Country music fans are very disappointed with NBC. The network covered the US Army's 250th birthday parade, which included a performance by Warren Zeiders, even though the hosts apparently did not know his name.
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"I don't know who this is singing right now. And I probably should," Aaron Gilchrist says.
"We were told there would be a surprise," adds Kelly O'Donnell. "I was also hoping we would be told who the surprise is, but this is I'm sure an important booking."
Gilchrist then asks for help from anyone in the control room who knows Zeiders name, before making a bad situation even worse.
"Warren Zeiders?" O'Donnell says, before Gilchrist says it might be Wallen Zeiders instead.
"Time for the Google. Country music fans are very frustrated with us right now that we don't know that," O'Donnell says. Fortunately, eventually both hosts realized that the correct name actually is Warren Zeiders, as he sings his song, "Ride the Lightning."
Watch for yourself in the video below, beginning at the 2:12:00 mark.
Warren Zeiders' "Relapse"
"Ride the Lightning" was Zeiders' first single. He followed that with "Pretty Little Poison," which became his first No. 1 hit. Zeiders is back with another hit at radio, with "Relapse." The song is the title track of his third studio album.
"Yes, I have relapsed," Zeiders tells CT 40 With Fitz, speaking of the story behind the song, , which he wrote with Blake Pendergrass and Justin Ebach. "That all being said, you learn from it and, you know, life goes on."
"But I just honestly had the most fun recording this song [and] writing this song," he adds. "It came so natural and easy to me when it came to this song in particular."
Zeiders is currently on his headlining Relapse Tour, which recently made the news for an unfortunate season. Zeiders became incensed when a concertgoer flipped him the bird, angrily chewing the fan out before ejecting him from the venue.
While most fans praised Zeiders behavior, singer Aaron Watson criticized Zeiders for his outburst.
"What you did on the stage, in front of God and everybody, unprofessional," Watson later says (via American Songwriter). "That fan down there in the crowd, he flipped you off. He basically held up a spoon. And Wilbur, you were up there on the stage in the spotlight and you whipped out a machete. You brought a machete to a spoon fight on one of your fans. And you look like the poster boy for Summer's Eve, and they should put your face on the box."
