Let’s look at this from a different angle. Maybe Gartho isn’t really making a crass, commercial attempt to cross over into the rock market and, in so doing, creating a thinner, hairier, bearded version of himself to blame it on when things go horribly wrong. Perhaps, he is a pioneer in popular psychology.
Maybe Mr. Brooks has discovered – much like those who discovered that we have an Inner Child – that we all have an Inner Rocker that is waiting to come out and be acknowledged.
Truthfully, I have always had a penchant for getting drunk, sporting weird haircuts, trashing hotel rooms and videotaping myself while having sex with Pam Anderson. I used to think my reasons for restraint involved holding down a job and paying my bills (although I think I could still do both and run the cam-corder). But I was wrong. I have been suppressing my own IR for years and Garth Brooks has shown me the way out of the shallow grave that has become my life.
Rockers of the world unite! Hungry Boy is free!