[audience cheering]
♪ ♪
[tape rewinding]
[megaphone noises]
[mouthing to megaphone noises]
You're welcome!
One...
Check, one.
Hey!
[drumming]
We got Fourth of July edition and regular.
Which one do you want?
What can I get for you?
Which one?
Buttered popcorn and Fourth of July mustard.
[drums]
- Come back. - That was good.
I'm pretty self-centered
so pretty much everybody else, they don't matter. It's just me.
No, I'm just kidding.
[chuckles]
I'm a true sonics geek.
I'm crazy about equalizers and everything
'cause, you know, I'm a producer first,
I'm songwriter first.
You know, I'm taking out any muffley 200Ks, any...
I'm telling them exactly how to compress 5 to 1
and I'm very, very particular.
Can we get the 4, Tom?
That's not the 4, Tom.
Does anybody here know how to play drums?
[drumming]
First of all, we don't have a bass player.
Where's the bass player?
We don't have- we don't have a-
we don't have a bass player.
We don't have a bass player.
Where's the bass player?
We don't have a- we don't have a-
we don't have a bass player.
Oh, we could just hide the drummer altogether.
That'd be good.
I do comedy in my own way.
Skateboard?
There's no wheels on it.
The whole team is loco.
Please, Blue, can you stop playing the drums now?
[drumming]
Like, for real.
Like, who hired this guy?
A lot of my music is, like, sarcastic.
I think that people my age and older understand that,
like, when I'm talking about
Instagram, girls, all this stuff.
I think the younger people think I'm talking about like,
"Oh, it's so cool you're on Instagram."
Lately I've been understanding why the younger people like me
and why... yeah, because
I've always been like an Internet guy.
[drumming, megaphone beeping]
Dude, I'm a troll, full-blown troll.
I'm in your nearest comments section,
I'm trolling your girlfriend, your best friend, your brother.
Nobody's safe.
In one interview they asked me,
"What would you do if you never found the microphone?"
I said, "I guess I'd have to sing really frickin' loud."
Then I was like, "That's a dumb question."
I'd just sing super loud.
Let's go!
From a young age, it's like all I cared about
was getting my Myspace up.
That's how my manager found me was in the Florida music charts
when I was doing music as my pedestrian name,
my gov, my .gov.
Uh, he found me and he messaged me a really long message
and was just like, "I feel this when I listen to you.
"I see this when I listen to you.
"And, like, I feel like all kinds of sexual..."
No, I'm just kidding. It wasn't like that.
He found me 'cause of how I was hustling on there
and then I owe a lot to my brother, TJ.
Every day, he's like,
"Hey, these stats are down, these stats are up,"
then like 'cause I used to check it all the time,
but now I'm more focused on, like,
how everything looks and sounds and how I'm coming off.
Hey TJ!
[TJ] Yo!
Do we have any blackbear stickers?
Whatever it is, I'm just trying to show up
and be a good person, you know?
[sighs] Are we done here?
Yeah, you're done.
I need to tune this before you go anywhere.
[laughs]
I'm doing different things that aren't in the record
live all the time.
♪ ♪
Little funny runs or lyric changes.
I'm like, "How can I change this to 'deez nuts'?"
[laughs]
Sometimes, I'll just be like, "Hit a beat."
♪ ♪
And just sing four or five of my songs in a row.
I did that on my last tour.
Maybe I'll do it tonight since
it's, like, more intimate and House of Blues...
I love this place.
[audience cheering]
I'll see you another time.
It's the perfect amount of intimate,
but the sound is still really good.
I did a whole House of Blues tour, pretty much,
a couple years ago
so it reminds me, like, where I started.
Those shows are the best. I can see everyone.
[muffled heavy metal song]
Whoo!
I've done arenas and sometimes it feels like
you're the only one in the room. It's like, it's really wild.
It's like some weird type of isolation going on.
My brain is confused.
I smell, like, really good pizza and really awful pukey.
[indistinct chatter]
That's the worst is pizza puke.
You ever had a slice in New York and just had too much to drink?
You know, I've seen people in blackbear hoodies
sitting down and eating whatever, wings or whatever
and just not even watching the show
'cause they're watching the jumbotron.
So here, it feels dope.
Here's a picture of me from the last show I played here.
[laughter]
You lost a lot of weight, man.
Yeah. I've been in the gym a lot.
It's that keto diet and that therapist,
you know what I'm sayin'?
My fans are growing up right now and I've noticed, like,
these kids that were 17, 18 are now 21, 22, 23 and up to 30.
Jump!
Who's down there telling them to jump?
Save your energy!
I'm making music more for myself and for them.
Like, I've grown up a lot too
even though I'm like a 15-year-old
living in a 27-year-old man's body.
I'm just like wacko all the time.
- Can we turn down? - Let's go! Let's go!
I'm not even hype. Like, I gotta...
[panting]
I think pacing is normal.
I think a healthy level of anxiety is normal.
Do you want to go on now?
Um, just like one minute. I gotta do some push-ups first.
I'm grateful for my anxiety.
I'm grateful for all the things that people think are bad
because they make me who I am and they make-
they put challenges in my day to make me realize, like,
what needs to be better and what can improve.
[exhales]
I get to know I put on a show for some of the people
that maybe can't make it to Lolla
and just for those good Chicago people.
We just ask You, Lord, keep us, keep our minds focused,
and we just ask You, Lord, just continue
to take care of our families back at home and
everyone that's part of the situation,
and we just thank You, Lord, for everything You do for us now
and everything in the future. In Jesus' name we pray.
[all] Amen.
[applause]
We got your back.
[chatter, laughter]
Oh, you mean this back?
[laughter]
I'm getting to give an opportunity
to see the same show they're gonna see at Lolla
and that's why I like doing shows like these.
♪ ♪
♪ [blackbear singing] ♪
[audience cheering]
So what I'm getting out of it is just, you know, just giving.
I get to show up and be here, so.
♪ It's all because I dreamt of you ♪
♪ and woke up alone ♪
♪ what a wonderful tone ♪
♪ to bring you back home ♪
[cheering]