Drake White is opening for Zac Brown Band this summer on the Black Out the Sun Tour. Just this past weekend, the tour played two sold-out shows at Boston’s Fenway Park, and Drake says getting to experience something like that “is remarkable.” He could try to explain it, but he says, “You don’t really know what that’s like until you step out on the stage in one, and it feels like if you’ve ever played a football game or if you’ve ever walked out and gave a speech or something—there’s some butterflies there, but it’s good butterflies. It feels like a dream. It feels like you’re literally floating and an hour goes by in two minutes, it feels so quick.”
There’s a lot of hard work that goes into getting to the point where you get to stand on a stadium stage and perform and Drake says, “It’s really enjoying those moments, really stopping and enjoying the moments. Because we have a tendency as competitive people and motivated people to really just go, ‘Okay, that’s off the checklist, let’s go to the next one. Okay, that’s off the checklist. We played Red Rocks, let’s go to the next one. We played the Ryman, played the Opry.’ I want to slow down and enjoy each moment with my family, with my band, and say, ‘We’re doing it. We’re doing what we set out to do. Let’s enjoy it.’”
Drake is enjoying getting to share his new album, Spark, which just came out on Friday, and his latest single, “Livin’ the Dream,” with his and Zac Brown Band fans.
Drake White – stadiums on ZBB tour 1:03
“It is remarkable. You don’t really know what that’s like until you step out on the stage in one, and it feels like if you’ve ever played a football game or if you’ve ever walked out and gave a speech or something—there’s some butterflies there, but it’s good butterflies. It feels like a dream. It feels like you’re literally floating and an hour goes by in two minutes, it feels so quick. What I’ve learned is there’s a lot of undesirable things that you have to go through to get to these more desirable things like a packed out stadium or whatever, so it’s really enjoying those moments, really stopping and enjoying the moments. Because we have a tendency as competitive people and motivated people to really just go, ‘Okay, that’s off the checklist, let’s go to the next one. Okay, that’s off the checklist. We played Red Rocks, let’s go to the next one. We played the Ryman, played the Opry.’ I want to slow down and enjoy each moment with my family, with my band, and say, ‘We’re doing it. We’re doing what we set out to do. Let’s enjoy it.’”
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