When Britton and I got back from our trip to the mountains, we checked our messages on the answering machine. My friend, Kelly, called to let us know that she was able to get us free tickets to the Kid Rock concert if we wanted to go. We didn’t have anything else to do, so we told her we’d meet her down there. We got ready and headed off on our bikes once again to the Stampede.
Me and my bike
When we got there, it turned out that the Weld County Sheriff, John Cooke, had the extra tickets for us. We got the hook ups! 🙂 So we asked for a picture with him.
Me, Sheriff Cooke and Kelly at the Stampede
The tickets were for standing room only, but that was fine with me. We ended up running into a lot of our friends including our friend, Al and spent most of the concert with him since Kelly and her husband already had seats outside of the standing room area.
Al and Britton at Kid Rock concert
I know a few of Kid Rock’s songs and he definitely appeals to a certain demographic that is an interesting marketing mixture of hard rock, country and rap. I had to laugh at the crazy lyrics of one song that I had never heard before: Low Life. Do people really live like this?? Often music, like art, reflects life, so I am assuming some people must.
Here’s a little sample of the lyrics and video (turn down your speakers):
I got my Cat Scratch Fever eight-track
My best friend’s in a gun rack
I’m a lowlife
I owe everybody money
I think racist jokes are funny
I’m a lowlife
I got a dirty mind, a gutter mouth
I’m makin’ time, I’m goin’ out
With your wife
Cuz I’m a lowlife
I’m a lowlife
I got kids I never seen
And their momma’s seventeen
I’m a lowlife
I take strippers out to breakfast
You can add that to my checklist
I’m a lowlife
Ahh the landlord called the rent is due
I spent it all on a Kiss tattoo
I Rock n Roll all night
Cuz I’m a lowlife
I’m a lowlife
I’m a lowlife
Livin’ the highlife
It’s also interesting how at concerts of the past for the slow songs people would pull out their lighters and sway to the music. Now, people pull out their cell phones! It’s quite the cultural phenomenon. I think I was one of the very few who didn’t have a cell phone. In this video you can also see the moon shining over us.
It began to rain toward the end of the concert so Britton and I saddled up our trusty bikes and headed off into the night with a moonlit backdrop and ringing ears. What a great day!
The kid rock concert was soo fun! I loved drinkin and singin along with his old stuff! the rain made it even better!
You seem like you have had a very sheltered life. You are judging people at a concert you were at, my opinion is you should have given those tickets to someone who would have appreciated them more!
Jimbo and Hughgo -welcome to the site. What’s with the “o” on your names?
Jimbo – Glad you enjoyed the concert. The rain wasn’t too bad either compared to some other nights! Apparently after we left he only played two more songs so we timed that right!
Hughgo- I don’t live what you call a sheltered life. I just don’t go out to strip clubs and hook up with 17 year olds, drink whiskey, get Kiss tattoos, tell or like racist jokes or own a gun. I think all of these are really stereotypical behaviors of lower class white America and from what I hear, Kid Rock doesn’t even live this way, but he perpetuates the “trailer trash/white trash” lifestyle that has caused many people many problems in order to further his career. Just like some rappers rap about life in the ghetto sippin’ gin and juice with their homeboys and shooting cops, I don’t live that lifestyle but some people might and that’s why they like the music. That doesn’t mean I can’t appreciate the popular cultural value of it because I do. Comparatively speaking of my life and these examples though, I wouldn’t have too much in common with either of those, but I might like rocking or hip-hopping along to it.
And as far as enjoying the concert, I did enjoy it and appreciated it, and probably thought a lot more about it afterward than most.