Rascal Flatts Reminisce on Their First Decade
This is the year Rascal Flatts will celebrate their 10th year as a country band, so they talked to The Tennessean about what that meant to them and how they'll be celebrating. Highlights from the story include Jay DeMarcus talking about how the songs keep getting better: "When you take a Jeffrey Steele or a Neil Thrasher and they write a song and we do it and it becomes a No. 1, the next time around that's a great template for them to start from so the material keeps evolving." Joe Don Rooney admits that he has had no regrets, and Gary LeVox opens up about the misunderstanding of "Bob That Head," saying, "People should get their mind out of the gutter. I'm co-writer on that song. The stuff people were saying about it took me so far by surprise. I was like, 'Wow.' I was blown away by the offensiveness of it."
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Tammy says:
Im 54 years old and I just though bob that head was a song aout the good olds days of shooting the loop with the music a blasting and having a good time with your friends but you have to understand im from a small town in OHIO so I can relate to Gary and Jay I grew up about 50 miles staight north of them wow i never got anything bad out of those lyrics
Tammy says:
Im 54 years old and I just though bob that head was a song about the good olds days of shooting the loop with the music a blasting and having a good time with your friends but you have to understand im from a small town in OHIO so I can relate to Gary and Jay I grew up about 50 miles staight north of them wow i never got anything bad out of those lyrics
Big Bully says:
If my comment is awaiting moderation, why is this subject even being blogged? I’m replying to excactly what this blog is about.
hotelmotel says:
How can Gary LeVox be so surprised that people thought the song “Bob That Head” was a double entendre? Perhaps he didn’t intend to write the song that way, but, whatever his intentions, the double entendre there is so obvious that few would miss it. I have a hard time thinking that his label, his managers, et cetera would support releasing the song as a single without first realizing what was going on.
Anyway, so what is there is a double entendre? Country songs sometimes speak quite frankly about sex, anyway, so this song seems pretty tame, whatever its meaning.
Peacock Queen says:
I just streamed the video so I could hear the song again, and I am sorry, but I don’t hear anything inappropriate in it. I agree with Tammy. It sounds like a song about having fun with your friends. Maybe I am just dense and I am not “getting it.”
K says:
I’ve been following Rascal Flatts since 2002; it’s so hard to believe it’s been a decade already. What a ride it has been for the guys and their fans.
All three of these men are not only incredible musicians, singers, and peformers, but more importantly, they are some of the most humble, gracious and giving inviduals in country music. They all know who they are as both a band and as individuals, and they have never strayed from that.
Rascal Flatts has given country listeners some of the most compelling and memorable music of this decade; no doubt some of them will be remembered when the band itself is long gone.
They have recorded and released some fluff material over the years, but that can be forgiven when they release gems like “Bless The Broken Road,” “What Hurts The Most,” “Skin,” “My Wish,” “These Days,” “Mayberry,” “I’m Movin On” and “Why.”
More often than not, their questionable material is often more mudane and silly, but not terrible.
These guys put their family and others before themselves, and thier charity work is astounding. It’s obvious that they care about making a difference.
The Teneseann article was a very well-written insightful read into the band and their reflection on thier career thus far.
I wasn’t surprised about Gary’s reaction to comments about “Bob That Head.” I never thought about the “alternate” meaning until individuals on various other blog sites brought it up. Though I believe Gary when he says he didn’t mean for the song to come off that way, who knows what the other writers were thinking? He has two young daughters, and I doubt he would want them reading such comments when the meaning probably would’ve gone over their heads otherwise.
I have a feeling that if the song was meant to come off as sexual, the guys would’ve have made that clear one way or another. After all, they are the first artists in country music history to feature nudity in a country music video, and probably the only ones to garner a disclaimer on one, too. They are also three guys who wrote “She Goes All The Way; that’s about as sexual as you can get without saying so.
casey bricker says:
HEY GUYS HAPPY 10TH anniversary HERES TO YU ON THE NEXT 10!!!!