Backstage Pass with Bush Frontman Gavin Rossdale

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00:00So the security's like, what is this guy doing?

00:02Is he going to play?

00:03What's he going to do?

00:04Actually, my pre-show ritual is all about warming up,

00:14being really ready to do a great show.

00:17And I've recently been working with an amazing doctor.

00:20One of the things we do is I warm up on a trampoline.

00:24It's a vestibular system balancing.

00:28It's your brain balancing.

00:29And you warm up, and you fix your eye in one position.

00:32And that tells my brain that it's all right to sing

00:36and bounce around.

00:37Because my brain was not like, used to always be

00:39like, freaking out.

00:40Like, it would send pain down to my legs to be like,

00:43stop jumping around like a maniac.

00:45I'd be like, but it's my job.

00:46So I'd be arguing with my brain.

00:48And as soon as I did that, my body started,

00:50stopped having any of those issues.

00:52Do that, and then I might run up and down,

00:54because I love tennis.

00:55So I might do tennis warm-ups up and down the corridor

00:58so the security's like, what is this guy doing?

01:00Is he going to play?

01:01What's he going to do?

01:02Oh, yeah, yeah.

01:03Nothing like these overhead lights you have here.

01:05Quite the opposite.

01:06So I like it really dim, really nice candles, well-lit,

01:10as in low-lit.

01:12A range of drinks.

01:13You can come in and have a drink and see us

01:15and just be friendly.

01:17And that's it.

01:18It's pretty straightforward.

01:19Well, the problem is with the snacks, right,

01:21is that they, you know, if you could,

01:23they put on the rider like a thing of M&Ms.

01:25That means you're going to get M&Ms every single day

01:27for two and a half months, these big bags.

01:29But they used to do the deli trade.

01:31That was the best trade, with the old raw onions

01:33in the dressing room.

01:34They'd be like, you're killing us here.

01:35We're trying to have people talk about the dressing room

01:37being cool.

01:38Get the onions out of there.

01:39They've got these raw onions.

01:40But now since COVID, they sort of,

01:43they realize that raw onions and processed meat

01:46might not be good for you after four hours of sitting there.

01:49Corey likes Cheez-Its, so there's different snacks.

01:52But generally, it's nonsense, you know,

01:55because whatever it is, you get bored of it.

01:57My ideal after party is

02:02people that I love, good lighting, and great hip hop.

02:05Well, there's a certain amount of joy when I sing Come Down

02:08because we closed the show with that.

02:10So whenever I'm in that song, I'm like, ooh, you know what?

02:14I'm going to be done soon, and we got through it

02:16and think this went well or whatever.

02:18So I can't help, but there's that great story

02:20about Joe Perry, Steven Tyler, you know,

02:24when they're at their most wasted-like start

02:26and they're set with a song they used to end with

02:28and they thought they'd go offstage.

02:30They played this last song first

02:32and they thought the show was done.

02:33They go, no, no, you still got a show.

02:35So there's something in that that we all feel that,

02:37that when you play that finale song,

02:39you hope you got through it and made a great show, you know?

02:42So that stuff feels good to be like that.

02:45Okay, that dressing room is coming soon.

02:47Yeah, all the time.

02:49I mean, it gets harder and harder to sneak backstage now.

02:51We used to do those things where after the show,

02:53I'd go out and sign for everyone,

02:55and now it's a bit, slightly more cynical

02:57because they do it where they do these fan experiences

03:00where they can, you know, spend a little bit more money

03:03and come and see us like that,

03:05which I feel really a bit guilty about

03:07because I'm like, I would do this out the back for free

03:09just after the show, you know, and I will be there.

03:12I should have gone yesterday.

03:14There's a sweet homeless guy, and he's there,

03:16and I walk past him, and he goes,

03:19and he goes, you, hey, hey,

03:21and then he was shouting my name all the way up the street.

03:23And, you know, so running into people

03:25is really fun to see the effect on people.

03:28So when you see them at shows,

03:30especially if they've seen the show,

03:32they're usually quite taken with the show,

03:34and so it's really, like, it's been in my life

03:36where if I like someone or,

03:39I went up to Frank Lampard,

03:41who's a very famous English soccer player.

03:43I saw him at Blue Bottle doing Lego with his son,

03:45and I went up to him sort of respectfully at the end,

03:47and I was like, you know, thank you for all these years.

03:49I mean, I hate this football team,

03:51but he was amazing, and I have to respect him.

03:54And so going up to speak to him and say,

03:56thank you, you know, for, so I get that.

03:59People come up to me, and that interaction

04:01just sort of means everything.

04:03It kind of gives your life, not gives your life meaning,

04:06but it means you get to see, experience who you've touched,

04:09because often we don't know who's listened to our music.

04:12You have a billion plays, but I don't,

04:14I've never run into a billion people

04:16that have bothered to listen to the song,

04:18so it's really fun when you meet people that love the music.

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