The drummer is so good he doesnt even need drum sticks. The kinetic force from his arms are enough. No need for sticks!

@cjstone3140

2 ай бұрын

A stupid ACM decision - not Alan's

@louielouiepks

2 ай бұрын

Plexiglass drum sticks.

@kelly-annflanagan7693

2 ай бұрын

Mr Alan Jackson had him do that on purpose in protest. He didn't like the fact that the producers insisted that he sing to a pre-recorded track, rather than live instrumentation. I can't believe you missed this... but look even closer. Alan also took the strings off of his own guitar. There's NO strings on that guitar.

@TheDarkThorne

2 ай бұрын

His guitar has strings lmao​@@kelly-annflanagan7693

@lynnknight850

2 ай бұрын

​@kelly-annflanagan7693 at around 0.53 they do a close up of Alan and it has strings on it

Alan has had some of the best protests in country music history and a lot of times he never said a word while doing it.

I love how you can tell he's trying not to laugh whenever he starts singing after looking back at the band.

@troydixon4425

Жыл бұрын

Love the Hank Williams Sr shirt

@wango556

8 ай бұрын

2:35

@deaf19830

7 ай бұрын

We all know why, drummer with no sticks, lol, they ticked him off when he realized the producers wanted pre-recorded arrangements

That drummer is incredible.

@cmdrnachoman5864

5 ай бұрын

Only half as effective as Rick Allen (Def Leppard).

Lol he knew because the camera would be facing right on him the drummer would be right in shot the whole time with no sticks f****** genius hahaha!

Alan Jackson proved here that you don't mess with his music and the integrity of country music. A true country rebel without having to cuss and party like crazy. Respect to a legend.

@ginfong2895

4 жыл бұрын

Country is trash

@trevormurraymusic4975

4 жыл бұрын

Gin Fong Well that's like your opinion.

@calebmelton5989

2 жыл бұрын

@@ginfong2895 then why are you here?

Best Drummer Ever!! He's so good you can't even see his stix lol

@jimwilson9371

Жыл бұрын

Had to come back and look at this. He stood up to them a few times.

@thomasrobertson9643

Жыл бұрын

This was done on purpose to prove a point. Story goes That Alan and his band spent many hours practicing a live performance only for Alan to be told at the last minute that a backing track would be used. In his response, Alan chose to bring his band out and told his drummer not to bring sticks in an attempt to make it painfully obvious that the ACM was using a backing track. I respect him for having his bands back like that

@jimwilson9371

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasrobertson9643 And years before Waylon had a hit with Ramlin Man. The award show wanted him to sing just a short part, said they were rushed for time. Waylon said why don't I just dance across the stage and grin. Then you'll have plenty of time. They said don't get smart with us. You need us worse than we need you. Waylon said, I thought about that and decided they were right. So I left. Hats off to both artists, most don't have the nerve to buck the system.

@musicdragon

Жыл бұрын

Great Info Thomas, never knew..Thank You! Kinda like the Super Bowl these days or the Macy's day parade, lol.. Funny story Jim, Waylon Jennings has some great music!!

@sharonanderson540

Ай бұрын

You go.alan.so proud of you

A literal silent protest. Awesome!!

it was just brought to my attention that the drummer has no sticks. which was a protest to having to prerecord the band. haha so great.

@y2j420

8 жыл бұрын

+Brian Siemon Ebaumsworld? lol

@voodoo666ro

8 жыл бұрын

+Brian Siemon "In 1994, Alan Jackson, a country singer, was forced by the producers of the American Country Music Awards to perform his song to a backing track and not to his live band. To protest, he told his drummer not to use any drumsticks while he was fake playing his kit."

@roostershifflett

5 жыл бұрын

If you notice Alan Jackson's guitar doesn't have strings on it either.

@nineorcids

5 жыл бұрын

Yes he does, you can see them at 2:18

@drumslinger

2 жыл бұрын

@Guy Fieri Bahahahahaha

Don't piss off Alan Jackson.

Best Air Drummer Award - 1994

I watched this in 94 and didnt notice the drummer was playing without sticks.

@MemphisTiger

3 ай бұрын

Haha, yeah. Alan Jackson asked the drummer to do that in protest that he wasn’t singing live. They used a pre-recording.

@louielouiepks

2 ай бұрын

Noooo ! He was using those new at the time plexiglass drum sticks.

@kelly-annflanagan7693

2 ай бұрын

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 look even closer. Alan also took the strings off of his own guitar. He's "playing" it with ZERO strings. 🤣😂🤣 Now THAT'S talent from both of them.

@kelly-annflanagan7693

2 ай бұрын

​@@MemphisTiger Wrong. The singing was like they made him sing to a pre-recorded instrumental track. He's actually singing on stage it's the music that's prerecorded. He's also playing with no strings on his own guitar.

@MemphisTiger

2 ай бұрын

@@kelly-annflanagan7693 that’s funny about the guitar. I didn’t even notice that. However, I’m not wrong about the lip-synching. That was in news articles about the incident.

Alan Jackson's second best "screw you" to the CMA the best came 5 years later

@lorettamurray6670

3 жыл бұрын

What was it???

@ciaranwinnett932

3 жыл бұрын

@@lorettamurray6670 George Jones was told he couldn’t sing the whole of his song ‘Choices’ at CMA as an ad break was being put in. As a result, Jones didn’t end up singing or attending the awards in protest. Alan Jackson was asked to sing and midway through his song ‘pop a top’ he and his band completely stopped playing and began to sing lines of ‘Choices’. This was a tribute to Jones and the decisions of CMA

@MonteD1

3 жыл бұрын

That was the ACM awards show.

@ciaranwinnett932

3 жыл бұрын

@@MonteD1 Righto then, apologies if I stuffed that up

That's proof that a highly revered country singer such as Alan can be so punk rock! Bravo AJ, you are the stuff of legends!

@carrienorris9729

2 жыл бұрын

That is almost exactly my thought....lol. ...hell yeah.

@jamesbox8329

10 ай бұрын

he should have smashed the fiddle at the end...

I’ve known about and seen this clip since shortly after it happened and in 2024 I finally realized he was wearing a Hank senior shirt. Quite fitting when you’re committing a rebel act.

A celebrity who wants nothing to do with being a “celebrity.” I would love to meet him; love his music.

Came here bcoz of the music facts page from facebook... Well damn me it is real. Insane 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@johnbhenniepascual3752

4 жыл бұрын

Me too.. Lol

What a legend. He stood up before he was a famous. I’d love to hear his opinion now.

Love this Life long lesson to any producers out there If you wanna have someone perform music let them perform their music instead of using a voice over It's a spit in the face to the performer if you're not gonna let them use themselves vs a recording I absolutely love what Alan Jackson has done in this video

@jimwilson9371

Жыл бұрын

I would have loved to gave seen that producers face when he realized.

Alan showed them then what a class act he was, still is, & ALWAYS will be!!

Alan Jackson is so Amazing. With the no guitar strings and drummer playing drums with no strings. Lol. He had my heart before.... He totally owns all of me now..... Lol

@Kevin-jm4hz

4 ай бұрын

There are strings, they're just light and hard to see. They show up in certain angles. Still badass.

Ha! @ 1:16 he turns and points to the drummer with his guitar. GREAT!

Mr. Jackson might have just surpassed all my rock legends.....

The drummer was so good that he doesnt need drum sticks anymore.

Much respect to AJ! 30 years after this I learned about...that drummer is bad ass lol.

Such a brilliant move by AJ!!!

Love it. Magical drumsticks!

Fvcking hilarious, the drummer without drumsticks. lol

Hardest hitting drummer I’ve ever heard!

Crazy I’ve never heard about the backtracking incident and I’ve been a huge fan ever since he came out no drum sticks or guitar strings. Alan is awesome!

@calebmelton5989

2 жыл бұрын

He has strings.plain as day.

Alan Jackson, middle finger held high.

Hi from Australia and good on you Alan for showing ACM up by bringing out the sticklers drummer 👏 👍. Ridiculous that you can't have your band play live music!!

Nothing like Alan's music, Alan George, will be missed for sure, real country singers, nothing like the pop music playing on the radio now days!!!

I have so much respect for Alan Jackson and his band after this clip. Not enough to finish the song, though.

@sdmlinstructionvideos8506

3 жыл бұрын

You should have, because the panicked fade-out of the music at the end was the second-most priceless part of this.

@NC-1861

2 жыл бұрын

How could you not finish this song??

❤❤❤❤❤She’s Gone Country❤❤❤❤❤🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸

First Class !!! Great job, Alan Jackson and band.

Outlaw shit right there.

I would have been laughing so hard if I was part of the band 😂🤣😂

@mrmjkhnds

Жыл бұрын

I would have flipped my bass over, had the back facing forward!

THE GOOD OLD DAYS

In this performance, Alan told his drummer to not use sticks in protest to the ACM requiring him to play with "back tracks" instead of his band actually playing.

I always love Alan, Thanks for this upload! :)

I love Alan Jackson :)))

Wow!! It sounds just like his album!!

@bag2289

7 жыл бұрын

Will Strupp I'm guessing this is sarcasm haha. Did you catch the drummer without sticks?? haha

@rocknrollcowboy1620

2 жыл бұрын

🤣😅

Great t shirt Alan's wearing.

Alan is great. Watch the drummer tho. One of the best drummers in country music has a hard time keeping on beat without sticks. So funny. We are all used to the weight of the sticks. When you don't have them it totally throws you off...no matter who you are.

Drummer nailed that drum solo. Better than the original album version. 🤪

well it was actually kind of a joke. they were behind the stage tlkin about using back tracks and they were all kinda unhappy about it so the drummer made a comment like, "well if they're gonna play back tracks then I might as well go out there without any sticks" and they all laughed and Alan told him to go for it.

Great music i've ever...!

Love it!!

AMO ESTA MÚSICA, ELA ENCANTA MEU CORAÇÃO. AS MÚSICAS DO ALAN JACKSON, SÃO ETERNAS

Très agréable ! Merci !

I can't love alan jacksons work and philosophy enough

Great music

Gorgeous steel guitar ! Awesome song !

You said it!

Alan Jackson has got a sense of humor because he didn’t want to lipsink the song but ended up doing it so he made his drummer not use sticks 😂

Legend

He should have gone on stage with no strings on the guitar as well!

I'm going countr-ayyyy!

@TheyBenefit

8 жыл бұрын

+purpleprinc3 ayy

Pay close attention to the drummer who is playing the drums without any drumsticks. Alan Jackson had him do that to protest the fact that the AMC Awards made him use a backup soundtrack.

❤❤❤ the drummer

He sent the message with class, that lip singing was a no no to the CMA Producers 😂 ❤ Love Alan Jackson and his band.

Go Alan, go Bruce!😊💕

The drummer pulled a Nirvana

Hank Williams on his T shirt...

LEGEND

This is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen

your pretty much right soccer i know most of alans band personaly and did some studio work with them back in the day on 1 of my albums.bruce rutherford is alans drummer it was his idea to do this.alan did ok it producers werent happy about it from what i understand...but what r they gonna do...and yes everything including als vocal are prerecorded.alot of artist these days play to tracks they use recorded tracks made to sound live with dead spots for vocals so they can actualy speak on the mic

Ah ok. Thanks for clearing that up.

Im lost for your time with This Signal Message From Alan Jackson Jackie McAdams 😢😢😢😢 1:16

@aaxismundi I totally agree with you!! I love the 90s era of country music a lot of my fav. artists were really big and still are today!! but I miss the steel guitar and true country!! A lot of the songs and new comers are too pop and need to switch genres!! and those artists who aren't at these big awards like Travis Tritt,Lorrie Morgan,Terri Clark,Vlint Black,Jo Dee Messina,Vince Gill...etc need to get back in the spotlight lol b/c they are still good!!

'im a serious composer'. amazing. also check out the vocal mic NOT plugged in.

@BBTManiac

4 жыл бұрын

@LEONIDAS nah, if it were wireless it wouldn't have an empty jack on the end

@TheDoctor77

5 ай бұрын

@albertfish69 @BBTManiac On this particular model of wireless mic, those 3 posts in the back are the charging nodes

That is funny! Good way to protest the use of pre-recorded tracks!

Also Alan's guitar is a 100 acoustic with no plug or mic

@roostershifflett

5 жыл бұрын

Or strings

@SimpleManGuitars1973

5 жыл бұрын

@@roostershifflett Yeah it definitely does have strings but you can tell that he's not happy to be there that night though.

@GreatLakesLogger

3 жыл бұрын

His drummer doesn't have sticks either. They told him he had to sing along prerecorded, so he said f you. He didn't plug in his guitar and told his drummer to leave his sticks backstage.

@aaxismundi thank you you sum it up

i wrote that in response to someone in a messageboard thread talking about this video. im not actually a serious composer, sorry. i mean no disrespect to this masterpiece of a song, a performance thats so legit nobody even has to actually play, alan jacksons mustache, or cordless mics.

I just heard about this I had to check it out, the guy playing the drums has no drumsticks. Alan Jackson told them to perform without using the drumsticks because they would not let the band play, they had a backup they had to track playing in the background to but they wanted the band to be on the stage and act like they were actually playing

Love the No drumsticks

Air drums! What a concept. Ha!!

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.” Hunter S Thompson

Ha! This is where the drummer plays the drums without his drumsticks. How is that possible? Brilliant decision by Alan Jackson.

@vanmamawannabe6360

Жыл бұрын

And Alan is “playing” without guitar strings! 😂

@TheDoctor77

5 ай бұрын

​@@vanmamawannabe6360 Actually you can see his guitar strings plain as day. 2:10 being one example. Still, this was a great way to protest.

Terrible audio quality, but goddamn he's so good that it doesn't matter!!!

Bruce Rutherford is the best🙌🤘 This was all directed at Duck Clark who wouldn’t let them play live.. So when he did this, Dick let them play live a couple years later… During that show they gave George Jones a lifetime achievement award and only gave him 5 mins or something stupid like that… So Alan stopped his band during his live performance and started playing “Choices” Had he not stuck it to Dick the first time, he never would’ve let them play live.. Then he nailed them twice😂😂

🥁🥁🥁😍😍😍😂😂😂

Alan shoulda took all the strings off his guitar- that would've been the icing on the cake!

@Royal_salsa.

7 ай бұрын

Yes lol 😂

Ha! Notice at 1:13 Alan Jackson turns and points his guitar at the drummer! The drummer has invisible drum sticks. :-)

And his drummer has no sticks...how "live" was it?

@danenealson6908

9 жыл бұрын

Heather Taylor It was deliberate. The ACM's told him he had to sing with a track, rather than his band, so he had his band members make it obvious (most notably with his drummer).

@hurlby6927

9 жыл бұрын

Heather Taylor They pre-record everything. The drummer was pissed, so he rebeled! lol

@hey.hombre

7 жыл бұрын

Hurlby Alan Jackson was pissed off that he had to pretend to play instead of live. He told the drummer not to use his sticks. You see Alan Jackson turn and point his guitar at the drummer. At the end he starts to laugh.

I'm here because of 8fact on IG

@jayr3378

4 жыл бұрын

Same, same.

Funny. Last video of Alan I watched. I thought wow. He's like the modern day hank Williams. Next video. He's got a hank shirt on.

Quando Deus quer não ixiste dificuldades

Would never have noticed that the drummer had no drumsticks if I wasn't told

Actually if you look very closely, not only does the drummer have no sticks, but the guitar player has no strings. I do not know about the fiddle or bass guitar, but I believe In fact that Alan was the only one who even had the potential to make any noise at all as far as I can tell

I noticed the drummer has no drumsticks. This is the first time i ever noticed something unusual.

I wanna see them do a Def Leppard song.

I'm the best snare drummer in the world, and even I can't pull that mime off.

Dick Clark had been making artists look good on tv for 35 years. Band stand was generally lip sync'd. TV tracks relieve any chance of technical issues. Kudos to Alan Jackson for sticking to his guns but I would never have disrespected Dick Clark like that. And I had the good fortune of benefitting from working with Dick Clark.

He's trying to keep from laughing. :-)

@rydergrimes6696

6 жыл бұрын

ese hombre I would burst if I were Alan in this situation

@rydergrimes6696

6 жыл бұрын

ese hombre I mean just watching the drummer I'm laughing

The song was also in a Ford add

Fun fact the drummer has no sticks because the producers asked Alan to play to a backtrack Alan said it was disrespectful to fans expecting live music but he agreed anyway and just before the show he told his drummer to go on stage without sticks therefore exposing the fake production

What brand of strings does he use on that guitar?