Kid Rock Slams Pamela Anderson While Explaining Tommy Lee VMAs Fight

Kid Rock has finally explained why he clocked Tommy Lee at the VMAs. Though most people assumed it was a jealousy issue involving the pair's mutual ex-wife Pamela Anderson (who was a presenter that night) Rock insists he had unrelated beef with Lee -- and even accused Anderson of being a publicity whore. "It had absolutely zero to do with her," Rock told The Kevin & Bean Show on Los Angeles' KROQ-FM. "I knew it was a bad career move to get involved with her because your life becomes a circus -- because that's what she wants is media attention."

So why did Kid Rock end up smacking Tommy Lee? It's kind of Pamela Anderson-related. "It's been going on for five years," Rock said. "Last contact I had with him was when me and Pam were going through our divorce. He picked up her BlackBerry and started e-mailing me a lot of horrendous things. It was extremely disrespectful. I had to do what I had to do because this was a long time coming. You know, I came back from the bathroom and he was sitting right there. It was even more disrespectful after everything he's said, I was like that's enough, that's it."

For his part, Lee has already explained his side of the story on his Web site in a memorable post in which he apologized to Alicia Keys for disturbing her performance, referred to Kid Rock as "Kid Pebble" and called Rock's punch more of a "bitch slap."

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“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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