Leaving Nashville After 30 Years: My Biggest Life Challenge Yet! 😱🎸
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In this deeply personal video, I share the biggest challenge I'm about to face: starting over at 57 years old. After 30 incredible years in Nashville, I'm packing up my family and my guitars and heading to Florida for a fresh start. Join me as I reflect on my journey in Nashville, from getting my start at 27 with the help of the legendary Regi Wooten, to the highs and lows of my music career. I'll also discuss what this move means for my life and the future of my CZcams channel. It's a new chapter filled with uncertainty and excitement-come along for the ride!
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You've already gotten married and had a beautiful child. Those, to me, are the biggest challenges in anyone's life and you aced them. Congrats man
I'm very lucky!
Prepare to be moved as Big Bad Brad opens up about life's next chapter.He shares 😊this ntimate look into music-land-world while revealing the courage it takes to reinvent oneself at 57. He left behind 30 years in Nashville, and he's now charging family head-first into their new dream of starting over in Florida ..all the while, doing it his way....!!!
Doc you rock!
Hearing your story about moving to Nashville at 27, has me feeling inspired getting here at 28. Thanks as always Brad.
You got time to make thing happen.
Man, you got to see firsthand when Nashville started taking off in 1994, esp. in country music. Play drums in the school music program and all through school before I was a former music major in college, I graduated high school in 99 and I should have moved there at the time, but doubt and not knowing anyone kept me from making the move. Country music exploded back then and such great musicians. I always looked up to drummers Eddie Bayers, Trey Gray, Tim Chewning, Jeff Marino, Greg Herrington, etc, etc and guitarists Phil Valdez, Charlie Crowe, Brent Mason, Duke Levine, Lou Toomey, Dan Huff, etc, etc, etc. Looking back my biggest regret was not moving and meeting some of those world class musicians and honing my craft. I always kept tabs, played and watched from a distance. Who know's, maybe I saved myself the disappointment of "not making it" but I'll always wonder as far as a touring drummer. Well, that era came and sadly went.......sigh.............................The work down there slowed down and many left or are either teaching, doing studio work, or doing short run tour gigs as the entire music scene shrunk and everyone is older. What turned me off is hearing the broadway circuit of miserable musicians playing and the lead singers yelling out $20 any song. I'm like what a fall from grace that it's at that level now. After hearing what it's like now, I'm like who would even want to go to Nashville now.
It can be really bad down there. I’m glad to be out of there.
I like the way you talk with honesty from the heart. Me, from here in Austria and prior to 2010 Nova Scotia Canada. I grew up with all the music in the late 50's and "lived" the music during the 60's.Will be looking forward to hearing more of your true to life music stories. Great job and keep trucking
I salute you! You’ve seen and experienced a lot and you are appreciated here.
@@badbrad Thanks for the salute. For sure I have seen a lot and have many stories going all the way back to the "duck-cut" days. Then teh Hippee days, etc. Listened to a lot bands and then finally recording my own music. You may find this interesting. A guy in Ontario gave you "Bad-Brad" the credit for starting his onw CZcams site, telling his stories about being a drummer for many years. He referrs to his site as "Tim Connoly Druns." His stories are very interestng as well. Take care
@@yasmanjack Yeah I noticed ...they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. I wish him well.
@@badbrad I thought maybe so. There will no doubt be more to follow and copy. That is the world we live in these days. Your the first and the King. lol
@@yasmanjack Ultimately we all have a story to tell, I'd like to think we all have something to bring to the algorithm. Thank you.
Youve got this brad. Music is your life. Follow your heart and you will succeed. Im so happy the music i am doing now. You will be fine. I feel guilty sometimes because ive got something that a lot of people dont have. Confidence and the love of my music. Peace brother. From venice fl.
Thank you best to you!
YOU will do whatever you set your mind and heart to achieve! 🎸⭐️
I'm fully focused here.
Good luck Bad Brad.
You have a lot of great years left in the tank.
CZcams, teaching, studio work, live gigs.
A little bit of this, a little bit of that.
Going to be fun watching the next chapter of your journey from afar!!!
That's the plan! 🙏
Yep. Like Rick Beato did!
Enjoy your stories,glad I found your channel. Thank you for not using cuss words constantly.
Ad Maiorem Dei Gloriam!
Much appreciated.
Best Wishes to You Brad! I enjoy your videos!
Thank you Super Jazz!
Glad you like them!
I like how you are documenting that Nashville arch and then moving on. We moved to Pensacola from Nashville. I'd already kind of moved on from writing and gigging before we moved here. What's weird was finding Nashville songwriters and some players that had moved down here from Nashville. I guess some songwriters that can do house shows or whatever have moved down here. They still have Nashville connections but they have a home base here then do acoustic gigs, songwriter festivals
Yeah Key West has a big festival....my buddy Ira Dean has a foot in Nashville and Florida....
YES!I LOVE SOOTH JAZZ!YOU THE MAN BRAD!
Keep it smooth.
I like busking on the street, I like the randomness of it and ability to engage one one
Yeah that is immediate!
My gigging days ended 2009 ish, that was my last gig, started in mid 80s, and was only fulltime for a year or two, playing clubs and bars in st louis metro area. Then it was just a part time thing, doing less and less each year as i had succumbed to more reliable income, day job...
In 2016, i became over the riad trucker, and i carry one electric, and one of those tiny battery operated black star amps, and i rarely even plug in. Matter of fact, i got that amp specifically for taking on the truck in 2016, and it still has original batteries, and they still work.
Im glad i did the trucking thing, i stacked my 401k pretty good, i got the medical and dental, fattened up my bank accounts....
We are same age, 57 also. Hope everything works out for you.
Thank you brother! I always land on my feet like a cat. Appreciate the choice you made and you’ll be better off money wise for it. Salute
Touch base with Sam Tritico. He owns Island Music in Merritt Island Fl, just south of Daytona. You may already know him. He was the owner of Sam's Music in Franklin, but he's been in Fl for about 20 years. He plays out in the area often and probably has info on where the better gigs are.
Was just in that area for a while....wish I had known.
Best of luck on your new journey!
Thank you!
27 and you’re over the hill, wow as someone who is recently
inspired to be professional at 39 I’m 😂
Man in LA they want you young and dumb
@@badbrad I really appreciate that you’ve moved away from the high screaming metal sounds, I also find that in busking I make more money when I play more blues and jazz
good luck with your move, I'm a little older than you and retired from full time work (civil service) but my attitude about live playing is similar, no longer looking to bust my ass for low pay and drag my ass home at 2am. You're a much better player than I and you will do good in Florida, just gotta network. You know what to do. Take care!
Thank you!😊
Good luck to you.
Thanks, you too!
Thanks for the great videos Bad Brad!👏👏💯💯💜🤍❤💙
👍🏻 🙏 Muchos Gracias.
@@badbrad love to hear you jamming! Any jamming coming up soon?👏💯💜🤍❤💙🎸. You need to do a dedicated long jamming video!
Hey Brad
Hello!
You've done it all. And it didn't kill you.
But believe this: Florida is another challenge.
But you have the right attitude about it all.
You’re so right.
I will stay out of the way of the gators dodge the curve balls and be ok.
@@badbrad😅
play the songs till your sick of em,and ralways emember HOW you play your licks is working so far for me
Thank you!
That's great news about your wife's career. However, I understand. I'm from a small town in Wisconsin. Joined the Air Force in 1987 instead of wanting to go to Hollywood and get in the music biz with my voice, was stationed in Austin, TX, got divorced, moved back to Wisconsin starting all over. Then, after getting out of the military, growing my hair long, and living in Madison, I finally began my singing career in 1996, at 28 years old! I know how it is, man. One of my sisters got divorced and she still lives here in Jacksonville, FL and wanted me to move down here. So, 24 years ago, after the band I was in broke up (just keeping a band together is a challenge!), I moved here. The home of Southern Rock. Peace.
Wow man what a story! Good to hear from you here. Salute
I moved to L.A. in 1990 for a year of GIT at Musician's Institute, in a 1988 Mazda B2200 Pickup full of everything I owned. Was an awesome year of learning but I knew right away, being from a small town in Kansas, that I didn't want to be in L.A. I skipped the MI graduation ceremony, I was already driving back to KS where I was based in the KC area and played all over the Midwest in cover bands for many years. I'm also in my 50's now and living in FL raising kids, closer to Sarasota. Traffic is crazy sometimes, water, restaurants, and meat aren't great like the Midwest, but I've met a lot of awesome people here that have been drawn to the area for similar reasons. Will be better when the infrastructure catches up! There are some FB groups for Tampa Bay and Florida musicians you might check them out.
Wow we have similar paths. So good to have you here. Thanks for the tip, and best to you.
Are you planning on recording guitar tracks remotely from home for other's sessions?
Absolutely. If anybody needs tracks...happy to record them. Airgigs is the best way to reach me.
@@badbrad Found you. Thanks.
Play gigs on the beach 🤷♂️
ok
Do you want to teach guitar?
I don't mind teaching...
Grab me. A checkers bacon cheese deluxe n fries please?
They probably suck now but I'd get stoned and munch down hard on those hahahah.
I at he'd a youtube video on the weed going I to Florida man that brought back some. Memories if forgot.
Finding bails while commercial fishing.
And the myakka city gold.
Just Google it, all that was go go in the 80's early 90's.
Made a lot of lonely amd. Nothing to show for it but I had fun. Hahahahah
You wild man!
Sry for the unedited shitty typing.
Dude I experience so much in Florida I jever would have in upstate ny.
I have some wild stories.
First time I ever saw a homeless person.
@@jerryhatrick5860 I bet you do!
Brad , is Brothers Colateral still around ?
No they closed
I bet you and your dad learned a few things about each other on the trip.
Oh ya!
Way too many glitches brother, this is editing overload. Please just speak and we will listen, you're beautiful dude, fire that fucking editor (I know).
Sorry this was an old clip when I was Editing too much. I got my glow now and just put this out so it got some eyes. Will be almost no edits from now on.