Playboy Interview: Garth Brooks

Playboy Interview: Garth BrooksHigh overhead, lights flash. Smoke blankets the stage. A deep rumble shakes the walls of the cavernous old auditorium. A lighting rig descends toward the stage, separating into 19 banks of multicolored, computerized lights. A chunky beat begins, punctuated by roars and explosions. Intense white lights blind the audience as a hydraulically powered elevator slowly rises out of the stage, with half a dozen musicians visible through its tinted sides. A door slides open...