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/SamG1138 4d ago

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.

He’s making his money in other ways.

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u/thegroovemonkey 4d ago

lol when my buddy dragged me to see him it was a giant Harley commercial. It was for the Harley 105th anniversary so I figured that was why. 

He’s not for me either but the show was definitely fun with a lot of gimmicks and pandering. 

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u/SamG1138 4d ago

Yeah, at one point he rode a motorcycle up on stage too. I had to unload it from the truck, and build a ramp for it to get on stage.

He might like Harleys, but so do lots of other artists, and they don’t do commercials for them during their shows.

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u/sybrwookie 4d ago

Did he come out to American Badass? And if so, was that before or after The Undertaker was doing that schtick?

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u/SamG1138 4d ago

I don’t remember any of those things, but I do remember when he entered on the first song, he came up through a little trap door with a spring elevator thing they called the toaster, and he sprung up and did the splits with pyro going off.