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for you today. And our first guest is here. Let me uh,
let me get that mike up. Let's see there we go, Brooks youngest
here. Hello, Brooks, Hey, good morning, good morning, welcome
and uh we're excited to have you because uh obviously we're we're fans of yours
and we enjoy having a here. But also you, uh you brought your
guitar. Oh that's a beautiful Now I'm bummed our video is not working because
that's a beautiful guitar. But we thank you. We will take uh we
will take pictures while you're playing that's uh wow, thank you, that's really
nice. Yeah. My love of guitars has row. So this is a
Gibson J two hundred. Yeah, and I used this guitar on the George
Thorough gu tour. Yeah, as well as my electric as I Saturn and
playing tour. Got this right before he left on four and h the guitars
beautiful ghost looking everywhere. So it's gorgeous. It earlier. Yeah, it's
fairly new to me. I I just picked it up right before I left
on four and so I've only had it for a few months. And oh
really yeah, I haven't even recorded or done anything like that with it yet,
so this is its first like not on stage performance. Yeah, yeah,
oh wow, very cool, very cool. If you are listening live
on Saturday morning, if you have any questions or feedback or anything at all
for our guest, Brooks Young is here. Uh six oh three two five
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I just started following Brooks Young on social media. Can't wait to learn
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UH works, I'm down to here. You play sure and let me let
me get that other mic up here. Let's see make sure this mixer is
we We're gonna make sure this mixer is O and UH let's see here.
So there we are. While you're doing that, I'll tell a little story
about this song real quick, yeah go for so. Funny thing is is
uh. This song is called I Believe And you know, me and the
guys in the band we wrote this song fourteen years ago and just recently I
was at home, I had a day off. Fan. If anyone's followed
the band over the years, you know, I'm a big NASCAR fan,
you know, and we've performed for Nascar to track many times the band.
So on Netflix, there's a new NASCAR documentary and I'm a huge fan of
Hendrick Motorsports Nascar. I'm on Netflix. I'm sitting on the couch eating some
lunch, and I'm watching this big moment where Hendrick Motorsports gets their three hundredth
wins, a really big moment in the episode, and Jeff Gordon's up there,
and all of a sudden, I'm hearing a song that I'm like,
geez, I must have left a speaker on or my phone's on playing one
of my songs, and no, it wasn't. It was in the Netflix
documentary for NASCAR. Yeah, this big moment and Jeff Gordon's on the screen
and this is just recently, and I was like no, I was like,
wow, this is so. I'm on the phone. I'm like calling
everybody and I'm like hey, you know, and it was just a really
cool moment because I grew up as a NASCAR man. Yeah, Gordon was
my favorite driver and and to have one of our songs in this big moment
on this NASCAR documentary on Netflix and it just came out, it's very hot
shot. Everyone is watching it. And it's just I like I had to
sit back from him. I was like, wow, this is great and
uh yeah, So I'll play it for you. It's a song called I
Believe. Uh. Seeing that we just played restless something new, I'll play
something a little Uh yeah, yeah, I've got a got that other mic
up. So Brooks Young is with us live. I believe, all right,
believe some things out. It's just me that you tryon's chalk, the
closer gap, the harder ie fire. I would do anything, any thing
aside. I would swim across the ocean, fly to the moon. I
would walk a thousand miles just gets you you. I would walk a thousand
miles just to get to you, the amorals, to hear your name,
the same old stories. Nothing else has changed. A piggin love we left
up. It seems lack forever a sense with being up, Barn. I
would swim across the ocean, fly to the moon. I would walk thousand
masks just gets to you. I would balk thous mass just get to you.
I would walk thousand masks just to be with you. I would walk
thousand mass just to be with you. Very nice, thank you. I
love it. I love it. Brooks Young is here with us live in
studio. And by the way, to go back to that what you were
talking about the song being in that documentary. So I'm fascinated by this.
So you had no idea there was a little surprise. I had no clue.
I probably would never have known. I didn't follow NASCAR. Yeah,
I would know, like once I get like a you know, say,
like a royalty statement or something like that, right, you know, alert
me. But supposedly this is gonna be a good one though, So I'm
waiting for it. Yeah. Yeah. Usually I get paid on things like
that like six months to a year because it's so it's a big, a
big thing. It's not like just streams or something like that. Right,
It's a little bit different that end of the business. Yeah, yeah,
no doubt. Yeah. So tell us again about so you you were how
many dates did you do with George thorowgood, because that's that's what you were
about to do. Yeah, the last time that you were on the show,
I think it was like thirteen or fourteen dates and it was a blast.
We went to uh, Pennsylvania, which was great, and I really
loved that it was called it was the Palace Theater in Pennsylvania. Yeah,
and really cool things. It was interesting for me to be out of my
home area. Yea. And a funny story is is I felt more support
and more welcomed in states and venues that I have never been in my whole
life compared to I do at home, no kidding. Yeah, it's very
interesting. Like so I arrived at Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania at the theater and there's
these two guys outside like the backstage door, and like they knew who I
was. They like want to take pictures and sign stuff, like I've never
been there in my whole life. Yeah, and you know, and then
that was like at every venue. And then we went down to we were
in North Carolina, I think by the NASCAR Hall of Fame. We played
a gorgeous venue there and after the show, I go out the back door
and there's I don't know ten twelve people out there with signs and wanting to
meet me and sign stuff and take pictures and I have a fun picture of
Blackball. Yeah, and it was just it was really nice and it was
just it really reassured me that Okay, you know, this is this is
great. And then we were in Lexington, Kentucky at the Lexington Opera House
and the same thing. There After the show, I walked out and there
were all kinds of people like that came up like out of nowhere and just
they were like, hey, you know, we take a picture, say
hello, and so it was. It was really nice and everyone was very
welcoming and yeah. So I would go up on stage and I would play
a whole set acoustic solo, open up for George, and then the last
song of the night, I would go up on stage with my electric guitar
with George throw get in the Destroyers. Nice. Yeah, it was great.
And I remember it was the first night when we were in Pennsylvania and
George was like hey, like like for you to come up and play with
us, and yeah, and and then I hear it over the radio because
we all have radio. It's big production, you know, yeah, yeah,
of course, yeah know, tractor trailer truck, tour buses and everything
and Yip Brooks's guitar ready for you know, play with George. And we
had great guitar tech and h called Rev and he was a great guy and
took care of me and my guitars and and and it was a blast.
And I remember that first night in Pennsylvania being on stage or George Thoroughgood and
the guys, and was it kind of surreal? Like, yeah, it
really was. And because so George was at Hampton Beach Casino not too long
before I went on tour, I wasn't part of that part of the tour,
and but he invited me and I went there, and uh, it
was It was very interesting because I'm watching it and I'm like, oh,
I'm about to be on this boy, you know, I'm about to go
do this, And that was a different angle for me. And but he
was great in the in the whole crew, they were just so welcoming and
took great care of me. And let me tell you, I still have
nightmares of pushing a hotel cart down hallway. Yeah, there's a lot of
stuff. You're you're more not on stage than on stage, right right.
Yeah. I saw so many hotels. I could tell you which hotels to
go to, which ones not to go to. Yeah. It was just
really interesting and it was the first time I've ever done laundry at a hotel.
Really. Yeah. One of the shows, yeah, I don't remember
where where it was but yeah, I had no clouds. I was by
myself in the hotel. I'm like, well, you know, it's very
lonely, Like a lot of it is very lonely. Yeah, that's what
people say. Yeah, like I was. I was in Florida for days
because there was the tour kicked off and we did like two maybe three shows
and then there was like a week off. Oh wow. And I went
to my friend Charlie's house in Oakalla, Florida, and stayed with him and
his wife for a few days. Yeah. And that's where I got to
hang out and meet Patrick Swayze's wife, Lisa sway Oh yeah, Yeah,
that was great and got to see a lot of horses and go around for
a few days. But it was nice to see him because he lives up
here, so it kind of was a little bit of home while I was
down there. Yeah, and you know, I would you know, FaceTime
you know with my girlfriend here and there and yeah, you know, and
and do that, and it was nice. She came out to Kentucky for
a couple of the shows down there, and we got to go around and
see stuff. So yeah, yeah, well how many was it thirteen total?
Thirteen? Yeah, or something like that. Yeah, and I think
all the dates and stuff. If you go to my website you can see
all the venues. Yeah. Yeah, it was just a blast and I
got to kind of get to know George a bit more every night and hang
out in the dressing room and just talk music, guitars life and had you
toured with him before? I didn't tour with him, but I did open
for him a few times on separate occasions. Okay, Okayah, I was
familiar with George, but I didn't get to spend much time with him on
that year. So but you know on this tour, you know, we
were hanging out all the time. Yeah. Yeah, and George was George
is the only other person who's played this guitar. That's awesome. Yeah.
I told him the story and I took it out and I got a great
picture of George playing it, and uh yeah, yeah, he loved it.
He's a Gibson guy, so Gibson. So yeah, it was I
had a blast. And you know, just to go out there and have
the crew and everybody just really take care of you and you walk out on
the stage, you know, and just the cheering and there's actually a live
album on my Spotify it's Brooks Young's Live and it's the whole acoustic set wow,
from those shows I did with George and there are different songs from different
venues that were taken and they were all recorded professionally right from the board and
so and you can hear the audience and yeah, I didn't miss you by
the Rolling Stone, oh no kidding. Yeah, And I got the whole
crowd to sing, you know, theo oh. Very cool and you know
to hear you know, that's four to six thousand people do that, you
know, and we might have to play that at the end of the segment.
It's great. Yeah, yeah, and uh it's on Spotify. Yeah,
yeah, it's on Spotify. I'll find it and we'll play it.
Yeah, because I'm really curious now. Very cool. Yeah, So you
know, now I'm back home in New Hampshire and uh, I'm kind of
itching to get back into the recording studio maybe do something. Yeah. I've
been doing a few like solo things where I go out and play at a
few places, which is really different. When I first came back from on
tour and I was doing that, it was a really weird feeling for me
really why, I guess I don't know. This might sound weird, but
I had to set my own ship up. Oh I'm sorry, sorry,
that's all right, We're we're on a delay. I caught it. I
had to, you know, set all my own stuff up, and so
I just got used to, you know, and then like the audience,
you know, like people when you're on stage at a show like that and
the people are there listening, compared to say, you go play whatever restaurant
or whatever, you're more like wallpaper kind of music. And when I first
got back, it was like a really strange feeling about that. Usually you
kind of finish the song. People were like, you know, you know,
and there's no you know, plates and silverware when you're on stage clicking
in your ear. But so it took me a little while to like,
okay, we're back home. Now here we go. And but next week
we're about to announce a big show for people who are listening. I really
can't say too much about it yet, but there's a theater in New Hampshire.
It will be a New Hampshire show and I, myself and the guy
in the band will be headlining this beautiful venue. Cool if you, yeah,
stay posted. I think it's next Wednesday gets announced. The next Friday
tickets go on sale, and so we'll be doing that. My longtime my
best buddy Jeff Larroy who plays keys in the band and him and organ,
he's probably listening right now. Cool, and so we're really excited. He
just went out and he purchased an old him and organ and had all refurbished,
like the whole thing. Yeah, and we played a couple of shows
with it, and it's just so cool to have, Okay, and so
we're going to bring it to this show and yeah, and I'm really looking
forward to it. And a fun thing too about the show coming up.
So I started a band playing music when I was much younger, you know,
I was sixteen or so, but like in middle school, high school.
My buddy Jonathan and Josh I got a guitar once for Christmas and I
was like, hey, guys, get some instruments, we'll start a band.
Yeah. We drove Jonathan's mother crazy. We had a little tiny room
upstairs in the house and the drum set imagine like a room like a quarter
of the size of this and you had three of our drum set. I
had like a Martin electric guitar, a little like Yama, I don't know,
maybe ten amp or it didn't even cut through the drums. I was
just up there. But we started a band and the bass player was a
great friend of mine, lived down the street, Josh, And Uh,
he's actually moved back here, and so he's gonna be coming back into the
fold of playing some shows nice and he'll be doing that with us, and
so I'm really excited about that. Oh, very cool. So yeah,
it's a weird moment, like everything comes full circle. Like I haven't seen
him since we were kids. Yeah, to see him as a grown adult,
that'll be surreal. I was sticking that the other day and yeah,
So it's it's been a lot of fun. The tour was a lot of
fun. Back home now thinking about doing some playing, Uh, doing some
recording. I'd like to record up at Mojo Studio up in the White Mountains,
Yeah, the beautiful place. Yeah. And did a lot of work
with them. I did my last blues album with them, and that track
Restless that we heard, was that recorded there. No, that was not
recorded there. So I've kind of I've really been taking a lot of time
learning the other end of the music industry, the whole streaming and how things
are released now. So those were tracks that we actually recorded a few years
years ago, Oh okay, yeah, and released as an EP before the
whole everyone was releasing singles. Yeah, you know, kind of lost in
the shuffle. You imagine how many albums are out there now that people just
didn't hear or weren't you know, because it wasn't marketed. How things are
marketed now, there's a whole Spotify algorithm and recent things single well, yeah,
things have kind of inverted too, because you know, growing up,
it was you know, bands would release or soul artists or room ever would
release an album, and you know, the single would usually come out,
the first single would come out before the album. It would go to raw
before the album. Then the album comes out, then you get the follow
up singles, whereas now it's so many of the guests that we have on
the show there they talk about their strategy is to just release singles and then
eventually those singles become either an EP or an album. Yeah, so it's
just kind of flipped on it said, Yeah, so I've been listening to
like a lot of audio books about it, reading a lot of things,
and like, for instance, Restless just came out, I don't know,
a few weeks ago. I think it has almost twelve thousand streams on it.
It had, yeah, it had like ten thousand or so like the
first couple of days that was released. And usually when you released like an
album, you're lucky if you get that on something, right, So it
just brought more attention to those songs. Yeah, And you know, the
more I think about it, I'm like, geez, I have a bunch
of albums, you know that, right, It just kind of you know,
toss something in here and there. You know, that really did well
when we released it, but just didn't have that on it, yeah,
because it was released within an album. Right. So Jeff and I the
keyboard player, we've been talking about that. So we're itching to record a
little bit and we might go up to Mojo Studio. We were thinking about.
There's another new location down in darry there's a recording studio down there,
so we're we'll see. Yeah, yeah, what we do. I gotta
work on I've been writing a lot doing that and uh, just kind of
living life a little bit. Yeah, Yeah, you want to play another.
You want to play another live one? Yeah, sure, let's do
it, all right, let me get that other mic up, and Brooks
the Youngest here with us if you're just joining us. He's live in studio
with us. He's a gonna play another live song. And uh, while
you do that, I'm gonna find miss you. Yeah, I want I
want to play that later. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there we go.
H This song here is called we Were Young? All right? We
were young, wild and free remembered. Well you still be all? I
know, it's all I see. You can't let me to something that you
stoopid? Be here falling down? Can please? So hard? Would you
catch me? Look? If I fall all I know it's all I see,
chake me back. It's something that used to be here. Falling down?
Can please? So? Would you catch me? Folly down? Be
so? Would you catch me? You fat fool? Beautiful? All right,
beautiful beautiful Brooks Young is here with us, live in studio if you're
just joining us on this Saturday morning, and Jenny is here of course,
and we've got the studio line open six oh three two five o six oh
seven. If you have any questions for Brooks or comments or any anything at
all six three, two, five, six seven, and so what's uh
so in the short term, so you're thinking about recording some more, Yeah,
you talked about that. And then, uh, do you have long
term plans for another another tour? Like, uh, do you have anybody
You're obviously you can't if if you've got something in the pipeline, I'm sure
you can't reveal it, but I'm just curious if you if you do have
anything in terms of uh oh, there'll definitely be some more stuff with George
come yeah, good good Yeah, so uh and then a few other things
in the works. I really just been focusing on doing some writing and just
kind of being home and playing some stuff around here at the moment. And
yeah, I uh, I got really sick when I was on tour.
Oh no, really yeah yeah, and then the whole crew and everyone did
too, like the last two shows, and oh, I just I mean
just recently like gott oh no, I was, Oh my god, it
was it was. It was really bad. Was some type of I don't
know if it was a flu type thing or some long COVID thing or whatever,
but yeah, you know, I was I was talking to a doctor
every week almost I would, you know, do the web whatever on the
phone. Oh yeah, and you know I was taking all the things they
gave me and and nothing didn't help. Oh my god, I just now
can sing, like I just recently, like a couple of days ago,
Like I did a few shows because I had to. When I first came
home, I had something lined up. I forget what. Yeah, I
was like, oh jeez, I just barely could get through some of the
things that I did. Wow, But I finally have like the energy back,
like I felt like just drained and uh and being on the road like
that, it takes a lot out of you. Oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, it short does. And uh I got really sick and luckily I
was home for a while. And were those last couple of shows hard to
get through? Yeah, the last the last two were. And you know,
I was drinking throat coat tea, like, I mean a lot of
it before i'd go on. And I had to be careful because once you're
up there, you know, there's no excuse me, I gotta go to
the bathroom. You know you're up there, and you either hold it and
you know, you got four thousand people are more staring at you. Yeah,
and you know, so I had to be really cautious with that,
and just I was taking some other medicine and stuff, yeah, towards again.
You know you could hear it in my voice really yeah. Yeah.
And then during the day, you know, when I was you know,
off on the shows, you know, I drink a lot of you know
tea as well, throat coat tea, yeah and all that. Yeah,
it was. It was great. But when I came home it got worse.
Like this, it actually worse. Wow, yeah, no idea what
it was not a clue. I I did like the COVID test or whatever.
It was negative and it was like a nasally like I had a really
bad sinus infection. Oh bad bad. Those can last a long time.
Oh, let me tell you a lot. Yeah, I mean it was
months. Yeah. I was on all of the stuff the doctor gave me,
take this and that, and finally like all right, it's better,
Like I'm feeling good. And then like two or three days would go by
and it'd be back really and I couldn't I couldn't sing, I didn't have
the energy. I was just worn out. Yeah. Yeah, and uh,
just the other night at home in the kitchen. I surprised myself when
I took my guitar out and started playing and singing. And I haven't done
that for a while. Oh wow. I just didn't have it in me,
you know. And you know, usually when I'm at home, like
I'd like to pick up and strum here and there or maybe work on something.
And I just didn't have the energy. It wasn't that I didn't want
to. Yeah, I didn't have the energy to. And I just got
a great guitar. Just got an endorsement deal with PRS Guitars. Oh congratulations.
Yes. So my friend Tomo Fajita and Boston, he taught John Mayer
how to play okay, And so him and John Mayer are like very close
friends. And Tomo saw one of the videos of me playing with George and
stuff, and I always liked PRS guitars. John Mayer has a model out
now called the Silver Sky Gorgeous guitar, and they just came out with a
new one Pienna blue. It's an old nineteen eighties Porsche paint color. Oh
no kidding, yeah, oh wow. And so they said they looked at
my stuff and Tomo sent it to him and the artist relations guy got back
to me. He said, yeah, we'd love to have you part of
PRS. Very cool. And yeah, he's like what color would you want?
You know? And I my h girlfriend and I we just got a
sphinx cat, a hairless cat. Her name is Rose. Well, they
had a PRS and a rose like color. It was like a winish rose.
It was called Midnight Rose. And I was like, oh, that
would be cool, and she's like, yeah, you should get that one.
And they had one at the factory and they found like it had like
a slight defect and like, we don't want you to have this. We're
gonna give you this new one that's just barely out. That one. Wow.
So yeah, like a few days later, a week later, it
showed up on the doorstep and yeah, So I can't wait to go on
stage and play it, no doubt. So the guitar matches the cat.
No so so our cat Rose. She's deaf, she's a sphinx and she's
like she's six months old. But she loves when I played guitar really like,
yeah, so when I took the guitar route the other day, I
was just telling you, she comes up and she sits on my lap and
she's like, paw, I have great video of it. And cat people.
Yeah, yeah, we have two cats. We love them. Yeah,
So it's very interest because she's deaf, but sometimes I think maybe she's
not deaft, so it's probably probably feels the vibrations. Yeah, the vibrations,
and she loves it. So it's really hard for me sometimes to practice,
yeah, because if I'm there sitting, she wants to be part of
it. She's like, yeah, exactly, So get her a little mini
guitar I know, right, Yeah, probably play your own guitar while you
playing. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, she loves this guitar. And
so yeah, so I got sick. I finally got over it, and
you know, I got my voice back a bit, and uh, which
is great. So I'm just really looking forward to getting together with my bandmates
and doing some shows. We've got a couple of stuff, a couple of
things lined up with the full group, and it's just great to play with
my friends. And yeah, you know, it comes to point where you
know, you're playing with the people that you've known for years and it's kind
of like just friends getting together. Yeah, So I really love that and
and and Jeff Leroy. Uh if I keep bringing up the keys player.
Him and I have been together playing for I think about eighteen years now,
wow, and we were much better looking back then. He would come over
to the house, I remember, and uh and uh. We were just
play music together and read stuff and then we're like, hey, we get
the band going and then boom we get a phone call. Hey, bb
King would like you to open up for him. Yeah, you know,
and we we weren't really ready for anything like that, you know. Yeah,
I remember you told that story last time you're here, and yeah,
that's that's wild. And and that right there, doing that like open the
doors for so much. Yeah, and so you never know, Yeah,
that's true. You really don't. You never know. That's true. Well,
so much of it is being being ready for those opportunities when they're when
they arrived, because yeah, you might you might not think you're ready for
something. Yeah, and you might really not be ready for something, But
when opportunity knocks, you got to open the door, whether you're ready or
not, yeah, and seize that opportunity. So I always have gone by
this quote I heard from it is it Richard Branson, who owned Virgin Mobile
and they yeah. Yeah. He he always said to apply for a job
where if someone asks you for a job that's way above your head that you
can't do, never say no, right, always say yes, then figure
it out right right. Yeah. Yeah, So I've always kind of went
by that. Yeah. And because we were in no shape or form to
you know, go play with me, we didn't even I don't even think
we played a bar at that point in our career or whatever. Yeah,
but you know, and then we started doing more things with him, and
then you know, and you just you never know, just say yes and
do it. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, I had a similar the
first band I was I played. I'd been in bands in high school and
stuff, but the first band ever played in that actually went out and played
shows was a band called the Jinx. And Jenny's heard me play like that
song Insomnia that I've played on the show that's the Jinks yet. And when
that band was starting up, the two guys who are kind of the nucleus
of the band, they'd already recorded a bunch of stuff, but it never
played out with it, and they knew that I played bass, and they
were offered a show at un h at a dorm party at un H and
wanted me to play bass for it. And I remember Troy, the guitar
player, leaving me a voicemail and telling me that it was going to be
in like two weeks, and he's like, I know, you're very busy,
and we're very busy, and everyone's schedules are very busy, so we're
not going to have much time to practice at all. But what do you
think? And I remember thinking, and I hadn't even picked up my bass
in a really long time, because I'm very I'm kind of ashamed of this,
but I'm a very practical person in the sense that if i'd I don't
have a reason to play, I don't play. So I and and you
know, if you're a musician, you should always play, whether they have
a reason or not. But I don't. But anyway, so I hadn't
picked up my base in a long time, so I'm thinking, oh,
this is nuts. And the shows in like two weeks and we're gonna have
barely any time to practice, and uh, you know, I haven't played
in a while anyway, so I'm rusty. So so I had convinced myself
it was a terrible idea and then I called him. But the other thing
is, I'm also I don't like to disappoint somebody. So and Troy is
such a great guy, and if you ever meet him, you know,
he's one of these people you just he's so nice. He's such a nice
guy that you you don't want to disappoint him. So I'd said, all
right, I'm gonna I'm gonna call him. I'm just gonna tell him,
dude, I don't think this is gonna work. And I call him and
just almost as though I wasn't even in control of what I was doing,
just out of my mouth comes, yeah, that sounds great, let's do
it. But we weren't ready, and we were probably terrible, but we
played anyway. We did the show and great, you know, we got
a great reaction and and that, and from that, a whole lot of
other things happened from me being in that band. I might not be doing
this radio show today had I not been in that band, because you know,
it's one of those things you go back and you think about it and
you realize all the things that flowed from that one moment of me saying yes
to something that I was sure I wasn't ready for that. They weren't ready
for that was a crazy idea and we were all going to be humiliated and
embarrassed. I was so sure of it, but I said yes anyway,
and all kinds of stuff came from it. So, yeah, that's great.
That's a good story. Yeah, yeah, it's It's something I remind
myself when i'm you know, when i'm thinking, when I'm feeling like,
oh, I have this I want to do that I want to do,
but I probably can't. You know, I'm going to fail out it if
I even attempt and then I think about that to that that story with the
jinst But yeah, so good, good advice for people listening totally. So
yeah, you never know, like just give it a shot and say yes
sometimes yeah yeah, yeah, exactly exactly. It's safer to say no,
but then you might regret it later, you know. Yeah. The worst
thing is, you know, thinking back and wondering, I really wanted to
do that, but I don't know, I talk myself out of it.
What if I had done it? You know? Yeah, I could say
the same thing about like going on that tour, Like I was asked to
do it and there was a small part of me. I was like,
yeah, you're gonna be away from home for a while, you know.
And I it was a lot because I was far. I was a long
ways away. Yeah, Like I was far. Yeah, and there was
no like just come home you know. Once I was gone, right right,
and you know, I did get a little homesick, you know.
And you know, my girlfriend Kendrick, you know, she's a huge part
of my life and like to be away and not you know, And that
was a real big moment for me because you know, of being gone.
Yeah, and I had to I had I was able to look forward to
her coming out to some of the shows, ye know. And but that
was the first time like I was like just kind of by myself. Like
my tour manager he came out with me, and he was there for a
majority of the tour. Yeah, and helped with things and thank god,
you know. But uh, towards the end of the tour, the last
few shows, I was kind of on my own. Yeah. And yeah,
Georgia, I love Georgia. If you haven't been the Georgia, go
to Georgia. Yeah. I had a great time in Georgia. Was great.
I went to the Hank Williams Museum. Yeah. Yeah, it was
really nice. Yeah, and that was a really great venue there and a
funny thing and funny story I went into when I'm downtime, you know,
this was this was my first like larger tour. Yeah. And you know,
I just have I have a rolling stone suitcase that I travel along with
it all their logo all over Oh Nice, and I pull into I had
to do laundry. Yeah, yeah, you know, I had an off
day, so I went to a laundry mat and you know, it was
so welcoming. I went in there, and so why I was watching There
was a guitar center across the street. You know, I'm like, well,
you know, go to the guitar store. And I walked in there
and the guy like they knew who I was, like, you're in town
because the venue was down the street. You're you're with George thorough Good,
aren't you. And I said, yeah, yeah I am. And they're
like, yeah, we were watching some of your videos because you know,
if you hashtag George or this or that or whatever. They came across and
they saw one of the clips of George and I playing together when I sit
in Nice and I needed a guitar stand because mine disappeared at the last venue,
so I went in there and grabbed it and they were like, no,
you're all set, thank you for coming in here. And and then
I walked back out to go to the laundrymat and some guy came up to
me and he's like, hey, do you mind taking a selfie with me?
I didn't want to ask you in the store, would you mind you
like knocked on the window. Yeah, yeah, that's cool, and he
said, yeah, man, that's so awesome. We're actually going to the
show me and my wife and and it was just really cool. Yeah,
and you just you never know. And I ate at a Mexican restaurant by
the Hank Williams Museum and sat there and all those folks like new and the
lady who owned the place wanted to take a picture and sign stuff. Yeah,
and yeah, it was just it was really interesting, you know.
And you do that and play down there and then you come up here and
play it. It was just so different New Hampshire, so different compared to
down South. Yeah, it really is. There's a lot of great people
up here. I find the venues are a bit different up here, like
the programming of what goes on at venues is definitely different, and we're very
lucky in New Hampshire here we have some gorgeous venues. Oh yeah, yeah,
absolutely, yeah, and so you know I love that. But yeah,
I'm feeling better now and I'm good. I'm gonna do something now.
Yeah I feel better. Yeah yeah, excellent, excellent, The time goes
the time goes quickly, Brooks. But before we before we wrap up,
and I am going to play at the end of the segment from your So
that's a live VP or a live for full live album that I think it's
the EP. I don't know how I forget, but you were talking about
earlier you covered miss You by the Stones, so looking forward to hearing that's
actually one of my favorite Stones songs. Same here, Yeah, yeah,
I love that song. What should people know about where to find you online?
Where they should go to keep up with everything that you're doing. Well,
if people even visit websites anymore, you can go to Brooks Young dot
com, Yes, Instagram, uh at Brooks Young under Brooks Underscore Young,
Underscore music and it's me with this guitar here the little blue check mark.
So yeah, that is a beautiful guitar. I encourage people thank you,
yes, and so yeah, that's where you can find me and make sure
you follow the right person. I did have someone decide that they were going
to be me on Instagram and they got like a Brooks Young fan account and
they were messaging people. And this was like a couple of months ago.
Oh wow, And finally it was. It took an act of God to
get Instagram to remove the account, and let me tell you, it was
not easy really. Yeah. The only the only way that they will remove
something is if the account is asking for money from oh okaunt remember that.
Yeah, And that was the only way, and they did. They messaged
a friend and they asked for five hundred euro or something like that. Yeah,
they were able to screenshot and save it and I sent it to Instagram
and they finally removed it. But that happens a lot on Facebook too,
Like I'm sure it's having all of us. You know, you get a
message from somebody that you're already friends with, Yeah, like and there and
they're they're speaking to you in a tone via via Facebook that's different than what
you're used to, and it's like, I don't think you're the person I
know. Yeah, they have like one person in common with you if any
Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's been weird. Like the past year or
two of my life has been very interesting. People are very interested in my
personal life and what I do. I don't know why, but yeah,
anyways, but but the hub is brooks youong dot com. Yeah, that's
the hub, and that will lead you to everything. Absolutely wonderful to see
you, brooks Side. Congratulations again on the tour. That is amazing,
and uh, stick around everybody. Coming up. In the second hour,
we have grim Rock skyping in from Pennsylvania. But uh, let's play this.
I'm dying to hear this. So this is miss you. Yeah.
My favorite part of it is when you can hear the audience sing along with
me okay, and then you hear the end where everyone's just like, you
know what, Hey, all right, let's uh, let's check this out.
I've been holding that s long the I've been sleeping all long well,
I misson we I've been holding that S long and I've been sleeping all longer.
And I won't to tiss you my ship, but I been all the
sleep You've been sung in my dreams. People think got Christ when I've been
walking in the hall and I and wait on your cut it the fall.
Just friend about it a sex na start a man. We're gonna go around
swell and some crony girls. He just dan meet you. We're gonna friend
this wild. We're gonna part slap jack. You know last I say,
there we go for day. Why do you wait so loud? Dare?
Why you waiting so lo? And come home? I can watch the ball.
I been singing after dog. People say I and I shook up the
shoes and I looked saw so much and be as lazy watching the ball.
You know? Why a way so loud? Why you wait? Come around
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