I was airbrushing t-shirts in a Niagara Falls,NY souvenir store.The teenagers from the pizzeria next door were in the store talking to some guy and then got his autograph. When he was done he walked over to check out what I was doing. I asked him if he was a somebody and then he noticed I was reading USA Today. He turned the paper a couple pages back and pointed to an article about Bush that I had just read and said “That’s me.” It was Gavin; we talked about the band, I liked them and heard them on Canadian stations calling them “Bush X.” He said that was good, a folk singer owned the name Bush in Canada. A salesgirl I worked with wanted Gavin’s autograph , she didn’t know who he was but thought he was cute, so he signed the USA Today article and I found the rest of the band and they happily signed it too, we had a short chat. They were really nice guys.
Im gonna call bullshit..its like that time i went to see Hendrix play at Monterrey and before the show i dropped some window pane .everything was going groovy until Jimi launched into voodoo chile( slight return).... The girl in front of me who had ample breasts that i had been noticing the whole day started to melt..i felt on the verge of losing my shit so i closed my eyes..and as Jimi flowed into the solo like a psychedelic rainbo river, i released my mind and saw God in all her beauty..i never wanted to leave that space i had found that day .there was no race , no crime , no hate, no mental issues, nothing ugly , no evil..wow, man
I will never understand why Bush got so much hate, they have an awesome sound with Gavin having a unique voice, all he wanted to do was play music and make music, and for those saying they sound like nirvana I really don’t hear it
Having lived through those years, it was a stupid trend after Kurt's passing. Even STP got that kind of flak. Just because grunge sound shared musical elements it didn't mean the bands were reaping off each other. Instead it was a beautiful fountain of different visions coming out simultaneously. Now we're stuck with prefabricated studio garbage. Clone music by cloned teams of one hit wonders.
They were low brow Nirvana knock offs . Rossdale has a way better singing voice than the raspy , gravelly voice he went with at the time . To put it another way , a lot people were not buying what Bush were selling because they came off as disingenuous .
Glad to see Bush getting some love on this channel. I always thought that they were criminally underrated. They always got hate that I never felt they deserved. I am glad to see them still making good albums. Their latest album "The Kingdom" is excellent.
I'm glad i'm not the only one that feels this way. I was becoming a teenager around the time bands like Bush and Silverchair were breaking big here in the USA and I still consider them among my favorite bands of all time. The nostalgia I have for Sixteen Stone especially is deep and even girls that weren't very into rock music still dug songs like Glycerine.
@@nkw1985 I liked silverchair. Bush and oasis were just awful. Bush was a change the channel band every time unless I felt like doing my spoof song Listerine.
Yes this true but Chris traynor is pretty awesome in his own right. I like what he brings to the table. Is it Nigel? No, but you have to give it to Chris for making it his own. I respect that.
@@bbilagody of course he is technically capable, but Chris is a very different guitar player, I’m surprised that anyone would think that he would be a good replacement when Nigel left.
Thanks for doing this, Bush was one of the my favorite bands when I was a kid. Those first 2 albums are total bangers front to back imo..Loved Nigel when he was in the band too!
I’m a metal head but Bush was definitely one of my favorite commercial bands in the 90’s! They never really had the same success after Sixteen Stone and always rooted for their return to form but sadly it never came.
Yeah Sixteen Stone kept the song structures simple and catchy. Once a band starts producing slow melancholy crap, they are dead to me. Basically every "grunge" band turned in to that.
@@JasonEllingsworth no there was only a few big real grunge bands and non really sold out. Nirvana, alice in chains, soundgarden, melvuns, screaming trees, mother love bone. Post grunge is all sell out crap and there's millions of fake grunge bands.
Bush is on tour with Breaking Benjamin and Alice in Chains in the states currently. Saw Gavin last Friday and high fived him as he ran through the crowd during one of his songs.
Just seen bush and breaking Benjamin last night in Michigan 5/16/23 it was awesome, singer of Bush ran through the crowd while performing at the age of 57, ud of thought he was 20 if you didn't know
I saw them in Jersey opening up for AIC in Aug 2022. What a totally amazing, energetic show they put on. Personally, I think they stole the show just with the amount of heart they put into it. Much respect.
Seen bush back in 2012 they opened for slash still sounded good, in the middle of the show Gavin Rossdale went and randomly hopped and skipped through the crowd
Nothing makes me feel the way I do when I hear bush ! It’s romantic, dramatic, rageful, sad and really so many things - all in a good way. They helped shape a lot of my personal music and hbe been an inspiration to me. Bush has also set the mood in my house or in my car on many many early mornings, afternoons and late nights.
I loved sixteen stone as a young teenager. So the story was surprising to hear. I guess it goes to show how hard it is to make it in the business. I always wanted a white jazzmaster after seeing him play one live on TV. I still remember the “I
I remember the listening stations in the Virgin megastores. I would always go to the one in downtown SF that was 3 stories, and my first stop was always the listening stations near the registers. Listening to samples of a new album was so exciting back then.
Great info bro. Definitely one of the best Albums/CDs of the 90s. It looked like they were so busy touring 16 Stone that they threw a chick on a bike and live clips in a vid just to keep fans happy for Machinehead, great song. 16 Stn is still one of my all time favorite plays. It's just about perfect all the way threw.😎✌
I just saw them at the Salt Shed in Chicago on Saturday. Oh my God, they rocked it. It was spectacular. Gavin ran into the crowd and was high fiving people in the aisle seats during "Flowers On A Grave". I can't believe i was that close to him. The other band they headlined with (Silversun Pickups) put on a good show too.
Thats great but nothing after Golden State was really Bush... not with Nigel gone... Sound of WInter, Flowers on a Grave, & Bullet Holes are really good songs overall... but they are far from the sound of Bush's first few albums...
I was in high school when I heard BUSH for the first time. It was around 93’-94’ and they are still my favorite band today.. Warm Machine, Alien and Swallowed are 🔥🔥🔥and I finally got to see them in San Antonio around 2013….. wasn’t aware of any of this but glad I found this page… The Pixies “Trompe le Monde” also 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I remember not liking Bush at first when I heard them, but secretly I loved Machinehead and Glycerine on the radio... many many decades later, I own Sixteen Stone 3 times.. 2 on cd, and 1 on vinyl.
Here's the videos I reference including the Pixies and The Cranberries The Pixies video ruclips.net/video/WfkmimIdyGE/видео.html The Cranberries Video ruclips.net/video/HeF7aYQinRY/видео.html
There might not have been much going on in the States mid nineties. but In Britain there was Brit Pop so called, in the mainstream and various offshoots of house music evolving. That's why Bush weren't really noticed, too much else going on.
@@knowur10sand18s experimenting in your teens is very different than having a crush on a trans person to this day. You should consider facts, not tabloids.
Great vid! I was 13 when 16 stone came out. Changed everything for me. I've listened to the song "Alien" hundreds of times... such a beautiful song. Would recommend listening to it when it rains outside. Just lovely!
Fun fact: I saw Bush & Local H together at the Emerald Theatre in Mt. Clemens, Michigan! *STELLAR* show! Gavin came down into the audience & sang right in front of me for about 30 seconds before moving on to grace other fans with his talent & charisma. DAMN! He was so sexy! Scott Lucas came out wearing a gorilla suit carrying a fifth of Maker’s Mark & his guitar. Brian St. Clair had a giant stuffed Animal (Muppet character drummer) onstage to his left. I’m still in awe of Scott & Brian’s talent!💜
I was one of those teens obsessed with them.... but now after growing and evolving years later and discovering the Real Truth(what TV doesn't tell the public 😉).. they're just like everybody else*....
I loved Bush when i was a teenager. My fave song was Comedown which i ended up finding out was about Suze DiMarchi. She was lead singer of a band called Baby Animals here in Australia and i had the biggest crush on her growing up. Had no idea they were a item back then. Saw Baby Animals live a few months back, they are still brilliant and i recommend anyone to check them out if they haven't previously.
I was and am still a huge Bush fan. As a guitarist, I would like to point out that the *main* way that Bush is divergent from a band like Nirvana is/was...Nigel Pulsfor. As a lead guitarist, he seemed to have a different idea about how to create soundscapes and integrating noise into his parts. The Science of Things really showed his fascination with the use of stomp boxes for instance.
Nigel was definitely the difference maker. I've never really been impressed with Chris Traynor's instrumental-writing or his playing of Nigel's written parts. Nigel just had a style all his own.
@@WarmothGuitarist As a guy that grew up getting lessons and my instructor was very much teaching me scales and how to be a lead guitarist, I just always really liked Nigel Pulsfor's sense of how to use his guitar as well as effects and kind of blend it all. I also really love Botch for the same reason.
@@mattslay9407 Definitely. Nigel was very good at adding atmosphere with little bleeds of feedback or delayed notes. Always made me wonder "what in the world made him think to put THAT there?", but it always fit perfectly. Another player that is really good at it is Billy Howerdell.
It took me a while to warm up to Bush. When I got into alternative rock, Razorblade Suitcase had just come out and Swallowed was inescapable. I still hate that song to this day. It wasn't until I went back and found some of the much better songs on 16 Stone that I started to appreciate them.
Sixteen Stone is a flawless album. I loved a few of their albums, and highly recommend Golden State album. Although it didnt get much love in 2001, I think it's just as good as Sixteen Stone. I've seen Bush live a few years back and they were still pretty good. They arent the same band today, after the original band members left... they never been the same.
Bush toured with Hole back in the day. Some say Bush could have done with a set trim and that Hole blew them offstage... Mr Rossdale definitely did a solid acting job in Constantine.
Hell yes. I absolutely love that movie and its soundtrack (A Perfect Circle as Constantine walks through Midnight's bar...squee!). I was surprised he didn't mention his acting career, but I suppose rock music is the theme here. Thanks for mentioning it! Cheers! 🤘🏻🌬🍷
I loved this album when I was a kid growing up in the 90’s. I 100% bought 16 stone and razor blade suitcase albums. I guess I was too young to remember them being disliked by so many people. Imo the music still holds up today.
When I was like 13 I had a Razorblade Suitcase shirt, and when I was delivering newspapers, some Boomer that I passed on my paper route asked me if that was a shirt for the beer brand Busch.
I saw Alice In Chains recently in Seattle with Bush and Breaking Benjamin Bush might've been late to the grunge party, but their sound fits right in with Alice, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana.
It's weird because I was in high school whenever Sixteen Stones came out and I don't recall anyone hating on them for sounding like a Seattle band or anything, but then again, I didn't read the music magazines and there wasn't social media back then. I saw them back in 2019 and they're still pretty legit!
Going to see them at the end of the month with Breaking Benjamin and I can't wait! I wanted to see them when I was a teenager but never got the chance...glad they are playing again :D
Since you’re doing a lot British acts now can you look into The Happy Mondays/Black Grape and the hard partying of Shaun Ryder. Or even the story of rock fans/couple Dennis and Lois (also tied to Happy Mondays). If you’re not familiar with the stories look into them, they’re really interesting.
Growing up, I loved the fact that Bush had a different name in my country. All Cds, music videos, promo materials, etc, had their name as "Bush X". Bush X was amazing when I was a teenager.
Bushes first 2 albums were absolute Awesomeness, even though I was a massive metalhead back in the 90's in my teens I thought Bush was one of the few exceptions when it came to alternative rock with Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam being the other 2. I never thought of Soundgarden and Alice In Chains as "alternative" so those 2 do not count.
Sixteen stone is one of the few albums that all the songs are good. One of my favorite bands in the 90s. The 90s had some amazing music and was a great time to be a teen. I remember pre wokeness and it was amazing. Things weren't all about race and we just liked what was good from alternative to gangsta rap.
I saw Bush in 2019 while they were performing with Live and Our Lady Peace. It had been years since I had seen a performer with the level of energy that Gavin brings to his live performances. He was incredible.
Back in 99 my brother's wife was a hotel receptionist on Catalina Island and met the couple. She recommended a private beach for their privacy and where we were playing a gig. After the gig we hung out for awhile trading songs on my guitar. I recognized Gwen from No Doubt but had no idea who her man was lol!! We kept jamming while she passed out on a picnic table. It was a monday & noone was around really. I had no idea he was this multi million selling rockstar. Never heard of him or his music lol! My friends were like wtf u jammed with so & so who did all this such & such? And here i was doing an oldies cover gig lol! Fame was destined to elude me!!
BUSH has been my favorite band since I was 12 years old....I'm now 37 and I got to meet Gavin FINALLY in 2019 at one of their shows😁 thanks for this video❤️❤️❤️
I'm from Europe, in my mid thirties. I got into music really early and was familiar with Bush because Razorblade Suitcase had some cool singles. Wasn't a fan fan, though. A couple years ago while sitting at work I thought about listening to it again. And right there and then I've learned that this isn't their debut. This is how much more popular they were in the US.
I saw them, with the Goo Goo Dolls opening, at the Coliseum in 1996. You would've thought they were the next Beatles with how loud all the girls were screaming when Gavin walked out on the stage.
I had no idea they where that successful, I remember hearing them sporadically on the radio and my old man would refure to them as "not pearl jam" I thought more or less they where something of a short lived band with moderate to little success so this has been interesting to see the actual did pretty well in the day.
Never got to see them when they came out when I was high school. Seen them a few times in recent years and they still put on an AMAZING live show!! Sixteen Stone is still one of my most favorite albums ever. I still own the CD I bought in '95.
I always viewed this band as a teenybopper version of Nirvana. What the major record labels wanted Nirvana to be but Nirvana refused to be. You know how the boy bands make billions of dollars for their corporate record labels simply by swooning all the teenage girls with their looks? That's the exact same impression I got looking at Bush. Same with Silverchair ftm. The Britpop bands of the latter half of the 90s were what actually destroyed alternative, turning it from a movement of potential change in the industry to becoming the new generic rock formula, they by and large lacked the edge of alot of the American bands of the first half of the 90s.
Tracks like Glycerine and Greedy Fly were not "teenybopper Nirvana." Just because that's what the critics saw when Rossdale preened, it doesn't change the actual quality of the art. I loved the first two Bush records (Bush X here in Canada), and performed several of those tracks in the band I was in at the time. Those songs had power, and he was under-rated as a composer.
Under rated critically but not commercially. Never really the same after Nigel left them but they were the soundtrack to my 90’s and turned me on to PJ Harvey , My bloody Valentine .
I saw Bush at a small venue in Hampton Beach ,N.H.,the Casino Ballroom,I loved that Sixteen Stone album,the show was amazing,that Album is complete Power,Gavin seemed a bit Narcissistic,but it may have been part of the show,but man that show was Great!
We renamed them the 'Hairless Scotums', after they threw two concerts in a row in Seattle. I had 🎟tickets, they never played. We used the CD as a Frisbee over the Whiskaw river. "Open arms". 😊 🌳
Hello bush band. Hi Gavin. I love your songs. I watched some aspects of flowers on a grave. I saw a couple of drum solos and a teaching by Chris trainer, tips on flowers on a grave opening. Love you all. See you much later, love Donna lee
They had some great songs using the electric guitar with just vocals a little bit of keyboard over the chorus at the time it was pure genius to this day that song sounds great and aged pretty well as far as I'm concerned I've tried to imitate that song for years I've yet to come up with such a beautiful song that just uses simple power chord structure and vocals was seriously genius
Loved them back in the 90's. Unfortunately, a bunch of music journalists decided that no one had the right to play alternative hard rock after Cobain committed suicide (especially outside of Seattle, let alone the US). So, it became cool to hate them. That being said, when Nigel left, the band just was not Bush anymore.
@@CharlieFader korn and Bush were in the same genre to me, awful. Add in limp bizkit and kid rock and their spawns and my interest in rock music faded quickly
@@whitedeion598 cool, but that’s not a genre. As far as new metal is concerned, Korn and especially Defrones had some great songs. I couldn’t stand Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock.
I was listening to KROQ in the mid 90's. Bush was like a house band for that station. No mention of Bush and No Doubt touring together to produce the union of Rossdale and Stefani? The ever suave Gavin is now dating a new Gwen, 30 years his junior. He was destined to become tabloid fodder.
Favourite Bush song?
Everyone likes Glycerine, but I'd say Machine head.
Comedown
Mindchanger. All of the science of things is pretty solid
Machine Head
Darude - Sandstorm
I was airbrushing t-shirts in a Niagara Falls,NY souvenir store.The teenagers from the pizzeria next door were in the store talking to some guy and then got his autograph. When he was done he walked over to check out what I was doing. I asked him if he was a somebody and then he noticed I was reading USA Today. He turned the paper a couple pages back and pointed to an article about Bush that I had just read and said “That’s me.” It was Gavin; we talked about the band, I liked them and heard them on Canadian stations calling them “Bush X.” He said that was good, a folk singer owned the name Bush in Canada. A salesgirl I worked with wanted Gavin’s autograph , she didn’t know who he was but thought he was cute, so he signed the USA Today article and I found the rest of the band and they happily signed it too, we had a short chat. They were really nice guys.
Apparently the Canadian Bush agreed to release the trademark on the condition that the UK Bush made a charitable donation
New York state is awesome ur lucky!
Im gonna call bullshit..its like that time i went to see Hendrix play at Monterrey and before the show i dropped some window pane .everything was going groovy until Jimi launched into voodoo chile( slight return)....
The girl in front of me who had ample breasts that i had been noticing the whole day started to melt..i felt on the verge of losing my shit so i closed my eyes..and as Jimi flowed into the solo like a psychedelic rainbo river, i released my mind and saw God in all her beauty..i never wanted to leave that space i had found that day .there was no race , no crime , no hate, no mental issues, nothing ugly , no evil..wow, man
Well paint your perfect day, I bet you didn't want to come down off that cloud.
@@robertemory3620 what possible reason would I lie? But good story troll. Your life must suck.
I will never understand why Bush got so much hate, they have an awesome sound with Gavin having a unique voice, all he wanted to do was play music and make music, and for those saying they sound like nirvana I really don’t hear it
Having lived through those years, it was a stupid trend after Kurt's passing. Even STP got that kind of flak. Just because grunge sound shared musical elements it didn't mean the bands were reaping off each other. Instead it was a beautiful fountain of different visions coming out simultaneously. Now we're stuck with prefabricated studio garbage. Clone music by cloned teams of one hit wonders.
I feel like Bush saved grunge. Grunge would have completely died without them.
Agreed
I saw Bush a week ago! Awesome! Gavin looks, sings, moves like he did back in the day. He jumped in the crowd and I touched his sweaty arm!!!❤❤❤
They were low brow Nirvana knock offs . Rossdale has a way better singing voice than the raspy , gravelly voice he went with at the time . To put it another way , a lot people were not buying what Bush were selling because they came off as disingenuous .
Glad to see Bush getting some love on this channel. I always thought that they were criminally underrated. They always got hate that I never felt they deserved. I am glad to see them still making good albums. Their latest album "The Kingdom" is excellent.
I'm glad i'm not the only one that feels this way. I was becoming a teenager around the time bands like Bush and Silverchair were breaking big here in the USA and I still consider them among my favorite bands of all time. The nostalgia I have for Sixteen Stone especially is deep and even girls that weren't very into rock music still dug songs like Glycerine.
@@nkw1985 I liked silverchair. Bush and oasis were just awful. Bush was a change the channel band every time unless I felt like doing my spoof song Listerine.
Flowers on a grave is so good from that album.
@@patrickstar6247 it is. I loved it
@@whitedeion598 replaced alice in chains and nirvana. Wasn't bad just copy cats.
*_Nigel was the secret weapon in Bush. I’m glad Gavin and crew are still chugging along, but Nigel’s irreplaceable._*
100% agree...he was/is a great guitarist and Bush was just never the same after Razorblade Suitcase or Chemicals for that matter..
Nigels a guitar hero
Yes this true but Chris traynor is pretty awesome in his own right. I like what he brings to the table. Is it Nigel? No, but you have to give it to Chris for making it his own. I respect that.
Yea...he made great use of feedback and noises he can make. Pretty incredible on record
@@bbilagody of course he is technically capable, but Chris is a very different guitar player, I’m surprised that anyone would think that he would be a good replacement when Nigel left.
Thanks for doing this, Bush was one of the my favorite bands when I was a kid. Those first 2 albums are total bangers front to back imo..Loved Nigel when he was in the band too!
Science of Things is underrated as well.
Exactly Nigel pulsford brought it to life
I’m a metal head but Bush was definitely one of my favorite commercial bands in the 90’s! They never really had the same success after Sixteen Stone and always rooted for their return to form but sadly it never came.
"The Chemicals Between Us" was a great song, however.
@@bobthebear1246 not a bad song but the rest of the album not so much.
Same. They had a huge impact on me
Yeah Sixteen Stone kept the song structures simple and catchy. Once a band starts producing slow melancholy crap, they are dead to me. Basically every "grunge" band turned in to that.
@@JasonEllingsworth no there was only a few big real grunge bands and non really sold out. Nirvana, alice in chains, soundgarden, melvuns, screaming trees, mother love bone. Post grunge is all sell out crap and there's millions of fake grunge bands.
Bush is on tour with Breaking Benjamin and Alice in Chains in the states currently. Saw Gavin last Friday and high fived him as he ran through the crowd during one of his songs.
Just seen bush and breaking Benjamin last night in Michigan 5/16/23 it was awesome, singer of Bush ran through the crowd while performing at the age of 57, ud of thought he was 20 if you didn't know
I saw him in FL on that tour, they are awesome!!
Minneapolis at the filmore, the show was spectacular would definitely see them again
That’s a great memory good for you brother
There is no Alice In Chains without Layne....
I saw them in Jersey opening up for AIC in Aug 2022. What a totally amazing, energetic show they put on. Personally, I think they stole the show just with the amount of heart they put into it. Much respect.
Seen bush back in 2012 they opened for slash still sounded good, in the middle of the show Gavin Rossdale went and randomly hopped and skipped through the crowd
Bush was lowkey one of my favorites in the late-ninties. Oddly, I got into their catalog well before discovering Nirvana.
Deadass? Lowkey?
Shut up.
Far as I know Bush is alive and well, and the latest album, the Kingdom, is fucking killer.
Nothing makes me feel the way I do when I hear bush ! It’s romantic, dramatic, rageful, sad and really so many things - all in a good way. They helped shape a lot of my personal music and hbe been an inspiration to me. Bush has also set the mood in my house or in my car on many many early mornings, afternoons and late nights.
Bush was my favorite band during the mid 90’s…
"Whatever happened to Bush?" lol. Here I am listening to the four albums they put out in the past decade. they're still awesome.
i still listen to 16 stone every now and then! great album!
I loved sixteen stone as a young teenager. So the story was surprising to hear. I guess it goes to show how hard it is to make it in the business. I always wanted a white jazzmaster after seeing him play one live on TV. I still remember the “I
I remember the listening stations in the Virgin megastores. I would always go to the one in downtown SF that was 3 stories, and my first stop was always the listening stations near the registers. Listening to samples of a new album was so exciting back then.
Greedy Fly was the best song on Suitcase, first album was an instant classic...great band.
Great info bro. Definitely one of the best Albums/CDs of the 90s. It looked like they were so busy touring 16 Stone that they threw a chick on a bike and live clips in a vid just to keep fans happy for Machinehead, great song. 16 Stn is still one of my all time favorite plays. It's just about perfect all the way threw.😎✌
I just saw them at the Salt Shed in Chicago on Saturday. Oh my God, they rocked it. It was spectacular. Gavin ran into the crowd and was high fiving people in the aisle seats during "Flowers On A Grave". I can't believe i was that close to him. The other band they headlined with (Silversun Pickups) put on a good show too.
Thats great but nothing after Golden State was really Bush... not with Nigel gone... Sound of WInter, Flowers on a Grave, & Bullet Holes are really good songs overall... but they are far from the sound of Bush's first few albums...
I was in high school when I heard BUSH for the first time. It was around 93’-94’ and they are still my favorite band today.. Warm Machine, Alien and Swallowed are 🔥🔥🔥and I finally got to see them in San Antonio around 2013….. wasn’t aware of any of this but glad I found this page… The Pixies “Trompe le Monde” also 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I remember not liking Bush at first when I heard them, but secretly I loved Machinehead and Glycerine on the radio... many many decades later, I own Sixteen Stone 3 times.. 2 on cd, and 1 on vinyl.
Here's the videos I reference including the Pixies and The Cranberries
The Pixies video
ruclips.net/video/WfkmimIdyGE/видео.html
The Cranberries Video
ruclips.net/video/HeF7aYQinRY/видео.html
Did you know Gavin was also trans in the mid to late 80s? He was in a relationship with a guy who to this day has a Lifelong crush on him.
Hey
There might not have been much going on in the States mid nineties. but In Britain there was Brit Pop so called, in the mainstream and various offshoots of house music evolving. That's why Bush weren't really noticed, too much else going on.
@@knowur10sand18s experimenting in your teens is very different than having a crush on a trans person to this day. You should consider facts, not tabloids.
WTF?
Great vid! I was 13 when 16 stone came out. Changed everything for me. I've listened to the song "Alien" hundreds of times... such a beautiful song. Would recommend listening to it when it rains outside. Just lovely!
Sixteen Stone and Razorblade Suitcase are really good albums. Use to listen to them all the time
Bush is a great band. Sixteen Stone and Razorblade Suitcase are awesome albums.
I've always liked Bush, I love his voice. I just watched on Quello a concert they did in 2019. They are still great.
I just had to like you're comment I see you have my guy Layne as your profile pic
Fun fact: I saw Bush & Local H together at the Emerald Theatre in Mt. Clemens, Michigan! *STELLAR* show! Gavin came down into the audience & sang right in front of me for about 30 seconds before moving on to grace other fans with his talent & charisma. DAMN! He was so sexy! Scott Lucas came out wearing a gorilla suit carrying a fifth of Maker’s Mark & his guitar. Brian St. Clair had a giant stuffed Animal (Muppet character drummer) onstage to his left. I’m still in awe of Scott & Brian’s talent!💜
I was one of those teens obsessed with them.... but now after growing and evolving years later and discovering the Real Truth(what TV doesn't tell the public 😉).. they're just like everybody else*....
I loved Bush when i was a teenager. My fave song was Comedown which i ended up finding out was about Suze DiMarchi. She was lead singer of a band called Baby Animals here in Australia and i had the biggest crush on her growing up. Had no idea they were a item back then. Saw Baby Animals live a few months back, they are still brilliant and i recommend anyone to check them out if they haven't previously.
I was and am still a huge Bush fan. As a guitarist, I would like to point out that the *main* way that Bush is divergent from a band like Nirvana is/was...Nigel Pulsfor. As a lead guitarist, he seemed to have a different idea about how to create soundscapes and integrating noise into his parts. The Science of Things really showed his fascination with the use of stomp boxes for instance.
Nigel was definitely the difference maker. I've never really been impressed with Chris Traynor's instrumental-writing or his playing of Nigel's written parts. Nigel just had a style all his own.
@@WarmothGuitarist As a guy that grew up getting lessons and my instructor was very much teaching me scales and how to be a lead guitarist, I just always really liked Nigel Pulsfor's sense of how to use his guitar as well as effects and kind of blend it all. I also really love Botch for the same reason.
@@mattslay9407
Definitely. Nigel was very good at adding atmosphere with little bleeds of feedback or delayed notes. Always made me wonder "what in the world made him think to put THAT there?", but it always fit perfectly.
Another player that is really good at it is Billy Howerdell.
It took me a while to warm up to Bush. When I got into alternative rock, Razorblade Suitcase had just come out and Swallowed was inescapable. I still hate that song to this day. It wasn't until I went back and found some of the much better songs on 16 Stone that I started to appreciate them.
Haven’t thought of Bush in 20 years.
really, i think about bush all the time
@@kdbutter23 you don’t see bush as much these. Sad
Sixteen Stone is a flawless album. I loved a few of their albums, and highly recommend Golden State album. Although it didnt get much love in 2001, I think it's just as good as Sixteen Stone. I've seen Bush live a few years back and they were still pretty good. They arent the same band today, after the original band members left... they never been the same.
I think The Science of Things is their best album. I don't really even like any of their other music, but that album is so good!
@@MilesWilliams88 Science has some good underrated songs. I like Prizefighter and Spacetravel
@@kyklain86 Definitely! I love how weird some of the tracks are. Just a good alternative album.
As someone who grew up at the time, "STP sounds like Pearl Jam" and "Bush sounds like Nirvana" are just two things I cannot get at all.
Bush toured with Hole back in the day. Some say Bush could have done with a set trim and that Hole blew them offstage...
Mr Rossdale definitely did a solid acting job in Constantine.
Hell yes. I absolutely love that movie and its soundtrack (A Perfect Circle as Constantine walks through Midnight's bar...squee!). I was surprised he didn't mention his acting career, but I suppose rock music is the theme here. Thanks for mentioning it! Cheers! 🤘🏻🌬🍷
I loved this album when I was a kid growing up in the 90’s. I 100% bought 16 stone and razor blade suitcase albums. I guess I was too young to remember them being disliked by so many people. Imo the music still holds up today.
When I was like 13 I had a Razorblade Suitcase shirt, and when I was delivering newspapers, some Boomer that I passed on my paper route asked me if that was a shirt for the beer brand Busch.
I hope you said yes.
I still have the shirt and wear it sometimes. Actually have 2. :)
@@mrg4388 I got mine from Spencer's Gifts at our mall. My older sister and her friend had camouflage Bush shirts that said "BUSH ARMY" on them!
I saw Alice In Chains recently in Seattle with Bush and Breaking Benjamin
Bush might've been late to the grunge party, but their sound fits right in with Alice, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and Nirvana.
Great video. I love these guys, and that’s saying a lot, for a guy that’s almost strictly metal.
Bush was part of life in the 90s
Bush is amazing. Must have a band in your playlist.
Everybody talk about the firsts 3 albums, and they're really good. I think The Sea of Memories is a solid album too.
Sixteen Stone was a great album. One of the rare albums that every song was great. Like Nevermind and Siamese Dream.
Thank - you . ( I saw Wednesday 16 May 2012 at Scotiabank Saddledome , Calgary BUSH with "My Darkest Days" ; "Nickelback" ; "Seether" ) .
They never blew up over here but I thought their 1st 3 albums were solid
I saw them as a casual fan in 2019 and they were electric live. Huge fan now. Check out The Kingdom it’s really good
My favorite 90s guilty pleasure!! PLAY LOUD
They're still around. Their 2020 album The Kingdom is fricken wicked. I love it.
Their first two albums and deconstructed were 🔥
Great video! I absolutely loved Bush when I was in junior high and high school.
It's weird because I was in high school whenever Sixteen Stones came out and I don't recall anyone hating on them for sounding like a Seattle band or anything, but then again, I didn't read the music magazines and there wasn't social media back then. I saw them back in 2019 and they're still pretty legit!
I'm not a Bush fan but they're ok.
I've always assumed that the opening of Machinehead is Rossdale reminding himself to breathe!
Going to see them at the end of the month with Breaking Benjamin and I can't wait! I wanted to see them when I was a teenager but never got the chance...glad they are playing again :D
Ah, music stores. Now there's a blast from the past.
Since you’re doing a lot British acts now can you look into The Happy Mondays/Black Grape and the hard partying of Shaun Ryder. Or even the story of rock fans/couple Dennis and Lois (also tied to Happy Mondays). If you’re not familiar with the stories look into them, they’re really interesting.
Growing up, I loved the fact that Bush had a different name in my country. All Cds, music videos, promo materials, etc, had their name as "Bush X". Bush X was amazing when I was a teenager.
Bushes first 2 albums were absolute Awesomeness, even though I was a massive metalhead back in the 90's in my teens I thought Bush was one of the few exceptions when it came to alternative rock with Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam being the other 2. I never thought of Soundgarden and Alice In Chains as "alternative" so those 2 do not count.
Sixteen stone is one of the few albums that all the songs are good. One of my favorite bands in the 90s. The 90s had some amazing music and was a great time to be a teen. I remember pre wokeness and it was amazing. Things weren't all about race and we just liked what was good from alternative to gangsta rap.
Certainly a guilty pleasure for me. Those fisrt 3 albums simmer nicely.
I saw Bush in 2019 while they were performing with Live and Our Lady Peace. It had been years since I had seen a performer with the level of energy that Gavin brings to his live performances. He was incredible.
Back in 99 my brother's wife was a hotel receptionist on Catalina Island and met the couple. She recommended a private beach for their privacy and where we were playing a gig. After the gig we hung out for awhile trading songs on my guitar. I recognized Gwen from No Doubt but had no idea who her man was lol!! We kept jamming while she passed out on a picnic table. It was a monday & noone was around really. I had no idea he was this multi million selling rockstar. Never heard of him or his music lol! My friends were like wtf u jammed with so & so who did all this such & such? And here i was doing an oldies cover gig lol! Fame was destined to elude me!!
"Greedy Fly" that's all I'm gonna say. Fucking love that song and had both razorblade and sixteen.
Everything Zen ... Great song ....
Nigel is underimistated 🤘
Bud Bush is still ripped on the radio in Canada all day
BUSH has been my favorite band since I was 12 years old....I'm now 37 and I got to meet Gavin FINALLY in 2019 at one of their shows😁
thanks for this video❤️❤️❤️
I don't think Bush sounds like the Seattle grunge scene. They had they're own sound. They're awesome.
Always liked Bush and think they are really underrated, even their recent albums are really good with Sea of memories being one of my faves of theirs
I'm from Europe, in my mid thirties. I got into music really early and was familiar with Bush because Razorblade Suitcase had some cool singles. Wasn't a fan fan, though. A couple years ago while sitting at work I thought about listening to it again. And right there and then I've learned that this isn't their debut. This is how much more popular they were in the US.
Dude that buzz machine in Walmart is where I 1st heard bush ! Bought the tape immediately!
I saw them, with the Goo Goo Dolls opening, at the Coliseum in 1996. You would've thought they were the next Beatles with how loud all the girls were screaming when Gavin walked out on the stage.
I saw them on that same tour. No Doubt played too. I will have to say, it was a really great show.
@@JennR323 No Doubt was supposed to play that night, but they got invited to play the David Letterman show, so we missed out.
Singer, like Arnold, became governor of CA. Whatever you think of the band, that is a serious accomplishment.
Sixteen Stone is pretty good I think. They have a few good songs here and there. Recently Bullet Holes on the John Wick soundtrack is a good song.
The front man was in an episode of Criminal Minds as a singer who was a Vampire. He is a very good actor.
True, nothing abut his acting career
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Love this band!!!!!❤🤗💕😄💐
Bush gets a surprising amount of respect among metal fans.
I had no idea they where that successful, I remember hearing them sporadically on the radio and my old man would refure to them as "not pearl jam" I thought more or less they where something of a short lived band with moderate to little success so this has been interesting to see the actual did pretty well in the day.
Never got to see them when they came out when I was high school. Seen them a few times in recent years and they still put on an AMAZING live show!! Sixteen Stone is still one of my most favorite albums ever. I still own the CD I bought in '95.
Dude Razorblade Suitcase was incredible.
I liked Bush , but my favorite band was Shaved Beaver.
I loved this band sixteen stone was my shit
Golden State 20 years later still rocks
I always viewed this band as a teenybopper version of Nirvana. What the major record labels wanted Nirvana to be but Nirvana refused to be. You know how the boy bands make billions of dollars for their corporate record labels simply by swooning all the teenage girls with their looks? That's the exact same impression I got looking at Bush. Same with Silverchair ftm. The Britpop bands of the latter half of the 90s were what actually destroyed alternative, turning it from a movement of potential change in the industry to becoming the new generic rock formula, they by and large lacked the edge of alot of the American bands of the first half of the 90s.
saw them live once and they were great.
Tracks like Glycerine and Greedy Fly were not "teenybopper Nirvana." Just because that's what the critics saw when Rossdale preened, it doesn't change the actual quality of the art. I loved the first two Bush records (Bush X here in Canada), and performed several of those tracks in the band I was in at the time. Those songs had power, and he was under-rated as a composer.
I highly doubt Steve Albini would even work with the band if they were just that.
I always viewed Radiohead as this band that has a dwarf as their frontman.
@@scottudell7202 like that thing from lord of the rings with a wonky eye.
Under rated critically but not commercially. Never really the same after Nigel left them but they were the soundtrack to my 90’s and turned me on to PJ Harvey , My bloody Valentine .
Those first two albums are classics.
I recently discovered one of their newer songs on Spotify, Flowers on a Grave. Song slaps big time! It's now one of my favorites.
Try the new singles to their upcoming album: More Than Machines and Heavy Is the Ocean.
I saw Bush at a small venue in Hampton Beach ,N.H.,the Casino Ballroom,I loved that Sixteen Stone album,the show was amazing,that Album is complete Power,Gavin seemed a bit Narcissistic,but it may have been part of the show,but man that show was Great!
16 Stone is a favorite from start to finish
We renamed them the 'Hairless Scotums', after they threw two concerts in a row in Seattle. I had 🎟tickets, they never played. We used the CD as a Frisbee over the Whiskaw river. "Open arms". 😊 🌳
Imagine thinking 'should I fly to Los Angeles, find my asshole brother?' were an incendiary lyric. Deep, Gav. Deep.
Sixteen Stone or Razorblade Suitcase could be in my top 10 albums of all time (depending on mood which im feeling more at the time).
Hello bush band. Hi Gavin. I love your songs. I watched some aspects of flowers on a grave. I saw a couple of drum solos and a teaching by Chris trainer, tips on flowers on a grave opening. Love you all. See you much later, love Donna lee
They had some great songs using the electric guitar with just vocals a little bit of keyboard over the chorus at the time it was pure genius to this day that song sounds great and aged pretty well as far as I'm concerned I've tried to imitate that song for years I've yet to come up with such a beautiful song that just uses simple power chord structure and vocals was seriously genius
Loved them back in the 90's. Unfortunately, a bunch of music journalists decided that no one had the right to play alternative hard rock after Cobain committed suicide (especially outside of Seattle, let alone the US). So, it became cool to hate them. That being said, when Nigel left, the band just was not Bush anymore.
Thats not how I remember it. I just remember Korn being awesome
@@Ottophil when the first 2 albums came out, new metal was not that big. Also, Bush and Korn were not in the same genre.
@@CharlieFader korn and Bush were in the same genre to me, awful. Add in limp bizkit and kid rock and their spawns and my interest in rock music faded quickly
@@whitedeion598 cool, but that’s not a genre. As far as new metal is concerned, Korn and especially Defrones had some great songs. I couldn’t stand Limp Bizkit and Kid Rock.
I just seen bush last weekend they were great.
Grunge died in April 5, 1994. After that it was called "alternative" ..and in England..there band called Oasis that was now bigger than the Beatles;)
I was listening to KROQ in the mid 90's. Bush was like a house band for that station. No mention of Bush and No Doubt touring together to produce the union of Rossdale and Stefani? The ever suave Gavin is now dating a new Gwen, 30 years his junior. He was destined to become tabloid fodder.