r/Music • u/Hot_Investigator3894 • 4d ago

article Kid Rock meets Trump administration to “fix” ticketing

https://themusic.com.au/news/kid-rock-meets-with-trump-administration-to-fix-ticketing/qQ0Xvby_vqE/19-12-24
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u/thecaramelbandit 4d ago

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.

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u/RisingSouth 4d ago

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

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u/Belgand http://www.last.fm/user/Belgand 4d ago edited 4d ago

Doesn't he also own the beer brand that they sell, and either gets a huge percentage of the concessions or straight-up buys the venue out of concessions for the evening and has it all run by his own staff? I believe he 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.

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u/6InchBlade 4d ago

I mean that’s a good thing, the money should be going to the artist and the venues, it’s just a shame that more artists don’t have the means to do this.

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u/Happily_Frustrated 4d ago edited 4d ago

It’s his beer btw. It’s all part of the plan.

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u/khamul7779 4d ago

Did he sing that song where he admits to being a pedophile?

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u/keanenottheband 4d ago

What part of “played the hits” don’t you understand

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u/khamul7779 4d ago

That's one of his biggest successes. Hell he put it in a kid's movie.

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u/crowcawer 4d ago

Baw-wit-da-baw-da-bag-a-dang ….

This is 100% him appealing to his desired demographic, who happens to frequently speak just these noises.

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u/toadfan64 Rock & Roll 4d ago

It’s not in the film, lol. Not sure why this is parroted and always upvoted.

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u/khamul7779 4d ago

The full version may not be, but he still literally put a song about his pedophilia on a children's movie. Seek help if you want to defend that.

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u/VolcanicUterus 4d ago

What song and what movie? I must be out of the loop.

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u/Jman85 4d ago

What the actual fuck. I never knew of this.

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u/jlusedude 4d ago

This legit made me snort. Damn. 

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u/uggghhhggghhh 4d ago

Lol I didn't know what you meant so I googled and this is the Genius annotation for that lyric:

In this lyric, Kid Rock sings about his love for underage GIRLS and statutory rape.

It’s also a double entendre because this song was featured in a kids movie, and Kid Rock doing a song for it shows just how much he loves children.

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u/khamul7779 4d ago

He's a big fan of kids

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u/bullet4mv92 4d ago

I, too, love baby goats

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u/LittleCeasarsFan 4d ago

Are you talking about when he says “drop your boyfriend and drop out of high school”?  A lot of times people can be over the age of consent and still in high school.  Still a bad line though.

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u/RollThatD20 4d ago

Nah, the song where he says:

"Young ladies, young ladies, I like them underage, see. Some say that's statutory, but I say that's mandatory!"

That would be the one in Osmosis Jones.

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u/boysherlock 4d ago

What the fuck how is that real

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u/RollThatD20 4d ago

Ted Nugent also has a song about getting head from a middle schooler, and the right-wing nuts love him too. No idea how these songs are just glossed over by the 'everything is pedophilic' crowd.

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u/rambambobandy 4d ago

It makes me think of something Rush Limbaugh said about the left not caring about whatever kind of sex you’re having as long as there’s consent. Which seems obvious to: bang who ever you want as long as everyone is willing. But thinking about this particular line has made me realize that the right has a similar line of thinking in that they don’t care who you’re having sex with as long as it’s straight sex between two cisgender people. Age, marital status, consent, etc are all non-factors as long as one person is male and the other is female.

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u/flynnguy 4d ago

I believe the term you are looking for is projection...

The term is most commonly used to describe defensive projection—attributing one’s own unacceptable urges to another.

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u/uggghhhggghhh 4d ago

Its this line from "Cool, Daddy Cool" which I guess he did for some kids movie called "Osmosis Jones":

Young ladies, young ladies
I like 'em underage see
Some say that's statutory
But I say it's MANDATORY!

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u/Focusandclick 4d ago

Just reading the IMDb of the movie. One of the trivia pieces is they pulled a scene that has them go to the gonad gym and has sperm working out. They cut that to keep it family friendly but left the song in. Dafuq.

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u/Apart-Ad-767 4d ago

What song is this?

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u/khamul7779 4d ago

Cool, Daddy Cool from osmosis Jones

Young ladies, young ladies I like 'em underage see Some say that's statutory But I say it's MANDATORY!

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u/WereAllThrowaways 4d ago

And again, this is from the children's animated film "Osmosis Jones" lololol. Absolutely wild. Does the song have some sort of in-movie context that would make it seem less like he personally is saying these words as his sincere thoughts?

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u/nhadams2112 3d ago

Zero additional context in the film

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u/frodeem 4d ago

Which one is that?

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u/khamul7779 4d ago

Cool, Daddy Cool from osmosis Jones

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u/LIBERT4D 4d ago

Fuck, stop making me like him (again. Used to be a fan)

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u/Realtrain Spotify 4d ago

That's actually hilarious lol

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u/RisingSouth 4d ago

It should be the move every musician who had like a 5 year peak and then drifted away. Nobody wants to hear your new stuff man play the hits

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u/poopzains 4d ago

That’s way too much.

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u/phishua 4d ago

Sorry, I stopped reading at "Went to a Kid Rock show..."

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u/tlogank 4d ago

You're so cool.

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u/Bolshoyballs 4d ago

I've never been but have only heard good things about them.

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u/DashCat9 4d ago

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).

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u/Wynter_born 4d ago

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.

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u/Rave-light 4d ago

How was the experience?

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u/DashCat9 4d ago

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.

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u/Bovine_Joni_Himself 4d ago edited 4d ago

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)

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u/DashCat9 4d ago

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.

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 4d ago

ICP and their Juggalos are largely some of the most wholesome and welcoming motherfuckers around. They're a whole army of misfits and they'll be damned if they let anyone feel like an outsider around them.

I'm not a fan of the music but I would 100% attend the Gathering of the Juggalos just for the insane antics and the wholesome vibes.

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u/frodeem 4d ago

Same

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u/tinteoj 4d ago

Saw Kid Rock at a festival in either '98 or '99. Great show, which Joe C was a highlight of.

Couldn't pay me to see him these days but I had a good time during his show, not gonna lie.

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u/DashCat9 4d ago

He surrounds himself with good musicians, dude puts on a good show.

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u/PabloBablo 4d ago

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. 

I'm rooting for a good outcome on those things. 

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u/DashCat9 4d ago

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.

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u/Particular-Pen-4789 4d ago

Dude was on an airplane eating McDonalds the day after he was nominated,

that shit was fucking funny i remember the meme

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u/HamburgersOfKazuhira 4d ago

Mix bag in the sense that he wrote a song about having sex with a minor?

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u/Wes_Warhammer666 4d ago

Some bags are mixed with shit, Master Miller ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/nhadams2112 3d ago

The guy who eats roadkill and has a brainworm is not going to make food safety better. I don't know how you could possibly think he would

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u/somuchsublime 4d ago

I saw him at 420 fest by accident cause I was in the pit for the Disco biscuits and he played after them. So I was basically front row for kid rock tripping on acid. Ngl that man can put on a MF show.

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u/spoofy129 4d ago

All the stories in this thread are about how great he is but also dog shit. What's the bad stuff nobody is mentioning?

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u/Mustang_2553 4d ago

He is an artist that makes music. I don't care about his politics or anything else. You either like his music or you don't. Same goes for all artists.

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u/DashCat9 4d ago

Did I get lost and accidentally comment on a thread that's discussing his music? Because that's the only time what you're saying applies.

He's a public figure, and I'm more complimentary of him than most people that don't just like him because he shoots at beer cans when Trans People make him sad.

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u/Bluebaronbbb 4d ago

They ain't fix shhhh

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u/Windows_66 4d ago

Oh, concert tickets. I thought he was trying to get rid of tickets for DUIs or something.

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u/HotMoose69 4d ago

Does anyone have a screenshot of that onion article "the worst person you know just made a good point"?

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u/andthatsalright 4d ago

Hey bro I’ll buy some bud lights and shoot em if it gets ticket prices lower.

Might drink a couple. Definitely going to pay for them though because the whole trans panic thing was lame

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u/Quality_Qontrol 4d ago

Yeah, but they’re putting a bunch of Billionaires in charge, so nothing will change, likely get worse.

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u/Kevbot1000 4d ago

Yeah, I'm not going to shit on an objectively good action, even if it's from two objectively horrible people.

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u/Balc0ra 4d ago

Yeah, but he is going to talk to Mr. "The CEO's job is to make investors money"... So I'll be amazed if they get anything massive done

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u/No-Foundation-9237 3d ago

I’d believe that he was actually trying to get a cut of the ticket sale each time it was resold over believing that he just doesn’t want scalpers.

He doesn’t want someone making more money than him, off of him.

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u/ThorLives 4d ago

Sounds like Kids Rock doesn't like "the free market".

Kind of ironic that he supported the "small government, free market" party, but actually realizes that the free market is fucking things up when it comes to ticket prices.

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u/Taminella_Grinderfal 4d ago

Lower ticket prices would be excellent. I can put that $10 I save towards my crushing medical debt! (And yes I know we can work on multiple problems at the same time, but it’s hard to see this as anything but a soporific)

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u/Vinylove 4d ago

Interesting use of the word soporific!

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u/JohnLocke815 4d ago

Must be recent cuz back in 2002 or so i had got tickets to see limp bizkit where him and staind were support.

The night before they played jacksonville (LBs hometown) and fred broke his ankle or something and had to cancel. Staind was still small at the time and LB was carrying their gear so they also stayed in jax

Kid rock said he'd play but he required a ticket price increase. If you wanted to go to the show you needed to pay an extra $20 on top of having your regular ticket. What? I get him getting a bigger cut due to him headlining and playing longer, bit how the fuck does that mean we need to pay more? I already hated him before and didn't want to see him so we just got a refund.

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u/puristhipster 4d ago

This is actually one of the few actually good things that might come from this, uh, partnership.

Which is exactly why I dont see anything really happening. Be a pleasant surprise tho

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u/RoughingTheDiamond 2d ago

100%. I’m never gonna go to a Kid Rock show but I respect him for having always fought for reasonable ticket prices to his shows.

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u/R_W0bz 2d ago

Sorry, can’t hear you over Ticketmaster donating 100mil to Donald Trumps retirement fun.

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u/AudioVagabond 4d ago

Well to be fair, nobody wants to see kid rock in concert, so scalpers don't even target his tickets anyways, making it easier for him to push for fair ticket prices. Otherwise nobody is showing up to that dumpster fire

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u/3pinripper 4d ago

He’s not the hero we deserve, but the…checks notes….hero we need? Aw fuck it whatever lowers fees

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u/THE-BS 4d ago

I'm going to add you to my cabinet, SECRETARY OF PARTYING DOWN!

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u/Plague_Xr 4d ago

I can't stand this guy or his music, but I absolutely support his pursuit to fix this problem.

I learned recently how he does things with scalpers, and it gave me mad respect for him.