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Los Angeles Times
28-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
The best, worst and most tequila-soaked of Stagecoach Day 3
This year's edition of the annual Stagecoach country music festival is in the books. From Friday to Sunday, tens of thousands of fans traversed the dusty grounds of Indio's Empire Polo Club, where the headliners were Zach Bryan, Jelly Roll and Luke Combs. I was there all weekend bringing you the highs and the lows as they happened. Here's what went down on Day 3: Combs completed Stagecoach's run of burly, bearded headliners with a characteristically solid set that mixed his hard-rocking power country hits with a handful of the sentimental ballads he said he adores despite the fact that 'people say I sing too many love songs.' Wearing jeans, boots and one of his trademark short-sleeved Columbia button-down shirts, Combs strung together country-radio staples including '1, 2 Many,' 'When It Rains It Pours,' 'One Number Away' and 'Beautiful Crazy'; he also brought out Bailey Zimmerman to debut their new duet, 'Backup Plan,' which Combs said they were shooting the music video for as he spoke. A more surprising guest appearance came from Joel and Benji Madden of the pop-punk band Good Charlotte, who did their 'Anthem,' then stuck around to pitch in on Combs' 'Where the Wild Things Are.' (I'm not entirely sure Benji had ever heard that one before Sunday night.) For an encore, Combs sang his tender version of Tracy Chapman's 'Fast Car,' which he said had changed his life, and 'Ain't No Love in Oklahoma,' from last year's 'Twisters' movie, before welcoming Garth Brooks to the stage for 'one last 'hell yeah' before we all go back to the real world.' It was 'Friends in Low Places,' of course, and it got the place jumping. Perhaps the unlikeliest act to play Stagecoach's Palomino tent this year (after earlier late-night appearances by T-Pain and Creed), the Backstreet Boys turned up in an array of distressed-leather outfits like five Old West himbos looking for a barmaid to woo. The boy band's choreography appeared unchanged from the late '90s, as did its songs, though I might've detected a whisper of pedal steel in 'Drowning.' To put a button on the whole weekend, Combs came over from the main stage to sing a few lines of 'As Long as You Love Me' — a perfect song, as any record factory denizen from Nashville to Sweden knows. Your publicist says you're at work on your 15th studio album. The internet says it'll be your 14th. Care to settle this?John Rzeznik: Always believe the internet — there are rules against being wrong. What's the most country-ish Goo Goo Dolls song?Rzeznik: In the set today, probably a song called 'Come to Me.' There's another song called 'Walk Away,' but we thought that might be pandering. What's a country song you think you could kill?Rzeznik: Well, you must stay away from any Chris Stapleton song because he has the greatest voice ever. When I listen to Chris Stapleton, I go, 'This guy's channeling Al Green.' It's some dirty soul. So he's off the list. There's that one Johnny Cash song — I don't know the name of it, but it's about him working on an assembly line and he keeps stealing parts? Robby Takac: 'One Piece at a Time.' Rzeznik: We could crush that song. 'Iris' was nominated for record of the year and song of the year at the Grammys in 1999. I'm sorry to remind you that it won neither. Remember who beat you?Both: Celine Dion. Takac: Wanna hear something crazy? Shortly after that, we were riding down the highway on our bus, and our driver goes, 'Hey, Celine Dion's bus is next to us.' She got on the CB and sang 'My Heart Will Go On.' It was sort of a consolation prize. Billy Joel has performed 'Iris' with you. Ever cover a Billy Joel song?Rzeznik: I don't think so. But if we were to, it would have to be — Takac: 'You May Be Right.' Rzeznik: We've had this debate: Who's better — Elton John or Billy Joel? It's a good one because I see both sides. Takac: But it's Elton John with Bernie Taupin. Rzeznik: That's the thing. Billy Joel sat there all by himself and wrote those songs. Did the Goo Goo Dolls ever have a move-to-L.A. rock-star moment?Rzeznik: Yeah, I was in the middle of a divorce. Great time to move to L.A., especially after you've had a little bit of success. I was living in the Le Parc hotel, and that's where I wrote 'Iris.' Who knows what would've happened if you'd never moved?Rzeznik: Who knows what would've happened if I'd tried to get along better with my first wife? After you guys, who's the second-best act from Buffalo, N.Y.?Rzeznik: Rick James. Takac: He might be the best. What was the best thing about the '80s?Rzeznik: No cellphones. What was the worst thing about the '90s?Rzeznik: It wound up working in our favor, but we didn't fit into the grunge thing, we didn't fit into the alt-rock thing, we didn't fit into mainstream music. We were like orphans. We didn't have a gang so we had to create our own thing. Takac: Can I offer a worst thing about the '80s? You That f—ing Metal Blade record deal we signed. Rzeznik: When we finally got a real lawyer and he read that deal, he said to us, 'This is worse than TLC's record deal.' I was like, 'Oh my God — we are the two stupidest human beings on the face of the earth.' 'This is a song about the appreciation of reality,' Sammy Hagar declared rather high-mindedly to introduce Van Halen's 'Right Now' in the Palomino. For the most part, though, the 77-year-old rock veteran was chasing simpler delights in this endearingly sloppy performance: sex (as in 'Poundcake'), fast cars ('I Can't Drive 55') and tequila ('Mas Tequila,' duh). For that last tune, Hagar told the crowd, 'We're gonna take this s— to the beach,' then made good on it by taking off his shoes — and his socks — and rolling up his pants to clam-digging length. Guy Fieri even popped out to take a swig from Hagar's bottle. Out: Denim thongs In: Gingham bloomers Out: Vintage band T-shirts In: Clingy 'Cowboy Pillows' T-shirts Out: Mustaches (at least compared to Coachella) In: Beards (in many cases minus a mustache) Out: Backward ball caps In: Camo Zach Bryan hats You have a 2-year-old son. What music is he into?He loves Daddy's songs, but it's not like they're just Daddy's songs. I've got a song called 'It Matters to Her,' and that's our dog Moose's song — Moose is in the music video. Mommy's song is a song called 'Slow Dance.' Everybody in the family has a song. What's a country song you love but you know better than to try doing yourself?Anything Chris Stapleton sings. Describe your fitness least 45 minutes every day — trade off between cardio and lifting. But I probably do better lifting the fork than anything. What's an adult beverage you've sworn off?Fireball. One too many bad experiences. Would you rather be 10% more talented or 10% better-looking?Ten percent better-looking wouldn't do me much good so I'll take the talent. What's the last thing you used ChatGPT for?I was trying to figure out some landscaping in the backyard and I couldn't picture it. So I asked it if it could draw me what it would look like. Actually made some pretty good examples. You have any tattoos?No tattoos. Thought about it in Vegas once — was with all my guys at a golf tournament. But I thought wiser. What might you have gotten?Probably a Bible verse. Are you a good golfer?I'm a good golfer compared to most of the world. But some of my buddies are much better than me. Much better than me.
USA Today
11-03-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Luke Combs shares why his form of OCD is a 'particularly wicked' mental health condition
Luke Combs shares why his form of OCD is a 'particularly wicked' mental health condition Show Caption Hide Caption Luke Combs wins Single of the Year at the 2023 CMA Awards Luke Combs wins Single of the Year at the 2023 CMA Awards Luke Combs said he recently experienced one of the most intense anxiety flare-ups in the past few years due to a rare mental illness. The 35-year-old country star has previously discussed his lifelong struggle with purely obsessional OCD, a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder that he called "particularly wicked." While many people associate OCD with a compulsive need to flicker lights, Combs said in a recent 60 Minutes interview that there's no outward manifestation or visible behavior but rather a debilitating anxiety. "The craziness of the particular disorder that I have, it's the way to get out of it," Combs told interviewer Adam Hegarty in the video posted last month. "Like, it doesn't matter what the thoughts even are. You giving any credence to what the thoughts are is irrelevant and only fuels you having more of them." The "When It Rains It Pours" singer said when experiencing a flare-up, he would fixate on a thought for 45 seconds of every minute for weeks. The fixations would s range from intrusively violent thoughts or ideas of religion to self-reflective questions like who is he as a person. But over time, Combs said he has learned how to better navigate his OCD by accepting the thoughts circling his mind. "It held me back so many times in my life where you're trying to accomplish something, you're doing really great, and then you have a flare-up, and it just like ruins your whole life for six months," he said. "When it happens now, I'm not afraid of it because I'm not like, 'What if I'm like this forever?' I know I'm not going to be like this forever now." What is OCD? Obsessive-compulsive disorder, more commonly known as OCD, is a mental health disorder that causes people to obsess over thoughts or fears that can be unwanted, intrusive, and irrational. The disorder causes people to engage in repetitive behaviors that are difficult to break and cause distress. Juanita Guerra, a New York clinical psychologist practicing meditation, previously told USA TODAY that the disorder can trap someone in "a vicious cycle of obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors." "It's hard to describe the mindset that's going on in the OCD. So it's like, whenever you're having one of those situations come up, you truly – whatever it may be – you think the worst possible situation's going to come of it," Guerra said. "It could be the most unrealistic, crazy, unimaginable thing." When did Combs first experience OCD and anxiety? Combs first experienced anxiety from his OCD when he was in middle school, the North Carolina native said in a 2021 episode of AXS TV's "The Big Interview." "I know when you see people that have OCD you think of them like messing with the blinds or straightening the carpet," Combs said. "Essentially my version of fixing the blinds or straightening the carpet is kind of thoughts that I play over and over in my head." "For example ... it'll be something about my health," he said. "Like I'll be worried that I'm about to have a heart attack or a stroke and it becomes this very obsessive thing that you can never have an answer to. That's kind of the awful part of it. You have to teach yourself to be comfortable with the fact you'll never get an answer." Contributing: David Oliver and Gary Dinges, USA TODAY
Fox News
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Fox News
Luke Combs admits his struggle with 'obscure' mental health disorder can be ‘all-consuming'
Luke Combs is sharing his struggles with obsessive-compulsive disorder, hoping to inspire others with the same condition. "I do really well with it for the most part. It's something in at least some way I think about every day," Combs told "60 Minutes Australia" in a recent interview. The "Fast Car" singer described his type of OCD, which is a more "obscure" form of the disorder, explaining, "It's thoughts, essentially, that you don't want to have… and then they cause you stress, and then you're stressed out, and then the stress causes you to have more of the thoughts, and then you don't understand why you're having them, and you're trying to get rid of them, but trying to get rid of them makes you have more of them." He added, "It's really tedious to pull yourself out of it. It takes a lot of… you have to know what to do. I'm lucky to be an expert to know how to get out of it now." According to the National Institute of Mental Health, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a disorder where people have uncontrollable and recurring thoughts or repetitive behaviors, or both. "Obsessions are repeated thoughts, urges, or mental images that are intrusive, unwanted, and make most people anxious," NIMH explains. For Combs, "the variant I have is particularly wicked because there's no outward manifestation of it." "It's really tedious to pull yourself out of it… I'm lucky to be an expert to know how to get out of it now." Combs explained that the physical actions, or compulsions, typically associated with OCD, like repeated flicking of light switches or other repetitive behaviors, are all happening internally. "So for someone like myself, you don't even know it's going on." But the 35-year-old has worked to manage his symptoms as they flare up. "The way to get out of it is, like, it doesn't matter what the thoughts even are. You giving any credence to what the thoughts are is, like, irrelevant and only fuels you having more of them," Combs said. He continued, "It's learning to just go, 'It doesn't even matter what the thoughts are.' Like, I just have to accept that they're happening and then just go, 'Whatever, dude. It's happening. It's whatever.' It's weird, sucks, hate it, drives me crazy, but then you just eventually… the less that you worry about why you're having the thoughts, eventually they go away." The thoughts range from "intrusively violent thoughts" to thoughts about religion and himself, saying "it focuses on things that don't have an answer." "That's what fuels the anxiety is you can't ever get an answer and you desperately want an answer for whatever this thing that's bothering you is. But learning to [think that] it doesn't matter what the answer is, is the freedom to just go, 'I don't have to have an answer to that question.'" The OCD can flare up on stage, and "when it hits, man, it can be all-consuming." Combs admitted that a "really bad flare-up" can last "45 seconds of every minute for weeks." The "When It Rains It Pours" singer thinks he first experienced it at 12 or 13, and empathizes with kids going through similar experiences. "It's held me back so many times in my life, where you're trying to accomplish something, you're doing really great, and then you have a flare-up and it's like… it just ruins your whole life for six months. And you're back to where you started." "I have the tools now… when it happens now, I'm not as afraid of it." Combs hopes to do mental health outreach to others going through OCD, hoping his work to come out of flare-ups showcases that "it's possible to continue to live your life and be really successful and have a great family and achieve your dreams while also dealing with things that you don't want to be dealing with. That's something I hope people take away from me regardless of my musical success."
