Was Chris Gaines originally suppose to be Murdered at the Grammy's
Around 96/97, two years before Garth Brooks announced the Chris Gaines project, I remembered reading an interview with Kenny Rogers. I read the interview online, which seemed really cool to me, because I read it on the web and not just on usenet, which was the internet for me way back then. The Interview with Kenny seemed to be a normal interview, until he diverted to Garth Brooks. Kenny Rogers said Garth has taken the country world by storm, but he's about to do the same with the Rock world. Kenny said Garth Brooks has created a fictional Rock personae called Chris Gaines, and there is going to be a movie. When asked what the movie was about, Kenny Rogers said something along the lines of.. Chris Gaines is an Australian Rock God, who gets killed backstage at the Grammy's, the Police detectives get it wrong, but one reporter uncovers the truth that shocks the music world. Again the internet was in it's early days, and the story wasn't picked up, in 1999 When Garth Br