Um, kind of a niche thing here, but I watched the two-part Garth Brooks "The Road I'm On" documentary. There's a LOT I could say, but I'll leave it at "it was a very entertaining four hours".
We watched it too.
Is this a Documentary of his career?
The tom petty 4 hour doc is really good if you guys haven't seen it.
I'm not sure if I posted earlier in this thread but I've been hooked watching Grand Designs. There are a couple of seasons on Netflix, I ended up downloading a few more after going through those. The show follows these home builders over the years while they build these outrageous homes. It's like British HGTV except it does a great job showing the real struggle people have getting their dreams accomplished.
Garth Brooks. Yes; it's an overview of his career. It's honest in some ways - his ex-wife and daughters speak what seems to be candidly - and very interesting in the early part of his career. But it's very "Garth Brooks", in that it makes a big deal out of his successes, and he cries every 90 seconds or so. But it's inescapable: while some of the record sales are hokey (he has I think four or five box sets that at least in part repackage previously released material; a copy of "Fresh Horses" in the box set counts towards the sale of that record, but also total sales; so when he sells ONE 6-CD box set, it's SIX more records sold. The Beatles put out product, but not like that) the fact can't be glossed over: he put almost a MILLION people in NY's Central Park. That's not gamed. Nor is the fact that of the people that have worked with him, NONE have a bad word to say about the guy. He seems to be one of those people that just have a charisma that people want to be around. You also can't argue with giving up hundreds of millions of touring revenue EVERY YEAR for the better part of a decade, to stay home with his kids, living in close proximity to his ex-wife (it's not clear how far, but it's implied they lived on the same property) who made it work. Being in a current court battle with my wife's ex, that's no small feat, and again, not gamed.
There's also some incidents that could very much be taken either way: he sold out five nights in Dublin in like two hours. They sold the tickets before the permits were pulled, and the neighbors complained, claiming that the stadium was only authorized to do one date like that. So the community said one. He told the planning board that if he couldn't do all the shows he wouldn't do any. The board compromised and granted a permit for three, more than the community wanted, but not the full run. Brooks held is ground and they were all cancelled. Noble gesture for his fans (he's HUGE in Ireland, oddly, for an American country singer)? Or money-grabbing ploy for publicity? Earlier, he was singing the National Anthem for the Super Bowl, and he cut a deal where NBC would play his new video for "We Shall Be Free". The content was somewhat political and so NBC balked, and Brooks refused to go out and sing the song until the video was played. NBC blinked. Again; noble artistic gesture, or raging ego-maniac?
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