WEBVTT - Will I cancel the tour because of the Coronavirus? 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:03.560 Hey guys, welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. This is 0:00:03.560 --> 0:00:06.920 a very special addition to the podcast. This is March 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:14.000 the fourteenth. I typically record these podcasts four five, six, 0:00:14.080 --> 0:00:16.880 seven days before you actually hear it on Mondays or 0:00:16.920 --> 0:00:20.520 watch it, so I'm adding this intro to tell you this. 0:00:20.520 --> 0:00:23.279 This podcast was recorded on the road a few days ago. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:27.800 Since then, we've had this crazy coronavirus pandemic happen and 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:32.000 some of these questions might be irrelevant or a little 0:00:32.040 --> 0:00:35.599 bit different because of the new crazy news. And so 0:00:35.760 --> 0:00:39.159 I'm partly recording this for you guys so that you 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:41.640 don't hear this podcast and think, oh my gosh, he's 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:45.199 not talking about the crazy, you know, new turn of 0:00:45.200 --> 0:00:48.199 events that we've had in these last few days. That 0:00:48.400 --> 0:00:53.159 being said, some of you watching this might not be 0:00:53.320 --> 0:00:56.800 affected that much by the coronavirus. Me personally, my world 0:00:56.840 --> 0:01:02.440 has been turned upside down touring. The entire touring industry 0:01:02.520 --> 0:01:07.040 has completely collapsed, and that is where artists like me 0:01:08.040 --> 0:01:13.399 and so many others make all of their money. So essentially, 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.480 I've lost my job and I'm okay. I have YouTube 0:01:17.480 --> 0:01:19.399 and other things, but the you know, I have a 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.720 lot of band members and crew guys on salaries, so 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:26.199 that is the concern, is trying to get them paid 0:01:26.440 --> 0:01:31.240 through when we start touring again. The latest I've heard 0:01:31.440 --> 0:01:33.759 is May. Somewhere around May, we're gonna start touring again 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.600 once again. This has nothing to do with our decision 0:01:36.840 --> 0:01:42.720 or promoters or venues, are booking agents or everybody wants 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:45.080 to tour. This is the This is happening at the 0:01:45.120 --> 0:01:50.360 federal level that all these gatherings are being canceled. So 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.680 the next podcast you hear will probably be a lot 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:55.080 about this. But I wanted to just give you a 0:01:55.120 --> 0:01:58.400 quick intro so that you know, as this podcast comes 0:01:58.400 --> 0:02:04.240 on it was pre coronavirus. Enjoy yourselves, you'll be safe. 0:02:04.840 --> 0:02:24.440 Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast. Hey guys, what's up. 0:02:24.480 --> 0:02:28.839 It's Granger Smith. Welcome to the Granger Smith Podcast, Episode 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:33.160 twenty three. Thank you guys for listening or watching if 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:36.080 you're watching on YouTube. If you're watching on YouTube, go 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:38.040 ahead and do me a favor and subscribe to the 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.440 Granger Smith channel so you don't miss any of these 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:42.639 videos coming up. And then while you're at it, go 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:45.600 over there and subscribe to the Smith channel so you 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.760 don't miss any of our family vlogs that we just 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:51.760 love putting out. It's a huge passion of mine to 0:02:52.360 --> 0:02:54.920 put out two videos a week on the Smiths and 0:02:54.960 --> 0:02:58.280 then one video a week on the podcast. And we 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:02.400 are releasing these podcasts every single Monday, really early. I 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:05.200 believe they're set for about five am, so that it 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:08.400 catches everyone on their way to work, a way to school, 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.960 whatever that might be. I am sitting here in the 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:20.519 back of my bus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. What a 0:03:22.680 --> 0:03:25.600 crazy year this has been so far, and what a 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:28.360 crazy tour this has been. I'm sitting here looking at 0:03:28.360 --> 0:03:31.680 this and I'm like, I got to do a podcast 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:35.040 and take these headphones off, and dinner is coming up. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.520 So I have about thirty minutes to do this podcast, 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:40.960 and that's plenty of time. There's plenty of time to 0:03:40.960 --> 0:03:42.920 talk to you guys to answer some of these questions. 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:46.840 I got these questions today from Instagram. So I'll go 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:52.160 and I'll check Instagram hashtag Granger Smith Podcast. I'll check Twitter, Facebook, 0:03:52.240 --> 0:03:54.680 and I'm also checking the comments on the YouTube page too. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:56.760 It so I'm finding these questions that you guys are 0:03:56.800 --> 0:04:01.200 asking and I'm gonna dive into them first question I 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:05.400 have here is what is the most memorable thing that 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:08.880 has ever happened at one of your concerts? And I 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:10.760 like that question. I like it when people ask me 0:04:10.800 --> 0:04:17.520 that because it has to be well, Okay, one instance 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:23.479 in Iraq, We're playing a tour in Iraq and literally 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:27.800 a bomb went off close to where we were having 0:04:27.800 --> 0:04:34.760 a concert, and the immediate response team jumped up leaves 0:04:35.640 --> 0:04:38.920 and half the room left and they made us go 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:44.000 into a bunker. Halfway through the concert. So we were 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:47.919 in a gymnasium, So we're literally crawling on the ground 0:04:47.960 --> 0:04:50.000 in the gymnasium and we had to go to a 0:04:50.040 --> 0:04:53.400 concrete bunker. And I am kind of an adrenaline junkie, 0:04:53.440 --> 0:04:55.880 so I was loving it. Some of the other guys 0:04:55.880 --> 0:05:01.760 in the band were absolutely terrified. You know, I understand why, 0:05:01.960 --> 0:05:05.880 But that's number one that tops tops the question for sure, 0:05:06.160 --> 0:05:09.120 what is the most memorable thing that's ever happened at 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:13.000 one of my concerts? But then after that, I would 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:14.200 have to say it would have to be some of 0:05:14.200 --> 0:05:17.279 my injuries, which I've been injured several times as Earl 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:22.039 Diuvile Junior. I have completely separated a shoulder, I have 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.839 split my forehead open right in the middle, which cost 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.719 seven stitches. That was in College Station, Texas, and I 0:05:28.760 --> 0:05:31.040 was running up the stage as Earl ran right into 0:05:31.080 --> 0:05:34.960 the speaker. Blood went everywhere. You know, your forehead bleeds 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.120 really bad. So I turned and looked at the crowd, 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.080 and I just saw horrified faces looking back at me, 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:46.280 and I didn't realize what was happening until I saw 0:05:46.320 --> 0:05:48.200 their face and then saw the drips coming off of 0:05:48.279 --> 0:05:51.680 my nose and knew it was really bad. Finished that 0:05:52.240 --> 0:05:56.120 concert and then went to the well. I say finished. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:58.240 I got a towel and wiped off a little bit, 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:02.720 and then off the emergency room. And then another time 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:04.839 I fell off the stage in New Jersey. A lot 0:06:04.880 --> 0:06:07.480 of you guys have heard this story. I've told this 0:06:07.560 --> 0:06:12.880 on a previous podcast and fell off the stage, broke 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:17.159 two ribs, one of the ribs punctured along, got back 0:06:17.200 --> 0:06:19.320 on that stage, finished that show, and then went to 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:22.919 the emergency room again. So I have a lot of 0:06:22.920 --> 0:06:27.720 these little injury memories as Earl, and it's it's never fun, 0:06:27.720 --> 0:06:30.599 but it always makes really good stories. And it's always 0:06:30.720 --> 0:06:34.000 Earl for some reason. All right, let me look at 0:06:34.080 --> 0:06:36.160 let me look what other things I have has has 0:06:38.200 --> 0:06:41.480 take us through the process of coming up with a song. 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:46.560 How does it happen? And that's a that's a good question, 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:53.039 and I have several processes. I I think in terms 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:57.920 of either melodies or lyrics, and they're pretty separate. There's 0:06:57.920 --> 0:06:59.640 not a lot of times that they come in together 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:02.680 in my mind, so they usually come in separately. Some 0:07:02.839 --> 0:07:06.320 melody and I'm just humming and or some lyric I 0:07:06.320 --> 0:07:08.000 think that's a really cool line and this is what 0:07:08.120 --> 0:07:11.280 rhymes with it. So it's not too often that I 0:07:11.280 --> 0:07:13.280 get them together. But what I do is I'll go 0:07:13.360 --> 0:07:17.360 in and have a list of notes on my phone. 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:19.440 I'll write all the lyrics down or the titles down, 0:07:19.760 --> 0:07:23.440 and then I have my voice memos and I'll kind 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:25.320 of hum melodies and then I just try to merge 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:28.480 them together. And that's typically when I get up early. 0:07:28.840 --> 0:07:32.240 That's when I like to write. Make a cup of coffee, 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:34.840 pull out the old phone, pull out a pen and paper, 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:39.120 and see which ideas merge together that hopefully makes a song. 0:07:39.200 --> 0:07:40.760 And you know what, most of the time, it doesn't. 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:42.720 Most of the time I sit down and write a song, 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:48.920 nothing happens, and it sucks. It's called writer's block, and 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.800 it's a real thing. But then when it does start 0:07:51.840 --> 0:07:54.000 flowing and it feels good and the songs come out, 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:59.120 it's great. Another a way to battle writer's block. The 0:07:59.240 --> 0:08:02.280 number one way to battle writer's block is to get 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:04.000 some of my buddies out to write with me, which 0:08:04.000 --> 0:08:07.240 is going to happen next weekend. And so I get 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.440 some of my good friends out and then we all 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.200 come in and then we all kind of make up 0:08:11.200 --> 0:08:12.640 for each other. If one of us is kind of 0:08:12.720 --> 0:08:16.320 lacking with a writer's block situation, the other one could 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:18.840 knock us out of it, and vice versa, and we 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:23.600 quickly can get through some pretty good songs that way. 0:08:24.360 --> 0:08:30.800 Here's a good question, the question everybody's thinking about right now. 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.200 Are you going to cancel any of your tour dates 0:08:33.480 --> 0:08:38.840 with all the coronavirus things going on? Oh gosh, no, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:40.880 I'm not. I'm not going to cancel it. But you know, 0:08:40.960 --> 0:08:43.080 I just heard we're from Austin, Texas, and I just 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:48.000 heard south By Southwest, a huge music festival, canceled, canceled, 0:08:48.040 --> 0:08:51.280 completely canceled. I can't imagine all the businesses that are 0:08:51.280 --> 0:08:55.960 gonna hurt from that decision. Guys, I don't see I 0:08:55.960 --> 0:08:58.440 don't see the hype from this. I know that it's 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.160 going to affect me negative at some point with ticket sales. 0:09:03.520 --> 0:09:05.520 If it keeps on ramping up and then the news 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:09.960 keeps making it headlines and clickbait, then it's going to 0:09:10.080 --> 0:09:14.760 affect musicians or anybody else in the public business. It's 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:19.480 going to affect us. So that sucks. And I don't 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:21.440 see the hype. I don't, I don't, I don't. I 0:09:21.480 --> 0:09:27.040 don't understand it. Besides the fact that guys, you know this, 0:09:27.240 --> 0:09:29.480 we live in a clickbait world. We live in a 0:09:29.520 --> 0:09:35.040 world where everyone, all these major news stations, they want 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:37.560 you to click on their station, they want you to 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:40.400 click on their posts, they want you to watch what 0:09:40.480 --> 0:09:44.760 they're saying because those views and those streams make them 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.120 more money. So, for instance, if if I was a 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:51.880 director of a news company, I would say, let's say, hey, 0:09:52.200 --> 0:09:55.520 somebody figure out a way that we could post coronavirus 0:09:55.520 --> 0:09:58.960 has mutated. And so then you know, you get these 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:00.920 little people in the background and they're like figuring out 0:10:00.920 --> 0:10:02.960 and they technically I figured out a way we could 0:10:03.000 --> 0:10:05.079 say that, and it's technically true, even though it's a 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:08.720 far stretch, and so then they go, great, make up something, 0:10:08.880 --> 0:10:12.680 find a picture, and we'll call it coronavirus mutation faster 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:15.559 than normal. And that's a pretty good click. And you 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:17.600 and me and everyone else that sees that it's probably 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:20.000 going to click on that. That's the world we live in. 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.240 I don't trust it, and so it makes it tough 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:26.480 to answer your question. I'm not going to cancel any 0:10:26.520 --> 0:10:28.599 tourt eights, at least I don't think so, unless it 0:10:28.720 --> 0:10:32.400 turns into some kind of Walking Dead zombie apocalypse, which 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:36.600 I don't think this is going to happen. Guys, don't 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:41.080 buy into the hype. Don't buy into the hype. Next question, 0:10:43.559 --> 0:10:46.959 the earpieces you use for your shows? What are they for? 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:50.760 And does it play the music? That's a good question. Look, 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:55.040 I got it right here, just got out of sound 0:10:55.120 --> 0:10:58.640 check here in Baton Rouge, and these are called an 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:03.880 ear monitors, and they come in many sizes, many colors. 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:06.840 Mine are kind of a one of them is kind 0:11:06.840 --> 0:11:08.240 of a clear blue, and one of them is kind 0:11:08.280 --> 0:11:12.319 of a solid red. I'm smiling because you know why, 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:14.520 you know why one is blue and one is red. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:16.840 And you could make these any color you want. You 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.280 could design them any way you want. I used to 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.000 have camouflage my old ones, my backups are camouflage. You 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.960 could do anything you want. I made mind blue and 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:31.200 red because red means right, ear red for right, so 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:33.280 I can just quickly see them and throw it in. 0:11:34.600 --> 0:11:39.199 So what it means is and if you're a musician 0:11:39.200 --> 0:11:42.040 and you know this, don't worry about it. If you 0:11:42.080 --> 0:11:45.840 don't know it. Musicians, most of us now, we wear 0:11:45.880 --> 0:11:49.719 these as opposed to floor monitors or wedges as they're 0:11:49.760 --> 0:11:53.120 sometimes called, that play the music back to us. And 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.360 that's what these do. It's basically the music you're hearing 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.400 playing back to us. Why do we need that, Well, 0:12:00.800 --> 0:12:04.080 the reason is if we're behind the speakers, which we 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:07.160 typically are, the speakers are throwing out the sound forward 0:12:07.240 --> 0:12:09.920 so that the crowd could hear it, and us the band, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:13.000 the people behind the speakers are getting a delayed version 0:12:13.000 --> 0:12:15.440 of that, or an echoed version of that, or some 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.400 kind of distorted version of that. So it's really difficult 0:12:18.440 --> 0:12:21.560 for us to play together with each other. The bass 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.280 player playing with the drummer, the guitar players playing together, 0:12:24.480 --> 0:12:28.600 me singing to the drummers beat. All those things need 0:12:28.640 --> 0:12:30.120 to be very in syne and they need to be 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:34.280 perfectly in time. So we all wear these anier monitors 0:12:34.880 --> 0:12:37.319 that's run by a monitor board on the side of 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:40.160 the stage. So if you see one of our sound 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:42.880 guys on the side of the stage or at any concert, 0:12:43.480 --> 0:12:46.160 that sound guy with his board, with his mixing board, 0:12:46.600 --> 0:12:49.520 he is mixing the sound that the musicians on stage 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:53.240 are hearing. Only if you see the audio guy out front, 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:56.080 we call it front of house. He's out in the 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.600 back of the concert with a big soundboard inside the 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:03.480 play where all the fans are. He is mixing what 0:13:03.559 --> 0:13:07.120 you hear from the audience perspective. He's mixing the big speakers. 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:09.480 So that's it. You gotta have both. You gotta have 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:13.280 a monitor engineer and a front of house engineer, both 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.920 of them. You gotta have it. It's a good question. 0:13:18.240 --> 0:13:20.800 Here's one that says, what is your favorite thing to 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:24.600 do after a show? And you know, I could I 0:13:24.640 --> 0:13:27.000 can kind of connect that with another question on saw 0:13:27.040 --> 0:13:29.840 on here that said how do you unwind after a show? 0:13:30.720 --> 0:13:34.280 And guys, when it comes to that stuff, I'm super 0:13:34.320 --> 0:13:37.400 boring and like a part of me wants to be 0:13:37.440 --> 0:13:40.760 able to say, oh man, after the show. That's when 0:13:40.760 --> 0:13:43.040 it parts. That's when the party happens. We do all that, 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.320 you know. We go out and we go find the 0:13:45.320 --> 0:13:47.400 best burger joint in town and it's closed, and we 0:13:47.440 --> 0:13:49.200 get the owner to open it back up, and he 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:50.599 opens it up and they all get in there and 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:53.120 they fry up the best burgers. I think that's what 0:13:53.120 --> 0:13:54.800 Elvis used to do. Elvis used to get on his 0:13:54.840 --> 0:13:57.240 plane in the middle of the night and fly across 0:13:57.280 --> 0:13:58.800 the country just to have a burger in the middle 0:13:58.840 --> 0:13:59.960 of the night, and they would open it up for 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.319 the guy lived at night only because he couldn't walk 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:08.600 around the day. My life very very different than Elvis, 0:14:08.720 --> 0:14:12.040 very boring. First of all, I get up pretty early. 0:14:12.840 --> 0:14:16.120 When I'm at home. I get up around six Amberg 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:19.040 usually gets up a little before me, and I used 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:21.640 to get up at like five, but it started affecting 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.280 me too much at night because I need to get 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:25.160 seven hours. That's like my thing. I got to get 0:14:25.200 --> 0:14:28.480 seven hours. So when I'm on the road it changes 0:14:28.480 --> 0:14:31.560 a little bit. I'd usually get up around seven on 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:35.440 the road because if I need seven hours, I always 0:14:35.480 --> 0:14:39.440 add an hour on the bus because it just sleeping 0:14:39.480 --> 0:14:42.800 on a bus is rough, it rattles, it bumps. I'm 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:44.400 right here in this room where we are, where this 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:48.480 camera sitting is. The engine is right under where this 0:14:48.560 --> 0:14:53.360 camera is sitting, so the motor is super loud. Two 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:58.480 nights ago, we were driving to Alabama and I heard 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:01.120 us pull over very abru and you hear the rumble 0:15:01.160 --> 0:15:03.800 strips in the middle of the night. You know that's 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.360 that'll wake up quick. So we wake up to the 0:15:06.400 --> 0:15:09.960 rumble strips, and then I hear all these emergency vehicles 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:13.360 fine by, you know, sirens. Like, guys, you don't want 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:15.280 to wake up in the middle of the night to sirens. 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.480 You just don't. That's like not something that's pleasant to 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:20.840 wake up to in the middle of the night. But 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.560 that's bus life. Long story short, there was a wreck 0:15:24.680 --> 0:15:27.760 and when we had to wait. But needless to say, 0:15:28.640 --> 0:15:30.880 I have to add about an hour to my sleep 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.800 at night. So I get up at seven And partly 0:15:34.800 --> 0:15:37.000 what that does is the bus is quiet. I can 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:40.000 get some reading in, I can get some songwriting in 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:44.040 and get some podcasting in even on It's five point 0:15:44.040 --> 0:15:47.640 forty five pm right now, and that kind of allows 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.360 me to get some stuff done. And then about eight 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:53.320 o'clock or nine o'clock between eight and nine sometime we 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.440 go to the gym. Every single day we go to 0:15:55.520 --> 0:15:59.440 the gym, and that gets my day going to come 0:15:59.440 --> 0:16:02.920 back and make it shake here we usually have lunch 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:06.720 provided then I kind of start the routine of my day, 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:10.800 which might be something involving country radio, and then sound checks. 0:16:11.680 --> 0:16:13.960 All that to say, by the end of the show. 0:16:14.320 --> 0:16:16.040 As soon as I get off the stage, I jump 0:16:16.120 --> 0:16:18.800 right in here and I take a shower. There's a 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:24.880 shower right behind this wall. And I'm tired. I'm really tired. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:27.320 So especially if the show's late tonight is a ten 0:16:27.360 --> 0:16:30.640 to fifteen PM start time, and I'm gonna play ninety 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:32.800 minutes and that's gonna make me come back to the 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:36.080 bus around midnight. I'm gonna take a shower and I'm 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.840 going to crash hard. So that is my after show routine, 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.760 crashing hard, and then I will sleep till about seven, 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:48.360 So there's my seven hours. We'll see what else I 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.119 got here? What are the questions? I just basically screenshot 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:54.840 a bunch of social media questions and then I flip through. 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.240 If I wanted to get into the country music industry, 0:16:59.280 --> 0:17:05.720 where would I start. This is from Lindsay on Instagram. 0:17:06.000 --> 0:17:12.119 Actually I think it might be Liam Lindsay, which is 0:17:12.160 --> 0:17:16.960 a guy. Sorry Liam, Okay, So there's two parts. I 0:17:16.960 --> 0:17:18.359 guess there's kind of two parts of this. If you 0:17:18.760 --> 0:17:20.840 want to get into the country music industry as an 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.560 artist or a musician, or if you want to get 0:17:23.600 --> 0:17:27.680 into the country music industry as a uh, someone behind 0:17:27.680 --> 0:17:30.040 the scenes in the business, And I actually could probably 0:17:30.080 --> 0:17:32.919 say that's probably three different things because artists and musician 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.320 aren't exactly the same musicians. If you want to be 0:17:36.359 --> 0:17:39.360 a musician in country music and you feel like you're 0:17:39.359 --> 0:17:42.199 good enough to take it to a bigger level, you 0:17:42.240 --> 0:17:45.600 got a network. You gotta you gotta know the right 0:17:45.640 --> 0:17:49.600 people that know when the auditions are so and for 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.399 the most part, those are in Nashville. The big country 0:17:52.480 --> 0:17:54.639 music tours, most of them are in Nashville. Mine is 0:17:54.680 --> 0:17:58.320 out of Austin. Most are in Nashville. And so if 0:17:58.359 --> 0:17:59.840 you want to be a guitar player or drummer or 0:17:59.840 --> 0:18:02.679 a player or something like that, you probably need to 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:04.840 make a bunch of friends that are in other bands 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.920 so that when somebody's auditioning for a new player, you're there. 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:13.840 If you want to be a singer. I could do 0:18:13.880 --> 0:18:16.000 a whole podcast on this, Liam. I don't think that's 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.960 what you're talking about, but you might be. And I 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.879 could do an entire podcast on this question alone. And 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:24.320 in fact, I might start doing a series on how 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:26.639 to be a country singer. I might. I'm thinking about it. 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:30.359 You guys comment below if you think I should do 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:33.000 a series on how to be a country singer, if 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:38.080 there are enough people that would like to listen, because 0:18:38.119 --> 0:18:41.560 I can go in great links about that, but I'll 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:43.359 just start with the beginning of that one. If you 0:18:43.359 --> 0:18:48.080 want to be a singer, then start with an instrument. 0:18:48.680 --> 0:18:53.600 Start playing an instrument, whether that's guitar or keyboard, and 0:18:54.760 --> 0:18:59.600 start singing along with that instrument. Start writing songs while 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:01.720 you're singing along to that instrument. This is going in order, 0:19:01.720 --> 0:19:05.560 by the way. And then lastly, start recording the songs 0:19:05.600 --> 0:19:07.800 that you wrote and saying while you're playing an instrument, 0:19:09.280 --> 0:19:14.160 drive around and listen or watch that recording. That's step one. 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.480 Do that and do that for a few years, and 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.880 take good note on what you like that you hear 0:19:23.000 --> 0:19:25.240 and what you don't like. Do more what you like, 0:19:25.400 --> 0:19:28.520 less of what you don't and you will evolve quickly 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:32.119 that way. It's very important. I'm using pro Tools right 0:19:32.160 --> 0:19:35.320 now as I'm recording this podcast, and this is the 0:19:35.359 --> 0:19:38.159 same program and the same microphone I do work tapes 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:41.080 or the way I write songs. So I think it's 0:19:41.200 --> 0:19:45.400 very important for musicians to learn some kind of recording software. 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:49.600 Pro Tools is the most popular if you want to 0:19:49.600 --> 0:19:51.760 get into the music industry. If maybe that's what your 0:19:51.800 --> 0:19:55.080 question is too. As a business person, so you may 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:59.400 maybe management or record label, or booking agency or publicity. 0:20:01.920 --> 0:20:07.880 Those unfortunately are very networking type positions too. That requires internships, 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:12.120 once again, mostly in Nashville, sometimes New York, sometimes La 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:17.600 sometimes Austin, sometimes Atlanta. That requires a lot of knowing 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.520 the right people, going to the right interviews, doing a 0:20:20.560 --> 0:20:25.280 lot of internships. And it doesn't always require an education. 0:20:26.400 --> 0:20:28.080 And a lot of people will go to a music 0:20:28.119 --> 0:20:32.240 school like Belmont and get a music business degree. And 0:20:32.280 --> 0:20:36.000 what's more important than that degree is the people you 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:41.199 meet in that school, the professors, the other students, and 0:20:41.280 --> 0:20:47.440 the internship possibilities that that school brings. There's so much 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:51.119 more to that question, but I will look at the 0:20:51.160 --> 0:20:54.320 comments on this and kind of base base it if 0:20:54.359 --> 0:20:59.040 I need to keep talking about that on another Monday podcast. 0:20:59.080 --> 0:21:01.199 I get this a lot. Where's your favorite place to 0:21:01.200 --> 0:21:04.560 put on a concert? And I'm gonna be honest that 0:21:04.600 --> 0:21:09.320 the true answer is is it's it's the people. It's 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:14.000 based on the people. It's not the place. We have 0:21:14.160 --> 0:21:17.720 played in very beautiful places. We've played in beautiful beach 0:21:17.760 --> 0:21:23.800 towns or beautiful snow Vista resorts, but those aren't the 0:21:23.800 --> 0:21:27.960 best concerts unless it has the best people and the 0:21:28.200 --> 0:21:30.760 people that are most engaged. So give me one hundred 0:21:30.800 --> 0:21:33.800 people that are super engaged, that are just die hard 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:36.520 fans that know every word and they're they're just they're 0:21:36.560 --> 0:21:39.399 watching me and I could I could do any hand 0:21:39.400 --> 0:21:41.440 motion and they follow me with it. I could walk 0:21:41.480 --> 0:21:43.200 on the stage and they follow me with their eyes 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:46.639 and I could. That's I don't even have to sing. 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:50.280 Then they could sing for me. That's the best concert. 0:21:50.800 --> 0:21:54.800 So it's it's not always the coolest stage or the 0:21:54.840 --> 0:21:58.679 prettiest city, or it's not that it helps if it's 0:21:58.720 --> 0:22:00.760 a great crowd. It helps to be with a beautiful 0:22:00.760 --> 0:22:07.879 mountain or sunset behind you, But it's not everything. Let 0:22:07.960 --> 0:22:10.359 me look at another question here. There's the one I 0:22:10.359 --> 0:22:12.760 was looking for how do you unwind after a high 0:22:12.840 --> 0:22:18.720 energy show? Now you know, I take a shower, I 0:22:19.240 --> 0:22:21.320 turn the lights down. Got to turn the lights down. 0:22:21.359 --> 0:22:22.720 If you want to rewind, you got to get away 0:22:22.720 --> 0:22:26.159 from your screens. I stop the screens have like a 0:22:26.200 --> 0:22:28.159 million lights on me right now as I speak. As 0:22:28.200 --> 0:22:32.800 I say that, because I need to stay awake. All right, 0:22:32.800 --> 0:22:38.000 here we go. How should I propose to my girlfriend? Bro? 0:22:39.000 --> 0:22:44.639 You need to email Chris C. Chris at Grangersmith dot com. 0:22:45.040 --> 0:22:49.440 That's my tour manager, and you need to say, hey, man, 0:22:49.800 --> 0:22:53.119 Granger Smith told me on his podcast to email you 0:22:54.200 --> 0:22:56.680 so that I could come on the stage during happens 0:22:56.680 --> 0:23:00.880 like that at your concert and you'll Granger will get 0:23:00.920 --> 0:23:05.679 me up and I can propose to my girlfriend. That's 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:08.200 how you do it, my man, That's how you do it. 0:23:08.280 --> 0:23:10.879 Email christ granger Smith dot com and I want you 0:23:10.920 --> 0:23:14.040 on the stage to do this. I'm assuming since you 0:23:14.119 --> 0:23:19.840 messaged me with that question that this is a great possibility. 0:23:22.760 --> 0:23:26.480 Let me let me, let me change change gears here 0:23:30.000 --> 0:23:34.399 and then I'm gonna I'm gonna go and get me 0:23:34.440 --> 0:23:39.480 a dinner at Baton Rouge. I'm gonna do a little 0:23:39.520 --> 0:23:41.199 I'm gonna do a little eat and greet. That's what 0:23:41.240 --> 0:23:43.480 we're doing today with the radio stations called Eating greet. 0:23:43.600 --> 0:23:46.080