Apparently, earlier than Australian-American nation famous person Keith Urban turned recognized for his uniquely pop model of nation music, City initially dabbled in heavy steel. In a current 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 observe that closes out former Kiss guitarist Ace Frehley’s self-titled solo album in 1978.
City recounted on the present that, regardless that he was primarily raised on nation music, he bought into Iron Maiden round 15 or 16, resulting in him becoming a member of Fractured Mirror as a guitarist. Nevertheless it was additionally across the time that City turned concerned with bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs and his “hen choosing” fashion, which clashed with what Fractured Mirror was attempting to do.
“I am instantly into that, and I am on this band, and we’re doing this full-on Saxon tune,” City recounted throughout the interview. “They throw me a solo and I am hen 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 hen choosing a Saxon cowl. Loudwire identified that there’s a band out of Indiana with that band identify, 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 dwelling in Australia on the time he was in Fractured Mirror. It might be a pleasant addendum to his story to search out out that Fractured Mirror went on to success with out City, however that doesn’t appear to be what occurred.
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