Today, September 12th, is Grandparents Day, and in honor of the occasion, we were reminded of this great bite from the Prep Site archives about Brad Paisley and his grandfather. (AUDIO INFO BELOW)

• Brad is on the radio now with a song that talks about the next generation of Paisleys: “Anything Like Me.” It’s one of the terrific tracks you’ll find on Brad’s upcoming double-disc Hits Alive album, available November 2nd.

  Brad Paisley recalls a bittersweet moment with his grandfather. (:48)
“My grandpa and I had an argument back when I first started playin’ the guitar…well, not first…I guess I’d been playin’ for a couple years. And we were best buddies. And I came up the alley all upset, and I told my dad that he got mad at me. My dad called, and said, ‘What happened? What did you guys have a fight about?’ And he was hemmin’ and hawin’ around a little bit, and we’d been playin’ the guitar, and I guess I had showed him how to do somethin’, and he wasn’t gettin’ it. And I might’ve been a little short with him, and he ended up being a lot short with me. And long story short, he got mad at me because, he said, ‘Well, Doug, truth is, he did it better than I did.’ And he was just kind of mad at himself at the same time that he was really proud of me. And that’s pretty wild, and I remember that, and boy, no one would be prouder now.”