{"id":10039368,"date":"2024-08-22T14:45:28","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T18:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/?p=10039368"},"modified":"2024-09-03T22:07:10","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T02:07:10","slug":"617-qa-gavin-rossdale-talks-ice-baths-keanu-reeves-and-bush-loaded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vanyaland.com\/2024\/08\/22\/617-qa-gavin-rossdale-talks-ice-baths-keanu-reeves-and-bush-loaded\/","title":{"rendered":"617 Q&A: Gavin Rossdale talks ice baths, Keanu Reeves, and Bush getting ‘Loaded’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Drop-dead gorgeous rock stars who seemingly have it all \u2013 they\u2019re just like us! No one is truly going to believe that about Gavin Rossdale, right? Ever since the shadowy, in-and-out-of-focus video for \u201cEverything Zen\u201d first hit airwaves at the beginning of 1995, the Bush frontman has been a poster boy for the modern-day sex symbol. Yet he deals with the same struggles as everyone else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently on the road in support of the two-disc Bush<\/a><\/strong> collection Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994\u20132023<\/em>, which stops at Leader Bank Pavilion this Saturday<\/a> (August 24), Rossdale is trying to raise his children, get a long-gestating cooking show picked up, and manage to get onstage each night and deliver for the fans. We\u2019d been trying to nail him down for weeks to sit down with Vanyaland<\/em>, but a lingering sickness sapped all his energy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI’m back now,\u201d Rossdale says apologetically. \u201cBeing sick on tour is just the worst because you’re so miserable. You just want to weep and sleep; you know what I mean? You feel sorry for yourself. It’s awful. So, I’m so happy to not feel like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s good, because there\u2019s some stiff competition on the bill with Jerry Cantrell<\/strong><\/a> providing support as he takes a solo timeout from Alice in Chains, as well post-grunge luminaries Candlebox<\/strong><\/a> determined to go out strong on their \u201cLong Goodbye\u201d farewell tour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was in fighting form when Vanyaland<\/em> finally caught up with Rossdale for a 617 Q&A (Six Questions; One Recommendation; Seven Somethings<\/a>) ahead<\/span> of Saturday\u2019s near sold-out show. In fact, many of the metaphors he drew in relation to being creative during the conversation involved combat. Be it making the next Bush album (\u201cI like a challenge and I’m the fighter in the UFC, so we go do a great record.\u201d), going out for acting gigs, or getting into an ice bath daily, the singer envisions life as a battleground of sorts. Whether it\u2019s avoiding the tag of \u201c\u201990s band,\u201d having to change songs and album covers in the wake of 9\/11, or simply making it from day to day, Rossdale is here for it. And he\u2019s up to the task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

:: SIX QUESTIONS<\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Michael Christopher: You’re touring for the Loaded: The Greatest Hits<\/em>. One of the things that I really love about the collection is how the first disc is all \u201890s singles and then the second is everything from the 2000s. Was that intentional to kind of show people, \u201cHey, I know we started in the \u201890s, but we’re not a \u201890s band. We have all these great songs that we did in the 2000s as well.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gavin Rossdale: Yeah, I mean, nobody wants to be sort of labeled where they come from. No one says, \u201cI love U2, I love the \u201880s, they were so great.\u201d So, it’s weird because it’s more challenging. In the \u201890s we had a much better mechanism between radio and MTV to dominate, and rock music was more in the culture. It’s been quite difficult to be such a mainstream thing. But we did it chronologically. There\u2019s still four songs we left off that I’ve annoyed we left off because I was being a bit too reticent about it. If you do it chronologically, that does show the progress and the journey kind of thing. The most logical thing was the chronological way, otherwise, you’d be like, \u201cWhat do you base it on?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you’re putting something like that together, do you see and reflect on the growth of yourself both as a musician and as a person?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I don’t know. Music is just so incredible. You can never stop learning and never stop being interesting, and what’s so funny is that if you can find something to sing and find something that comes out naturally, there’s always a series of complaints or observations in your life. Everybody goes through it, and everybody gets hurt in different ways or everybody gets challenged in different ways. And we all have different coping mechanisms, and I just put those to tunes. And so, it keeps it really sort of authentic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am sometimes bewildered by… not bewildered… but blown away by the connection that we have with people and the way that people connect with those songs, and I can only surmise that is because I honestly felt those things as I wrote them. And people feel that. They take that honesty, they take that perspective, and they inherit it. That’s the biggest compliment. It’s like, if you paint the Mona Lisa \u2013 which I didn’t \u2013 but if you paint something, this is one piece of work people have that one thing to gravitate towards. The magic of music for me is that if you write a song and that belongs to that person, that’s an individual artwork. I mean, fuck that moment of all the, you know, NFTs. [laughs] I think songs were the original, sort of [NFT]. You own that. That’s yours and you can see fit to do with it what you want. It’s just logical… it fits to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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