Garth Brooks Opening show

[brettdale]

"Glad to see the critics and the fans loved Garth's opening vegas show, to see
Garth do a one man show in small 1500 seat venue would be amazing"

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-12-12-garth-brooks-vegas_N.htm

LAS VEGAS — Garth Brooks' first song back: Merle Haggard's Mama Tried.

With that tune — a favorite of his father's, he said — Brooks, 47, officially ended a nine-year retirement and started what could be a five-year engagement at the Wynn Las Vegas Friday night.

Dressed casually in a black hoodie, jeans and a ball cap, Brooks took to a nearly bare stage, sharing stories, joking with the audience, even taking questions and requests. Accompanying himself on an acoustic guitar, he played all or parts of more than three dozen songs during a 95-minute set and 20-minute encore for a sold-out crowd of 1,500 at the casino resort's Encore showroom.

[gmoney]

1. Who?

Although I think someone should write a song entitled "Merle Haggard's Mama Tried"

[NightWatcher]

3. Merle Haggard's Mama tried to raise Merle Haggard better, but her pleading Merle Haggard denied

And that leaves only Merle Haggard to blame cause Merle Haggard's Mama tried.

not as smooth as the original but might be worth it.

[hippywife]

2. I'm really surprised

that it's not at the BOK Center in Tulsa since he freakin' LIVES here. :eyes:

(Not that I would go or really care. :rofl: )

[brettdale]

4. Garth Brooks bypasses glitz and shows genius in Vegas

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/12/garth-brooks-bypasses-glitz-and-shows-genius-in-vegas.html

Garth Brooks bypasses glitz and shows genius in Vegas

Every showroom owner in town here has to be kicking himself or herself after Garth Brooks' return to public performance over the weekend.

"You mean instead of pumping 12 gazillion dollars into a blowout production," they're surely asking today, "I could have packed them in to see a middle-aged guy in a hoodie sweatshirt, baggy jeans, work boots, a baseball cap" -- a promotional one at that -- "and one guitar?"