Tommy Lee Explains The Kid Pebble Fracas
So we're all on the same page and in case you missed it, here's the VMAs' best moment:
Off-cam, of course! Heaven forbid we saw something marginally riveting during the live telecast. So, something we can agree to agree upon: the VMAs were an ineptly produced, unintentionally tragic reminder of the shit state of MTV's tastes, direction, and values. When your 'big show' manages to make Britney and a Kid Rock/Tommy Lee scuffle essentially into the only watercooler-worthy events of the night, either you're in a bad way, or you've just shown a repeat of a show from 2002.
But seeing as we wasted a night liveblogging the event and since we're all about the dutiful follow-up reports, check Tommy's explanation of the event which is valuable if only for its sad b-list namedropping, double-exclamation-point usage, supplemental note on Criss Angel (magician), and of course his clever nickname for Bob Ritchie.
Via tommylee.tv:
Yeah!! .....here I am minding my own biz having a great time with my friend Criss Angel (magician) and watching the MTV awards in the front row saying hello to all my friends......Pamela comes and sits on my lap who I love and adore....and also say hello to my friend Travis Barker and his wife!.....and i get a text from another friend P. Diddy and he says come sit with me.....and he's sitting with Miss HOT Megan FOX so I go over and sit with P! Not a minute later and Alicia Keys starts her amazing performance....("I apologize sweetie.....I had nothing to do with the timing and disrespect")......back to the stupid-ness!!....so..... I get a tap on the shoulder from Kid Pebble...I stand up and embrace him with a semi hug and say "Hey dude...What up"?? He punches me in the face.....well if ya wanna call it that!?....more like a bitch slap!.......Wuss!! Anyway....i go to knock this jealous country bumpkin the f$%k OUT....and before I can have a meeting with my fist and his ugly ass mug ....security guards... grab me and haul my ass outta the award show! So I'm fine and of course leave to my room with police and owner of the Palm's George Maloof......the rest is paper work and bullshit!... Anyway...... I would like to apologize to Alicia and George and MTV for the disrespectful bullshit caused by a piece of shit called Kid Pebble!!Much Love always!!.....Tommy!!
Posted at 3:38 PM in Video
Tags: Kid Rock | MTV Video Music Awards | Tommy Lee
"hm, i'll get a neck tattoo in disease red...better give it a loose, organic shape, too."
(unless that's *not* a tattoo on his neck?)
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That is obviously a tattoo of lips on his neck; unless you were being sarcastically retarded, in which case, carry on.
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Good point, 'gum, MTV's tastes are definitely in the shitter.
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Good point, 'gum, MTV's tastes are definitely in the shitter.
Let's all make a pact right here and now: if any of us every become CEO of MTV, it gets a complete makeover. Idiots will not be rewarded, and good music will be played!
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That's meant to be a kiss? Oh...I just assumed it was an infected vagina.
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MTV is a business, a very successful one. Their target audience is people who want their musical decisions mostly made for them (e.g. teenagers), and who want to listen to what other people are listening to.
Stereogum is the same thing, just for a different slice of the populace. As is Pitchfork, NME, etc. All of these institutions do a pretty good job of giving their target audience what that audience wants, so what's the problem?
Being a music fan on the internet appears to involve a lot of negative energy. At least MTV doesn't waste their bandwidth and energy on how much Stereogum sucks.
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Thank you for this post and your words of wisdom.
Everyone needs to wake up and realize that MTV has totally fucked music over.
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You realize, by the way, that this guy is nearly 50 years old.
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kid rock looks like gram parsons with the shirt
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If he's Kid Pebble, then Tommy's Tommy Flea.
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the cred-o-meter barely registers tommy's existence anymore. but then, the verdict on kid rock is fairly clear. the arrow on the machine points directly to fake ass hick.
larry the cable guy is more authentic than kid rock!
if he ever saw a trailer park, he was driving past in his limo. ftw!
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ya mtv is a business that makes tonnes of money. so it should be totally exempt from criticism. i mean, if kids just want to eat sugar all the time, rather than introducing them to other types of food (and developing profits that way) they should just find ways to package sugar in new and various forms and introduce those forms to the kids.
it's like, every teenager i know is a total idiot and is just longing to hear lindsay lohan release an album. so mtv is just giving what them what they already want. hey, it's good business!
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stephen,
How can MTV make musical decision for anyone? They don't even play music!
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