Posted on 02/17/2005 10:32:25 AM PST by SmithL
Apparently, Kid Rock is trying to live up to his rep as an American badass.
The trailer-park rocker-rapper (real name: Bob Ritchie) was arrested and charged with misdemeanor assault Wednesday after he punched a disc jockey at a Nashville strip club in the wee hours of the morning.
Rock posted $3,000 bail and was released. If convicted, he could face a maximum penalty of up to a year in jail.
"Everything is wonderful. It was a beautiful night," he commented as he left the courthouse.
His arraignment was set for Mar. 30.
Rock was in Tennessee to attend a memorial service for country songwriter and promoter Merle Kilgore, who died Feb. 6 of lung cancer.
After the service, he repaired to the downtown Nashville adult entertainment venue known as Christie's Cabaret.
At around 3 a.m., the club's deejay, Jerry Campos, exchanged words with someone in the audience and Rock, reportedly under the impression that one of his friends had been insulted, demanded an apology.
Campos refused and Rock proceeded to punch him twice in the face, breaking his glasses and leaving a red mark on his mug, according to television footage from outside the club.
Other published reports indicated that Rock was dissatisfied with the music Campos was spinning.
"Inside the establishment, there was a squabble concerning--I guess--the selection of music," Sergeant James Smith of the Metropolitan Nashville Police said at a news conference. "There are not major injuries, but an assault did take place."
The "Cocky" singer seemed oblivious to the aftermath of the altercation.
"They said I broke his glasses? Who?" Rock asked reporters after his release.
Police said that Rock departed the strip joint through a back door when officers showed up to arrest him.
When authorities finally caught up to the "Cowboy" singer at the apartment where he was staying, he reportedly informed them that he had wanted to sober up before being booked.
Kid avoided another rap-sheet entry about an hour after the club incident, when a Vanderbilt University campus police officer pulled over the musician for peeling out in his Corvette. The officer said he smelled booze on Kid Rock's breath but never gave him a breath test. The officer, who let Kid Rock go with a warning after getting an autograph, was fired later Wednesday.
The Detroit-based rocker is no stranger to negative publicity.
Last month, he was reportedly cut from President George W. Bush's inaugural ball after conservative groups protested his appearance with an email campaign bemoaning his lack of values.
Now that's funny.
what.. precisely.. does that mean?
Love America = trailer park
Hate America = street cred
"The officer, who let Kid Rock go with a warning after getting an autograph, was fired later Wednesday."
If the cop was smart he would've just had Kid auto graph the ticket.... Come on officer, use the noodle...
You can only hear "Achy-Breaky Heart" so many times ...
It means he's just another one of those poor, downtrodden city kids whose Dad owns a car dealership.
At least he does not work as a shoe salesman... ala Al Bundy.
Actually, he is from the middle-class suburbs of some town or city in Michigan. Libs just assume he is from a trailer park, since that is where everyone in the red states' lives- right?
Strip joints, hot rods, bar brawl, booze, and rock and roll. Sounds like Kid was getting material for his next music video.
You're way off the mark. A huge part of the Kid Rock image is that he's "straight outta the trailer", and grew up as poor white trash who lived in a trailer park. Fact is, his old man owns a car dealership, and KR's beginnings are far from what he has portrayed them as.
Kid Rock owes one Rent-A-Cop a job on his security team.
The writer is a liberal and all beneath them are trailer park trash.
Sigh. No, not all. The trailer park thing is something tha Kid Rock has pushed since Day One as a way to establish his street cred.
Funny. I'm listening to Agents of Fortune on my MP3 player as we speak.
Well, I gleefully admit my ignorance of his genre.
He also has sung some songs with some of the greats of country and has been on CMT multiple times.
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