10 minutes backstage with Gavin Rossdale at Stagecoach

Gavin Rossdale brought his set Bush to Stagecoach connected Saturday — 1 of respective groups astatine the festival this play with indelible stone hits from the 1990s. The 60-year-old, who precocious premiered a tv cooking show, besides enactment successful an quality alongside Billy Bob Thornton, Wynonna Judd and Gavin Adcock astatine the fever imagination that is Guy Fieri’s Smokehouse. I caught up with him betwixt the 2 engagements.

This has gotta beryllium your archetypal Stagecoach.
It is. I was waiting till I got an invite. I didn’t privation to conscionable get a summons — I wanted to beryllium invited.

You conscionable did a cooking objection with Guy Fieri. How’d that go?
Fantastic — truly bully fun. We had 4 radical doing antithetic dishes. He’s a great, large antheral — I emotion him.

You’ve go a TV cook yourself. What’s the TV-chef-meets-TV-chef vibe?
I felt a kinship. I lone had to archer him — we were talking astir making the nutrient — I said to him we could navigator immoderate secreto pork. That’s the secret, cleanable portion of the pork that radical don’t cognize capable about. He was truthful impressed aft that helium near maine unsocial to conscionable bash what I want.

Guy Fieri didn’t cognize astir it, and neither did I.
Oh no, helium did.

Clarification: I didn’t cognize astir it. You were determination with Gavin Adcock, which means that determination were 2 Gavins.
It was a archetypal for me.

I cognize that Paramount is present astatine Stagecoach. Are you funny successful pitching an odd-couple drama with you and Gavin Adcock? He’s a state guy, you’re a stone feline — I deliberation we tin marque this happen.
He made a large steak sandwich, and I made a benignant of a deep-fried chickenhearted with atom and Japanese things. So I consciousness that we’re opposing sides and we could harvester and marque a truly large balanced meal.

We’ll transportation this aboriginal tonight. How did Bush extremity up connected a state euphony festival?
That is specified a bully question — you should’ve led with that. And I don’t person immoderate reply for it. It’s similar 1 of those things wherever I’m conscionable excited to beryllium present and I don’t privation to screw it up.

What would screwing it up look like?
Choosing the incorrect song.

The deepest cut.
A D-side. Nobody wants it. But it’s truthful hard to cognize what everyone knows. I was trying to bash the acceptable list, but I was like, Who is everyone here? Is it existent cowboys? Is it Palm Springs cowboys? Is it California cowboys? What is it?

Gavin Rossdale and drummer Nik Hughes execute with Bush connected Saturday.

(Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

Bush is not the lone stone set astatine Stagecoach. The Wallflowers are here, Third Eye Blind is here. You person immoderate beef with these different stone bands?
Not connected the culinary stage, due to the fact that it was each chicken. But no, nary — I don’t person beef with anyone. Life is excessively agelong for beefs.

If you were to play a state song, what would it be?
Zach Bryan’s catalog is sensational. They’re beauteous songs, and I consciousness that if I spent a bully magnitude of time, I could bash a faithful mentation à la Bush.

So Stagecoach 2029: Gavin Rossdale sings the Zach Bryan catalog.
Well, not the full thing.