Before selling millions of records and packing arenas, Darius Ruckerand Hootie & The Blowfish were just a college band trying to make it work in South Carolina.
Darius was recently on the “Bussin’ with the Boys” podcast, and he got talking about the band’s early days. You know…from the late 1900s. When Hootie & The Blowfish were young and broke.
Darius said, “our first probably 10 gigs, 15 gigs, were strictly for beer.” But when they got more popular the compensation went up from two cases of beer to three.
And money was so tight, they didn’t even have all their own equipment. He said, “we had to steal the PA from the university because we couldn’t afford a PA.”