Episode 32 - Brian O'Connell (Live Nation President of Country Touring) (1-16-17)
Bobby Bones Presents: The BobbyCast
Nashville Podcast Network
4.8 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Bobby is joined this week by Brian O'Connell who is the President of Country Touring at Live Nation. He has created major country festivals such as Faster Horses, Watershed, Lake Shake and Route 91. He also produces tours for Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Brooks and Dunn and more! Bobby asks him about what goes into putting on a festival and how which artists he's seen turn into superstars.
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, welcome to episode 32. |
| 0:06.8 | Our guest is Brian O'Connell, who your official title is the president of country touring |
| 0:14.7 | at Live Nation. |
| 0:15.7 | Is that right? |
| 0:16.7 | Basically, what it is is if there's a guy that puts on a festival or a major concert |
| 0:23.1 | tour, you're the guy. |
| 0:26.1 | And that's, I mean, you're the guy. |
| 0:28.8 | When someone asks who's the guy, you're the guy. |
| 0:31.2 | And I think as we talk about this for a minute, people will start to learn because this |
| 0:34.4 | is something that much like a producer of a television show or even a director of a film, |
| 0:40.7 | people don't know the importance of these little, these clogs until they start to hear |
| 0:46.1 | what actually goes into it. |
| 0:48.2 | And I think your job is actually that. |
| 0:50.7 | And so some of the festivals that you do, I just kind of run over and you have to tell |
| 0:55.1 | me what some of these, I know you do faster horses, you do watershed. |
| 0:58.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.3 | I like shaking. |
| 1:00.3 | Like shake Chicago. |
| 1:02.1 | Some of the artists that you do are Blake and Jason, even Urban and Luke and Paisley. |
| 1:10.4 | Flat, toad. |
| 1:12.4 | Flat. |
| 1:13.4 | Yes, exactly my point is. |
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