Kid Rock Gets Served

Kid Rock was sued for $575,000 in damages on Monday by the Nashville strip club DJ he struck in a late-night brawl in February. That same day, the rap-rock star pleaded no contest to criminal assault and was given a suspended sentence of a year in jail and ordered to attend anger management classes.

Rock will also have to pony up $180 to replace the DJ's eyeglasses, broken when the thirty-four-year-old rocker hit him in the face.

In Nashville for a memorial service in honor of songwriter/promoter Merle Kilgore (Hank Williams Jr. and Sr.), who died on February 6th of lung cancer, Rock found himself at adult entertainment venue Christie's Cabaret late that night. According to police, at about 3 a.m. Rock became convinced that the DJ, Jerry Campos, had disrespected his friend, and demanded an apology. When Campos refused, Rock struck him.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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