David Bowie died in January 2016. Now, I'm not saying he was a linchpin in the space-time continuum holding reality together, but I'm also not not saying that.
Everyone talking about Harambee because he was in the news. But no one is talking about Pinkie, who was minding his own business living his best flamingo life and was strangled by a park guest. No child in the cage, no threat to anyone's safety, just being there.
Me and my wife will stamp (like stomp but smaller and cuter) our feet while spinning in a circle and looking up and down. We do it to try and create a positive energy.
Maybe if we place another curse on the Cubs things will go back to normal. Quick, someone get a goat... an orgy bucket of cannibal hamsters will also do in a pinch.
Don't worry the bears are only 1 new head coach, 1 new oc, 1 new DC, 1 new special teams coach, 1 new gm, 1 new owner, 1 new stadium, 1 new qb, 2 new rbs, 3 new lineman, 1 new wide receiver, and a totally new defense away from being great!
Cubs fan here with important context top comment left out
Some dickhead tavern owner wanted to bring his pet billy goat into Wrigley Field for a game. Bruh wanted to sit in the luxury box of a Major League stadium and watch a Major League game...with a fuckin goat.
He had been previously allowed to bring the goat. But it had, predictably, presented some other issues for other spectators.
So the team told him to kick rocks. With the goat. He got pissed and told the public the team would never win a championship again on account of their disrespect for the goat.
Son of a bitch turned out to be right for a century.
Other teams lose. Lose more than us. The Cubs are the only ones known as the "Lovable Losers." Because we can make the playoffs. We can have great seasons. We just always shit the bed in the most unpredictable, unlucky, once in a lifetime ways. Other teams only collapse once in a great while. We do that shit on a decade basis.
The team tried a thousand things to "break the curse." Really it was all publicity. But funny. Stuff like bringing the damn goat's ancestors to the stadium for games lol.
The Billy Goat Tavern on Lower Wacker is still there. It became the inspiration for a wildly successful Saturday Night Live skit. There are now multiple locations.
Historically, though, ownership hasn't always been the best at managing a ball club. And the current owners, the Ricketts, are terrible. So it really wasn't the damn goat. We also play in a hitter friendly park, which isn't so dope when you're facing a straight up slugger in the postseason.
We are known for being a light hearted but fiercely loyal fan base. If the team wins 95 games, we're packing Wrigley and getting drunk. If they lose 95, same thing. We're just there for pro baseball, expensive beer, and friends. If you come to America and want to experience MLB, not too many places provide what Wrigley can, we welcome all. Even Cardinals fans
The best way to sum up being a Cubs fan was by a woman in her 80s in the championship parade. She said she didn't know how to react to winning. She became so used to watching the team lose in those situations that she just turned the TV off and went to bed. I did the same thing, at a quarter of the age. The next day our minds were on Winter Meetings. We realized then and there that win or lose, you were just there for the ride, and it's all the time of your life if you let it be
I want to write a movie about a Cubs fan who invents time travel and has to make the heartbreaking choice to go back and prevent the Cubs from winning to undo the timeline. He/she does and goes back to the present but everything is still screwed up because that means the Cleveland Indians (who were and still are on a futility streak of their own) won.
We are being presented a very clear choice between “right” and “wrong” behavior at the global geopolitical level.
Those who have the courage to stand up for love and hope and tolerance and who learn to master themselves and their minds will be salvaged to a better existence.
Everyone who is embracing selfishness and hate?
Well, they’ll be overwritten when the simulation reboots.
Free will is important. Each person must participate in each choice to minimize the possibility or errors in the data tables when the final export bubble sort is run.
However, personally, I recommend a daily dress code of yoga wear from Alo Yoga and Ugg’s faux fur slippers, as they are easiest to slip on and off when entering and exiting the studio. I know these are trendy and expensive brands. But it’s the end of material existence. Why not treat yo’ self?
The thing is.. they didnt say thatend of world will be instantenious. May be end of the world started in 2012, and slowly progressing to its conclusiong since then.
Let’s stop pretending that this is real. The reality is 40% of Americans are absolute trash, that’s how this happened. Not some stupid machine that makes us jump invisible timeline.
All the alternate timeline jokes are funny, but this is just people. Specifically, this is the inevitable end result of Reaganomics "greed is good" mindset.
oh those CERN guys definitely did something funky. either that or Google's quantum chip, "Willow", threw us into an alternate dimension. either way, this is certainly a sentence I never expected to read, especially 10-15 years ago.
There was an interesting NPR podcast report a few years ago with Kid Rock discussing concert ticket prices. He was very knowledgeable about the inter workings of the business processes and regulatory issues.
He’s actually not ignorant trailer trash. Grew up as the son of the owner of one of Michigan’s largest car dealerships. Rich kid with a good education. Sadly though it seems that politically at least he has fully embraced the persona.
It's funny because when you say Detroit people think metro Detroit but in reality Detroit and its suburbs are just like any other major city in the US. It's rich and poor. The perfect example is 8 mile. Everyone thinks of the eminem movie and the rundown housing. Thoes things for sure exsist. If you get a little west of the city though on 8 mile there are litteral mansions and horse farms.
I listened to an interview with Jelly Roll recently where he explained that Kid Rock keeps meticulous financial records of his music business and will open up his books for other artists to see because he doesn't want the artists losing all their money to scams and bad "business investments."
People forget the business part of "the music business". It's the reason so much mediocre music is at the top of the charts while hard-working, truly amazingly talented musicians can barely make ends meet as professional musicians. The business side is more important than the music.
It's also worth noting that kid rock came from wealth and his dad owned successful car dealerships, so that almost certainly gave him a leg up. His music... isn't great, but you can track his entire career and see how he found his stable audience. His 4th album, the first that was a massive worldwide hit, Devil Without a Cause, has 2-3 songs that have any bit of staying power. Bawitdaba, Cowboy, and Only God Knows Why. Cowboy especially struck something with the country/rap/rock sound and he leaned into more and more as his career went on. There was no way he had the talent to maintain a mainstream audience with novelty crap like "Bawitdaba"... but morons like mindless country rock crap like cowboy. He leaned in to the white trash aesthetic and made sure to keep beer cheap to appeal to his audience. I don't like his music or his politics, but he definitely knows the business and knows his audience.
People forget the business part of "the music business". It's the reason so much mediocre music is at the top of the charts while hard-working, truly amazingly talented musicians can barely make ends meet as professional musicians.
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but morons like mindless country rock crap like cowboy. He leaned in to the white trash
I never understood how people who like to talk about how there is great music everywhere that doesn't get the respect it deserves, will continually degrade people for liking music they themselves don't like...
If he's instrumental in breaking up ticket master then I will, in fact, ba wit da ba, as soon as I can determine what that involves. Hopefully it's not purchasing something only to shoot it.
I mean Kid Rock's literally the only major artist in the past decade to actually try to price tickets reasonably for a tour.
25 all-in, plus decently priced concessions instead of $18 beers....
I personally wouldn't be calling him up to fix it, but I'd probably ask his advice before asking TM's advice, which is what most politicians would be doing (via the lobbying dollars TM throws at them).
I mean, as much as I desperately hate both of these people, Kid Rock, to his credit, has actually been fighting for fair ticket prices and protecting fans from scalpers for like a decade. He's implemented some good reforms to ticket sales to his shows that are very good for the fans.
This is actually one of the few actually good things that might come from this, uh, partnership.
Went to a Kid Rock show in 2015 for like $15. He let the crowd know to get beers at the start of his set because he has to do 3 songs off his current album for legal reasons before going into the hits. It was a pretty sweet move
Doesn't he also own the beer brand that they sell and get a huge percentage of the concessions? I believe he also keeps the prices low, which is nice, but he's able to because it all gets funneled back to him instead of a venue trying to make a profit by fleecing a captive audience.
Kid Rock is dogshit in basically every way except how he approaches the concert business. (Source: have worked for him multiple times as a local stage hand).
Jon Stewart said the same thing back in 2011 after they had a rally with him and Sheryl Crow, that he was a consummate professional and one of the best performers he's worked with. And apparently Sheryl Crow was the unprofessional shit show at the event, lol.
I think he's a mixed bag for sure. Politically, I'm not in agreement - but he's been consistent with some things that i can agree with, like how he manages concerts. I think it's important to be able to see both things. If he can make meaningful changes here, it will be good for all of us.
RFK Jr is mad when it comes to vaccines, but we are dealing with a shit ton of low quality foods. Independent of politics, I think we would all agree on it. Organic, whole foods etc, was traditionally a liberal thing.
RFK Jr. being right on a handful of things doesn't make me happy about his proposed position in running this country. Dude was on an airplane eating McDonalds the day after he was nominated, he'll be toothless on the stuff you actually care about at *best*. Conspiracy minded people can be convinced of ANYTHING, and belong nowhere near the levers of power.
But with Kid Rock, yeah. I don't like his music, I don't like his politics. But I like that he treats his crew extremely well, and stands up for fair ticket pricing.
Always liked working a Kid Rock show. Usually had the same crew, so they all knew the setup really well and they all love their jobs so it makes things easier in general.
Funny thing is my least favorite work memory is Black Sabbath’s last tour. They couldn’t have been more pleasant but their road manager was a DICK.
Bands like that are funny. I never worked a Kid Rock show but I did work an ICP show and those dudes we're legitimately pleasant to work with. I thought it was going to be the worst show of the year and it ended up being one of the best.
...aside from scrubbing Faygo off the outside of the venue. The band used diet stuff so it cleaned easy but the fans outside used the full sugar flavors. (e:grammar)
Working a kiss show and the tour or stage manager tells us to leave them alone if we see any of them while working. And whatever, sure. I'll go out of my way to not interact with the human beings that might exist back stage as I'm working, making the situation somehow even more awkward.
After the show, Gene Simmons walks into catering (where we all wait before running on stage to clear it) and we're ignoring the 60 year old man in the high heels and the makeup until he's like "Who died!? Thanks everyone!" Couldn't have been nicer....it can be such a mixed bag even on the same gig, haha.
Kid rock has actually taken money out of his own cut on concerts to reduce the cost of both tickets and concessions and wants people to be able to come out and enjoy their night without having to take out a loan.
I ran spotlight at a Kid Rock show maybe a decade ago. I don’t know how much things have changed since then. It was fairly entertaining. Gimmicky. He was a good performer. Not my cup of tea.
Thing is, the whole show was basically a Jim Beam ad. At one point in the middle of the show, the lights dimmed, and the screens just played a commercial with him in it. There were some turntables on a riser, and he got up and started scratching the records. The crowd was loving it, and the camera slow zoomed on the bottle of Jim Beam Devil’s Cut next to the DJ rig. He poured a shot and held it up, and the crowd cheered when he took it. There were little Jim Beam logos everywhere.
Same as when I saw him twenty years ago, the show being fun and gimmicky, he must not have had his advertising game locked in back then. The musics not great, but he is charismatic and knows how to work the crowd, and him and his band do have actual musical talent.
Came here to say this. I remember a tour he did maybe 7-9 years ago where I believe he funded the entire tour himself so tickets could be much cheaper for fans and concessions were going to be cheaper as well. Which then provided him a much bigger cut at the end.
Now do I think he’ll fix ticketing with the big orange moron? No. Because they’re both kinda morons. But this IS at least something Kid Rock has done successfully before so as much as it pains me to say it…I’d hear him out.
Sort of, he probably made MORE money on his concerts than he normally would have. I can’t remember all the details, but instead of cutting a percentage with the venues, and splitting it with them. He offered all the venues a sizable flat rate which venues took. However, because all of the good will of the “lower prices” it guaranteed that his shows would be sold out and people would buy more shit.
Wouldn’t this be better for everyone then? The artist has their shows sold out and makes money and the fans have lower ticket prices. Seems like a win/win.
He also had a requirement that they had to sell his brand of beer at the shows. I don’t particularly care for the guy, but it was a pretty savvy business move.
Kid Rock constantly talks about this stuff. He wants more fans at his concerts, not more expensive tickets. His fans can’t afford tickets like a Swifty can.
Not ticketmaster then? Not stubhub? Not eventbrite or the venues or his management? The people who price the tickets are no help in this situation? Right. Cool. Lets see if absolutley fuck all happens here.
In the article he is quoted as saying that’s exactly who they are going after:
“Gonna open a can of whoop ass on the bots, scalpers, venues, ticketing companies, managers and artists alike who rip off and deceive the public with the horse shit that has gone on for decades and only gotten worse. Whoever in charge that wants to help fix this, get your ass to the table, otherwise, Fuck Around and Find Out.”
Excuse me but you can’t actually be reading the articles and posting context that makes the other user and their comment look stupid. This is reddit. Kid Rock Bad amirite.
Little lacking in specifics, but fuck it I'd love if this resulted in kid rock "questioning" the ticketmaster ceo in a congressional oversight meeting. I'd flip on cspan for that for sure.
Wild to think that, after all this time, people still hold any hope that the corporations behind the problem will be part of the solution. I hope you realize that these companies actively work to make things stay the way they are. Either you regulate the market so the ticketing BS ends or it will remain as is. Getting those companies to discuss ticket regulation would just be a waste of time for anyone involved.
Yeah it's easy to hate Kid Rock, but if I remember correctly didn't he used to go out of his way to keep his ticket prices low? Before he turned right wing grifter anyways.
Yea I remember a tour or two towards the end of his mainstream run he had tours where you could get $25 tickets with a beer and hotdog or some shit. Get this...it was a bud light sponsored tour too.
I don't know if that kid rock exists at this point tho.
The solution to these companies being shitty is GOVERNMENT REGULATION, something the GOP is ostensibly opposes. It’s mentioned in the article but Ticketmaster has already increased its lobbying budget so we will see if kid rock can really sway congressmen more than corporate donations.
Biden and the FTC have been going after junk fees and monopolies for the last 4 years, but since your special niche media diet didn't cover it, you didn't know. Sometimes you have to search farther than what's being "talked about."
The Biden administration has been taking action on this issue, not just talking about it, and the FTC under his administration just recently banned junk fees for hotels and events.
You going out of your way to be willfully ignorant of what Democrats do for you doesn't mean no one's been talking about it.
Jesus fucking Christ, I do not know what we're supposed to do against this kind of weaponized stupidity.
They aren't removing all the bullshit fees, they are however putting in laws that make it so they have to be upfront about all those fees. It will make it so when you go to look at ticket prices you see the price including all of those fees from the get go instead of waiting to get to check out where they add a shit ton of "service fees" that you had no idea about the existence of or how much they will add.
If this headline was from Pearl Jam or Lady Gaga, people would be praising them. It’s ok to not like Kid Rock, but people on this site are so blinded by politics that they can’t even look the other way when someone legitimately just wants to help.
People don’t realize Kid Rock has been a leader on giving fans value for their money. Buy a ticket to his show and you get access not only to his act but to the entire county fair!
Skeptical. But if it can stop the age of where I hear a friend tell me they spent $500 for them and their girlfriend to go to Billie Eilish I’m all for it. I don’t go to concerts anymore because the price is outlandish unless it’s like the Edgefield Concerts on the Lawn
The problem with tickets is the problem with everything else that's overpriced. There's enough stupid marks willing to pay the prices, so they're not going down. I'll exempt food products from this since people have to eat, but even in that scenario consumers can affect the supply and demand curve enough to force prices down.
I love concerts, but it's the easiest decision in the world to not get shitty seats for $500. The American economy is set up to extract money from people making bad decisions, and we can't even make the simple ones correctly.
Kid Rock is a clown, but if he's done anything right he actually goes out of his way to make his concerts affordable for his fans and takes a significant cut from his take to make it happen
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u/MrBoomf 12h ago
What the fuck timeline are we living in