Kid Rock Research Paper

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Kid Rock has succeeded in getting a career out of vivisections on the stage. To begin with: Kid Rock's concert was high energy -- he was moving around a lot, and the performance was very professional. The band was included of only best players. There was some fantastic guitar playing. For example, Stefanie Eulinberg banged away at her drums.
A Kid Rock performance is one of the most intense things you might ever do.
The probing thing is that, despite that I, and many other personally don’t think Kid Rock is very good, there was a bursting audience, with the price of a ticket at $60 or more. The crowd had no precise feeling, there were families, normal casino types, some younger faces, but really, no one demographic was exactly represented.
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The major moments of the night were the hit songs, with an early showing of "Devil Without a Cause" and the audience going crazy over "Cowboy." Everybody in the room was swiftly altered into a head-bobbing mess for "American Badass," and it seemed they had touched up on the lines of Rock's duet with Sheryl Crow which had Crow's parts played by backing singer/guitarist Shannon Curfman in, "Picture."

The other great moments of the evening came from other people's music, scattered in throughout the show. A head-bob at the Motor City Madman Ted Nugent came during the solo feature from Kid Rock. He played the electric guitar and did some scratching on DJ Paradime's disks, played the drums while singing "Cat Scratch Fever," sang "let's get shitfaced" through a Peter Frampton style guitar, and did everything in his power to attempt to show just how diverse the talents of Kid Rock actually are. He also rapped about Freddie King's "Going

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