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When Brad Paisley flew into the Nashville airport on his private plane after a concert with Jewel and Chuck Wicks, he was met with quite a surprise when exiting his plane. Waiting for him on the tarmac were two uniformed officers, and a camera crew, ready to intercept him.
Cuffing Paisley, the men said they had a warrant for his arrest for his involvement in “serious crimes.”
Replied a confused Paisley: “You’ve gotta be kidding me! I’ve never done anything wrong in my life.””
The country star, 35, was placed in the back of an unmarked car while one “officer” explained, “We have a Miss Jewel Murray who has filed 42 charges against you in the states of Texas and Tennessee for excessive noodling.”
[From People]
Paisley pled guilty to “noodling” on the guitar, a term I was completely unfamiliar with and had to look up, when he realized that he was being pranked and laughed and enjoyed the joke as he was cuffed. Noodling, for those as clueless as I was, is “to improvise a musical passage in a casual manner, esp. as a warm-up exercise.”
We’ve all heard the practical jokes tourmates pull on each other, and some of them get quite elaborate. Brad Paisley is one of those practical jokers on tour and he was getting as good as he gives from the sounds of things.
Paisley admired Jewel’s effort, which utilized two retired police officers. “This is absolutely as good as it gets. This is the best I’ve ever been had,” he said.
Paisley himself is no stranger to pranks, having once imprisoned tour mate Jack Ingram in a PVC pipe cage onstage.
More recently, he “tarred” (with syrup) and feathered fellow headliner Wicks while the “Stealing Cinderella” singer, 29, was performing, then played a video in front of the audience of Wicks’s girlfriend, Dancing with the Stars’s Julianne Hough – announcing she was dumping him.
[From People]
The best kind of sport is a good sport, and the best kind of practical joke adversary is one you know is going to get you back even better! Jewel should watch her back, I’m sure she’s next, and I’m sure it will be epic. The camera crew present at Paisley’s “arrest” was from Great American Country TV, so we should have filmed evidence of the joke soon.
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Posted: October 14th, 2008, 3:25pm CDT
She may have gotten dumped by Joe Jonas via cell phone call, but that’s not keeping Taylor Swift from living her life.
The “Should’ve Said No” was the center of attention at the 18th Annual Chicago Country Music Festival on Sunday (October 12), held at the Soldier Field Parkland.
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I’m not sure if we have that many country music loving folks here, so I generally don’t cover the Nashville scene all that much. But once in a while a crossover tale emerges, and you end up with the likes of Mindy McCready, most famous to us non-Nashvillians (is that what they’re called?) as the lady who once dated former Superman Dean Cain. She’s also had several country hits, including “Guys Do it All the Time.” McCready has lived a rather… dramatic existence the last several years. She’s been a victim of extreme domestic violence, her boyfriend tried to murder her, she had a suicide attempt when she found out she was pregnant, and has since struggled with drug and alcohol addictions. This past Friday, McCready was sentenced to a year in jail for violating her probation after she was arrested for assaulting her mother and resisting arrest – police had to use pepper spray to get her under control.
“The jail sentence should keep McCready out of the blotter for a few months, which is something of rarity. In addition to her 2004 conviction for prescription fraud, she was arrested in May 2005 on charges of drunken driving and driving on a suspended license, though only the latter charge stuck.
“Shortly after the bust, her then boyfriend and father of her son, Billy McKnight, was arrested and charged with attempting to murder McCready after a domestic dispute reached alarming heights of brutality.
“In August of the same year, the “Ten Thousand Angeles” singer, who has not released an album since 2002, was again arrested and held for 10 days after a warrant was issued in her name for parole violations. In her subsequent court appearance, McCready revealed she had attempted suicide after learning she was pregnant and had been hospitalized for an overdose of drugs and alcohol.”
[From E! News]
The really sad thing was when McCready was on Oprah, she kept talking about how she loved McKnight and still wanted to be with him and hoped they could work things out. And Oprah kept telling her she was messed up. I think she phrased it a little nicer, but it’s Oprah and she can be a hard ass, so you never know. Since that time, McCready has had several run-ins with the ex-boyfriend, who she admits she can’t stay away from. She was on probation for forging a prescription for OxyContin. She only had three more months, but didn’t make it.
“In the early morning hours of July 21, police in Fort Myers, Florida, responded to a call placed by McCready’s mother, Melody Inge. Inge told the dispatcher that her 31-year-old daughter was intoxicated and causing a ruckus at the family home. When police arrived, they found Inge with a scratch on the side of her face.
“McCready was rung up on charges of battery and resisting arrest. The ‘Guys Do It All the Time’ singer proved herself a difficult capture, refusing to be cuffed, police said. (For her part, McCready claimed she was tackled by officers while holding her 16-month-old son. The singer also claimed that she suffered a broken nose and sustained bruising during her scuffle with the cops.)
McCready failed to ease up during the booking process at the local Lee County Jail, police said, and officers were forced to pepper spray the entertainer into submission.
“She was eventually released on $1,000 bail, at which point she flew from Florida into Nashville, where she was taken into custody and booked at Williamson County Jail. She has been held in the facility without bail for her hat trick of violations: Not only did she break probation by getting arrested, but she failed to report the arrest to her probation officer and engaged in ‘assaultive behavior’ throughout the encounter.”
[From E! News]
She was sentenced to a year in the county jail for violating her probation, along with two additional years of probation and 200 hours of community service. McCready told the court she was sorry, and asked to have a chance to “make things as right as they can possibly be.” A lot of the stories written about McCready make her out to be the bad guy, and while she certainly is (in terms of what she did at her mom’s house), I also feel badly. Clearly she has some serious issues relating to being abused, and jail hasn’t – and probably won’t – address those issues. It sounds like she’s relied on drugs and alcohol to deal with it. Hopefully they will be some court-mandated counseling, too.
Picture note by JayBird: Header image of Mindy McCready performing in Nashville in June, 2005. Images thanks to PR Photos. Here’s McCready’s booking photo courtesy of the Lee County, Fla., Sheriff’s Office.
