The man who'd had more platinum and diamond albums than The Beatles gave it another year then retired and more or less disappeared for half a decade, eventually popping up in a Vegas residency. ![]() Industry insiders put an index finger to their temples and made a corkscrewing motion.īrooks' fans were confused ( 'So Garth ain't Garth now, he some panty-waist furrin rocker? Whut?' ) and the portly megastar's next album 'Garth Brooks and the Magic of Christmas' performed poorly compared to expectations. The Gaines album briefly got to #2 on the Billboard chart but retailers had over-ordered and nobody was happy. ![]() To support the album Brooks performed in character on SNL and appeared as Gaines in an hour-long episode of the VH1 TV series Behind The Music. Throwing caution to the wind, the balding Brooks donned a spiky wig, sucked in his cheeks and released the Chris Gaines Greatest Hits album, a platter laden with pop-rock cliches. Best of Alter Ego 2017 The band Alter Ego is a rock/dance cover band, having performed in various venues across Massachusetts north/south shore and souther. When Alter Ego dance band takes the stage it is evident that the party has begun. Ten band members sing & dance with 95 Dazzling costume changes giving Alter Ego an MTV Video feel to it. ![]() But all was not well in paradise.īrooks was bored and unhappy with the endless touring and strait-jacketed country format so he basically went mad and commenced a project wherein he would portray a fictional Australian rock star named Chris Gaines. Alter Ego is a non-stop all dance repertoire featuring the best of 70s disco, 80s rock, 90s Pop, and even Lady Gaga. In 1999 US country music megastar Garth Brook was the biggest name in American popular music, riding high with a string of multi-platinum albums behind him. Adoption of a persona can sometimes have unintended consequences of a severely negative nature.
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