Word: garth
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...torch-bearing mobs brandishing antitrust suits. Nowhere in Gates' overwired palace is there a program to inform him how to act in the nation he lives in: the U.S. of A., in which throngs cheered the heavy-metal band Motorhead when it performed Eat the Rich and where Garth Brooks became a megastar for crooning about having friends in "low places," even if by doing so he has made himself into a country-music mogul with a bodacious estate of his own. Still, every country singer since Hank Williams has made his fans want to burn the mansions...
...GARTH BROOKS DOUBLE LIVE [rating: 2 1/2 musical notes] PREVIOUS ALBUM Limited Series, 1998 COPIES SOLD 1.4 million...
...Garth Brooks is the king of excess--he just wears a cowboy hat instead of a crown. Everything he does seems to come accompanied by exclamation marks. His new album isn't just one CD but two! His new live version of Friends in Low Places stretches on for almost nine minutes! And, to push Double Live, he's planning one of the most ambitious promotional campaigns of the year! Says Joe Kvidera, general manager of Tower Records in Chicago's Lincoln Park: "He's just so relentless promoting his stuff. It's kind of scary...
...Tuesday, Brooks will do a closed-circuit performance that will be beamed to 2,300 Wal-Marts across the country; the next day he'll do a one-hour special on NBC, taking questions from fans via telephone and e-mail. Garth's goal: to sell 1 million copies in one week. And then he wants to shoot fire out of his eyes like a god. (Just joking about that last part...
Bryan Turner, head of Priority Records, got the buzz going on War by shipping copies of the song Ghetto Vet to hundreds of nightclub deejays. Says Turner: "Cube's got his own fan base. Alanis [Morrisette] and Garth have nothing to do with what we sell...