Gavin Adcock

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On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer · From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock · 17 Apr 2025 podcast

I'm going to pay the extra money to get me a plane bed because I've never flown that far.

Well, we were in Ohio. The crowd was crazy. It was one of the biggest shows I ever played. And the first time, it was my fault. I just got to in the moment and I said, if you got a drink, throw that motherfucker. So you're on fire, right? Yeah, I was going crazy. And then here just goes a rain of cans and beers. And a little bit after that, we had them flying every once in a while.

It just depends on the city, really. Sometimes you go, there won't be but a couple things thrown. But at a rock concert, you see some stuff going through the air. That's just what it is at any wild rock concert. And it died off a little bit. And then I'm singing in Arkansas, which we played at this place in Arkansas. We played with Giovanni and the Hired Guns at the end of 2023.

I think, yeah, 2023. It's called the Majestic in Fort Smith. And we played the show with Giovanni and them, and I didn't feel like it was a very good show to me. I felt like we could have done better. We got a headline the next time, and I'm going into the last song and about to sing the last chorus of Run Your Mouth.

and a half-full can comes and zips me in the face, and I just let the dude have it. I lost my shit there for a second, and I just laid into him. We played the last song, and after that, I was like, we're not going back to Ford Smith, Arkansas. I was like, I'm definitely not going back to the Majestic. But, yeah, we've toned that down. The venues are all having to pour in cups.

It's a lot better to get hit with a plastic cup than it is a full beer can. And sometimes I think there's a group of ten people. Eight people wanted to go. Two people didn't want to go, but they didn't want to miss out, so they got drugged by the friends of the show. They might not even like the music, but they're there. And they're like, I'm going to hit this guy with a beer can.

And some people you watch in the crowd, and I've seen them, they're so into the song. I'm sitting there behind the mic playing the guitar, and I'm watching one or two people that are like... You've never seen 20-something-year-old dudes turn to each other during a song and sing it to each other like...

like they do at these shows i'm like young like girls like get into like pop music or something and i'm like the dudes are rocking out right they're rocking out together having bro time and i've literally seen dudes like get so into the song they just launch the beer in the air like a like a firework and i'm like they just had like i feel like they just had an out-of-body experience they're just having such a good time that they couldn't control themselves they just throw the beer

Yeah, that's my favorite part about it. It's just knowing that I've got problems that they don't know about. They've got problems I don't know about, but they relate to the music and it hits them in a certain way that it hit me when I wrote it. And they just can zone out from everything else they got going on. So were you a bull rider at one time?

I wanted to be a bull rider when I was a little kid, so bad. It was the only thing I could think about, and I ended up, my dad made me watch Eight Seconds, which is a movie by Lane Frost, and he dies at the end of it. And after that, he basically kind of talked me out of being a bull rider. A couple times in high school, me and my buddies, we got talking about it.

I grew up on a farm with a lot of country folks, and they would have a test pen about 30 minutes away from the house, and we would go, $20, show them our fake ID, and we rode a couple bulls a couple different times. Just to say we did, we were just like, we got to. One day we won't be able to, and... Yeah, that was the extent of my bull riding career. But I knew that it wasn't a career.

It was more of like a dream. Right.

Yeah, it's fun and it's a thrill. And I know why they do it.

headlining and doing the business and and it's only getting bigger which is awesome i just want to go down like one of the greats i want people in i mean whalen died in 97 i believe people are still talking about him today i hope in hope in 30 years people are still talking about me and what I had going on and talking about my flaws. I hope people go, he was real.

He was a real human and he had shit going on just like everybody else.

Yeah, most of the time I either dig back into a past experience I had. I would say that's probably 75% of the time is just something that has directly happened to me. And then the other 20 to 25%, I put myself in a situation that I think of or something that could possibly happen to me or that has definitely happened to somebody else. And I just put myself in that headspace and that emotion.

And I tell a lot of people, I say, when you write a really, really sad song, you wake up at nine o'clock in the morning and you ride it and it's over by one, the rest of your day can be kind of awful. It can put you in a really, like, you really need to take some time off after that.

Yeah, like a real, like, real weird feeling space of, You don't want to get drug into that too much. You need to take some time to just do something you enjoy after that. And I enjoy writing songs, but when you write a... I wrote a murder ballad one time and I let it out. It's called Caretaker. And it's just a real aggressive song. It's about basically this bad outlaw. It's based in the 1800s.

And I come home to my girlfriend that day and she was talking, she was talking. I was like, baby, I really need to go to sleep. I really need to reset because I'm really pissed off right now. And I'm not pissed off at anything. I'm just in that mindset. And I was like, I just need to reset.

at a bar, which is, it's in Athens. It's called General's, my favorite bar of all time. He come up to me, he said, what's up, man? My name's Jack. I write songs. I'd love to get with you and show you some of them. And I was like, all right, whatever. So probably like six months down the road, we ended up getting together, wrote the craziest party song that I've ever let out.

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