Parker McCollum

You were always just ruined all the time on the road.

And so you would get this bad taste in your mouth.

from it because you're like, man, I don't want to go out and feel like that again.

So once I like really started kind of being a little more focused and a little more calculated with like my approach to it, which I think is really good to do for your fans too.

Like they deserve a good product every night.

Like you want to go out and put on a good show and sound good and remember all of the words and be entertaining and you know,

play those songs to where they feel they're happy that they came and heard the songs that they love live, you know?

But back then we just, we weren't thinking about that stuff.

We were just ripping it.

All the time I did at the rodeo.

where you faded but you were sober right 100% sober and they have these screens around the arena around the stadium that you know it's like saying it's the lyrics to the song are like being typed they're not teleprompters it's like for the crowd and you know I'm sure if someone's you know deaf or something for that kind of thing and

But they're delayed.

They're really delayed.

And so I just, you know, that stage is rotating and like just came time for the second verse of Why Indiana.

And I was reading, I just so happened to look at that thing and it's like, it hasn't even, we're already through the chorus.

It's like just now putting the words to the chorus up.

And I just...

You just freestyle until you get back to the chorus and then hope you remember those words.

But yeah, it happens all the time.

At least one song a night.