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Photo from kidrock.nl.

So Kid Rock, the white trash kid from Detroit who has moments of being a white trash crooner in songs like “Picture,” angered a lot of his fans in Arkansas by playing in a blizzard February 9 in Little Rock.

Eight inches of snow fell on Little Rock during the week and kept roads closed and many fans frustrated that Rock had this “The show must go on” mentality. The fans voiced that frustration on his web site, kidrock.com.

Some fans accused Rock of being greedy in that he went on with the show simply for monetary gain and didn’t care if the fans had to risk their lives to get there.

Rock retaliated by writing on his site: “You bought tix to tonights show and can’t make it, YOU WILL BE GETTING A REFUND, STRAIGHT OUT OF MY POCKET. I’ve never ripped any of my fans off, EVER!!! I have also NEVER missed a show. I know there are people who drove here from Memphis and Oklahoma, been in there cars all day driving and dealing with this shitty weather, the same as me and my band have the WHOLE TOUR. You so called “fans” on my website bitchin and moanin and saying i’m greedy, can GO FUCK YOURSELVES, plain and simple. Throw out my cd’s and lose my number, I don’t want drama kings and queens like yall anywhere around myself, band, crew, family or my fans.” [sic]

Photo from KidRock.com.

On the day after the show, there was a photograph on KidRock.com of one of Rock’s tour trucks that jackknifed off the side of the road.

“Glad our driver Timmy is OK,” Rock wrote on his site. “Trust me when I say that I understand people’s frustrations with travel to see the shows; we are dealing with it too.”

Despite my aforementioned name-calling of Rock as being white trash, I don’t mind some of his music and me calling him that is just in reference to his style of dress, his look and the music he has generally played. I side with Rock in the Little Rock blizzard situation.

People have so much available to them now that they have become more selfish because of it. If this was a concert before the internet, there would be no comment posts for people to complain on.

The irony of people saying Rock that he doesn’t care about his fans is that his fans bought a ticket to see him perform on that date. He is going forward with that performance. No one says you have to go to the show. It is unusual that Little Rock should be hit by eight inches of snow, but it is winter time and when you buy a ticket for a show or anything for that matter, it’s not guaranteed the weather will cooperate.

Was Rock a little stupid for going ahead with the show? Maybe; after all, one of his trucks jackknifed and his thinking that he could beat the blizzard got the best of him. But then again, it’s stupid for people to get on a website and complain about something no one has any control over.

This goes beyond who Kid Rock’s real fans are; this goes to the realm of who the men and the boys are. The men would suck it up and go to that show or if they felt like they couldn’t make it, would have the decency not to complain about not making it. Well, you know what the boys did.

Front page image from zimbio.com.