Gavin Rossdale | The Magnificent Others with Billy Corgan
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How did Gavin Rossdale's childhood influence his music career?
my understanding is you kind of get a deal with disney's hollywood records and they just kind of stall you for a while you kind of do that spin that they would do well what happened is they they we delivered um they delivered the record that was 16 stone to them and that's the story is according to the the guy from our label um rob kane that They, at the record, at the company, they threw the CD at him and said, not only are there no singles on this record, there's no album tracks, and threw the record at him.
Everybody, of course, talks about Nirvana, and there's good reasons for that, but really it was the Pixies that I think cracked our heads open. We thought, we can be cool and play rock. Yes. It seemed to all kind of mash it together at the right moment. I was lost.
It'd be fair to say that what I'd done exactly at that point is I had been in London, and my second band had failed, and I was left looking what to do. And it was the first time in my life I was worried about it, because before that I had brazen youth, like, it will come right, it will come right. And that was just the most helpful sort of signpost on a bleak mountain.
Yeah. Thank you very much for being here. Thank you for having me. I'm so thrilled. We've known each other now about almost 30 years, somewhere in there.
Somewhere around there. Yeah, it's crazy. And I was saying that I was so happy that so not many things are that surprising. I got that call to come in. I was like, that's so exciting. Yeah, absolutely.
Okay, so let's start at the beginning. I usually like to start different places, but with you, I want to start at the beginning. So is it true you didn't speak till you were four years old?
Yes. I think I had a bossy older sister, so she took care of a lot of that. And for whatever reason, there seemed to be no point. Maybe I hadn't thought of anything good to say.
It wasn't a developmental thing? It wasn't tongue-tied?
What was the impact of the Pixies on Bush's sound?
No, it just was a feral attribute, early feral signs of life.
It's pretty early age to say, you know what, I'm just not going to talk.
Yeah. I'm just, you know, I have this thing anyway about making music that, you know, because there's already too much music in the world, but not enough great music. It's like you just should make things when you can improve the silence. And I couldn't figure out how to improve that silence. That's an interesting concept. I couldn't figure it out. And it was, you know, I just sort of point what I needed. And I think my sister enjoyed the control over me. So I learned to be controlled by women at an early age. we'll get to that uh i didn't find a lot of information on what your parents were like right yeah it's very interesting it's sad in a way because when they met my dad um was was doing driving rally cars was doing rally but amateur right doing rally driving but like f1 track type tracks or no road rally rally like way down the thing but he was in a little
This is where they go through the villages and almost run people over.
Yeah, and my mom was from Scotland, from a small town in Scotland, and she'd come to London to be a model in a swinging 60s weather. And when they met, they both... Well, he stopped driving and she stopped modeling to sort of like help, you know, I don't know, to have a marriage. I thought it was a real shame they should have like continued on. So they were together till I was 12 and then I grew up just with my dad.
But what were their personalities like?
Well, my dad is really, was really, he passed a couple, two, few years ago, three years ago, four years ago. It's so weird. Everything is two years ago now. COVID destroyed all timings.
Right.
My brain just goes, everything, if it's not now, it's two years ago.
It's almost like pre-COVID, post-COVID brain. Do you feel that?
Yeah, B.C. It's literally. So he was a really gentle, really funny, sly, like sushi chef, like cut you up with wit, but very demure, understated.
How did Bush navigate challenges with record labels during the grunge era?
And then my mom was really fun. She was like, wanted just to... She was the best out at dinner, like, you know, with a nice cold white wine and just, like, living the life.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
How did Gavin Rossdale's childhood influence his music career?
0:00–1:55
2
What was the impact of the Pixies on Bush's sound?
1:55–4:04
3
How did Bush navigate challenges with record labels during the grunge era?
4:04–6:17
4
What themes are explored in Bush's upcoming album 'I Beat Loneliness'?
6:17–8:29
5
How does Gavin Rossdale balance fatherhood and touring?
8:29–10:22
6
What insights does Rossdale share about mental health and creativity?
10:22–12:26
7
How did Gavin Rossdale's cooking show come to be?
12:26–14:11
8
What reflections does Rossdale have on his career and legacy in music?
14:11–1:30:32
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