Alteregomaniac - The Chris Gaines Story
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- It took me years to find the Chris Gaines Behind the Music and NBC Special on VHS and put them on the internet. Before I uploaded those videos in 2014, Chris Gaines had been completely scrubbed from the internet. For over a decade the only Chris Gaines video you could find on the internet was an old Daily Show clip of Jon Stewart making fun of it. To get the VH1 Behind the Music I had to find some Garth fan in Texas that just happened to record everything Garth ever did on VHS, the VH1 special only aired once on TV, that's why our copy is pretty low fi. As for the NBC special, I actually got my hands on an official VHS promotional copy.
The Chris Gaines saga has always fascinated me, because its one of the weirdest chapters in popular music history. Its an epic tragedy in which the number one selling solo artist of all time at the peak of his career in 1999 made one of the most bizarre career moves imaginable that would make him a laughing stock and land him in early retirement and self imposed exile. Garth Brooks decided he wanted to have a rock star alter ego, but he didn't want to write any rock songs, he just wanted to write a really detailed fictional bio for his charachter named Chris Gaines, dress like a french mime take off his cowboy hat and put on a wig....confused yet? Keep reading, I've been giving this a lot of thought and I think I can explain:
If you don’t write your own music but have a talent for singing and performing, at some point you might attempt to get creative with the one thing you have control over - your image. Having an alter ego is something you might expect from a female pop star or glam rocker, but it was really unusual when Country super star Garth Brooks created the Chris Gaines persona 1999 at the height of his fame. Perhaps the most peculiar part of the Chris Gaines story is that when it came time to record the album, Garth had other people do the songwriting just like with his country stuff. Garth did however don a wig, an outrageous Prince style wardrobe and wrote an insanely detailed and entirely fictional biography for Chris Gaines. Garth’s fans were seeing a very different and strange new side of Garth. Unlike Johnny Cash or Loretta Lynn, Garth Brooks was playing the character of a country star and now a rock star, he didn’t really have 'friends in low places' - the guy that wrote that song did! (Dwayne Blackwell). When Garth dumbfounded his fans with his Chris Gaines persona he inadvertently tipped his hand and showed his fans that he was just pretending to be a cowboy the same way he was pretending to be a rocker. All of a sudden the black cowboy hat seemed as fake as the black Trent Reznor wig and Garth went into early retirement, a self imposed exile of more that 10 years. It’s only been in the last few years that Garth has started to make his way back in to music, this time as Garth Brooks exclusively, with nearly every mention or video of Chris Gaines scrubbed from the internet. It was such an epic fall from the top selling solo artist of all time to laughing stock and obscurity. The moral of the story is an album has two sides, always turn it over and see who’s writing the music.
-Will Loomis
I think Ben Stiller needs to pick this up and start making the movie
I would watch it if it was like a comedy where Garth gets mad because nobody likes his crappy ideas.
HAHAHA Yes!! I'm freakin dying just thinkin about it
Omg, yes!!
No, Adam Lambert should play Chris Gaines, haha!
Hell yea
He looks like Derek zoolander
Zooey doesnt wear tights and look like a mime!! Lmfao
@iluv towelie you need meds today!!!
Dont bash Derek Zoolander with an aweful comment like that! He looks like a psycho that he really is!!!!! He is the michael jackson of country! He needs to get a grip, too many drugs altered his mind and his double chin!!!!! Or is it triple chin now?
@iluv towelie i hope your talking about Zoolander!!!!
You gotta admit it's weird that he didn't write a single song on the Chris Gaines album but did write a fantasy bio. That would be like if David Bowie didn't write any of the Ziggy Stardust songs but wrote a detailed Ziggy Stardust bio, and Ziggy Stardust was just a dude in a wig.
Garth Brooks did not write 'Friends in Low Places'. The truth is that he did write all of the songs from the Chris Gaines album, but was advised against taking credit because of the great risk to his career. About one 'hit' was spawned by this Goth Brooks monstrosity of an idea, simply because Goth sang the songs from the Chris Gaines album. Not having to take full credit for those songs probably paved the way for his comeback, after the near Hollywood failure that surely would have cemented him as a full on joke, not to mention the favor he pulled getting himself inserted into minor league baseball.
This video is criminally underrated, especially for how old it is…
The Chris Gaines character was creative, fun, and talented. Also WAAAAY ahead of it’s time
See.s like Keith Urbab rode that train into the station
This is a gem of a video. Thank you Rex Chase.
Rex Chase. Thank you for keeping this magical story alive! I was in a. Gym in Oklahoma and saw a Chris Gaines key chain and it triggered a waterfall of “need to know”
wow, a Chris Gaines keychain spotted in the wild haha, that is amazing
I feel like a lot of cocaine was involved in this whole thing
Garth doesn't DO drugs.
Patricia Jones ..Well maybe he should, it would help him
@Patricia Jones but Chris Gaines has struggled with a vicious PCP addiction since the age of 16
@@patriciajones4206 and the catholic church doesn't fuck boys
@@bombalu5 😂🤣😂🤣
And on Saturday Night Live, Garth Brooks hosted as himself with Chris Gaines as the musical guest.
Yes, that actually happened. I'm not kidding.
I'm a dude playing a dude, disguised as another dude.
Lmfao.....psychotic barf brooks......what an egomaniac...needs ssome therapy!
This album is Genius! Every song is incredible and shows Garth’s versatile vocals. Too bad the movie never got done.
Keep your jeans high and tight 👖
broke back cowboy
I always thought he used them as a girdle. Y'know, find a brand using thick, stiff denim . . .
Barf brooks admitted to being a sexually perverted addict! He must like boys too in those tights and imagines gross things with his sheep!!! GROSS! He needs some therapy now!!!
Thems stwrangler jeans
@@LB-pg3no you have an imagination there...
"He didn't write his own songs". Actually, he wrote a pretty a good number of them. That Summer, The Thunder Rolls, The River, Standing Outside the Fire, etc.
So 4 or so?
Mike Hawk he wrote way more or at least helped
Yes but NOT Chris Gaines' songs.
Huge ego + no one around him to say NO + a tinge of mental illness = Chris Gaines
maaaybee....he's just gay
It’s so annoying how people write articles and make videos of completely false information. Garth did not create an alter ego. He was asked to do the soundtrack for a movie project and eventually asked to play the main role in the movie also. They released the soundtrack a year before the movie so audiences could become familiar with the music of this fictional. Backstory was created for this movie character and they started promoting it. It was no secret that it was a fictional movie role and anyone who actually listened to his interviews and watched the tv promotional specials would know this. Unfortunately the movie never got made (like so many film projects don’t) and he was left with a fictional soundtrack with no movie to go with it. Know the real story and then you can comment on it.
Aaron McCall Huge ego+ no one around him to say no + a big tinge of mental illness
= garth brooks!!!
@@nanlev613 just watch the chris gaines videos, he really said his father died so he could relate with chris ganes father dying and when they checked it out his father was well and alive, garth brooks was actually crying over this, that alone would really tell you ones mental stability is not on tact!!! Many other tbings were just psychotic and disturbing...the guy is a nutcase...he said the more you get to know chris the more you get to know garth, chris is a very dark, sexually addicted drug abusing psychopath!!! Get it? He is telling us what he is really like! Listen!!!
@@nanlev613 if you dont think so then your dumber than i thought, just wake up and observe reality for one damn minute! Its like saying how do you know the sky is blue!!!
Lmfao......the obvious is there for us to see....now dont deny it..see it!!!!.
Garth, please tell us where you left our grandmother. We won’t rest until we find her
Where is our grandmother
Garth please stop threatening our elderly president our country is in a total disaster and you find it is appropriate time to terrorize does poor elderly JB? Please Garth
" 🎵 Because I got high, because I got high, because I got high .🎶 "
I remember when my boyfriend made a reference to this whole thing when we were joking about something and I couldn't believe it, he showed me the vh1 behind the music and I lost it lol he should have just played the 3rd cool guy from night at the roxberry, ya know the strong an silent type with a really hard and complex past... GREAT VIDEO!!😂
tasha 111 i want to see that!!!
You are welcome, it took my wife and I years to find it on VHS and put it on the internet. Before we uploaded it, it was completely scrubbed from the entire internet, because back then you couldn't upload long videos, he almost got away with it! We had to find some Garth fan in Texas that just happened to record everything Garth ever did on VHS, the VH1 special only aired once on TV, that's why our copy is pretty low fi. As for the NBC special, we actually got our hands on an official VHS promotional copy.
Garth is in the songwriters hall of fame man. He’s co-written some of his biggest hits.
It is a shame that ppl think Chris Gaines was some alter ego when instead it was the soundtrack to what was supposed to be a movie.
can you give me another example of a "pre-soundtrack" coming out for a movie that hasn't been released yet? ...how about a pre soundtrack that's performed as a character in the non-existent movie? No, this is a singularly weird passion project
Great video! I had no idea how deep this crazy went, lol.
Biggest star at the time "but didn't write any of his songs" , tells you all you need to know about billboard charts....
Garth Brooks does write some of his hits. Garth Brooks is one of the most respected artist-songwriters in country music, and he's written some of his own biggest hits. But his credits don't stop there: Brooks has also turned out songs that other artists recorded, including some you probably had no idea about.May 19, 2021
Does Chris Gains remind anyone else of Zoolander? "Like" if you agree!!
I was trying to place who he looked like. Especially the black and white pants.
Haha
I'm a dude playing a dude, disguised as another dude.
Simply...he put out something that should have come after the movie. That's why the album was called "greatest hits".
I have always found the Chris Gaines saga pretty cool. I was standing in a Towers Record store in front of a wall of headphones. One pair hung underneath the Chris Gaines’ album. I had never heard of CG but knew Garth Brooks. Weird scenario happened though: also a pair of headphones hung next Marc Anthony's newly released album. The song I played was ”When I Dream At Night” by Marc Anthony but I was looking at the Chris Gaines’ album. After the confusion I finally matched up the right album with headphones did I listen to ”Lost In You”. When I found out it was by Garth Brooks I thought ’Cool! I hope he does more music like this. This is risky but I like the song.’ This has always been an interesting career move for Garth that I personally thought was actually a great idea.
Maybe you and garth should hook up but put on your tights and get your sheep ready for action!
Risky career move....it was a total flop....this man was so embarrassing and is a psychotic nutcase...watch his videos on gaines....he really thinks that he exists....he said chris and him are of one....the men are both lunatics...lmfao...i have never seen suck a rediculously embarrassing venture in my life. Poor GB, poor CG they are lovers and in love with each other. Garth brooks said chris was a very sexually addicted pervert.....well he is telling us that so is he!!! Get it?
Garth Brooks is not just a singer, he is a legend. No on can sing like him songs like "The dance". He can't bee imitated or copied, his voice is, or was, crystal clear.
That one Chris Gaines picture says he is looking for his Droogs
I also wonder if Keith Urban was an inspiration for the Gaines character. Both are Australian and Keith also rocked a soul patch in 1999. I think I had read somewhere that Garth and Keith were friends at that time but I’m not sure if that fact checks out
Bahahaha this is hilarious! Why am I just now learning about this?! :D
Because you’re 20….
@@MrMcadamsaaron a little older than that. Lol
My biggest gripe with this character is that Chris Gaines looks like a gothic alternative metal frontman, yet sings very cliched 90s pop rock ballads, lol
I'm still bummed this never came together this would have been so cool to see Garth move in this direction and be a Hollywood actor and do something other than be a human Thumb in the country music world
Damn, imagine Garth in Twister...damn it. I love the Chris Gaines album unapologetically.
I also, Love The "Chris Gains" Album! Lost in you is one of My Favs ❤️ I understood "what" Garth Brooks, was trying to accomplish. I was sad when I heard they had "killed" The Movie!
I'm also, Someone who loves when "Artists, Actors, Comedians & any other "form" of Entertainment take chances!
Blessings,
Piper
So, did I ♥️ As an Someone, who appreciates Acting, Performers & Musicians, I knew what he, was doing! Sadly, like so many "Performers" he, got "Stereotyped!"
My Mom & I both appreciated the Album.
Thank god the movie was killed, murdered, slaughtered, annhialated....it would have been 10 more times embarrassing than that rediculous so called album he put out...the falseto in that has so much femininity in its voice that its confusing! Its not even close to rock music...its easy listening at the very best....but its not at all easy to listen to..lmfao..lol!!!!!!!!
@@pipertarin68 i sorry you are "garthbrooked" with a brainwashed addiction that no matter what this glorified kareoke singer puts out, you are in love with him and it!! Sucks to be you! I always have a very objective view...its the only fair way!
Garth brookie in twister= flop he would not be a good actor, although he convinced everyone that he is gaines and the two are one, like a sweet married couple!
Garth brooks was offered a part in saving private ryan, but he wanted the starring role because he wanted to be the center of attention over all those seasoned actors who played in it! Steven Spielberg said get tge fk out of here, who in the hell do you think you are, some glorified kareoke singer who cant act!! Lmfao!!!
well done, will loomis! i never knew this about garth brooks.
Garth brooks could always star in a zoolander remake
He should have been forced to star as a balding, chubby Chris Gaines just as punishment. But alas, he made another 50 zillion dollars singing other people's country songs.
Thing is - the album was/is phenomenal. He’s a phenomenal singer, performing phenomenal songs written and arranged by others with phenomenal talent - like a lot of the best singers.
*Correction* - Garth co-wrote some of his country songs but did not write a single song on the Chris Gaines album. *Epilogue* : After the Chris Gaines project flopped, Garth tried out for a major league baseball team! So it must have been one hell of a mid life crises, imagine the self confidence it would take to put on a wig and pretend to be a rockstar and then when that didn't work tryout for a major league baseball team. He ranked last in the tryouts, and then got signed to a minor league team perhaps as a promotional thing on the part of the owner. There's so many unanswered questions with this project. He obviously really believed in The Lamb or he wouldn't have turned down the lead role in Twister and the role of the sniper in Saving Private Ryan. But if you want to rock and take time away from country wouldn't you want to write the songs on your rock album? I have so many questions, let me hear yours in the comments.
He was playing a character that was supposed to be for a movie. It wasn't a lie, it was a backstory for the character.
@Patricia Jones No in the meeting with 20th Century Fox executive Garth said he related to the Chris Gaines story because he (garth brooks) had also lost his father which was not true
@@Loomismusic So a person can't relate to the back story for a movie, he was talking about relating to a CHARACTER, he didn't think he WAS the character? Again, Chris Gaines was a character for a Movie. Garth was supposed to play the character in the movie. Garth is someone who has pushed the boundaries as an artist. He was putting a creative spin on things, that is what creative people DO. The way he was trying to do it was to embody the character, and he wanted to bring his audience along for a creative ride. The problem was that some people, apparently like yourself, didn't understand what he was doing, and didn't go along for the ride.
@@Loomismusic He didn't say he lost his father, he lost his MOTHER to the effects of Cancer, and THAT is what he related to.
Patricia Jones wrong, read Lisa Sanderson’s sworn testimony about the meeting
I don't care how much blow Garth did, I still love the album.
C. Cannon 😂😂
You would love barf brooks if he put shit on a shingle, your one of those brainwashed fans that makes the real talent out there seem invisibke!!!
Your one of the very few....its embarrassing to say the very least!!!
Garth did write his own songs, though he was usually just a co-writer. Never knew he was offered Hollywood roles before this. "Why did he dress like a French mime?" XD
I'm still curious as to what that film would have been like: some say a documentary-style film, others say it would have been the full bio-pic for the Gaines character. Thanks for the video and info!
I need to see that behind the music episode..
It was taken off youtube so I put it on vimeo
Josiah Reyes thanks!!!
I like the album quite a bit. I've listened to it for years.
It flopped...like a led balloon, are you surprized, im not at all!
Garth brooks said it was going to sel, more tban Elvis and the Beatles combined, how can anyone even say that? An egomaniac of course, well how did that pan out garthie brokks...thats what caused him to spin out of control. And quit music and retire! It had bpnothing to do with his kids..,i saw the interviews! His ego was devastated and he couldnt handle it!!! Lunatic, ya think??? Lmao
I happened to like it and liked the songs performed. I have been looking for a copy of the VH1 Behind the Music or the NBC special.
Totally agree with you. Even if the music was written by someone else, the album was amazing music!
Wow. Just came across this. Interesting. Thanks :)
Egomania 😂😂😂 You got a new sub Rex
Excellent job Will
This is a really impressive video
Listen to the songs for your self and decide for your self! I certainly don't need anyone telling me what to like!
He looks like Adam Gontier previously of Three Days Grace
That was great, Mr Chase, and I'm sorry about all of your fictitious tragedies.
We shouldn't care about a fictional character, but we do this all the time with movies and books.
Garth’s mid life crisis
It was just a phase I’m assuming. I’m stunned but a part of me wishes this could’ve been made into a full length featured film. A comedy preferably
The part about the movie makes it pretty valid, also it has the effect of him being able to try stuff he couldn’t have under his name like a pseudonym
It's like him and onionboy are tapping into the exact same current lmao
The families need closure GARTH
The bodies are scattered in very low and loose places
Keep it high and tight, mommy!
That was good. I know the record company didn't want him to do it
No, they advised him to take zero credit for it, and their fears were correct. Garth has enough wealth now to film 'The Lamb' and should put his money where his mouth is, or was. Also Garth, publicly admit that you wrote all that garbage.
It was all apart of a story. It was fictional it was all a part of a movie stunt.
Great video!
but Garth Brooks does write songs. and he can write great songs so he is not just a karaoke singer now actor. I don't believe that you have to write every song to be good just some and Garth Brooks does more than some. besides that I did like this video because I finally got some good answers on Chris Gaines but Garth Brooks is talented
Zac Crump
Just be aware that most of the Chris Gaines information in this video is straight-up wrong.
Garth brooks is trash
I've always wondered how much was inspired by Clapton's "Change the World." It's a really great record, and I could see Garth going off his nut when he heard it. And I'm thinking that he asked the writers of that song to come up with the necessary material for the Gaines album. Unfortunately, all the songs were lame, not a single hit, which may be a big reason why the whole Gaines project flopped.
Far more likely that the entire Chris Gaines episode was triggered by Eric Clapton's 'Cocaine'.
I thought it was it good idea back then. I love song lost in you.
Come on, Garth. Don’t be stingy.
Well done sir
That sign off was pretty hilarious.
Interesting POV thank you. Never thought of it this way you make some great points about singers being actors although the karaoke comment might be a bit hatsh. I like the songs on the Chris Gaines album and Garth seems to have a much more beautiful voice than I thought. Its pop/ soul to me though not rock/ alt or emo/ goth. I actually think the Chris Gaines is more his true desired singing style.
Sounded good though to my middle school recollection.
I don't know why people think Chris Gaines was a mistake, I liked him. The music was fantastic and the character was fascinating.
😂🤣😅
So basically, he went insane and had a split personality?
this was a major glitch in the matrix
Ya gotta admit the album is lit
I'm hoping to hear more about Chris Gaines from Garth Brooks and it kind of sounds like that might happen, so don't be better.
I'm back. Noticed you still haven't admitted you're wrong about Garth "never writing his own songs) as according to AllMusic, he wrote or co-wrote 31 songs. Those songs are (in alphabetical order): Ain't Goin' Down ('Til the Sun Comes Up), All Day Long, Baby Let's Lay Down and Dance, The Beaches of Cheyenne, Dive Bar, From Where I'm Sitting, If Tomorrow Never Comes, In Another's Eyes, It's Midnight Cinderella Like We Never Had a Broken Heart, Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old), The Night I Called the Old Man Out, The Night Will Only Know, Not Counting You, Papa Loved Mama, The Red Strokes, The River, She's Every Woman, She's Gonna Make It, Somewhere Other Than the Night, Standing Outside the Fire, That Ol' Wind, That Summer, Thicker Than Blood, The Thunder Rolls, Unanswered Prayers, We Shall Be Free, What She's Doing Now, Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy, When You Come Back to Me Again, Why Ain't I Running?
You gonna admit you're a hack and take down this video, or do I have to make a video exposing you as one? Also, none of that information on the production of The Lamb is inaccurate, as well. Garth had nothing to do with the story, he was literally just an actor in the film.
Lol is this Garth?
MK Ultra
Chris is coming back . Soon.
Thanks Rex! That was a weird time when he was “Gaining Out” never understood it.
how about more like "gay"ing out
I remember seeing this when I was 13... and I still stand by the feeling that all of this crap is insanely creepy and desperate.
You make a good point about the artists who have the least amount of control over the music tend to up the anti on their image. Look at Miley, Beyonce, Beiber and the like. All hacks when it comes to songwriting and all try grab headlines with new image-driven personas. Whatevs.
Dude, the talent to act out a song to give it expression, stage presence, and good vocals; all of which Garth has; is what makes anyone a great performer. Lots of people don't write their own album songs. Never the less, this guy is super talented. YOU try and sing as beautifully as he does, or emote and express the song to make it your own as well as him...just try it. People love him for good reasons. Lastly, I don't remember hearing him ever have to tear anyone down to feel better about himself like you did. Jealousy sucks, man. I'm sure you're talented at something else if you think about it, quit trying to belittle a super-star like Garth Brooks. He has earned all 14 of his awards including Billboard, Grammy's, People's choice awards, American Music Awards, etc., One just doesn't merit all those for being as you insinuate, a fake. He's good entertainment all the way though. Get over it.
He's a performer and a damn talented one too
PREACH!!!
As this video points out, Garth was ON TOP OF THE WORLD when he pulled the Chris Gaines stunt. To me, that took a lot of fucking balls! He could have easily sat back and rested on his laurels…doing nothing more than pumping out the “same old, same old” country albums. Yeah, he has continued to release more country albums after the failed Chris Gaines experiment, but one has got to appreciate the fact that he took such a risk.
For even a Star as big as Garth Brooks was at the time, such a stunt could have permanently killed his career. Crazier things have happened to ruin people’s careers, ya know? It’s not fair to try and fault someone for wanting to try something *NEW*. Yep, it failed…but at least he can say HE TRIED. It’s long been known that Garth is a huge fan of KISS and AC/DC, so for him to want to “be a Rock Star for a day” isn’t all that surprising.
The dude was simply “stretching his legs”, as the saying goes, and trying on new things. Nothing wrong that. Lots of us should probably be doing the same.
He is talented but the level of fame he has reached has made him weird.
Chris Gaines, made possible by Yes Men.
Everything about Chris Gaines is disturbing. But I do like Garth Brooks music
The Character of Chris Gaines was a brooding character, the character was MEANT to be somewhat disturbing. Chris Gaines is a character that Garth Brooks played and embodied. It is not the same as Garth Brook's personality. He DID however tap into some personal feelings from losing his mother in order to be able to play the character and make it believable. He was very close to his mother. His mother was his strength, and he kinda lost his spark for a while after she past. There is an interview with him on the Donny and Marie daytime talk show where he talked about the fact that at that time, he was still trying to cope, and he was crying, and Donny and Marie were both crying, and it was when he was working on the Chris Gaines project, because he talked about the project in the interview.
this is great Will. I don't know what else I can add to the subject!
I loved that album. Now, 20 years later it can't even be found. Wiped off the face of music and the Earth.
Wow. Now that's a conspiracy for sure.
I have the CD. Do you? Hard to find.
Chris Gaines rocked. Everyone thought his fancy pants were silly. I think they were brilliant. #finemockerygaines
sloan daniels I do indeed have the CD, and the collectors vinyl, and a pin, and promo kit and posters and official bio, I have it all my friend. Including the holy grail, the fake VH1 Behind the Music
sloan daniels I have it all and I put the VH1 Behind the Music and the NBC Special online, just google search it and you’ll find it
CD here, yep...never checked so didn't know it was wiped. Wow!
I think all the CD's were destroyed... hopefully never to surface again...lol
But Garth Brooks wrote a ton of his own songs. Google it. He won the Gershwin Prize where they honored songs that he had written. Anyways, an expressed personality doesn’t have to stay specifically to one genre of music whenever it is being expressed. Garth can express himself with country music and songs like The Change while doing the same with some R&B with songs that he wrote the backstory to. He was probably just scared to wreck the persona of a country star that he had built so he decided to split his emotions into two characters. Garth and Chris ARE the same people, but Garth didn’t want them to run together, probably out of fear of being ridiculed, which he somewhat expressed in the song “Main Street.” He was conflicted because he wanted to chase something, in this case his emotions he felt as Chris, but felt that if he did, he would end up worthless and thus a disappointment, which is why he decided to split up the characters. He had more that he wanted to express, but didn’t know how to do it, not because he was afraid of failure because of his ego, but because he didn’t want anyone to be ashamed of him or view him in a different light. I honestly don’t blame him because I am afraid of being viewed differently, too. This, however, is just my theory, but it always helps whenever you think about reasons why someone could have done something. It makes you feel better than when you just assume they have a mental illness like I’ve seen many doing in the comments of videos such as these. We all have a little bit of Jekyll and a little bit of Hyde in us. Garth just chose to not embrace each at once but rather separate them. I honestly don’t blame him, because we live in a society that is desperately worried about what others think, and he cannot help that his the vitality of his image was constantly being imprinted into his mind as a celebrity.
He looks like Peter Parker when he became dark and cocky in Spiderman 3. Also Garth Brooks is a FUCKING TOOL!!!!!
Chris Gaines was a Frick of nature
Hey, dude. Garth Brooks is a great songwriter. If he didn't write any songs for this album, so what?! Why is he in the songwriter's hall of fame if he "is a glorified Karaoke singer." Garth has a passion for music. All music. Look at his last box set where he sings everything from Buck Owens to Otis Redding. I mean, come on. How many records have YOU sold? How many videos have YOU made? Oh, and how many millions of dollars do you have? From his interview with Barbra Walters, Garth said, "I have more money than my Grandkids' grandkids can spend!"
How Brian and Stewie were disciplined in the Army.
If tomorrow never comes, standing outside the fire, garth wrote them and more get your story straight.
Kent Blazy wrote "If Tomorrow Never Comes", you get your facts straight! ruclips.net/video/8KcNJr5geNw/видео.html&ab_channel=TrevorGeorge . "Standing Outside the Fire" was a co-write with Jenny Yates.
Kent Blazy and Garth Brooks wrote if tomorrow never comes. If he didn't write any of his own songs then why is he in the song writers HOF?
@@Loomismusic He gives credit to Kent Blazy, but the truth is Kent Blazy and Garth wrote songs TOGETHER. They would go to Kent Blazy's house and write. Garth never gives himself credit for the songs he co wrote on, he always gives the credit to his writing partners.
@@CountrySingerWannabe Garth is in the songwriters Hall of Fame because he's made a lot of songwriters a lot of money, but the songwriters HOF is just like the rock n roll HOF, it's a highly political little clubhouse and they give awards to their friends and associates and it doesn't mean anything. That's why bands like The Pixies, Nine Inch Nails, Devo, Whitney Houston, Joy Division, Kraftwerk, The Smiths and T-Rex aren't in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame but a random rapper like Grand Master Flash gets inducted. It's meaningless, is my point, how have you not figured that out yet? Also why does it bother you that Garth didn't write most of his songs?
@@Loomismusic By that logic, if just simply making songwriters money gets you inducted in the Songwriters Hall of Fame, how come Elvis and Frank Sinatra haven't been inducted yet? Face it dude, you're an idiot, and you're wrong. First you change the definition of songwriter by saying "yeah well, Garth Brooks only co-wrote a few songs, and none of the hits, so it doesn't count. Instead of admitting you were wrong, you're changing definitions of words to protect your precious ego. "Songwriter" doesn't mean "created the song 100% on your own", it means you contributed in some way to the song's existence. Garth Brooks may have only "co-written" The Thunder Rolls or Standing Outside the Fire, but he still contributed to their creation, hence, he's a songwriter.
This is hilarious!
Garth Brooks does write some of his songs. This person narrating says Garth Brooks doesnt write songs. They are so wrong.
That is so crazy!
Wow! You really need to get your facts straight before trashtalking someone. He was not trying out rock or pop or whatever...he was involved with a movie production about a fictitious character and wanted to make the character feel like a real person to viewers. He released a soundtrack a year before the movie release so people would be familiar with the music. The music videos and in-character appearances was for the same reason. He made it clear in every interview "as himself" that it was just a movie character. Also, he didn't lie about his dad dying. He said he could relate to the song about Chris Gaines' dad dying because his own mother had just died. And songwriting...yes, he did a lot of that often with other songwriters. Pat Alger and him would be in a room for hours writing the lyrics and music to a lot of his songs including Thunder Rolls. He co-wrote That Summer with his wife Sandy and another person. He's written songs for Trisha back in the day that he didn't even sing in and no one would even know if they didn't look at the CD booklet. He always gives credit to writers and never takes writing credit for songs that were given to him. You need to do a lot more research before you spin a story like that.
Hahah God who cares , this shit is hilarious
EXACTLY Kit Hall!
The person making this seems to have a chip on his shoulder towards Garth Brooks lol. Famous people do all kinds of weird stuff!
So?
What the F was he thinking, Zoolander 🤫
I'm throwing out my Rex Chase rookie card.
What this boils down to: famous musician sets out to make a movie, famous musician puts out the music first to see how his fans will react to his character's sound, famous musician doesn't wind up making the movie, and clueless douche bags continue to insist his brief exercise in acting was an alter ego or some sort of momentary lapse of reason worthy of mockery.
Let's say this went differently.
Let's say that Garth, his team, and his label poured all their energies into the advance campaign for "The Lamb," including leaking that Garth had been considered for roles in other films such as "Saving Private Ryan," "Twister," and "The Green Mile" (the third isn't mentioned in Sanderson's lawsuit, but I recall reading about it in a Country Weekly career retrospective as a kid).
In the run-up, they publicize the creative process as Garth works with Babyface and Don Was on the music.
The singles that sound the least different from the Garth we know ("Main Street" and "It Don't Matter To The Sun" are good candidates; the latter was even a minor country radio hit) are released as teasers.
And then, for the same reason it died in our world minus the album flopping (there was also a major health issue in the screenwriter's family that needed attending to), the movie doesn't happen. But Garth doesn't want to leave the songs in the can, because he just spent several months to a year working in a whole different vein than he ever has. So he tells his fans that he wants them to know what his character would have sounded like and what songs would have been part of the movie, and he releases the album.
Would you still be calling him an alteregomaniac? Poor planning and an enthusiastic rush for the potential dollars from an album are the only issues this project suffered from. I don't see anyone criticizing Queen Latifah for "The Dana Owens Album" or Beyonce for Sasha Fierce.
Gibson DelGiudice
Amen! Thank you for this! At least someone has the facts straight.
EXACTLY!!!!
Famous country musician puts on a Prince wig and two tone spandex pants, decides to sing R&B ballads in falsetto, doesn't write the songs but writes a super detailed account about how he would have written the songs had he been Chris Gaines, does a fake VH1 behind the music as a fictional rock star alter ego who is addicted to sex, makes his fantasy parents olympic swimmers for some reason....I could go on but it's bizarre and hilarious. It's not like he just set out to make a movie, he created a 'best of Chris Gaines' album from two decades of Chris Gaines' fictional career, wrote a detailed bio, did a bunch of photo shoots, performed in the wig as Chris Gaines, it was soooooooo weiiiiiiird and funny, Ben Stiller should make it a movie.
The guy got too big, and is chock full of his own bullshit.
Goth Brooks
Yes he did that to promote the movie. It is the same kinda thing as the paul is dead thing with the beatles, and they put out the record as Sargent Pepper. The beatles were still The Beatles, even though they called themself Sargent Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band for one album, and Garth was still Garth even though he was playing Chris Gaines. It is called CREATIVITY. It was part of the schtich. The movie was going to be in the style of a documentary kind of like the "We are spinal tap" idea, so he wanted the audience to believe the character really existed, then he would have revealed more as it went along.
Creativity would be writing the songs on the Chris Gaines album, or writing the script of the movie. He did not do either of those things. Instead Gordon Kennedy and Wayne Kirkpatrick wrote the album and Jeb Stuart wrote the movie. Garth might have picked out the wig he wore though, I'm not sure.
@@Loomismusic Dude again I repeat, Chris Gaines was a CHARACTER that Garth Brooks portrayed.
He stole the plane crash from metallica not lynsky
I never really liked Garth Brooks. I worked at the bar he got his start at in Stillwater OK. Not when he was there, much much later. They had a plaque hanging on the wall mentioning it and nobody seemed to care. Once in a while somebody would come in and play Garth songs. Overall, I've always felt he was overrated and you did a great job pinpointing why. Great video, Rex Chase, keep t up.
You sound like the voice from Disgraceland. Is it you?