Country Music Artist KEITH URBAN Reveals He Was Once in a Metal Band

Apparently, earlier than Australian-American nation celebrity Keith Urban grew to become recognized for his uniquely pop model of nation music, City initially dabbled in heavy steel. In a latest interview on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon that was reported on by Loudwire, City revealed that, in his youthful days, he performed guitar in a steel band referred to as Fractured Mirror, which was named after the instrumental monitor that closes out former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley’s self-titled solo album in 1978.

City recounted on the present that, although he was primarily raised on nation music, he acquired into Iron Maiden round 15 or 16, resulting in him becoming a member of Fractured Mirror as a guitarist. However it was additionally across the time that City grew to become excited about bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs and his “rooster choosing” type, which clashed with what Fractured Mirror was making an attempt to do.

“I am all of a sudden into that, and I am on this band, and we’re doing this full-on Saxon music,” City recounted in the course of the interview. “They throw me a solo and I am rooster choosing it. The lead singer seems round like, ‘What the?’… They fired me.”

City didn’t clarify what occurred to Fractured Mirror after he was allegedly fired for rooster choosing a Saxon cowl. Loudwire identified that there’s a band out of Indiana with that band title, though the probability of that being the band that City was speaking about is extraordinarily low. Moreover the truth that the members of that Fractured Mirror look a bit of younger to have been round in roughly 1983, when City would have been the age talked about in his story. Moreover, City would have nonetheless been residing in Australia on the time he was in Fractured Mirror. It might be a pleasant addendum to his story to seek out out that Fractured Mirror went on to success with out City, however that doesn’t appear to be what occurred.