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Billy Bob Thornton pretended to have amnesia and forget his own band during an interview. Skip related content

The actor-turned-musician became difficult after a Canadian radio host mentioned his Hollywood career yesterday (08.04.09).

Billy Bob was due to be interviewed and perform with his band The Boxmasters, but became upset when he was introduced as an "Oscar-winning screenwriter, actor and director".

When CBC radio DJ Jian Ghomeshi asked him how he formed the band, Billy Bob replied: "I don't know what you're talking about. I'm not sure what that means."

He then proceeded to give monosyllabic or short answers to questions, or spoke about something totally unrelated.

The 53-year-old star pretended not to have met his touring partner Willie Nelson and also compared Canadian audiences to "mashed potatoes with no gravy".

Billy Bob - who was previously married to Angelina Jolie - announced he wouldn't sing with the group and would only play drums - despite the fact there were no drums in the studio.

Billy Bob said: "We don't cart those around at six o'clock in the morning."

The band then had to perform without a vocalist.

Ghomeshi said after the show: "To not answer questions because I made the apparently egregious mistake of calling him an actor as well as a musician, it just seemed a little absurd."

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THEN WHEN THE SITUATION COULD NOT GET ANY MORE WEIRD, THEY DID.

Billy Bob Thornton's band cancels Canadian tour

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11 April 2008 7:30 p.m. MDT

TORONTO – Billy Bob Thornton's band has canceled the rest of its Canadian tour after the actor compared the country's fans to mashed potatoes with no gravy in a testy interview that caused a sensation online.

The Boxmasters opened for Willie Nelson on Thursday in Toronto, where they reportedly were booed and met with catcalls of "Here comes the gravy."

A note posted on Nelson's Web site Friday said the Boxmasters were canceling the rest of their Canadian dates "due to one band member and several of the crew having the flu."

The cancellation came two days after Thornton made world headlines with a belligerent appearance on CBC radio's "Q."

The actor apparently didn't like that host Jian Ghomeshi started the interview with references to Thornton's Hollywood career.

Thornton refused to answer many of Ghomeshi's questions directly, mumbling: "I don't know what you're talking about." He later said Ghomeshi's producers had been told ahead of time not to talk about his film career.

Thornton also had some unkind words for Canadian crowds.

"Canadian audiences seem to be very reserved," he told Ghomeshi. "We tend to play places where people throw things at each other. Here, they just sort of sit there. And it doesn't matter what you say to 'em. ... It's mashed potatoes but no gravy."


RIGHT ASCENSION NOTES THAT THE TIME HAS COME TO HAND MR. THORNTON A VOLLEYBALL WHILE WE WAIT FOR THE THERAPISTS TO TAKE HIM IN TOW.

Billy Bob Thornton really needs to take a couple of hours out of his busy schedule next week and have his head thoroughly examined.

If mental health is the ability to correlate physical observations with the workings of the intellect, then Thornton has gone stone mad. How do any of his actions in the past week reflect sanity.