Rising Star judge Brad Paisley has recently opened up about his time with Crazy Ones star Robin Williams following his tragic death by suicide. In other news, Paisley has also opened up about his new new song “American Flag On The Moon.”
Brad Paisley made an appearance on Robin Williams short lived CBS series The Crazy Ones. Paisley took to Twitter this week to express his shock at the announcement:
“It was so weird. I had all these things planned to tweet that night and was like, ‘I’m not doing anything else. I was just so bummed.”
Paisley also spoke to US 99.5 radio about his time with Williams (Via Taste of Country):
“It’s surreal. I don’t understand. There’s footage somewhere of me playing guitar and [Williams] making up a song in between takes. I was playing a Johnny Cash groove, and he was making up a dirty song that was really funny. I’ll miss him. Everybody liked him, but obviously he didn’t think as much of himself. That’s really sad that he couldn’t see himself the way we saw him. It’s tragic.”
Paisley is keeping his head up and his eyes fixed on happier things...Like the American flag….on the Moon. Paisley recently up to Billboard about how his young son inspired his song “American Flag on the Moon.”
“He looked up at the sky--after he heard about the moon landing--and squinted and said, ‘I think I can see the flag.’ My wife thought that was the cutest thing ever,” Paisley explains. “What a great thing for the kid to say! It stuck with me for a while and I started thinking about watching the news and all the negatives. The naysayers saying, ‘We’re going down the tubes,’ and all of that as a country and thought to myself, ‘Why can’t we just be proud to be Americans?’”
“In spite of everything that’s wrong, let’s be proud of what we’ve done so far, and maybe that’s the trick to figuring out the future is looking back a little bit,” the singer furthers. “The phrase just caught my attention. After all, there’s an American flag on the moon. To me, that’s mind-blowing to think about that that thing is sitting up there 45 years.”
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