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.