Yep, you read that right. To celebrate Kid Rock’s concert at Blossom Music Center on Tuesday, we’re giving away an awesome Jim Beam Silvertone Electric Guitar autographed by the man himself.
You can read our interview with Kid Rock here. You can also hear some exclusive songs from the Kid Rock Live Music Series Performance at the Jim Beam site.
Bonus stuff if you like to drink: Special boxes of Jim Beam and Red Stag will include instructions on how to download up to five tracks from any of the Live Music Series performances, including the Kid Rock one.
Got all that?
Now on to the good stuff. If you want a chance to win the guitar, leave us a comment about your favorite story that has to do with Kid Rock, Jim Beam, or both. You won’t get extra points for that last one, but we’d like to hear about it anyway.
We’ll pick a winner from our favorite entries on Tuesday afternoon, right before Kid Rock’s concert here.
Be sure to leave your comment with a valid e-mail address. That’s how we’ll notify you if you won. Also, you have to come to our office in beautiful downtown Cleveland to claim your prize.
This article appears in Aug 10-16, 2011.
The first liquor I drank was Jim Beam while I was on vacation in Myrtle Beach with my mom and her best friends when I was 14. Needless to say I spent the next day laying on the beach digging wholes in the sand and throwing up all day- when my mom asked my friend and I why I was so sick we told her that I ate bad shrimp the day before~ha!
I went on a blind date to a Kid Rock concert years ago & thanks to Jim Beam, I don’t remember anything from that night. Needless to say, my “date” now has a son that looks awfully familiar. I call him “Kid”.
I was 15 years old and went to my first non-Weird Al Yankovic concert at Gund Arena: Metallica and Kid Rock on 1/1/2000. Something was wrong with Kid Rock’s sound, so he changed the words to his first song (Bawitdaba) to include “F*** the PA Guy” and then stormed off midway through the song. Everyone was upset, so the girls in the crowd decided to lighten the mood by flashing the crowd. The guy in charge of the spotlight initially would shine the spotlight on the girls currently flashing, and then he decided to focus on best-looking chicks that weren’t doing it, in order to pressure them into showing us their breasts. Kid Rock finally came back on and finished his set, but not before he helped me see the first live tits of my life!
My first Kid Rock concert was in the summer of 09. What a night that was. I’ve never enjoyed a concert as much as I did that night. Kid’s performance was amazing and I think I fell in love. Shhhh don’t tell my husband ! I was drinking pretty heavy and before the concert we were drinking Jim Beam. Thank god my good friend was there to help me to the bathroom and back, because I was headed to go backstage to introduce myself to the most amazing performer I’ve ever seen. I have to buy the edited version of Kid’s CD’s as my 5 yr old loves the music. My husband, my daughter and I dance on our patio to his music during the summer and in the living room during the cold winter months in Cleveland. One other awesome memory was when my friends and I went camping together for a night and played ALL SUMMER LONG all night long while dancing around a fire and drinking alot of Jim Beam that night. So my memories of Kid and Jim are never ending. I don’t have enough space here to write about everyone of them. However I love Kid Rock and I hope to one day meet this amazing man in person.
Maybe under the influence of Jim Beam, Kid Rock once said, ” You have to work hard for your success.” Even being a star doesn’t come easy. That’s the example more rockers ought to be.
“Only God knows why” we LOVE Jim Beam… “Cuss like a sailor…drink like a Mc” We will never know what happened on that warm Cleveland night.. Just know.. “You can look for answers but that ain’t fun. Now get in the pit and try to love someone!!!!!”
“I hate you Joe Dirt”
I find it amazing how Kid Rock’s “All Summer Long” parallels my memories of the late 80’s, only right here in the Cleveland area…Mentor headlands beach to be exact. It’s like he was one of the guys right next to me my friend’s doing the EXACT same things at almost the exact same time! Really makes me smile when I hear it.
Posted by Your Name Here on August 11, 2011 at 10:10 AM
Your comment I find it amazing how Kid Rock’s “All Summer Long” parallels my memories of the late 80’s, only right here in the Cleveland area…Mentor headlands beach to be exact. It’s like he was one of the guys right next to me my friend’s doing the EXACT same things at almost the exact same time! Really makes me smile when I hear it.
‘ve been a huge Kid Rock fan since I was 14, when I first heard Bawitdaba. After a few months, I had my dad in love with Kid Rock. My dad would blast his music driving me to and from school. One day, one of my good friends was sitting at a stop light with her mom and her mom hears music blasting…low and behold, it was Kid Rock. My friends mom yells “DAMN JUVENILES!” and as my friend looks over into the car, sees it’s my dad listening to Bawitdaba headbanging! The last time Kid was in town,my dad was over seas so this time,so I’m taking my dad to this concert Tuesday to share our love for Kid Rock together-Can’t wait! The guitar would just be an extra bonus!
I think kid rock slept with my ex-girl backstage.But I figure if kid rock was willing to do it well she must have been hot.And even though I hated it at the time the man is an icon.Still love the music as it has grown even if he did sleep with the ex……I guess I was doing something right!More to the story but thats all Id like to share
Actually, my story involves both. About 10 years ago I went to a Kid Rock concert at an outside venue here in the Oklahoma City area. They charge ridiculous amount for just a beer so we all decided to sneak our drinks in which is pretty common and easy since lots of people around here wear boots (bootlegging?). Still, I was so worried about getting caught so I slid it all the way to the bottom of my boot to a point that once I got into the show I had to take my boot OFF to reach the “small” Jim Beam bottle at the bottom. I got the bottle out and proceeded to drink it all within about the first 1-2 songs. After that, it was a blur and I lost my boots somewhere along the way! As luck would have it he’s coming back next week and I am going to go see him and this time be able to remember the show and with any luck get my boots back, haha
Back in High School in 1999 I decided I wanted to learn to play piano. I always had a little interest but nothing serious. But that year I decided I would really try. I have now been playing for almost 12 years and love it. I will never be a concert pianist but do decent enough. The reason I decided to learn to play piano? The solo in the middle of the song “Cowboy” by Kid Rock. Maybe if I won I could start learning guitar!
Back about 30 years ago when I used to play country music my band had a party at a secluded private cabin deep in the woods near my home. We were fairly popular back then among the locals and invited several people and their friends. There we were all decked out in our finest ‘show clothes’..me, young, thin, dark..all my black western duds with hat and boots and plenty of western jewelry…didn’t look half bad. I apparently caught the attention of the cutest little thing I have ever seen because she shyly flirted all evening. We had played a gig earlier and hadn’t eaten all day…I had been drinking beer all night and someone gave me a bottle Jim Beam..I managed to go outside where it was quiet and secluded in hopes that she might follow…she did. Cute as a button in her suede boots, jeans and suede jacket..long dark hair, about 5′-1′ or so. I leaned against the porch post giving her my best smile as I looked down (I’m 6′-2″)..she smiled and came very close. Being the man I was I took a large drink from the bottle…apparently my stomach couldn’t handle the mix. As quickly as it went down it came back up…long story short, I showered that poor little girl in puke..ruined her boots and jacket too….she quickly left…I never did find out who she was….not that it would have mattered..lol.