Consequence and Lagunitas are back with another episode of Six-Pack Stories, with Bush’s Gavin Rossdale and Chef Ken Frank cracking open our questions while at BottleRock Napa Valley. Watch above or via YouTube.
When Napa Valley’s La Toque opens its doors at 5:30 p.m., Chef Ken Frank calls it showtime. As someone who’s been headlining stages since the early ’90s, Bush’s Gavin Rossdale sees the comparison.
The frontman and celebrated chef join Consequence and Lagunitas at BottleRock Napa Valley 2026 for an episode of Six-Pack Stories, connecting on an unlikely yet obvious parallel: what it actually takes to show up and deliver, night after night, in a kitchen or on a stage. That includes reworking your material, as Bush did with “Swallowed,” which Rossdale reinvented to “give that song new life.” Chef Ken meets him there: “A good hook is a good hook. A good flavor combination is a good flavor combination. And sometimes you just need to update them and make them fresh, and hopefully they’re better the second time.”
One flavor Chef Ken won’t tolerate, however, is truffle oil. “The biggest misconception is that truffle oil has anything to do with truffles,” he explains. “‘Cause truffle oil is all fucking fake. It’s flavored with 2,4-Dithiapentane, which was isolated in a lab in the ’80s… It’s a byproduct of cracking petroleum, and that’s just not something you wanna put in your body.”
As for what is good for your body — and soul — the pair bond over Sinatra as their go-to drinking music, but have different views on cooking playlists. Rossdale likes “the sound of the cooking,” but Chef Ken prefers blasting Prince’s cover of “Play That Funky Music.” That leads Rossdale to recall a unique Prince show at Paisley Park: “He played Sly & the Family Stone from 3:00 a.m. till 5:00 a.m. I was begging for ‘Purple Rain,’” he laughs. “Inside, obviously. I didn’t say anything, but he’s the king of covers.”
Easygoing and insightful , the conversation leads to lessons on everything from eggs (including Rossdale’s road recipe for hardboiled eggs) to making your admiration known. Rossdale names the late author Paul Auster as his Beer Buddy Bucketlist choice, noting he learned “such a lesson” after Auster passed: “Throughout my career, I spoke about him so much, I just should have rung him up and found a way [to meet him]… From then, I always do that now, make efforts and do reach out.”
Watch Bush’s Gavin Rossdale and Chef Ken Frank on Six-Pack Stories above (or via YouTube). Then crack open a Lagunitas and stay tuned for more episodes.