Some funny stories...Boy was country music all over the road in those days...HaHa
Vince Gill on opening for KISS....
"We got called at the last minute to do this show that the opening act had canceled," Gill began. "I saw the marquee, and it said Kiss, I thought, 'Oh no. Hell no . . . There's no way a bluegrass band can be opening for KISS."
He added, "What was beautiful about that was, we had KISS' risers and stacks of amps that were 50 feet high, cages and blood and guts everywhere. We come out there with our little mandolins and fiddles. We looked like tinker toys."
The show, notes Gill, didn't turn out well.
"We lasted about two songs, and they booed us off stage, throwing beer bottles. It's still today one of my favorite dates ever, to have that many people pissed off."
Marty Stuart on being in Lester Flatts band...HaHa Lester Flatt and Kool And the Gang....
"Oh, he was a great man," Stuart says quietly, reverently. "When I was touring with him, he and his band were on the verge of being old has-beens. Then we played this big convention in Cincinnati. I can't remember exactly what it was, but there were a lot of kids there. And we had to follow Kool and the Gang!
George Jones quote on quite possibly the most popular country song ever "He Stopped Loving Her Today"...Per producer
His exact words were,"Here is your song nobody will buy that morbid son of a bitch.”
