EP in the Bottom is now being cranked up at
rock radio everywhere. So that's that's that's on his route
to be another huge Dodgery single. How do you take
all those all those big hits, you know what I mean,
rock hits too. I'm didn't even going back to the
early stuff, but the rock, the hard rock, driving tunes

(10:03):
and design that into a set list. It's got to
start getting difficult at some point.

Speaker 3 (10:09):
It's exciting for me because I always loved playing the
newer stuff. So obviously the better the song does, the
easier it is to justify putting it in the set list.
Otherwise I'm just being self indulgent. But you know, we
played The Day I Die really early in the set
on the Creed tour, and we were like, you know,

(10:31):
we want to go ahead and get the newer, newer,
newer stuff out of the way because we want to
make sure that we don't lose them. And it went
over incredibly well, and it was it was encouraging to
see that no one was, you know, going to get
a beer, you know.

Speaker 2 (10:49):
Okay, but I do feel like that might be easier
to do when you're on tour with a band like Creed,
because everybody's there to see Creed anyway, right right, You're
you're you know Daughtry seven Dust, who was on some
of that tour. Hinder was just announced for the next
Creed leg. You know, it's like, Okay, you got your
couple hits, You're gonna play, no doubt. But they're they're
gonna be there regardless.

Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah, but but they can also go to get a
beer if they want to. So it's it's it's it's
good to it's definitely encouraging when we look around and
we and they're the eyes are on us. And especially
with you know, with the Creed fans, they were all
like younger, newer fans and a lot of them had

(11:30):
never seen Creed before.

Speaker 1 (11:32):
It was like every night Scott would.

Speaker 3 (11:33):
Ask how many is their first time seeing crea It
was like eighty eighty percent of the people there. It
was like they weren't even born when the first album
came out.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
You know, it's so amazing.

Speaker 1 (11:44):
Yeah, it.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
Is so amazing, and Scott and I have talked about that.
It's just it's wild the comeback that Creed had and
for to be a part of it, witness it's even cooler.
It was huge, so fun, fun article the other day
it was like, that's the biggest rock comeback tour maybe
ever as far as tickets sold and all of that.

Speaker 1 (12:06):
Yeah, it's insane.

Speaker 3 (12:07):
Okay, if I really hope they do a new album
and and and keep the.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
Train going, me too. But heads up that new Altar
Bridge song jams Hard.

Speaker 1 (12:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Yeah, we're about to go out with them in January,
so we're really excited about that.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
I know you are teaser alert, but Miles and Mark
will be on the show. I don't know if it's
gonna be next week, but it's gonna be within the
next couple.

Speaker 1 (12:32):
Yeah, it's great.

Speaker 2 (12:33):
Go through that album. I love those guys so much.
All Right, tour would see their s socked to the system.
Part one is out. Why Why am I searching? Daughtry?
And a story pops up on news about you being
a judge on American Idol. Hey, I is okay, that's
what I thought.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Hey, I I was about to go on tour with
Eminem and Doctor Dre recently, I I apparently started an
animal shelter.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Good for you.

Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, I mean, I'm doing all kinds of philanthropic things
out there.

Speaker 1 (13:09):
I had a feeling AI has had.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
A field day, and I'm starting to see I'm not
you know, this is happening to everybody.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
You're not the only one.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
It's laughable, but it's extremely annoying at the same time.
It's only it's really annoying when it's people that are
sending it to you, that that believe it.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
It's like, you see this, do you see the image
they're using? Oh?

Speaker 3 (13:33):
I also did apparently I was doing a secret collab
on Taylor Swift's new album.

Speaker 1 (13:37):
That's fun. That was great, that was a great experience.

Speaker 2 (13:40):
Well, congratulations on the payday, enjoy the new house. Thanks you,
thank you, thank you, Christy. It's always good to see
you man. I'm sure awesome man.

Speaker 1 (13:50):
We'll see out there on the road. Carter's Rock Cast.
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