Gavin Rossdale Reveals Son Zuma Has the ‘Country Bug’ But He Has ‘No Idea’ Where That Came From

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00:00 I think you said in an interview that you want to make music that your kids will tell their friends about.

00:04 That's fire. Do they think that? I know you said that they're not giving you applause, but do they appreciate the music?

00:10 I think they appreciate that I don't suck.

00:12 And if their friends listen to the records, they like them.

00:14 Because people say, "Oh, have you written any songs?"

00:17 It happened, obviously, 18 years ago with Kingston being born.

00:20 "Do you write any songs about it?" And I was like, "No, I don't know how that works."

00:24 I just want them to be proud of me.

00:27 And if they come out on the road, they want to see the shows, and they bring their friends and their friends have a good time.

00:34 Then you have decent standing. That's all I care about.

00:37 What kind of music are they into?

00:39 Weirdly, they like guitar-based stuff.

00:45 One son loves the Pumpkins, and another, the other, Zuma, he's got the country bug.

00:55 I have no idea where he gets that from, but he's got it.

00:57 I think you said in an interview with us a couple years back that you were a little worried that he was getting into the country genre.

01:03 Are you open up to a little bit more?

01:05 No. But I do think that I support him playing blues scales, which is the last thing I want to hear in my house, really, to be honest.

01:16 Blues scales and all that sort of...

01:19 The specific pentatonic scale that rock and roll uses that we've never used in Bush, we don't use that.

01:25 We try and make it not that.

01:27 So he comes in and goes, "Show us the pentatonic scale." I'm like, "Oh, God."

01:31 So it's all good. That's how much I love him. I will support him making any music, even the blues.

01:38 Even the blues.

01:39 Because he's got nothing of the blues about.