QUOTE (jolsen @ Sep 10 2008, 11:51 PM)

i dont know how it happened but i finally (after 7 years) got my man hooked on gary and now he's passing it onto his friends. the other night my guys' band was playing so there were all these "hard" kids out in the street with their tattoos, alcohol, cigarettes, heavy metal band t-shirts and painful look piercings listening to the MAN from one of the trucks. gary allan being played to a bunch of twenty-something punks that only listen to metal music?! i was so proud i got goosebumps

that is SO cool--of course Gary is into all that punk stuff too, so maybe they are kindred spirits in some way. I've heard him say before how close punk is to hard core country--both very raw and real. thanks for the story--I can just picture it!