Vince Gill might not seem like the fighting type… but he was willing to throw hands back in the early 2000s. The “Go Rest High on That Mountain” singer evidently threatened to send legendary radio host Don Imus to that mountain himself during an on air interview back in the early 2000s. During a recent interview with television writer, producer, and Somebody Feed Phil host, Phil Rosenthal, on the Naked Lunch podcast, Gill explained that the radio personality had previously been a big fan of his. For some reason, when Gill married Amy Grant in 2000, Don Imus suddenly started bashing both him and Grant: “After Amy and I got married, he flipped on me. He kinda turned on me and started running me down, ragging me on his show every morning. He said, ‘I can’t believe my favorite singer, Vince Gill, lost to baby Jesus, married that Christian girl.’ He was just wearing my a** out.” Vince Gill heard all of that noise, and remembered it. When it came time to promote a new album that he had coming out, the country singer requested that his publicist get him booked for an interview on Don Imus’ show – Imus in the Morning. As he tells the story, the visit went according to plan until the radio host brought up his wife: “I went on there and got up and sang a song. We had a little small talk and then finally, Amy’s name came up. He said something about Amy and I said, ‘I’m glad you brought Amy up. I’ve been hearing you say some pretty ugly things about my wife, and I’m just kind of curious why. You used to be a great supporter of mine… If you ever met her, you’d never say an unkind word about her.” Then Vince Gill brought the hammer down. Once it was clear that he was on conversational offense in defense of his wife, Gill threatened to come over the desk that divided he and Imus in order to really drive his point home: “I said, ‘I’m gonna shoot you straight. I really only came on this show for one reason. We’re either gonna talk this out, straighten this out, or I’m gonna crawl across this desk and I’m gonna kick your a**.’ His eyes got big and he goes, ‘Well let’s figure this thing out. Let’s talk it out.’ I said, ‘Good choice, Don,’ you know, and so we had a great visit.” Who knew that Vince Gill was such an enforcer? That last line he added there – “we had a great visit” – is a hilarious touch to an already great story. Yeah… what is the radio host going to do once he knows that his guest is willing to crawl on to the table and kick some a**? That kind of tone setting from Gill completely changed the tone of the interview, and apparently led to Imus softening up his criticism of Gill and Grant from then on out. You can hear the country music legend talk more about the radio interview incident in the video below: The post Vince Gill Once Threatened To Fight Radio Host Don Imus While On Air… Here’s Why first appeared on Whiskey Riff.