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Brooks & Dunn | This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von #534

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guests are icons in the
world of country music uh if they had a mount rushmore of country you might
might see these
fellows right up there on it they had solo careers before they joined together
to create one of the
most popular tandems in the history of country you know there are many hits
like neon
i'm real and me and many many more their new album reboot 2 comes out november
15th it has new takes on
their classic songs with folks like morgan wallen jelly roll and laney wilson i
am so excited today to
sit down with mr kicks brooks and ronnie dunn brooks and dunn
uh
yeah thank you guys for coming in man
good to be here good to see you guys watch you all the time not just saying
that i watched you with post
malone the other day i don't know how far back that was uh uh videoed or shot
oh yeah funny stuff
yeah he's wild man yeah he's he's really he's just like an infectious thing
kind of it funny yeah yes
yes sir no sir yeah
he's like a kid who got in trouble but he's gonna keep partying you know yeah
yeah right
would i be stopped drinking because it was the worst worst time of your life
well it's when i was
drinking you know have you stopped no what's different well i mean he's he's
yeah he's never
thought about it he's an interesting cat he's absolutely a sweetheart though oh
you talk to him it's like
mr you know mr theo you know he's the nicest guy yeah yeah he's super nice man
you guys have had
such a career man thank you so much for all the music yeah thanks for letting
us hang around this
long you know appreciate it been around how long several semesters yeah does it
feel did it ever did
it feel like um because you guys got part did you guys get paired together or
how did it kind of the
beginning become we're not going to go through all the history but i just want
you know just so some
people may not know classic story you know right out of the movies just a
friend of ours who we both
had a lot of respect for tim dubois great songwriter himself and whatever he's
actually
an accountant at vanderbilt as well you know smart guy too but um he just
invited us to lunch and
thought we might uh might be a good pair up and you know ronnie and i are just
kind of growling across
the table with each other it didn't make any sense to us and um look you guys
can both write songs he
goes you know just go see if you can write a song together okay so i think that
was tuesday maybe
thursday we wrote brand new man friday we wrote this song next broken heart and
ronnie had already
written neon moon and boot scootin boogie and i had another song i lost and
found and we just screwed up
been riding a bus for 30 years trying to figure out how to get off yeah just
like we weren't brothers
growing up like yeah challenged did it feel like a pressure like you had to be
like like i just want
yeah like because with comedians they don't really have that where you come
they kind of partner you
up i guess for television shows and stuff they do where they package shows yeah
but yeah i wonder did
it feel did you guys feel a pressure like we have to or it was just no no we
felt uh we felt broke and
hungry yeah what's the motivation we gotta back up a little bit we felt like
none of this is really
working that great yeah i mean i'd had some some success as a songwriter
written a couple of hits
and whatever and ronnie just been out nokia you know hiding writing great songs
totally unheard of for
somebody who hadn't been in nashville really studying the craft so to say to
show up with
songs like neon moon and boot scoot and oh yeah next album hard working man and
used to be my ronnie
just had written all these great songs by itself which you know now i can't
even tell you who's out
there writing songs by themselves they'll probably watch and go hey how about
me dude but
you know it's it's a co-riding town it just really is it's becoming more and
more of a
co-riding town more and more riders on every song i saw one with nine riders
nine riders i mean what
the heck we used to like we'd throw a bet you mean if it was like you know
three riders yeah did it feel
like over did it feel like you guys had to because i bet it's like once you get
partnered with somebody
it's like hey we're part this is a long ride and you don't really know how long
the ride is when you
start you know did it feel like you guys over the years like you had to be best
friends did it ever
feel like a pressure to be like that maybe but we didn't i don't think we took
it to heart i mean
it was like hey we tim back up on your story a little bit for me but tim tim
had heard me in a
plant a bar in in oklahoma and he was circling through and uh clive davis and
he were putting a
label together so he told me says hi he says i really i want to sign he said i've
already got
alan jackson and uh uh diamond rio uh you already had a boy singer and a band
yeah pam tillis and
it's like it's like like he's going down the list we didn't realize this at
first but he was going down
the list going okay now i need it that's a trio i've got a trio now i need a
duo yeah but he didn't
we didn't know that until after the fact the judge were breaking up so i well
he saw an open slot on
the cma's i think yeah might have been true yeah no it was true i think it was
that manipulative yeah
yeah you know yeah i saw you guys do your walk out with morgan how was that man
that was cool
he's got it stirred up and it's like okay so where are we how about that kid
did you know about it
before what it was or no i really didn't they were trying to explain to me what
was going on and like
we're gonna look back and you guys come down the hallway and then y'all are
gonna walk out together
to his stage you know we're gonna film it and it's a big deal i'm like okay we
keep up with it to
extent that we know how he's selling out stadiums everywhere and it's like you
know get out of the
way and he's crashing websites and live nation is you know they if you announce
ticket sales at all
you know it blows up so and i had i had uh did a walk-on with him at bridgestone
when he played here
a couple years oh yeah i saw that show actually i was at that show yeah yeah
that was awesome yeah but
yeah to do that it's kind of an interesting thing because you're back there you
don't really know what's
going on you know you can't you can kind of start to hear people cheering but
you don't really know
so did you do that with him yeah yeah i got to do one with them here in uh in nashville
uh-huh yeah
with deandre hopkins that plays for the tennessee titans uh-huh yeah sure um
but it's still kind of
confusing because you're like j-hop yeah uh d-hop oh that's what i meant oh
what did i call him
when i did it we didn't he wasn't doing the walk yet so when we were in kansas
city the other night
with him is that right yeah yeah no no no yeah we were in kansas city yeah kansas
city yeah that's
where you guys had to walk out with him right yeah yeah because it's kind of
wild yeah it's just this
thing i guess they kind of just started it yeah you don't know yeah you're
right you're just kind
of thrown into the fray there yeah you just kind of don't know what's going on
well am i supposed to
walk here and be cool am i supposed to like you know rub your shoulders right
and it's starting to get
weird people are rubbing on him and people are yeah right it's getting it's
starting to get a little
aggressive i feel like right the only thing you know is it's like what are you
doing stop doing that
and they tell us they said no he's gonna walk fast okay you're gonna walk fast
yeah that's it
and then off you go it'll be cool when he just starts wrestling yeah
his agent just back there fist fighting oh i think yeah it's definitely bizarre
because you
like you don't really know what's going on and then he's like all right let's
go and for him it's
just he's just getting it you know heading to work yeah and then it's off the
walls yeah it had to be
weird because you get to the stage and then you guys can't go out to the stage
so it's like
yeah it's like yeah we're on it's like stop yeah no no this is not your show
stop hearing the cameras off follow that guy yeah it really was like that man
because i didn't even play
anything but i was like i could try you know i was like let's do it right you
know that's how we were
he's just you just wing it oh yeah and deandre's like he looked like he was
ready to just run a 40
yards f flat you know so i was like yeah let's get him out here dude so that
was interesting man
um what's it what's what's been one of the tougher things that uh that came
with like fame
that you guys realized because you guys went to being obviously you were doing
well in your careers
individually but even as you were just saying like you know you guys the first
couple songs
you put out were hits that's right first four were number ones yeah i mean that's
a lot of number ones
dude you know we just called some buddies up in a panic and and started playing
honky talks and bars
even our manager told us not to do it i said no man if we're running off like
we're knocking hits
out of the park right now we need to have a tight band you know when they do or
we get in a place
where we're in front of a lot of people so we went for the first year year and
a half playing clubs
everywhere which was here to california which was the coolest it was the
coolest mentor
the coolest memory uh for me because i've probably like ronnie i mean just a
lot of years of turning
corners on clubs and stuff and there'd be four or six cars in the parking lot
oh yeah you know and you
just have to go and set up yours too exactly you know and one of the girl you
came to invite to impress
exactly a couple of guys that don't like it because they want her too
and she's not cute at all
yeah you set your stuff up you know and nobody cares and whatever and then next
thing you know
we're we're parking down the road and uh to get to a place because the parking
lot's full now those
were great nights they really were you know you really really couldn't screw up
too bad because
it was fired up and that's it's kind of what you dream about when you're
learning to tune your guitar
you know just man just just the clubs part of it i mean the whole coliseum
thing and that
that other kind of success was i wasn't even thinking that far this was just
like man
it worked yeah it was so crazy because we don't know each other from adam even
at that point we
don't know each other from that we would learn in interviews about that one or
another about each
other yeah i don't know you did that now as you started to get famous i'm just
curious about this
kind of stuff you know because fame and popularity is such like a it's an
interesting thing right and
it's its own thing because you can't exactly plan for it like were there things
that you
kind of missed kind of immediately about that like because once you kind of
once it starts to happen
it's hard to put it you can't really put your life back into that old jug
really no and you don't see
it coming you can't plan for it no matter where where it is i think you know
even if you grew up around
it which i didn't but i can remember this is so strange still i can remember
going home after the
first like say run the real like tour when we were opening for reber or
whatever and uh my wife
and and uh mother-in-law going she said you've changed i'm like what you
changed he said you're not
the same and it's like i didn't feel like anything was any abnormal other than
i was going out on a
bus and singing in front of people i didn't come back going you know hey i'm
famous yea