BUSH: Gavin Rossdale Interview | Atlantic City Weekly

Gavin Rossdale and Bush are playing in Atlantic City at the House of Blues at Showboat on Thursday – check out the Gavin Rossdale interivew by Cori Rosen from Atlantic City Weekly.

Before launching a successful solo career, marrying No Doubt rocker Gwen Stefani, and having his face planted on every conceivable tabloid magazine, Gavin Rossdale was the frontman of a band called Bush.

Rossdale and Nigel Pulsford (who would become Bush’s lead guitarist) first met at a London nightclub in 1992. The post-grunge band then formed and enjoyed commercial success throughout the 1990s, selling more than 10 million records in the United States alone. Bush’s 1994 debut album, Sixteen Stone is certified six times platinum.

Bush is back and will be performing in Atlantic City at the House of Blues at Showboat on Thursday, Aug. 4. Although members of the original line-up, primarily Nigel Pulsford, could not be convinced to reunite with the rest of the gang, Bush is gearing up for the Sept. 13. release of its new album, The Sea of Memories.

For the new record, the band teamed up with producer Bob Rock (Aerosmith, Metallica), which Rossdale describes as quite the collaborative “lovefest.”

Bush’s new single, “The Sound of Winter,” which premiered on a recent episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live, has already made its way up the music charts, stealing a slot on the iTunes Top Ten alternative songs list.

Rossdale, vocalist and guitarist of Bush, recently called Atlantic City Weekly while making his way from a New York City hotel to the airport. Here are excerpts from the interview.

Tell me what happened in London of 1992. When you walked into that nightclub, did you ever think meeting Nigel [Pulsford] that evening would lead you to form Bush?

No. Yes, it was that first night [of us] playing Neil Young into the early hours. No, I never thought that. Nor did he, because he had been around with a band and I think he was resigned to doing music for films. It was a shocker and fantastical. I am very lucky to have met him.

You have had a nine-year hiatus; what has changed the most within the band?

I was personally not on hiatus. I should have been, but I never was. I was just coming in and out of whatever. I never stopped being in the studio, making records, or touring. But for Bush, what’s changed? An enormous amount. The whole business is different. I think this is an exciting time. I don’t have a problem with how the business has changed. Clearly, I want it to be the idea that people start to remember that musicians do need to eat. I think overall it is a dispensing of the major [record] labels. And for too long they’ve had a very punitive system, with all labels. They’ve made far too much money off musicians.

I really enjoyed your music throughout your solo career. Was performing on your own as fulfilling as performing with Bush? What did you miss about being in a band?

Well, the thing is, no matter how good the shows were, no matter how good the reaction was to my career, the question was always: “When are you getting back with the band?” I for one was always trying to get the band back together. And, I thought by doing the Institute record, we would all have time to just be away from the scene and come back as renewed figures. And it took longer than I expected [to be back with the band]. I was really ready to make a record and maybe go on tour. I was always ready to [get back with Bush and] make records.

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