“There is a ton of Garth in Chris, once you start to get familiar with Chris’s music. Would I ever drop that much weight again? I don’t think I could.”īrooks believes that his appearance was partly to blame for the failure of Chris Gaines: “I love the music, and that’s what it’s all about,” Brooks said earlier this year. But Brooks has no regrets about the Chris Gaines experiment and would not be averse to revisiting it if it weren’t for the problem of weight and long hours.
Little enthusiasm occurred, however, and the movie was shelved. In 1999 the album “Garth Brooks in… The Life of Chris Gaines” was released in an attempt to generate enthusiasm for a potential movie about Brooks’s fictional alter ego, Chris Gaines. KEEPING UP HIS CHRIS GAINES ALTER EGO WAS TOO MUCH WORK. Brooks played with the band and sang lead vocals on the track “Hard Luck Woman.”īrooks later sang the tune on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (which you can see in the clip above).
Fortunately for Brooks, KISS decided to produce a tribute album, Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved, in 1994 and asked him to contribute. In fact, his live shows during the 1990s were heavily influenced by acts like Queen and KISS. It’s no secret that Brooks is a huge rock ‘n’ roll fan. In 2005, Brooks married fellow country superstar Trisha Yearwood. The couple married in 1986 and divorced 15 years later. I finally got her outside and I just kept noticing how cute she was … I asked her out. “She beat me about nine times close to hell that night, too. “My job was to escort people out that caused disturbances,” Brooks recalled. Little did he know that that woman, Sandy Mahl, would become his wife just a couple of years later. While working as a bouncer during his senior year of college, Brooks was required to toss an unruly woman. HE MET HIS FIRST WIFE WHEN HE THREW HER OUT OF A BAR. Here are seven things you might not have known about the iconic musician, who turns 56 years old today. And while he now lists eating and napping as two of his favorite hobbies and claims he uses his guitar more to “hide my gut” than anything else, make no mistake about it: Brooks is far from done. Since bursting onto the scene almost 30 years ago with his self-titled 1989 debut album, Troyal Garth Brooks has slowed down a little in more recent years. With legendary live performances and songs that boast sing-in-the-shower catchiness, Brooks has captivated fans to the tune of more than 148 million records sold, making him the top-selling solo artist in U.S. Everyone has a friend who claims that he or she hates country music but loves Garth Brooks.