Latest / Inside Country with Wayne D / Rascal Flatts Reunion

Transcript

Rascal Flatts Reunion · Inside Country with Wayne D

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: Went on.
• 0:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been lucky enough, so I was in Vegas
• 0:04
  Speaker 2: for five years. I worked at the country station there,
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: so I was lucky enough to see the residencies.
• 0:09
  Speaker 3: You guys ran through.
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: What got me into country music is I saw you
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: guys at the Target Center of Minneapolis, Minnesota, where I'm from,
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: and you were opening on Toby Keith's tour, and that
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: was listen. It doesn't matter who I went with because
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: she ain't around no more, but anyway, and that was
• 0:29
  Speaker 2: my first like full live country experience, and I fell
• 0:31
  Speaker 2: in love with the format. So now that y'all are
• 0:35
  Speaker 2: back together creating the magic that you've created for so
• 0:39
  Speaker 2: long for so many fans, that story is mine, But
• 0:42
  Speaker 2: i'd imagine.
• 0:43
  Speaker 3: You've heard many stories like that.
• 0:45
  Speaker 2: You are why you know so many people love country music,
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: love live country music. How important is that to you
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: to know as you guys get into what we know
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: what we're getting now, right, but whatever's next.
• 1:00
  Speaker 1: I think it's very important. I mean, I think for me,
• 1:04
  Speaker 1: one of the great things about what we were able
• 1:05
  Speaker 1: to do was bring a more pop sensibility to country music.
• 1:09
  Speaker 1: And there were a lot of people that had these
• 1:12
  Speaker 1: misconceptions about country music. I think that we were able
• 1:15
  Speaker 1: to go you know, it's not as it's not as
• 1:17
  Speaker 1: backward and cornpone as you might think. They're really great,
• 1:19
  Speaker 1: gifted songwriters and musicians here, and we wanted to bring
• 1:23
  Speaker 1: our own brand of country music in and I think
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: we were able to do that in a lot of ways.
• 1:27
  Speaker 1: And I think it opened up some opportunities for people
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: that would have not likely been country music fans to
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: start seeing that there were other parts about the format
• 1:37
  Speaker 1: that they could love and buy into.
• 1:41
  Speaker 2: As you guys started working on all your solo projects
• 1:45
  Speaker 2: and doing your own things, you know, starting record label
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: and all that, at what point in the conversation would
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: be like, hey, we got a big anniversary coming up.
• 1:53
  Speaker 3: What do y'all think?
• 1:55
  Speaker 4: You know, probably, I mean like serious talk about it,
• 1:57
  Speaker 4: probably a few months ago really, you know, like it
• 2:00
  Speaker 4: was like, you don't want to miss twenty five years.
• 2:03
  Speaker 4: I mean that's when you hit milestones like that, you know.
• 2:05
  Speaker 4: So it's just, uh, it's you know, it's been incredible
• 2:09
  Speaker 4: and you know our fans deserve it. We deserve it,
• 2:11
  Speaker 4: and you know twenty was canceled because of COVID, so
• 2:14
  Speaker 4: we just didn't want to let the moment go go by.
• 2:16
  Speaker 4: So we're gonna knock these shows out. See what happens
• 2:18
  Speaker 4: after that. But uh, there's a lot to celebrate.
• 2:21
  Speaker 1: Man.
• 2:21
  Speaker 4: We've had an unbelievable journey in life and uh, you know, musically,
• 2:26
  Speaker 4: and so we're just looking at we're pomped to get
• 2:29
  Speaker 4: back out there and do these shows and uh just
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: see the fans and just thank the people that got us,
• 2:35
  Speaker 4: gave us the lives that they've given us.
• 2:36
  Speaker 3: I can't wait.
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: So like this, this interview is going to air on
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: a national show we do. You don't have yet a
• 2:43
  Speaker 2: show locally here in Middle Tennessee.
• 2:47
  Speaker 3: What is it going to mean to you?
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: Because because as you guys, as you guys stepped away,
• 2:51
  Speaker 2: Uh you'r the music still lived on right. Uh, it's
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: still getting played on country radio all over the place.
• 2:58
  Speaker 2: What did that mean to you that weather this day
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: came where we're talking about you guys back together and
• 3:03
  Speaker 2: on the road. Whether this day came or not, what
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: did it mean to you to know that the music
• 3:07
  Speaker 2: is still there and people are still enjoying it.
• 3:10
  Speaker 5: It's it's humbling, man. It's when we made this announcement yesterday,
• 3:14
  Speaker 5: just reading the comments from fans. It's like they I
• 3:17
  Speaker 5: think they've been busting at the seams to say what
• 3:20
  Speaker 5: all they said to is yesterday, And it's so cool
• 3:23
  Speaker 5: and it's humbling, it's sweet, and you know, this time
• 3:28
  Speaker 5: off has been different for all three of us and
• 3:31
  Speaker 5: for myself, just a lot of things are putting perspective,
• 3:34
  Speaker 5: seeing it in a whole different way than I used
• 3:36
  Speaker 5: to see it. I'm actually seeing.
• 3:38
  Speaker 1: It now.
• 3:40
  Speaker 5: In a lot of ways, and it's refreshing being back
• 3:43
  Speaker 5: in the same and this is our first time being
• 3:45
  Speaker 5: in the same room together, all three of us five years,
• 3:48
  Speaker 5: you know. So yeah, lots happened, a lot of times passed,
• 3:51
  Speaker 5: but it we've just locked right back in like we
• 3:55
  Speaker 5: always used to.
• 3:56
  Speaker 2: I am lucky enough to be a part of country
• 3:58
  Speaker 2: music through the radio portion of what y'all do. And
• 4:02
  Speaker 2: I got to tell you the fact the email that
• 4:04
  Speaker 2: I saw in the phone calls and they can tell you.
• 4:06
  Speaker 2: I immediately it was like, how can we do this?
• 4:08
  Speaker 2: Can we get in to talk to them, can we
• 4:09
  Speaker 2: see them what.
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: They got going on?
• 4:10
  Speaker 2: So so let me tell you as a fan, I'm
• 4:12
  Speaker 2: sure you see all the comments. This is exciting you guys.
• 4:15
  Speaker 2: You guys not on country radio with newer music. I mean,
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: that's that was an absence that was felt, and I
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: don't think a lot of artists can say that.
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: Absolutely appreciate And I.
• 4:24
  Speaker 1: Got to be honest too. I don't know about these guys,
• 4:25
  Speaker 1: but I'm tired of being asked every day when we're
• 4:27
  Speaker 1: gonna get back together. So I'm kind of glad we
• 4:30
  Speaker 1: got the answer. Question gets a little bit, well, it
• 4:33
  Speaker 1: let up five years of it is a lot.
• 4:37
  Speaker 2: Be like I mean, and regardless of how it is,
• 4:40
  Speaker 2: be like how many times you walk them to your
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: friend and be like, hey, when are you ever going
• 4:43
  Speaker 2: to call her back? It's like you don't know, you
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: don't your own business, right. I don't want to put
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: the cart before the horse. This, this reunion is really
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: what it is right now. Would you call it reunion
• 4:55
  Speaker 2: versus the bands back together?
• 4:57
  Speaker 4: I would call it celebration of twenty five years now,
• 5:00
  Speaker 4: you know, because it's that's really the focus. You know,
• 5:02
  Speaker 4: it's just to just to give it all back to
• 5:04
  Speaker 4: the fans. You know, we've had five years of this
• 5:06
  Speaker 4: stuff build up and COVID. You know, nobody wants to
• 5:10
  Speaker 4: end that way. So this is just we're gonna knock
• 5:12
  Speaker 4: these out and see what see what happens.
• 5:15
  Speaker 1: You know, I gotta date these guys again before I
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: jump into marriage with them.
• 5:19
  Speaker 4: You.
• 5:19
  Speaker 1: I want to see if they I want to see
• 5:21
  Speaker 1: if they put out, see.
• 5:24
  Speaker 4: What I can get to with these boys.
• 5:26
  Speaker 3: Listen, I feel like you all are second base for
• 5:28
  Speaker 3: the first day. Definitely got the second base.
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: Let me ask you, guys, anybody that looks up your
• 5:37
  Speaker 2: name in a streaming platformer on YouTube, there is a
• 5:40
  Speaker 2: long list of phenomenal songs. Obviously, the partnership with Disney
• 5:43
  Speaker 2: and the Cars franchise was massively successful, But everybody has misses, right,
• 5:50
  Speaker 2: And I love to ask, what's a song that Whether
• 5:54
  Speaker 2: it was something you wrote, you were you were in
• 5:56
  Speaker 2: on the right, or maybe just hit your inbox that
• 5:59
  Speaker 2: you passed on and ended up big for somebody else. Now,
• 6:02
  Speaker 2: let me preface this with the song has to work
• 6:04
  Speaker 2: for you, right. Just because it's a hit for somebody
• 6:07
  Speaker 2: else doesn't mean it just didn't feel.
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: Right for you. You have to live with it.
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: George Straight told Kenny Chesney told us he passed on
• 6:14
  Speaker 2: check yes or No, And that's one of George Strait's
• 6:17
  Speaker 2: biggest songs, especially for more current country fans, right, So
• 6:19
  Speaker 2: what's a song like that for Rascal Flats.
• 6:21
  Speaker 1: There there was a song by that we got pitched
• 6:25
  Speaker 1: first that we passed on called Chase and Airplanes that
• 6:28
  Speaker 1: Gary Allen wrote that was ended up being a really
• 6:30
  Speaker 1: big hit for him. And you know, it's now it
• 6:34
  Speaker 1: sounds like a Gary Allen song, but I feel like
• 6:36
  Speaker 1: it would have been a great Rascal Flats and.
• 6:38
  Speaker 5: The opposite of that. Like Keith Urbin had These Days
• 6:42
  Speaker 5: on hold for a while and he let it go
• 6:45
  Speaker 5: and we we were able to record it, and so
• 6:47
  Speaker 5: that became a good hit for.
• 6:48
  Speaker 1: H And I've told me that when he played These Days,
• 6:52
  Speaker 1: he was like, Keith, I feel like we need to
• 6:53
  Speaker 1: cut this man, it's gonna be big. And he gets no,
• 6:55
  Speaker 1: night doesn't sound like me noting on it.
• 6:59
  Speaker 2: The music is way better than your impression, I'm gonna
• 7:01
  Speaker 2: be honest.
• 7:03
  Speaker 4: The other one we passed on to that was a
• 7:05
  Speaker 4: big hit was the Ald and Kelly Clark's and oh
• 7:10
  Speaker 4: but we're already done with with Natasa so we couldn't
• 7:13
  Speaker 4: have to but that, you know, but that was giant
• 7:17
  Speaker 4: song too.
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Hey, keep pitching and stuff. We'll keep passing big hits.
• 7:23
  Speaker 3: For somebody else. Professionals, guys keep Niceville.
• 7:29
  Speaker 5: It's some songs you record and all of a sudden
• 7:32
  Speaker 5: they've become a single. You're like, well, I didn't see
• 7:34
  Speaker 5: that coming.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: That's cool.
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: What's the biggest surprise hit that's in your library?
• 7:39
  Speaker 1: Surprise hit?
• 7:39
  Speaker 3: Yeah that maybe you didn't believe in and you're like, sure,
• 7:42
  Speaker 3: let's roll the dice.
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: I would I know what I know, well, I know
• 7:48
  Speaker 4: what skin definitely, and it's just how it broke us down.
• 7:52
  Speaker 4: But it was kind of like, gosh, do we attack
• 7:54
  Speaker 4: it cancer? A song about cancer.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: Out to a remember we put it as a Hitten
• 8:01
  Speaker 1: track on the CD too.
• 8:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, Jay's like, if it's going to be on the album,
• 8:04
  Speaker 5: it's got to be hidding because I hate this song.
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: It was, yeah, I know what it did.
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: The first time we heard it, you know, we were
• 8:14
  Speaker 4: just emotional wreck, but we were like, yeah, y, I
• 8:17
  Speaker 4: don't know.
• 8:18
  Speaker 1: It wasn't that I hated the song and the subject
• 8:20
  Speaker 1: matter had touched our families in so many different ways
• 8:23
  Speaker 1: because we've dealt with cancer so much in my family
• 8:26
  Speaker 1: that I was just uncomfortable every time I heard the song,
• 8:29
  Speaker 1: and I didn't want to be the poster children for
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: you know, singing songs about cancer, and it was it
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: was hard for me. But when we started hearing the
• 8:38
  Speaker 1: stories and seeing people come to the shows where were
• 8:41
  Speaker 1: the couple came stood in front and the kid had
• 8:44
  Speaker 1: shaved his head and took his hat off. And when
• 8:46
  Speaker 1: you start seeing stuff like that and you start getting
• 8:49
  Speaker 1: those goosebumps, you realize that you know, there's somebody bigger
• 8:53
  Speaker 1: than us at work, and there's a reason that everything happens.
• 8:55
  Speaker 4: And the stories were of how much it helped them,
• 9:00
  Speaker 4: you know what I mean. We're telling one side of
• 9:03
  Speaker 4: the story, but it was just what that song did
• 9:06
  Speaker 4: to people going through it are people, you know, just
• 9:10
  Speaker 4: it was crazy. The reaction was different than what we
• 9:13
  Speaker 4: thought when we heard it, you know.
• 9:14
  Speaker 5: And that's one thing you can't have anymore, is hidden
• 9:16
  Speaker 5: tracks true.
• 9:18
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 9:20
  Speaker 1: I used to once a month, we used to do
• 9:22
  Speaker 1: this thing where we'd sit Joe on in the middle
• 9:23
  Speaker 1: of the stage and shave his head while we were
• 9:26
  Speaker 1: singing it. And it was gosh, I missed those moments.
• 9:29
  Speaker 1: I'm kidding.
• 9:30
  Speaker 3: We didn't do it.
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: Listen, I say, you do it anyway. I could talk
• 9:33
  Speaker 2: to y'all forever, But I know my time is tight.
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: Last thing I want to ask is as you guys
• 9:38
  Speaker 2: decided to get together and celebrate is the word we're using.
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: You know what all you've done in all that country
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: music has been able to wrap its arms around. Who
• 9:49
  Speaker 2: made the first phone call, our first email, or the
• 9:52
  Speaker 2: first text.
• 9:53
  Speaker 1: Really my wife calt Gary and said, if you don't
• 9:55
  Speaker 1: get Jay out of the house and put him back
• 9:56
  Speaker 1: on the road, I'm gonna kill him.
• 9:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah. So I immediately Paul Jay like, hey man, look
• 10:03
  Speaker 4: if you want if you want to see tomorrow, tomorrow.
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: Gary and I started texting with each other toward the
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: end of last year, after around around the holidays, just
• 10:12
  Speaker 1: checking in really and just saying, you know, Merry Christmas
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: or whatever. And then we started reminiscing about some memories,
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: and we started texting back and forth one night, laughing
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: about some things that had happened and kind of lamented
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: that we missed making memories together and making music together.
• 10:28
  Speaker 1: And that's how the conversation really took off. And then
• 10:33
  Speaker 1: we started talking more seriously about it. Like he said,
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: probably three or four months ago, we started going, well,
• 10:38
  Speaker 1: what if what if we went out and just did
• 10:40
  Speaker 1: a handful of shows to celebrate and love back on
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: some of our fans, and the ball got rolling from
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: there and here we are, and I'm really grateful to
• 10:49
  Speaker 1: be here today.
• 10:52
  Speaker 3: I'm listen.
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: I don't want to again KRT before the horse, and
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: I don't know if the tables would by my knock
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: on it.
• 10:57
  Speaker 3: We're glad that we're able to celebrate Rascal Flats. We're
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: hoping that there's a reason to celebrate even more.
• 11:02
  Speaker 2: Thank you soon, Thanks bunks, welcome back guys, Thank you
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: Boom boom.
• 11:07
  Speaker 3: You look at that and I was almost on time.
• 11:10
  Speaker 3: Could I get