Day 2:
12:30pm: Day 2 started out by talking to the teen-aged bands. First up was Gabriel Garcia from a pretty cool band called Black Tide. Gabriel wasn’t really well spoken, but who was at age 15!
12:50pm: I worked my way up to one of the suites at Crew Stadium to talk to the band Drive A. These kids were also in the 16 – 17 age range. They were in way over their head in the interview part of the business, but the band can flat out play.
1:30pm: I was summoned to the media tent to talk with Seether. At 1:502pm, I got the call that the bus was late, and they needed to push the interview back. I scrambled back to the media tent just in time to recapture the interview with Aaron and Mike from Seether.
I couldn’t wait any longer, I was supposed to meet Papa Roach in the back-stage area. When I arrived at my predetermined site, there was nobody there. At exactly
2:20pm: Papa Roach had arrived and we climbed aboard the tour bas to record a long and detailed conversation with guitarist Jerry Horton.
3:00pm: Rev Theory made their way to the Press tent. I grabbed Ricky Licks the guitarist who had been at the ROTR Festival last year in the band Operator. Rick told me Operator is still together but he had moved on.
4:00pm: Next up for me was my old friend Chris Henderson of 3 Doors Down (Photo above). I Love Chris, he’s a hard working musician that really loves what he does. Chris and I always have fun conversations, and this was no exception. In fact it was the best interview of the day. Unfortunately in 2 crazy days like this something would eventually go wrong, and we had a digital error on our recording device (a Zoom H4) and we lost the entire interview.
5:45pm: Due to the fact that Flyleaf had to cancel the show, Alter Bridge moved their set time around, and then had to adjust their interview times. Mark Tremonti is a big fan of the Chop Shop and wanted to be on the show again, but our schedules didn’t sync up. Mark did agree that he would be my “Guest Host” next time I take a vacation. In the mean time, I went back to the dressing room and recorded a great conversation with Guitarist & singer Myles Kennedy.
8:30pm: It’s time for my 8th interview of the day and 19th interview of a dizzying 2-day excursion to Columbus…..bring on the star of the show Kid Rock. I have talked to Kid maybe 10 or 12 times before he hit the big time, and said hello a good 5 times since his rise to the top. I’ve interviewed his guitarists several times, but this was my first official interview with him. It started a little slow, I don’t think he was used to my musical line of questioning, just when he was starting to really get into the interview, management said last question….I hate when that happens, but you just have to be gracious and accept it as part of the job. After I got off the bus I realized it was only a 6-minute interview….a bit of a gyp. Most interviews are at least 10 minutes. But that was the end a 2 long kick ass work days!
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