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00:01Alright, so we are officially two months away from Kicks 99's 2022 guitar pull.

00:07So, let's take a walk down memory lane here.

00:10Every single week, I'm going to give you some guitar pull memories, alright?

00:14Some that you might have forgot about, some that you may have never known about,

00:18some that you may have been like, I was at that show, I remember that.

00:22This is my 20th guitar pull, so with it being the day that it is,

00:26let's go all the way back to 2002.

00:29That was my first Kicks 99 guitar pull.

00:32We were still in the Bell Auditorium.

00:34It was the second year that guitar pull was at the Bell.

00:37Our lineup that year was Lone Star, Trace Adkins, Mark Chestnut, Blake Shelton,

00:42Carolyn Dawn Johnson, and Cindy Thompson.

00:45Some of y'all might be sitting there going, who are those people?

00:47I mean, there's some that we're still hearing from, some that we haven't heard from in a while.

00:51A crazy thing about guitar pull 2002 was tickets were still general admission,

00:57which means if you had a ticket, you could sit wherever you wanted.

01:01The line was insane.

01:04People were lined up from like 6.30, 7 o'clock in the morning.

01:07It was chilly, it was raining, but Kicks Country, y'all were dedicated,

01:11and y'all stayed there and got your seats.

01:14As soon as doors opened, it was pretty dangerous, I'm going to be honest with you.

01:19There's a reason why we don't do general admission tickets anymore.

01:22That was the last year of general admission tickets.

01:24We went to reserve seats after that.

01:28It was a great show.

01:29I mean, Lone Star was crazy hot at the time.

01:32They had just come off of Amazed, and they had I'm Already There was a huge song for them.

01:40Trace Adkins was doing big things at the time.

01:42Blake Shelton was the new kid on the block, but he was like the hot artist at the time,

01:46like the hot new artist, because he had just had Austin, he had just had Ol' Red.

01:52The Baby was about to come out.

01:54That was his third single.

01:57So yeah, so that was kind of the new song.

01:59I'll never forget, down in the catering area at the Bell, when you go in the backstage area,

02:05there's like a hallway, and then you walk down some stairs,

02:07and there's like a little room there where they usually do catering and stuff.

02:10And I was the only one in there, and all of a sudden, Blake Shelton comes in,

02:15and he walks up and goes, hey, I'm Blake, how are you?

02:18Just super nice guy, the nicest guy on the planet.

02:20And I'll never forget that, because he walked up and introduced himself to me.

02:24It was so cool and so chill and so down to earth.

02:27Another thing I remember about that night was right as intermission was happening,

02:32I was talking to Mark Chestnut for a second.

02:34I said, well, Mark, what are you going to sing next?

02:36He goes, man, I don't know.

02:36He goes, I'm not going to say exactly what he said, because not the greatest language.

02:44He said, I've got old stuff, new stuff.

02:47I just don't know what stuff to play.

02:50Take the word stuff out, and you'll know what he really said.

02:53I said, well, man, come on, why don't you just play Bubba Shot the Jukebox?

02:56The next song that Mark Chestnut played when we came back from intermission,

03:00Bubba Shot the Jukebox.

03:02Ya boy made that happen.

03:04So it was a great night.

03:05It was so cool.

03:06I'll never forget it.

03:09It was actually my first concert.

03:11I'd never really been to a concert before.

03:13So Guitar Pull 2002, my first concert, my first guitar pull.

03:18That's my memory for this week.

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