It’s about four in the morning and you’re starting to see the end of the line way down there. They popped out tents, coolers, rain gear. “I’m thinking, ‘This is how it’s going to end? People running to their cars, unhappy?’ … It was like a military operation. He recalled a thunderstorm began to threaten the festivities in the middle of the evening. that morning, and was still there long after midnight. “You talk about fun, you talk about memorable, you talk about those last things you see when your last breaths are taken on this earth, that day will be one of them for me.”īrooks estimated he began greeting fans around 9 a.m.
I said, ‘Let’s go see what the bosses think.’ We got a chance to be with the people and they were going to tell me where I was at in my career. Those people that show up in those seats. As much as I love those people, our bosses are those people on the other side of radio. Our bosses are not country radio or the CMAs. He told Midland that he reached out to a childhood friend and said, “Let’s go down to Fan Fair, park the truck, and see what happens. Ahead of Billboard Icon Award, Garth Brooks Reflects on His Career, Why He'd Never Run for…