Why Rock & Roll is Like Mountain Climbing | Brent Smith, Frontman of Shinedown
The Playbook With David Meltzer
David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com
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🗓️ 28 March 2023
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Playbook. |
| 0:07.0 | This is Dave Meltzer with Entrepreneurs The Playbook, and I know a lot of people don't realize that super star musicians, rock band, platinum record, holding chart topping, record breaking rock stars are entrepreneurs, but I can't think of a better illustration of an entrepreneur than someone like Brent Smith, the frontman. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm going to take you on tour with me every time I go out on tour. I'm just going to have you just walk in front of me and you can do it all, man, like I'm going to put the ball in your court. |
| 0:52.0 | Plus, they're going to look a lot younger and a lot cooler walking next to me because they'll be like, wow, look how cool that guy is next to that other old Millage Mutant Turtle. |
| 1:01.0 | But more importantly, you guys have a handsome today. Happy to be here. |
| 1:05.0 | Thank you, brother, and you have a new album coming out, Planet Zero. |
| 1:10.0 | What's that now? |
| 1:11.0 | That's out, but you have enough coming to work in the US coming out. |
| 1:14.0 | Yes, yes. |
| 1:15.0 | Thank you for the clarification, and to that, you know, you've done this so many times. |
| 1:20.0 | You know, I'm always trying to get to the emotional side. |
| 1:24.0 | You know, I speak around the world and people ask me, don't you get sick of playing the same songs? |
| 1:29.0 | Basically is what they tell me. |
| 1:31.0 | As you know, last week I was in Dubai. |
| 1:33.0 | I was in Mexico City. I think I had seven different speeches. |
| 1:37.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:38.0 | But it's still, you know, singing similar or same songs. |
| 1:42.0 | How do you get inspired when you're, you know, really highlighting music that you've developed created. |
| 1:49.0 | And played probably multiple times. |
| 1:52.0 | But it seems when I'm watching you, it's fresh and new every single time. |
| 1:58.0 | That's really the dynamic what you just said, you have to remember that there's going to be people in the audience that may have seen you a hundred times actually. |
| 2:07.0 | But there's a lot of people in the audience that they are seeing you for the very first time. |
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