Country famous person Keith Urban has revealed that he was as soon as in a steel band, and it was named after an Ace Frehley music.

Urban mentioned his musical previous throughout an look on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. He defined how he discovered to play guitar and the entire singing competitions that his mother entered him in, which he often received. But then he touched on his time enjoying in a steel band known as Fractured Mirror.

“It was named after an Ace Frehley song,” Urban mentioned.

“Fractured Mirror” is the closing instrumental monitor on Frehley’s debut self-titled album, which got here out in 1978 when he was nonetheless in KISS. All 4 members of the band launched solo eponymous albums at the moment.

Urban recalled discovering Iron Maiden when he was round 15 or 16 years outdated. He was a massive fan of steel on the time, regardless of rising up on nation music, and so he joined Fractured Mirror as a guitarist. But he’d additionally develop into enamored with bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs, and his “chicken picking” influenced Urban’s guitar enjoying.

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“I’m suddenly into that, and I’m in this band, and we’re doing this full-on Saxon song,” Urban remembered. “They throw me a solo and I’m chicken picking it. The lead singer looks around like, ‘What the?’… They fired me.”

So possibly Urban’s time as a steel musician did not final lengthy, however every thing occurs for a motive — he is large in the nation world.

See the complete interview under.

We could not discover any info on what got here of the band Fractured Mirror, however there may be a group now that makes use of the moniker hailing from Indiana.

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