Kid Rock
John and I went to see Kid Rock Saturday night. I was really lucky online to even get tickets to him at the Commodore. He sold out in a couple of minutes and I was just online at the right time and able to get 2 tickets. They were selling for anywhere between $300-700 each before he hit the stage. We headed down early so we could enjoy a nice dinner and a bunch of drinks beforehand. We hit Jesters Pub and the Lennox pub. Kid Rock didn’t hit the stage until 10PM so we stayed in the pub until 9:45 and then headed in. You have to coat check at the Commodore which is fine going in but getting out is a real drag.

Kid came out with 8-9 band members and got right into it. He was a presence on stage. The commodore is a small venue – not proper seating and about 900 people. It was a real treat to see him in such a small venue. I left John right away and fought my way to the railing in front of Kid. Great place to stand but lots of shoving and surfing above me. Security pissed me off a lot though – everytime I pulled my camera out, he would roughly block my view and act very angrily towards me. The funny thing was that the girl next to me was using her phone for pics and video. In hindsight, I wish I had stayed back with John and enjoyed the show with him and I would have been able to take video and pics. Being up front was great but in such a small venue, a few feet back is not bad either.

Kid did a variety of great songs from hard rock to countryish to hip hop. He was really good. He had a huge tattoo on his back – American Badass. I loved the show and we headed out afterwards to more pubs. Around 2:30AM we jumped in a cab and headed back to our folks place for a late night dinner in their kitchen eating moms leftovers. It was just like old days, 3AM and making a mess in their kitchen. I had a lousy sleep, only a few hours. Haley missed soccer as I wasn’t feeling too good to rush out for a 10AM game.