♪ it's my life, better left to chance ♪ ♪ i could have missed the pain ♪ but i'd have had to miss the dance ♪ >> larry: we're back with garth brooks. all right, now, this was an experiment of a kind. no band. you've got to be pretty big to do this. guitar. stand on stage, tell stories. it's almost an autobiographical. so it is an autobiographical show. garth brooks from childhood up. what was opening night like? >> it was scary. i describe it as being naked outside and the temperature was very cold. if you know what i mean. you're exposed. but look who you did it with. you did it with a guy who truly believed in your talent, and you did it in front of the people that have given you the clothes on your back and the roof over your head. they don't want you to fail. it was like walking into the pool of the perfectly warmest water.