Joe Rogan and Chris Stapleton talk about Garth Brooks and the time he attempted to create an alter ego called Chris Gaines. Taken from Joe Rogan Experience #1049.
I'm the guy that managed to track down the Chris Gaines NBC Special and the Chris Gaines VH1 Behind the Music and put them on the internet back in 2012 and 2014. It was near impossible to find because they only aired once on TV and only existed on a few VHS tapes, so you're welcome America. Chris Gaines is the best undiscovered meme on the internet.
People forget just how big Garth Brooks was in the 90s because he retired in 2001 so he could be around for his daughters as they grew up, which I respected the hell out of, and you didn't hear anything about or from him really until the last few years. Garth is the biggest selling solo artist in US music history, a country singer, has sold more albums that Michael Jackson or Elvis in this country, he trails only The Beatles in album sales and he really did it all from 1989-2001. Garth had good songs ofcourse but his concerts are what really blew him up, they were amazing. Maybe the best trip of my life was when I was 20 and me, my gf, and our closest friends drove almost 12 hours on August 7th 1997 to see his concert in central park, New York City. We thought their may be 200,000 people max show up there, instead it was right at a million people, to see a country singer in New York City, that's when I knew just how big he actually was. That might be the biggest concert ever in the US. I remember these big New York guys crying their eyes out and singing with him to his song The Dance, that image has stuck with me for almost 23 years, amazing concert, amazing artist!!!
I would listen to Chris Stapleton sing literally anything. He could sing the annoying song billion times back-to-back, and I would be there for all of it. He, Tyler Childers, and Colter Wall are my favorite country artists of all time.
The Gaines thing could have been a massive success. I love it. Chris Stapleton is right. It was supposed to be a movie called The Lamb. Garth was to play Chris. Creative and financial differences are to blame for it not happening. It did wind up blowing up in Garths face big time but he is NOT to blame for it. Listen to his vocals on the album. Incredible
I gotta say Chris S is one wonderful human being. He’s so down to earth and relatable. He didn’t/ doesn’t let the fame and fortune ruin him. If you met him in the street and didn’t know him you could talk to him for hours and never know he’s a multimillionaire. I find that to be the greatest quality a human can possess.
.... I loved this album .... It came at the exact right time in my life ... I knew every word and sang those songs like they were my own songs .... at the time I had never heard of Garth Brooks so al this is blowing my mind x
As a Hispanic kid from NY, I was not into country music… for whatever reason I bought the Chris Gaines album at Virgin megastore with my allowance. 😂 I loved it and then I never looked back. I even learned to play the banjo. Garth Brooks rules
Chris stapleton s just the SHIT!!! I got to see him in concert in des moines iowa my hometown and just killed it!!! I love him and I had the best night ever at his concert!!!
David Bowie did Ziggy Stardust, I feel like this was along this guise. He took a risk, and had the balls to try something else. The album on it's own was great but his general audience likely hade a hard time with it
It's great that when Chris is unaware of Richard Bachman, Joe isn't a tool like "you idiot!" and instead just calmly tells him about it. Also, I get the feeling that Chris knew at least as much about the Chris Gaines stuff as Joe did because he seems to know that there was a movie planned that never materialized.
I think the fact that Garth was not touring at the time, he shows that he can be versatile and did a good job. The movie was supposed to be The Lamb, which was never completed. The music however is good. He wants the writers to get paid and itunes can't offer that.
Garth was always a rock guy. He grew up wanting to be a rock star. He was a MAJOR KISS fan. But growing up where and when he did - Stillwater, OK, and one wants to play music, he was sort of pigeonholed into that genre. Consequently, Garth became such a major country success due to his edgy and more rock sound in country music. So he got a 4 or 5 MAJOR records under his belt and he doesn't have a whole lot more to prove as a country star. He was the biggest selling ever at that point. So he goes back to his youth and wants to reclaim what he wanted to be, a rock star. Chris Gaines is his alter ego rock start he never got to be. I appreciate the artistic expression of it all.......perhaps the execution could've been handled better? I also wonder if Garth was surrounded with nothing but Yes-Men and no one telling him the brutal truth. "Uh......this is not a good idea Garth." Hell, maybe they did but Garth was at a point he didn't give a fuck.
i'm with you, spanish monarch. it's a great pop album. great songwriting. amazing players. sounds great. it's a wonderful album. most people who may actually love the music didn't give it a chance because it was garth brooks.
It was an interesting way to try and experiment doing music in a different genre. But the choice of that alter ego was just goofy af. It'd be better if he did it like Gorillaz or being a guy in a Quiet Riot mask.
I thought the music on that album was fucking incredible. It don't Matter to the Sun, Lost in You, Right Now, all fantastic songs. I fucking hate how people make fun of it.
I LOVE the Chris Gaines record. Some fantastic music if you take time to listen to it. And no, he didn't go off the reservation. As was properly said, it was to be a soundtrack to a movie he was to be In. But it's one of Garths absolute best records if you ask me.
totally agree. so many people make fun of that album because of the whole chris gaines character...but it's a great pop-rock album. completely underrated and underappreciated. i think it's honestly as good or better than a lot of albums of that era.
Kevin Maillet he’s an egomaniac that has zero grasp of reality. He’s a fake pop country star. He was manufactured and sold out from the beginning. He doesn’t write his songs and he sucks. He wrote a behind the music on “Chris” that is crazy and insanely egotistical. He went away for people to forget how badly he sucks. Except Walmart shoppers who love that crap. Listen to Waylon, Willie, Doug Sahm, Gram Parsons, Gene Clark and the Flying Burrito Brothers instead
Not a huge Garth Brooks fan. I listen to that whole CD when it came out. People can't deal with an artist doing two different things. Especially conservative white bred America. Chris Gaines. FTW.
The Chris Gaines album was really good. The album is actually hard to find due to selling out everywhere. I would hardly call the Chris Gaines project, a fuck up. The movie was never made due to financial and management issues. However, GB has been talking about it over the last year and apparently, hes moving forward with it.
I think Brooks was wanting to move away from country music for a time and try pop/ rock music. But instead of just going for it as himself he got the wild idea of an alter ego. There was just no way of pulling it off without looking kinda foolish. The album was well done and it sold very well but the alter ego Gaines thing was confusing to country fans so it flopped.
I think it was a brilliant idea and i still listen to that record. People were not ready for this. And nobody critised David Bowie for creating Ziggy Stardust, right?
Chris Gaines came about as a character in a movie Garth was starring in. The album was the soundtrack to the movie. The movie never ended up being released and the only thing left was the Chris Gaines album and everyone was wondering what the hell Garth was thinking creating some alter ego Chris Gaines. It's a lot less Garth going off his rocker and more of a failed movie and a big misunderstanding. I don't know who wrote the script for the movie or if Garth had a hand in that. I think he just helped write the soundtrack.
at the same time, I don't think it would have been horrible even if he just decided to create an alter ego for the purpose of making different music. It's a cool experiment and there's no shame in that.
I think people need to understand that everyone in this world has an alter ego. And it's for that brief moment in time you can be somebody that you're actually not. So take it with a grain of salt everyone has one.
Garth sold/sells his music by the album so all the collaborations from writers and others all get paid. If only one song is bought, only that writer gets a check. At least that’s how Garth explains it. Hard to be mad, but as a fan I’d sure like to be able to access his music easier.
The Bachman Books are a collection of short stories King wrote while in college that were published by Omni magazine and others. He used a pseudonym so his early works wouldn't haunt him later in his career. It's my opinion that they are his finest works, particularly ' The long Walk '.
I don't remember who it was and I'm probably way off but someone was using a different name on some of their work because they we're worried that if they released too much material it would start effecting their sales I don't know how that would work but I thought it was King who did it by publishing books as Bachman ... I do know I liked some of the Bachman stories more than the King stories though he seemed to be willing to go a darker route under the Bachman name
Art should be allowed to be expressed in the moment and that’s it. So many critics and consume get fixed into a box of how they want artist work to be presented and forget to not judge the process. For instance, Prince has always had several different eras of his style, influence and faith that changed his style through the decades he was here blessing us. Kanye is probably the most successful artist know yo have changed his style, moniker, crafted several different ego’s and presentations for his work. Some have been more successful than others but his work is still appreciated by his fan base and more. Childish Gambino/The Boy/Donald Glover has experienced the same level of freedom with expressing his art as well
Well, some of it is an R&B bop from then, he did crossover - everywhere - Maybe he set the framework for Kanye Meta,-music impresario Beyonce/Sasha Fierce-& Tidal music streaming..when you're just too damn big... hmmm
the crazy thing is garth as Chris gaines the vocals he laid down were amazing that gimmick could hav even huge kinda how hank 3 does a 3 hour show where 1 hour is metal/punk 1 hour is hillbilly and 1 hour is traditional country he could have filled staduims 1 set as Chris gaines and 1 set as garth.
There's an alternate reality where the world's biggest pop-rock star Chris Gaines has a 1999 country alter-ego album called "Chris Gaines in the Life of..... Garth Brooks"
“Make him like an ugly, saddle worn dude” And if he did that, people would be criticizing him for doing that. I love the album and I feel like I’m one of the very few people that read the back of the CD where it explained it was going to be a movie.
I believe Garth Brooks did the Chris Gains thing so he could do pop music and still be thought of only as a country music star. And not thought of as an artist that switches genres.
It was fairly well known that Garth was Chris Gaines, don’t think he was trying hard to hide that fact , and some of the songs were pretty good, though I can’t recall names.
The one thing that I really blame is the fact that country music community basically crucified him over the Chris Gaines thing. Garth Brooks is a great vocalist and musician, irrespective of genres. That brother could sing what ever he wanted to sing, but he got pigeonholed as a country singer. I agree that the alter ego was kind of silly, but dude had the chops to back it up. It was the fact that country music community had this bizarre sense of betrayal towards GB. I get that there weren't many crossover artists in country music before Faith Hill, but they could have been more open minded.
I think I still have a copy of this album, I played it... once? No more than five. I stashed it, and figured, "Eh, everybody - including Garth - is going to hate this. It'll be "Atari E.T." level collectible!" I doubt that came to fruition - but, it's still funny to think about.
If Chris Gaines was such a mistake would you take the financial reward he got for it? "It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and went on to become certified two-times platinum by the RIAA for over two million copies sold", If that's a fuck up, I would love to fuck up that bad.
People around here are effing slow. It was just an alter ego that Garth Brooks used to explore different music styles he wouldn’t have been able to play as a country artist. Where’s the confusion? Shit, even the Beatles became Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for an album.
I feel Brooks was just wanting to express/explore his talent in more than just "country" music. As it turns out, his singing talent (outside of country music twang) rose to the occasion as a vocal success on the 'Chris Gaines' album. It's like an actor playing the same type character in every movie over and ove again, yet, at some point, you just want to expand your creatively as the artist you are yet 'Fans' and critics like Rogan (who of course lack talent of their own) would rather laugh, chide and try to stifle the artist for trying to be just that...an Artist. Funny how Chris Gaines reached a height Garth never did...main stream music chart success, AND obviously, if just for that one song, (the GRAMMY nominated "Lost in You") 'Chris' reached a much wider audience than 'Country Garth" ever did as evidenced by "0" previous (or since) cross-over top 40 hits ( by the precedents set by other Country singers like Kenny Rodgers, Dolly Parton, Crystal Gale, Willie Nelson, Eddie Rabbit, Glen Campbell, Shania Twain, even Billy Ray Cyrus, the Oak Ridge Boys... and on and on with other country music singers. The difference being all these other country cross-over hits, crossed over as just that, successful COUNTRY songs. Garth only mainstream hit wasn't even country. Time for Chris Gaines Greatest hits part II.
I'm the guy that managed to track down the Chris Gaines NBC Special and the Chris Gaines VH1 Behind the Music and put them on the internet back in 2012 and 2014. It was near impossible to find because they only aired once on TV and only existed on a few VHS tapes, so you're welcome America. Chris Gaines is the best undiscovered meme on the internet.
I just watched that video and it's was very informative
Where can i find them now?
you're a true American hero. I don't think they're on TH-cam anymore, though. At least not in full.
You are my hero
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People forget just how big Garth Brooks was in the 90s because he retired in 2001 so he could be around for his daughters as they grew up, which I respected the hell out of, and you didn't hear anything about or from him really until the last few years. Garth is the biggest selling solo artist in US music history, a country singer, has sold more albums that Michael Jackson or Elvis in this country, he trails only The Beatles in album sales and he really did it all from 1989-2001. Garth had good songs ofcourse but his concerts are what really blew him up, they were amazing. Maybe the best trip of my life was when I was 20 and me, my gf, and our closest friends drove almost 12 hours on August 7th 1997 to see his concert in central park, New York City. We thought their may be 200,000 people max show up there, instead it was right at a million people, to see a country singer in New York City, that's when I knew just how big he actually was. That might be the biggest concert ever in the US. I remember these big New York guys crying their eyes out and singing with him to his song The Dance, that image has stuck with me for almost 23 years, amazing concert, amazing artist!!!
thats an amazing story
Probably the most real guest joe has ever had on the podcast! Chriss Stapleton is the truth!!
Lost In You is a phenomenal song. Garths vocals are so velvety smooth on the song.
I would listen to Chris Stapleton sing literally anything. He could sing the annoying song billion times back-to-back, and I would be there for all of it. He, Tyler Childers, and Colter Wall are my favorite country artists of all time.
I give Garth credit for going outside his box and trying something different, he had one song that was really good on the Gaines album.
I'm a dude playing a dude, disguised as another dude.
What do you mean you people?
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Stapleton is so sweet. I love him.
Hearing Joe say, "Hey, what was that guy smoking?" is hilarious.
Chris Stapleton, I love you! So talented and humble. I love Morgane as well. Country GOLD!
That album is a actually a great album. Absolutely underrated.
😂😂🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
Dude, his vocals on that are crazy good.
I actually LOVE the Chris Gaines album. The vocals are exquisite.
you should probably get an MRI because thats not healthy and there could be something seriously wrong
@@Loomismusic Do you enjoy riding the bandwagon?
Yes the album is very good
It sucked but I can understand why some folks may like it. It’s subjective.
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The music and the performance on that Chris Gaines cd is incredible. That’s what the cd is about. Not a wig. You ought to listen to it.
The Gaines thing could have been a massive success. I love it. Chris Stapleton is right. It was supposed to be a movie called The Lamb. Garth was to play Chris. Creative and financial differences are to blame for it not happening. It did wind up blowing up in Garths face big time but he is NOT to blame for it. Listen to his vocals on the album. Incredible
meh average singer
@@TheJpep2424 Have you listened to Lost In You
I agree it’s actually a masterful album and I’m not even a Garth Brooks fan. My ears where just happy when I heard it 🤷🏾♀️
@@TheJpep2424average of you don’t understand music or vocals, which you CLEARLY don’t.
The Chris Gaines album was actually great and showcases GBs talent and versatility.
I gotta say Chris S is one wonderful human being. He’s so down to earth and relatable. He didn’t/ doesn’t let the fame and fortune ruin him. If you met him in the street and didn’t know him you could talk to him for hours and never know he’s a multimillionaire. I find that to be the greatest quality a human can possess.
Absolutely man I’m just going through old JRE episodes right now and finished this Stapleton one. Everything you’d expect him to be guy is so genuine
“I don’t want to control people’s... thing.”
- Christopher Stapleton
.... I loved this album .... It came at the exact right time in my life ... I knew every word and sang those songs like they were my own songs .... at the time I had never heard of Garth Brooks so al this is blowing my mind x
That Chris Gaines album was actually pretty good but people have closed minds when people step outside of their concept of who they want you to be.
I like it more then 90% of what Garth has done.... Im Being honest 🤷♂️
Chris Gaines' Lost in You was actually a good song
It's an amazing song
Agreed
Way of the Girl was pretty good too
It really is tho!
The whole album was great. Fuck you Rogan. Try writing a song and then we'll talk.
As a Hispanic kid from NY, I was not into country music… for whatever reason I bought the Chris Gaines album at Virgin megastore with my allowance. 😂 I loved it and then I never looked back. I even learned to play the banjo. Garth Brooks rules
The way Chris laughed when he brought up Chris Gaines. 😂 He has prior knowledge of this crime.
Chris stapleton s just the SHIT!!! I got to see him in concert in des moines iowa my hometown and just killed it!!! I love him and I had the best night ever at his concert!!!
I remember McDonald’s giving away Chris Gaines cd’s.
@@houstonjimmy2968 I’m calling BULLSHIT
@Aaron Zupet McDonald’s actually did that?! I wish they still did that on a lot of CDs
The CD was amazing!! I love Chris Gaines!!
Way to go Chris on checking Joe. The Chris Gaines experiment was something that anyone with a brain appreciates.
You can tell Chris is an intelligent dude by the way speaks! Really nice guy! Like him and Joe a lot
He was his High School Valedictorian. Fact.
i don't like joe, but i do like that he has guests i like and he lets them talk. lol
Garth Brooks is a super versatile talent!!!!
David Bowie did Ziggy Stardust, I feel like this was along this guise. He took a risk, and had the balls to try something else. The album on it's own was great but his general audience likely hade a hard time with it
exactly
I remember being a kid and being so confused as to how and why this Chris Gaines dude appeared
I loved the Chris Gaines album. I listened to it all the time!
Garth Brooks in... The Life of Chris Gaines peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard 200
Chris Gaines “lost in you”. Was one of my favorite songs by Garth Brooks. Not joking.
This is brilliance, some people get lucky, never give up
It's great that when Chris is unaware of Richard Bachman, Joe isn't a tool like "you idiot!" and instead just calmly tells him about it. Also, I get the feeling that Chris knew at least as much about the Chris Gaines stuff as Joe did because he seems to know that there was a movie planned that never materialized.
I think the fact that Garth was not touring at the time, he shows that he can be versatile and did a good job. The movie was supposed to be The Lamb, which was never completed. The music however is good. He wants the writers to get paid and itunes can't offer that.
We got the full "Chris Gaines" saga here!
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Garth was always a rock guy. He grew up wanting to be a rock star. He was a MAJOR KISS fan. But growing up where and when he did - Stillwater, OK, and one wants to play music, he was sort of pigeonholed into that genre. Consequently, Garth became such a major country success due to his edgy and more rock sound in country music. So he got a 4 or 5 MAJOR records under his belt and he doesn't have a whole lot more to prove as a country star. He was the biggest selling ever at that point. So he goes back to his youth and wants to reclaim what he wanted to be, a rock star. Chris Gaines is his alter ego rock start he never got to be. I appreciate the artistic expression of it all.......perhaps the execution could've been handled better? I also wonder if Garth was surrounded with nothing but Yes-Men and no one telling him the brutal truth. "Uh......this is not a good idea Garth." Hell, maybe they did but Garth was at a point he didn't give a fuck.
I wonder if that’s the reason why he and his ex divorced at the time
Fucking. Love. Chris. Stapleton
I actually liked the Chris Gaines album..
No you didn't
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i'm with you, spanish monarch. it's a great pop album. great songwriting. amazing players. sounds great. it's a wonderful album. most people who may actually love the music didn't give it a chance because it was garth brooks.
spanish monarch Fantastic record!!!!
I liked it too a couple of great songs on there
Garth Brooks should have just made a Pop/Rock album under his own name. I remember back in the day loving that "Lost In You" song.
It’s a stunning soulful vocal. I laugh how I felt bamboozled at the realization.
he was just trying to do something artistic and different.
It was an interesting way to try and experiment doing music in a different genre. But the choice of that alter ego was just goofy af. It'd be better if he did it like Gorillaz or being a guy in a Quiet Riot mask.
That Chris Gaines stuff was good. Some of it reminded me of The Beatles
I have the Chris Gaines CD. It's actually pretty good. Had Garth just released the Chris Gaines CD without the back story...it might have worked
The album was actually really good. It's all about context. GB got into that stratosphere of "weirdo" stardom. This was a by-product.
I thought the music on that album was fucking incredible. It don't Matter to the Sun, Lost in You, Right Now, all fantastic songs. I fucking hate how people make fun of it.
I LOVE the Chris Gaines record. Some fantastic music if you take time to listen to it. And no, he didn't go off the reservation. As was properly said, it was to be a soundtrack to a movie he was to be In. But it's one of Garths absolute best records if you ask me.
totally agree. so many people make fun of that album because of the whole chris gaines character...but it's a great pop-rock album. completely underrated and underappreciated. i think it's honestly as good or better than a lot of albums of that era.
Yup.
Kevin Maillet he’s an egomaniac that has zero grasp of reality. He’s a fake pop country star. He was manufactured and sold out from the beginning. He doesn’t write his songs and he sucks. He wrote a behind the music on “Chris” that is crazy and insanely egotistical. He went away for people to forget how badly he sucks. Except Walmart shoppers who love that crap. Listen to Waylon, Willie, Doug Sahm, Gram Parsons, Gene Clark and the Flying Burrito Brothers instead
Not a huge Garth Brooks fan. I listen to that whole CD when it came out. People can't deal with an artist doing two different things. Especially conservative white bred America. Chris Gaines. FTW.
The Chris Gaines album was really good. The album is actually hard to find due to selling out everywhere. I would hardly call the Chris Gaines project, a fuck up. The movie was never made due to financial and management issues. However, GB has been talking about it over the last year and apparently, hes moving forward with it.
I think Brooks was wanting to move away from country music for a time and try pop/ rock music. But instead of just going for it as himself he got the wild idea of an alter ego. There was just no way of pulling it off without looking kinda foolish. The album was well done and it sold very well but the alter ego Gaines thing was confusing to country fans so it flopped.
I think it was a brilliant idea and i still listen to that record. People were not ready for this. And nobody critised David Bowie for creating Ziggy Stardust, right?
Garth was in the middle of a nervous breakdown when he had the Chris Gaines fantasy 😵🥴😳
Chris Gaines came about as a character in a movie Garth was starring in. The album was the soundtrack to the movie. The movie never ended up being released and the only thing left was the Chris Gaines album and everyone was wondering what the hell Garth was thinking creating some alter ego Chris Gaines. It's a lot less Garth going off his rocker and more of a failed movie and a big misunderstanding. I don't know who wrote the script for the movie or if Garth had a hand in that. I think he just helped write the soundtrack.
at the same time, I don't think it would have been horrible even if he just decided to create an alter ego for the purpose of making different music. It's a cool experiment and there's no shame in that.
I think people need to understand that everyone in this world has an alter ego. And it's for that brief moment in time you can be somebody that you're actually not. So take it with a grain of salt everyone has one.
I dont
Garth sold/sells his music by the album so all the collaborations from writers and others all get paid. If only one song is bought, only that writer gets a check. At least that’s how Garth explains it. Hard to be mad, but as a fan I’d sure like to be able to access his music easier.
Have Garth on for a powerful podcast Joe!!!!
He was the industries first attempt at "Daughtry" Gaines is Fetal Daughtry.
The families need closure, Garth. Where are the bodies!
The Bachman Books are a collection of short stories King wrote while in college that were published by Omni magazine and others. He used a pseudonym so his early works wouldn't haunt him later in his career. It's my opinion that they are his finest works, particularly ' The long Walk '.
I don't remember who it was and I'm probably way off but someone was using a different name on some of their work because they we're worried that if they released too much material it would start effecting their sales I don't know how that would work but I thought it was King who did it by publishing books as Bachman ... I do know I liked some of the Bachman stories more than the King stories though he seemed to be willing to go a darker route under the Bachman name
"colossal fuck-up" lololololol
Art is always subjective. Garth was huge and a major asset to the craft---period.
Art should be allowed to be expressed in the moment and that’s it. So many critics and consume get fixed into a box of how they want artist work to be presented and forget to not judge the process.
For instance, Prince has always had several different eras of his style, influence and faith that changed his style through the decades he was here blessing us.
Kanye is probably the most successful artist know yo have changed his style, moniker, crafted several different ego’s and presentations for his work. Some have been more successful than others but his work is still appreciated by his fan base and more.
Childish Gambino/The Boy/Donald Glover has experienced the same level of freedom with expressing his art as well
Fuck up? That was fucking brilliant
Well, some of it is an R&B bop from then, he did crossover - everywhere - Maybe he set the framework for Kanye Meta,-music impresario Beyonce/Sasha Fierce-& Tidal music streaming..when you're just too damn big... hmmm
the crazy thing is garth as Chris gaines the vocals he laid down were amazing that gimmick could hav even huge kinda how hank 3 does a 3 hour show where 1 hour is metal/punk 1 hour is hillbilly and 1 hour is traditional country he could have filled staduims 1 set as Chris gaines and 1 set as garth.
Lost in You was the only Garth brooks song I EVER bought.
There's an alternate reality where the world's biggest pop-rock star Chris Gaines has a 1999 country alter-ego album called "Chris Gaines in the Life of..... Garth Brooks"
Gaines knows where the bodies are!
It don't matter to the sun is a bad ass Chris Gaines song
Colossal fuckup? Garth Brooks in... The Life of Chris Gaines peaked at No. 2 on the U.S. Billboard 200
Craziness aside, it's a good song!
The Chris Gaines album is great.
“Make him like an ugly, saddle worn dude”
And if he did that, people would be criticizing him for doing that. I love the album and I feel like I’m one of the very few people that read the back of the CD where it explained it was going to be a movie.
Hank Williams III is way too underrated.
When you start a new save file.
"Thinner" was a great book
I'm glad TJ Kirk appeared on Joe's show again.
I was a huge gb fan back then. That Chris gains shit was fucked
The album itself is dope tbh
Kentucky y’all. Get ya sum!!!
The guys should’ve just dressed normal and got a pop rock album.
I believe Garth Brooks did the Chris Gains thing so he could do pop music and still be thought of only as a country music star. And not thought of as an artist that switches genres.
Sometimes a songwriter does something to get out of his old skin. Y’know.stretch out.
It was fairly well known that Garth was Chris Gaines, don’t think he was trying hard to hide that fact , and some of the songs were pretty good, though I can’t recall names.
I guess Joe is going for a Twin Peaks vibe at the beginning there.
I feel like Chris is the kind of guy who says “Well I think…” when he Damn well know for sure.
The one thing that I really blame is the fact that country music community basically crucified him over the Chris Gaines thing.
Garth Brooks is a great vocalist and
musician, irrespective of genres. That brother could sing what ever he wanted to sing, but he got pigeonholed as a country singer. I agree that the alter ego was kind of silly, but dude had the chops to back it up.
It was the fact that country music community had this bizarre sense of betrayal towards GB. I get that there weren't many crossover artists in country music before Faith Hill, but they could have been more open minded.
I'm still searchin for a Chris Gaines wig on Amazon
The Chris Gaines angle was genius and the music was awesome.
Garth looked like a Zoolander character as Chris Gaines 🤫🥴😵
Chris Gaines is the real deal!
come on,unsigned letter is a pretty cool song.
I think the Chris Gaines personality is who Garth really is and the country music star we all know is his alter ego.
The Truth of this! Back then We didnt know about MK Ultra and what the see I A was doing to these stars!
I think I still have a copy of this album, I played it... once? No more than five. I stashed it, and figured, "Eh, everybody - including Garth - is going to hate this. It'll be "Atari E.T." level collectible!"
I doubt that came to fruition - but, it's still funny to think about.
Chris Stapleton is very talented I think he transcends country
Dankzilla haha Thanks! And u too! I got obsessed with spirals and studying them with listening to Tool and their song Lateralus
Dankzilla yep my favorite can’t wait til the new album comes out finally after 13 years!
If Chris Gaines was such a mistake would you take the financial reward he got for it? "It peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and went on to become certified two-times platinum by the RIAA for over two million copies sold", If that's a fuck up, I would love to fuck up that bad.
People around here are effing slow. It was just an alter ego that Garth Brooks used to explore different music styles he wouldn’t have been able to play as a country artist. Where’s the confusion? Shit, even the Beatles became Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band for an album.
Was never a Garth fan so I had no idea about Chris Gaines.
This is gold. 😂 Garth is a troll.
GB can only be compared to other greats as far as entertaining ability
Has to be a nut though honestly
All these stars are nuts
I feel Brooks was just wanting to express/explore his talent in more than just "country" music. As it turns out, his singing talent (outside of country music twang) rose to the occasion as a vocal success on the 'Chris Gaines' album. It's like an actor playing the same type character in every movie over and ove again, yet, at some point, you just want to expand your creatively as the artist you are yet 'Fans' and critics like Rogan (who of course lack talent of their own) would rather laugh, chide and try to stifle the artist for trying to be just that...an Artist. Funny how Chris Gaines reached a height Garth never did...main stream music chart success, AND obviously, if just for that one song, (the GRAMMY nominated "Lost in You") 'Chris' reached a much wider audience than 'Country Garth" ever did as evidenced by "0" previous (or since) cross-over top 40 hits ( by the precedents set by other Country singers like Kenny Rodgers, Dolly Parton, Crystal Gale, Willie Nelson, Eddie Rabbit, Glen Campbell, Shania Twain, even Billy Ray Cyrus, the Oak Ridge Boys... and on and on with other country music singers. The difference being all these other country cross-over hits, crossed over as just that, successful COUNTRY songs. Garth only mainstream hit wasn't even country.
Time for Chris Gaines Greatest hits part II.
But they made the album before the movie I love Chris Stapleton!! But I honestly think Garth can out sing Stapleton
Garth doesn't vocally compare to Stapleton.... come on now.
My fuck Mr. Brooks can outsing anyone unless they got the last name Strait
He looks like the lead singer of Three Days Grace lmao