It may sound hard to believe, but country music superstar Keith Urban was once kicked out of a metal band. Urban recently admitted to Conan O'Brien that he doesn't harbor any resentment for being kicked out of Fractured Mirror 30 years ago.
"I played in a rock band for about a week when I was 15," Urban said.
"A friend of mine was in a band, and he wanted to be the singer, so he said, 'I want you to be the guitar player.' The band was called Fractured Mirror, and it was a heavy metal band. They did Judas Priest, Scorpion and Black Sabbath. So I joined the band, and I've got my Strat and my Marshall amp and everything."
He went onto admit that at that point he had fallen in love with the stylings of country, making him a poor fit for the band's repertoire:
"So we'd play a Judas Priest song, and they'd throw me the solo, and I'm doing all these chicken pickin' guitar solos."
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