Billy Bob Thornton

And I was roading a couple of shows for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, who I still kind of keep in touch with.

And their opening act was Steve Martin because he plays banjo.

So he played banjo before the Dirt Band came out.

This is when I'm a teenager.

And he did the arrow through the head, the whole thing.

But he had kind of longer curly hair, and he wore buckskin clothes and played a banjo.

And there was a front-of-house guy named Danny Smith who I worked for, you know, with this sound company.

And I was back there at the front-of-house console where they'd been –

I see this guy come out and I lost my mind.

I was screaming, crying, laughing, you know, with some of the shit he did because he just came out and just said, I'm going to do the stupidest shit you've ever seen in your life.

And people are going to laugh.

Yeah.

And it's like, you know, and what he would just do the whole excuse me or whatever, you know.

And so here's a guy coming out being over the top laughing.

and putting arrows through his head, shit.

And people couldn't get enough of it.

And before he did that, nobody else had ever done that.

And all of a sudden, here you got a guy that is doing it.

And that became more the norm for a while.

It's like it spawned a lot of other people.