Shaun Groves
Brody is the new Brian this Spring. But only because Brant wouldn’t leave his morning show and year round sunshine in West Palm for a life of true ministry with me on the road. Pray for his soul.
Anyway, Brian (my brother-in-law and former booking agent/road manager) has quit me to work for Compassion International. Again, where are the priorities of the men in my life? Pray he finds more meaningful work..and pray for his soul as well.
Brian will be working as an “artist liaison.” (Oooh, French. Fancy.) He’ll be taking artists and other music types on trips to see what Compassion does around the world, blasting their perspectives to heck – or if they’re “progressive” or in southern gospel, he’ll blast their perspectives to hell. Either way, he’ll be part of changing self-absorbed rock stars like me into others-minded child sponsor generating machines. He’ll work with these folks when they get back to America to make sure they’re doing the best job possible at representing Compassion International accurately and well at their shows. It’s his dream job. And now that he nabbed it, it’s my worst nightmare.
Brian has traveled with me and booked me for four years. We’ve got a smooth operation: He does all the work and I just sing and look as pretty as a man my size can. Now I have to solve my booking agency problem: there’s no one to run the one we built together. And I’ll have to find a road manager I trust as much as I have Brian.
In the mean time I’ve got Brody. (Ouch.)
Brody has toured with Mercy Me and Third Day so he knows how to do the big show thing. Problem is I haven’t had a big show since….ever. We little guys do things a bit differently and he’ll be learning our ways: a Maxima instead of a tour bus, driving instead of being driven, doing everything yourself instead of having a crew, eating meat and three meals prepared by a Sunday School class instead of salmon patties in a glazed almond sauce prepare by Chef Pablo. Already he’s pushing me to make glow sticks, bobble head dolls, bracelets and 27 t-shirts for the merch table. Simmer down. A crowd of thirty looks a little goofy waving glow sticks in a coffee shop. He’ll learn.
So, good luck to Brian in his new life as rescuer of impoverished children. Brody and I are off to do the Lord’s real work: soft rocking…and possibly selling out of bobble head dolls.
Erin says:
There’s no shame in glow sticks.
kim says:
I want a shaun groves bobble head!!! I think it would look real cool on the dashboard of the beast. In fact I might even drive it if we had a bobble head in there!
Kim
Shaun Groves says:
Careful what you wish for, Kim. I’m not sure I can sell merchandise of any kind to neighbors. Might freak me out a little too much to see Redneck Neighbor and family in lawn chairs with my name across their chests and my head bobbling on the riding lawn mower.
Shawn B says:
Shaun,
You have a bobble head? That’s awesome I want one. Anyway, you can’t have Brant, besides the countless listeners he has on his show who desperately cry out things like “toast, toast, toast” when he M.C.’s a concert, you have his friends who wouldn’t want to loose him. Nobody likes loosing family…especially to soft rock.
Sincerely, Shawn
Matt says:
Wow, if I can make it to the Cup show on the 27th I will need to meet Brody.
The myth, the legend, the man…Brody.
Sorry, but I probably can’t afford a bobble-head. You know, serving God and all that stuff. Enjoy the Sunday School class cooked food! Mmm…
Gaetano Buffa says:
Shaun,
Make sure to tell Brian that those of us from the North will miss him. We wish him the best in his new endeaver (spelling?). May the Lord continue to bless his servanthood. -G
Thomas says:
It will be cool to meet Brody at the Cup show.
A bobble-head Shaun Groves that is a intresting ideal. I just might be willing to spend a dollar or two on such a thing.
Thomas
Dan "da Man" says:
I remember the one “big show” you played.. . it was in St. Paul and a full band jumped out for the last chorus of “Welcome Home”. Fun times.
Shaun Groves says:
OK, I’ve done big shows, but not alone. That was Jars of Clay and Jen Knap’s band that “jumped out” behind me on Welcome Home. I’ve done big tours but not any more. Not healthy. Fun, but not healthy.
Grovesfan says:
A bobble-head? Just how do you get that big HRS head to bobble on a toothpick that skinny? Anyway, I’ll take one just so I can figure out how it works.
Cell phones are the new glow sticks and everybody in America already has one so don’t overstock.
27 t-shirts are a good thing if you’re MWS, otherwise just one or two cool ones will do nicely. Just make sure they’re not all the same “one-size-fits none” size.
BTW, does that mean Brody’s cruisin’ in April?
Beth
Brant Hansen says:
Man, I’m excited for Brian. That’s thrilling to read. Compassion is just doing the Lord’s work, plain and simple.
I’d tour with you, but you would have to open for me. And the puppets would go before me, too. Always the puppets, THEN Brant Hansen.
Brandy Campbell says:
So, I just had a weird moment. I work at Compassion, and the lady in the cube next to mine was meeting with a new employee. When I walked past her cube, I saw this guy who looked incredibly familiar. Then, I heard her say his name–Bryan! What a small world, huh?!
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