Kid Rock..

Is there anyone more useless?

wait... Kelly Clarkson... spoke too soon

Subways Jared.

^^^^dingdingding! we have a winner^^^^^^





ties w/ pauly shore....

I'll see your pauly shore and raise you a richard simmons.

About 3 or 4 years ago I went to one of those ClearChannel staged rock festivals that have like 30 bands for $20, mostly only for a couple bands I wanted to see, among them Rob Zombie, who played scenes from House of a 1000 Corpses which he complained nobody would distribute at the time. Also because I'd be going with two hot girls.

Anyway, usually when I go to those things I leave way before the headliner shows up, because they usually suck and I get to be home early without the traffic. In this case as I said I was with two hot girls, and they wanted to stay to see the headliner, which was Kid Rock. I was not looking forward to wasting an hour or more of my life on this.

Sure enough, I spent a good chunk of it sitting on the ground waiting, but what the man lacks in his own music, he makes up for at least in unmitigated talent. He played every instrument on the stage and played a couple classic rock covers which weren't too bad. The stage was also lit up with fireworks and strippers and American flags.

All in all, not a bad show in a totally over the top but fun kind of way; not something I'd have paid to see, but certainly not as bad as many of the pop acts around nowadays.

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it's pretty safe to say that kid rock is rather unpopular on this site. i'm definitely not buying his records. i'm guessing you aren't either.

i was at a travis concert in los angeles where they covered britney spears' "baby, one more time". before they played the song, they talked about how people like us hate artists like britney, etc. but then he asked that if she made that many kids so happy to hear her music, is it really such a bad thing? i thought it was a good point. their version was actually quite cool and hilarious.

anyway, with that said, he's doing his 'thang' and not sitting around typing about you and i. so, to each his own, right? that's what makes the world go 'round.

^^^Yeah, but could Pauly Shore pull that off? I think not, my friend....I think not...

If you mean bass, keyboards, guitar and drums, I'm not sure I'd be too impressed by that. The only instrument that is not like the other there are the drums. I mean, I can't play any of those things, but I've also never really tried. Did he play them well?

He epitomizes up the word "twat."

Here's a good example of what I was talking about.

Kid rock served sausage to MisterSatan and me today.

True story.

He did! I wanted to whisper "bawitdaba" to him soooooooo badly, but I got distracted by the twenty-seven different kinds of hot sauce they had.

Anyway, Kid Rock and his hepatitus sure know how to cook a mean sausage.

I still listen to Grits Sandwiches For Breakfast on a semi-regular basis. I don't care if he's a douche. While I'm not a big fan of what he's doing now, he's written some incredibly fun and absurd music.

I'm not a fan, but I was back in like 8th grade.
I gotta say, even though I really can't stand him anymore, one of his songs has such memorable lyrics.

"I got a whirlpool, don't even ask
Lickin pussy underwater shootin bubbles up your ass"

What a classy fellow.

I've seen him as an opener and he's a fine performer. His music may be lacking but he definatly knows how to work a crowd.

I saw him with Phish in Vegas 5 or so years ago (he came out for the last miniset and did You Shook Me All Night Long and some other stuff with them) and was actually fun. I won the tickets to the show or else I never would have seen it, and I had no idea who he was at the time. He can be cheesy, but cheese can be fun. I actually do a couple of his tunes at my shows sometimes (usually The Picture that he did with Sheryl Crow, as it allows for duets and seems to help keep the local rednecks from lynching me for doing Dead Kennedys and Jack Off Jill stuff.

It's not easy being cheesy.

I can't believe he has fans

This man is just another media driven hype. He had mild musical ability and a thirst for money. His label offered an image that would gain ignorant fans. It is a shame that kids are fed this crap and they're told that it is "cool". This process just prolongs the absorption of good music, whatever that may be. But in the end, it comes down to the person. What he or she likes. Nothing else matters. So what if he is a terrible musician. People enjoy him, so let them. I am tired of trying to point out flaws. It is not my place.

Weird, it worked the first time. Anyway, here it is from Google's cache

Though this is undoubtably true of most pop acts that are popular these days and pretty much in the entire history of the recording industry, I don't think it applies so much to Kid Rock. He wasn't "groomed for stardom", doesn't pretend to be something he's not, often goes against the grain (he's a hardcore conservative in an otherwise entirely liberal industry), and his work goes back longer than you've been born.

Again, I personally am not a fan, have never even downloaded a song of his, but I contend that his does have musical talent and puts on a good show. Which is more than can be said for a lot of acts today.