Music

Garth Brooks messed up his cellphone and lost six months of music

by Dan MacRae

He’s got friends in low places, and hopefully at phone kiosks too. Garth Brooks has revealed that he’s lost six months’ worth of new material thanks to a problem with his cellphone.

Yes, this is a story about a 53-year-old man that’s been stymied by one of them newfangled mobile telephones you’ve heard so much about.

“We’re working on new music. Here’s where the old guy gets into technology, which is bad,” shared Brooks in an interview with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. “All the new stuff, which I’ve been working on for six months, was on a phone that’s been fried, and I can’t get the phone to come back up. I know I should have backed it up. It’s like losing your briefcase back in the ’90s.” Dad.

Now all we can think of is Garth Brooks lugging around a briefcase with “Top Secret” rhinestoned on the side.

Brooks isn’t the only middle-aged arena filler to admit in 2015 that they’ve lost tunes thanks to trouble with their phone. Metallica’s Kirk Hammett shared in April that he lost a phone that had 250 riff and song ideas stored on it.

[h/t The Boot]