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Kid Rock

Tom and I went to the Kid Rock concert last night. It was amazing. He performed with Rev. Run from Run DMC and some dude from the J. Giles band. Kid Rock definitely does not disappoint with his performance. He sounded great. He was entertaining. The concert was packed with music. The first half, the dude from J. Giles band performed a couple of his songs with Kid Rock. That was okay. The second half, he performed with Rev Run and they sounded great together. People can say what they want about Kid Rock, but he is quite the talented musician. He plays guitar AND drums really well. He sounds in concert like he does on his CDs. He sang a couple songs from his new CD and most of his popular songs. He ended with Bawbitaba on the encore. Before that, they sang “This Little Light of Mine.” It was a super good time.

I did notice some things about the people who came.

Standing outside waiting to get in, there was a couple with a kid who couldn’t be more than 8. I feel it’s inappropriate to bring someone that young to such a concert. Nevermind the content of the songs, but the loudness factor can’t be that good.

In front of us there was a couple with 2 kids. The oldest girl looked to be maybe 12? I’m guessing here. The mom proceeded to get extremely drunk and by the end of the night was throwing a fit about something. My guess is the guy cut her off from beer and she was pissed. If you are going to bring your kids to a concert like that, I don’t think it’s appropriate to get totally wasted in front of them.

Apparently, it’s mandatory for guys to rest their hands on their girlfriends butts during these concerts. That was the trend I saw.

At first, there were these older guys and girls (one guy looked to be about 70) sitting behind us. The one right behind me was wearing a hot pink feather boa and a black hat with a hot pink feather in it. I am glad they were apparently in the wrong seats because i just KNOW that guy would have spilled beer on me at some point. He almost knocked me in the head with his cup before the concert started.

I guess it wouldn’t be a Kid Rock concert without someone bringing in some pot. I don’t know where they were sitting, but they were pretty close to us. But between the overwhelming smell of beer mixed with the smell of pot, it was kind of nauseating. People were also smoking cigarettes in there.

THEN, he had a 15 minute break and Tom and I and i swear half the coliseum went outside to smoke. What a mess that was! Drunk ass people at Kid Rock concerts are a LOT ruder than drunk ass college kids at Fat Jacks, let me tell ya. Pushing, spilling beer, yelling…

SOOOOOO… if you can overlook the stupid people who attended the concert, it was a really good time.

why?

At my new job, I am expected to handle printer/copy machine issues such as changing toner, fixing jams or calling in maintenance issues.  I am basically at the low end of the food chain so to speak.  But hey, it’s not serving, so I don’t complain… much.  BUT… when I get a call that says the printer is flashing and could I go check it out… and I go check it out… and the screen on the printer says “tray 2 empty” I get a little miffed.  People are either lazy or stupid… either way, they are getting paid more than me and have better job security as I am a temp.  That makes me mad.  That is my rant for the day.