BUSH: Elliot In The Morning, Gavin Rossdale Interview
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Congratulations to Gavin Rossdale and BUSH! Bush is #1 on the Alternative Chart. The Sound Of Winter is the first self released single to ever go #1 on the Alternative Chart.
Great interview with Gavin Rossdale on Elliot In The Morning show. Make sure to listen to this interview…Gavin sounds like he’s on top of the world.
Congratulations Gavin, Chris, Robin and Corey!
BUSH: Rossdale happy with Bush reunion, Interview
By DARRYL STERDAN, QMI Agency
Gavin Rossdale is back to his old self.
“I just feel recomplete,” enthuses the 45-year-old singer-guitarist down the line from Los Angeles. “I always knew in my heart where I wanted to be and what I wanted to be doing, and this is it.”
For those outside the fan club, ‘this’ is the hard-won reunion of his ’90s post-grunge outfit Bush. It’s been nearly two decades since the quartet topped charts with songs like Glycerine and Swallowed, 10 years since they split — and almost as long since Rossdale began trying to engineer a reunion.
“I was always disappointed we stopped,” he says. “I was shocked they didn’t come to my house and say, ‘What are we doing?’ Instead, we had an English standoff — which is when no one does anything, and you just get on with your life and get more annoyed.”
But after two failed shots at a new career — with his 2005 band Institute and 2008 solo album Wanderlust — Rossdale had waited long enough. He lured drummer Robin Goodridge back to the fold, replaced holdouts Nigel Pulsford and Dave Parsons with longtime touring guitarist Chris Traynor and bassist Corey Britz, and made The Sea of Memories, Bush’s first album since 2001′s Golden State. Cut at superproducer Bob Rock’s studio — and at the home Rossdale shares with wife Gwen Stefani of No Doubt — the album delivers a surprisingly satisfying wallop, melding Gavin’s dusty croon and overdriven guitars with futurist squiggles and mature lyrics.
In this exclusive Canadian interview, the forthcoming and witty Brit discusses the benefits of lowered expectations, competing with his wife and why his solo album sucked.
Why did you want to reunite Bush? What were you missing?
The platform. The armour. The fact that when you make a record with Bush, it’s potentially an important record if you get it right. The stakes are higher.
You don’t think your solo albums have the same importance?
No, not at all. It’s about one-fiftieth the focus. I sold 1.6 million downloads of (Wanderlust). But everyone will tell you my solo career didn’t work because everything I was judged against was so enormous. What wouldn’t look like a f—ing step down, if not a whole f—ing city block down? People would ask me every day about Bush. I would fill up with gas and the guy would say, ‘You need a quart of oil — and what’s f—ing happening with the band, man?’ It was inescapable.
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BUSH: Gavin Rossdale Interview
Interview with Gavin Rossdale by Amy Harris
Bush was the peak of alternative music in the mid and late 1990’s. After a brief hiatus and break-up, they have reformed and have as fresh a sound as they ever have provided. Coming from their first number one album Razorblade Suitcase , they were an unstoppable force until their split in 2002. In 2010, lead singer Gavin Rossdale put the band back together and they recently released the band’s fifth studio album The Sea of Memories.
Amy caught up with Rossdale to preview the band’s tour with Chevelle and Filter. The two discussed the process to put the band back together, the tour and how his turbulent upbringing impacts his songwriting. They will be performing in Cincinnati on Friday, October 7th at the PNC Pavilion at Riverbend.
Amy: I’ve been listening to the new album and I wanted to talk about it first if possible. One of my favorite songs on the album is “All Night Doctors.” I also like “All My Life.” I wanted to ask specifically about “All Night Doctors.” Can you tell me the story behind that song?
Gavin: I wanted to write autobiographical songs and I also like to write the observational songs. Clearly, there are both of these qualities in the song. It is just observing two separate characters, a girl and a boy and how they find their way through the challenges that are presented to them. It is just about human concerns that everybody has. The girl is wondering about what effects the decisions she has made will be. Sometimes you look back at your life and you have to assess what impact you had. For some reason, my whole life, I have been obsessed about making sure that I give back. Where I grew up was super rough and I grew up around people who were so aggressive and taking. Even when I was a kid, I was so shocked by the people around my neighborhood. I didn’t understand how you could be that conniving. With this girl in the song singing about how she loves him and seeing whether she made a difference. It is one of those human concerns that any regular person might think about. The male character is the one soldier of misfortune which is most of us. The happy endings are there and the happy days are in there but a lot of it is struggling and a lot of it is uphill. That is what I was thinking about. The chorus “All Night Doctors” is all the remedies we have in life. We all self-medicate. We all find our separate remedies. That’s what that song is about.
Amy: You spoke a little bit about where you came from. I know you have young children. How do you talk to them about your upbringing or have you got to the point you can discuss that with them at all yet?
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BUSH: Gavin Rossdale Interview, American Songwriter Magazine
Gavin Rossdale Discusses Bush’s Critics, Nirvana Comparisons
By Evan Schlansky | American Songwriter Magazine
Bush photo by @JosephLlanes http://JosephLlanes.com/
After a brief stint as a solo artist, Gavin Rossdale is back with Bush, the 90s’ radio juggernaut responsible for alt-rock anthems like “Everything Zen,” “Comedown” and “Glycerine.” Whether you love them or hate them, you really should read this interview — Rossdale, who has some even-handed words for his band’s critics, is one of the most articulate and likable dudes in rock.
How does it feel to be back making music as Bush again?
It feels like I’m in the boxing ring with my hands untied. It feels like I’m like I’m playing the football match of my life with two feet, rather than one foot. It feels like the cake has its frosting on it.
When were the songs on your new album, The Sea Of Memories written?
Over the last year and a half. “Sound of Winter” I think was written probably four months ago. As soon as we got our lives back, things have been able to move as quick as I’ve been able to write quickly and play the songs with the band and get it all together. And it’s an incredible time now, whereby it’s determined by the work and not by the scheduling of a large company. So it’s been phenomenal. I couldn’t be happier. I don’t have any particular regret.
Instead of doing a solo record I really tried to make that record a Bush record. I wanted the reunion to be intact. I wanted Nigel [Pulsford, the band's original guitarist] to feel that if Bush was happening, he was happening. Therefore, I patiently waited, waited, waited and waited and waited. Then I realized it wasn’t going to happen, and then after a couple of false starts, I wrote a few songs.
I just realized that if I wanted it to have a bigger impact, I should get my name off of it and put it back as Bush and it would do a lot better. So I then just pushed full force for that and just figured, I would take what I could with band members and whatever. And when it was Robert from the original lineup and Chris from the semi-original lineup, that was fine for me.
What’s the reaction you’re getting from fans?
It’s like relief. It’s a really strange situation. It’s a bit like public divorces. People you may know, people you may not know. Somehow if you distill marriage back to its original context, which is, you stand up and you want to tell the village that you really like this other person. You are committed to them and there’s love. And you say, “I love this person and we’re gonna make out alot,” but we’re gonna live together and maybe have a family or whatever. And conversely, when you break up, everyone goes “ahh love fades, that sucks.. oh well.” And it’s a bit like that with a band. When the band breaks up, even people who didn’t like the band–“Aaw really? Who are we gonna bash?” And then, conversely when you get it back together, the gratitude and relief that people have, it’s just been staggering. I can’t believe it.
People are just so pleased. I think it gives them a bit of faith back in life that you know, nothing lasts forever and bands shouldn’t be around forever, but there’s something life-affirming, hope-affirming that a unit that you cared about and disbanded. That entity is gone and transformed into something else, that unit can be reconstituted and it reinvigorates people. And you couple that with the essential element of making a good record. You can’t do that and make a shitty record. It has to be at a certain level of merit. It has to reflect the musical, songwriting, lyrical improvements. You have to be seen to have grown.
And you couple that with the whole catalog, and that is in a way the situation where we start to find ourselves. You know, we’ve been in a submarine, we kind of bring our heads above the water slightly. It’s not betraying the history of the band, it’s not betraying the past–it’s actually adding to it. It feels exactly where I should be. That’s got to be a sign of success–feeling you are where you’re meant to be.
You talked about improvements. Can you elaborate?
Yeah, from the start, you know, whether I take guitar lessons or singing lessons, piano lessons, how much I practice, how much I listen. How much I try and turn my life experience into songwriting. All those elements–those are things that I do, those are things that I apply myself to. I’m a musician, so I should practice and I should learn and I should accept that there’s so much more to know. It’s the weirdest thing, music. The alchemy of music is infinite. If you break it down, you would think that mathematically you could explain in a way, distill it into something quite simple, but it’s so weird, with the harmony and the melody and lyrics, and chords. You can just go on forever which is why so much music can be made, because it’s such a mystery. It’s so ancient. I love the idea that we live in this technologically advanced world, and I have an ancient job that is realized using the most modern of tools. It’s a really fantastic hybrid.
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