This year edition of the Diligence Country Music Festival is in books. From Friday to Sunday, tens of thousands of fans crossed the dusty land of the Indio Polo Club Empire, where the headliners were Zach Bryan, Jelly flap and Luke Combs. I was there all weekend bringing you the ups and downs as they occurred. Here is what happened on day 3:
A “friend” finish
Combs completed the series of bearded headliners from Stagecoach from Stagecoach with a characteristic solid set that mixed his power country that swings hard with a handful of sentimental ballads that he said that he loves it despite the fact that “people say that I sing too many love songs”. Wearing jeans, boots and one of his buttoned shirts with short sleeves with short sleeves, combs crossed country radio staples, including “1, 2 many”, “when it rains,” a number “,” a number “and” beautiful madness “; He also released Bailey Zimmerman To start their new duo, “backup plan”, for which Combs said they were shooting the clip while he was talking.
A more surprising appearance came from Joel and Benji Madden of the pop-punk group Good Charlotte, who made their “Anthem”, then stayed to participate in “Where the Wild Things”. (I'm not entirely sure that Benji had never heard this on Sunday evening.) For a reminder, Combs sang his tender version of Tracy Chapman's “fast car”, He said he had changed his life, and “Ain't No Love in Oklahoma”, from the film “Twisters” from last year, before welcoming Garth Brooks on stage for “One Last 'Hell Yeah” before returning to the real world “. It was “friends in low places”, of course, and he haunts the place.
Backstreet boys may have been the most unlikely act to play the Palomino tent in Stagecoach this year.
(Scott Dudelson / Getty Images for Stagecoach)
Boys among men
Perhaps the most unlikely act to play the Palomino tent of Stagecoach this year (after the appearances later at the end of the evening of T-Pain and Creed), the Backstreet boys appeared in a range of leather outfits in difficulty like Five Old West Himbos in search of a barmaid to be wrapped. The choreography of the group of boys appeared unchanged from the late 90s, just like its songs, although I could have detected a whisper of pedal steel in “Drowning”. To put a button on the whole weekend, Combs came from the main scene to sing a few lines of “Tât Than You Love Me” – a perfect song, as everything knows of the Nashville factory in Nashville knows.
John Rzeznik, on the left, and Robby Takac of the Debate of Goo goo Who's Better – Elton John or Billy Joel?
(Scott Dudelson / Getty Images for Stagecoach)
Five minutes behind the scenes with the goo goo dolls
Your publicist says you are at work on your 15th studio album. Internet says it will be your 14th. Did you worry to settle this?
John Rzeznik: Always believe the internet – there are rules against making mistakes.
What is the most country song goro goo dolls?
Butcher: Overall today, probably a song entitled “Come to Me”. There is another song entitled “Walk Away”, but we thought it could be a landing.
What is a country song that you think you could kill?
Butcher: Well, you have to stay away from Chris Stapleton's song because he has the greatest voice of all time. When I listen to Chris Stapleton, I say: “This guy channels Al Green.” It is a dirty soul. It is therefore out of the list. There is this song by Johnny Cash – I don't know the name, but it's about working on an assembly chain and it continues to steal pieces?
Robby Takac: “One room at a time.”
Butcher: We could crush this song.
“Iris” was nominated for record of the year and song of the year at Grammys in 1999. I am sorry to remind you that he won neither. Remember who beat you?
Both: Céline Dion.
Takac: Do you want to hear something crazy? Shortly after, we descend to the highway of our bus, and our driver says: “Hey, Celine Dion's bus is next to us.” It went up on the CB and sang “my heart will continue”. It was a kind of consolation price.
Billy Joel played “Iris” with you. Have you ever covered a song from Billy Joel?
Butcher: I don't think. But if we did, it should be –
Takac: “You may be right.”
Butcher: We had this debate: who is the best – Elton John or Billy Joel? It's a good because I see both sides.
Takac: But it's Elton John with Bernie Taupin.
Butcher: It's the thing. Billy Joel Sitting there all alone and wrote these songs.
Have Goo Goo dolls ever had a time of moved rock-star?
Butcher: Yeah, I was in the middle of a divorce. Good time to move to Los Angeles, especially after having been a little success. I lived at the hotel the park, and that's where I wrote “Iris”.
Who knows what would have happened if you had never moved?
Butcher: Who knows what would have happened if I had tried to get along with my first wife?
After you, who is the second best act in Buffalo, NY?
Butcher: Rick James.
Takac: It could be the best.
What was the best thing in the 80s?
Butcher: No mobile phones.
What was the worse Something about the 90s?
Butcher: He ended up working in our favor, but we did not integrate ourselves into the stuff of grunge, we did not integrate ourselves into the alt-rock thing, we did not integrate ourselves into consumer music. We were like orphans. We didn't have a gang, so we had to create our own thing.
Takac: Can I offer the worst thing about the 80s?
You can.
Takac: This F-in metal blade registration agreement that we have signed.
Butcher: When we finally obtained a real lawyer and he read this agreement, he said to us: “It's worse than the TLC disc agreement.” I said to myself: “Oh my God – We are the two most stupid human beings on the face of the earth.”
“This is a song on the appreciation of reality,” said Sammy Hagar, introducing “Van Halen at the moment”.
(Images Timothy Norris / Getty for Stagecoach)
Hagar the hedonist
“This is a song about the appreciation of reality,” Sammy Hagar Declared high enough to present “now” by Van Halen in the Palomino. For the most part, however, the 77 -year -old rock veteran hunted simpler delights in this endearing performance: sex (as in “Poundcake”), fast cars (“I can't drive 55”) and tequila (“Mas Tequila”, Duh). For this last song, Hagar told the crowd: “We are going to take this S – at the beach”, then returned the good by removing its shoes – and its socks – and wrapping its pants with a length of tilt of clams. Guy Fieri even went out to take a sip from the Hagar bottle.
Festival fashion report
Out: Denim Strings
In: Bloom enriched
Out: Vintage band t-shirts
In: T-shirts “Cowboy pillows” tights
Outside: mustaches (at least compared to Coachelor))
In: Beard (in many cases minus a mustache)
Out: rear ball capes
In: Camo Zach Bryan Hats
Scotty McCreery performs in Stagecoach on Sunday.
(Images Timothy Norris / Getty for Stagecoach)
Five minutes behind the scenes with Scotty McCreery
You have a 2 year old son. In what music is it?
He likes daddy's songs, but it's not like they were daddy's songs. I have a song entitled “It Matters to Her”, and it's our dog's song Moose – Moose is in the clip. Mommy's song is a song entitled “Slow Dance”. Everyone in the family has a song.
What is a country song you like but you know better than trying to do yourself?
Everything Chris Stapleton sings.
Describe your fitness diet.
At least 45 minutes a day – compromise between cardio and lifting. But I probably do better to lift the fork than anything.
What is the adult drink you have sworn?
Fireball. Too many bad experiences.
Do you prefer to be 10% more talented or 10% better?
Ten percent beautiful wouldn't do me a lot of good, so I'm going to take the talent.
What is the last thing for which you used Chatgpt?
I was trying to understand a little landscaping in the backyard and I could not imagine it. So I asked if it could draw me what it would look like. In fact, very good examples.
Do you have tattoos?
No tattoos. I thought of Vegas once – was with all my guys during a golf tournament. But I thought wiser.
What could you have got?
Probably a biblical verse.
Are you a good golfer?
I am a good golfer compared to most of the world. But some of my friends are much better than me. A lot Better than me.
