![]() Las Vegas is among the 100-plus markets to which iHeart syndicates Bones’ show, so he’s familiar with the community from frequent visits and spent much of his airtime so far this week talking with locals or festivalgoers who were fresh out of the emergency room or even still in the hospital. That’s what I knew going into my radio show Monday morning, and for five hours we, like everyone else, kind of put pieces together as we went along.” It seemed like the (shooter) started there and then started spraying from the back all the way to the front. I have a few friends who were backstage with people that were hit or grazed back there, too, and they said a bus or two was hit by bullets. My thought is that he couldn’t hear the gunshots but he just saw the crowd reacting to something. That’s why when you see Jason (in fan-made videos of his performance when the shooting begins), he sings, kind of steps back, because he sees something’s happening, then sings again, and then realizes something bad is happening and runs off the stage. “If you were wearing them and I were standing three feet from you talking to you, you wouldn’t be able to hear me. “Artists have that seal our ears off from outside ,” he says. Having played the main stage himself Saturday, Bones felt a good deal of empathy for the confusion Aldean experienced before bolting from the stage, and says there was no way the headliner could have had any clue of what was happening. I was on the casino floor Friday night and we had met some people from San Diego who weren’t going to the festival, so I said, ‘Hey I’ll give you some wristbands.’ I texted them Monday to see if they’d gone Sunday - they did, and the guy’s friend got shot in the leg. I was back in Nashville by the time it happened, but I was looking at pictures of the people in Jason Aldean’s crowd, having this horrible knowledge these were the same people I saw so happy the night before. I performed on the main stage Saturday night. I was at the iHeart Radio Festival on the same grounds the weekend before. “I’ve had to walk listeners through really tragic events over the last almost 20 years of being on the radio,” says Bones, who at 37 will become the youngest inductee into the National Radio Hall of Fame next month. since Sunday night’s festival massacre in Las Vegas. ![]() Bobby Bones, the syndicated radio host who’s quickly risen to become the leading voice in the format, has been the one calling the community to order every a.m. In 2017, people generally don’t wait that long to talk out the trauma - especially when the attack this time was literally on the country music fandom itself. In 2001, Alan Jackson provided a post-9/11 sounding board when his song “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” appeared a couple of months later. Occasionally, after a tragedy, country music finds itself in dire need of a town hall. ![]()
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