Bush frontman Gavin Rossdale notes that looking back “is not a position or viewpoint I usually take. I usually like to guard a better way of going forward.” But right now, 30 years after his band’s first album, he’s stopping to smell the proverbial roses.
Bush’s latest release is “Loaded: The Greatest Hits 1994-2023,” a two-disc set that recaps the British-formed quartet’s 10 albums, along with a pair of new songs. It celebrates a wealth of mainstream and alternative rock chart hits that started with “Everything Zen” and includes No. 1 singles such as “Comedown,” “Glycerine,” “Swallowed,” “The Chemicals Between Us” and “The Sound of Winter.
” And those aren’t achievements Rossdale, 58 — the sole remaining member of Bush’s original lineup — takes lightly. “But it taught me a lot about the impact the music has had on a lot of people and made me appreciate that,” he acknowledges. “It’s a beautiful thing when people kind of hold you as the soundtrack to their lives at certain points and pivotal moments, pivotal memories.
It’s been pretty sort of humbling to see that connection with people.” “Loaded” is hardly Bush’s final word, however. Rossdale says the group has been working on a new album with 10 songs in the can and “probably more” to come after its current tour.
He predicts a 2025 release and describes the songs as “super heavy,” with lyrics that reflect this stage of his life rather than the angst of his youth. “I’ve been sort of thinking a lot about ..
. the passage of time, sort of looking over an aerial view of your life, like if you could see it from a drone,” he explains. “Not to get too maudlin about it, but there is a bit of melancholy to it, an inevitable melancholy about not being 21 anymore.
“That’s a common source of suffering, as the Buddhists say, and it’s best to not fall for it. Just go and get the most of out your life, and that’s what I’m trying to do all the time now.” Bush, Jerry Cantrell, Candlebox and Bones UK perform at 6 p.
m. Friday, Aug. 16 at the Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre, 14900 Metro Parkway, Sterling Heights.
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