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Actually Boston. Look at the can....
"Born To Lose"
It takes care of itself huh? lmao
My thoughts exactly. Why are we here? Oh yeah, we know.
So glad you found a way to skirt the fact that Kid's advertising premise will make it a $$billion dollar brand to stuff the advertising prowess of Bud, Coors, Miller, Corona down their throats.
Rebel with a cause!
When Kid says the beer will be out by Labor Day, that is a Nationwide release. If it is at the concerts in July, then it is out in July. Duh.
And before anyone gets even an inkling on the advertising, it is all Kid paid for. Drinks is a distribution company. That's the beauty of this deal. Kid will spend a million to make a dime.
Oh chit! You're gonna love it!
http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/smokingsection/2009/05/checking-in-with-kid-rock-new.php
Kid Rock's Bad Ass Summer
May 12, 2009 11:22 AM
Photo: Strauss/WireImage
Yesterday we rang up our drinking buddy Kid Rock at the adult amusement park he calls home, near Detroit. We called to congratulate Rock for selling out all 35,000 seats of Comerica Park -- home of the Detroit Tigers -- in less than thirty minutes! Tickets went so fast for the July 17th hometown show that they added another night. “We try to do a lot of stuff to make it so everybody can come out,” he says. “The most important thing is keeping tickets right. Not to get greedy.” Those gigs are part of a huge Summer tour of the U.S.
Rock answered the phone at his home studio, where he's been crankin' away on the follow-up to his 2007 blockbuster, Rock & Roll Jesus. “I have 12 songs,” he tells us. “Everyone who’s heard it thinks it’s my best stuff ever.”
Rock had intended to be on the road right now, but postponed the run because he was feeling artistic. “Everyone thought I was crazy for turning down that money, but I saw I was in a good spot creatively.”
Rock & Roll Jesus guitarist Marlon Young is back, and Detroit-native Herschel Boone -- a veteran of Mary J. Blige's band, who Rock describes as a “tremendous singer" -- is helping out with melodies and vocals. Rock says that he's also been getting advice from producer Rick Rubin, and if all the stars align, the album may come out as soon as November.
And Rock hopes to have his signature beer available by Labor Day. Rock exclusively reveals to the S.S. that his beer will be named, fittingly, Bad Ass Beer. “It’s good. It just tastes like good American light beer, and there's no aftertaste.”
Rock adds, "There are so many funny ads you can do with a thing called Bad Ass Beer."
Click the jump to read about the marketing campaign and our full chat with Kid Rock!
Tell us about the new material.
I have 12 songs done right now. Everyone who’s heard it thinks it’s my best stuff so far. I’m trying to write really original, great, timeless songs. It just seems like it’s wide open, where I need to be, halfway between good rock songs and that country flavor. It’s really what I’ve always done, kind of all over the map.
Where did you write the songs?
Some of it was written on the road during the last tour, just melody ideas and stuff that I put lyrics to. A lot of it was done in three or four weeks here at the studio. I was supposed to be out now in the spring, but I canceled that tour. I was like, “I don’t know, I’m going to stay home and record.” Everyone thought I was crazy for turning down that money, but I saw I was in a good spot creatively. I just thought I could do no wrong, and thank God I followed my instincts.
Who’s in the studio with you?
My guitar player from the last record, Marlon Young, and I have a phenomenal kid from Detroit named Herschel Boone, who’s a tremendous singer. He’s probably one of the best singers I’ve ever seen in my life. He’s been on the road with Mary J. Blige, but he doesn’t want to be on the road; he wants to be at home with his kids so he spends the day at the studio with us helping me vocally, getting away from that auto-tune shit. We sing everything and play everything. I try to do it the right way instead of the easy way. My longtime engineer, Al, is still here. I’ve been writing with Kracker a lot too.
Where did you meet Herschel?
I met him through Marlon. The kid is unbelievable. He was raised like one of the Jackson 5, that old mentality. Dad wakes him up, him and his sisters, and he’d play G chords and make them sing three-part harmonies. He has unbelievable instinct when it comes to singing. He’s got me singing in new ways on a couple of songs, which is kind of Marvin Gaye-ish. It’s something I’ve never tried or done before, and it’s worked out really good.
When will the album be out?
We have it scheduled for November now, but that depends on if somebody like Rick Rubin comes in, if we’re going to keep the demos I have now and turn those into songs or if I’m going to go back into the studio somewhere and grab great players and really step it up another level. I’m kind of scared about that because I don’t want to make a record that sounds like a lot of the music that’s out today. It kind of loses the feel. Today’s music is so packaged and derivative. I don’t want it to sound like it’s something that came out of a Nashville studio with the same old players. I don’t want it to sound like a lot of these rock records that are big. They just lose the feel.
Some of the magic, sometimes, is in the demos. That’s what I was talking to Rubin about. We keep talking about it and we’ll see what will be the right way to do it. You have to go for the feel of the songs that are great and not really worry about whether it’s going to be accepted by the radio and all that stuff, because that’s never what I’ve been about.
Any chance we’re going to hear that stuff this summer, at the shows?
Yeah, there’s a chance of it. I’m thinking about doing that for the first time. I don’t like to get out and bore people with new stuff, but I think there’s a few of the songs that are instant listeners when you hear them, and people go, “Wow.” So if we start rehearsing them, which we have, and some of them start coming out that way, then I’ll pull some of those out during a performance. But I like to look at it like a fan. I like to go out and play the hits and pop in some of the old stuff that we haven’t played in a while and switch it up. I like to focus on really giving people the songs they want to hear and a good show rather than trying to force-feed them new material.
What will you pull out of your catalogue this summer?
I might pull out some stuff from History of Rock, I might do “Prodigal Son” or maybe some stuff from the last record, like “When You Love Someone” or “Don’t Tell Me You Love Me.” We have a great version of “Son of Detroit” that we’ve been opening up with. The last few years, we’ve kind of stripped everything away to go out and prove that we could do this without anything, without the girls dancing, without the pyro, with nothing, and just go out and give a great show. That gave us some of the best reviews and, more importantly, best responses I’ve ever gotten from the fans. Maybe we could bring a little bit of that back and have some fun intros, maybe throw in some pyro for “Bawitdaba” or some of those big spectacles. But I’m thinking about fine-tuning it a little bit to find that middle ground between all that.
Who's opening the tour?
Skynyrd will be out for most of it. And for the big stadium shows, it will be Sykynrd and Robert Randolph on one, and I think the other one is Alice in Chains and Cypress Hill.
Are you surprised Comerica sold out in 20 minutes?
We expected it to do well, to sell 20,000 tickets or something, but we knocked them all out. You definitely hold your breath, especially with the way the economy is, and especially the way it is in Detroit, Michigan, right now. We try to do a lot of stuff to make it so everybody can come out, like $99 for six tickets in the upper deck, The most important thing is keeping tickets right. I’ve never been greedy about my tickets. If you look back, I’ve had some of the lowest prices of anyone in the business, and I try to keep along that theme and never get greedy, just slow and steady.
The poster promises beer specials?
We’re trying to figure that out. I have a beer coming out, so we’re trying to figure some way to incorporate that. There’s different procedures in different stadiums, hopefully we can give them some sort of special on drinks that we’ve worked out with the stadiums. I don’t know exactly what that is yet. We’re trying to think of everything to try keeping the pricing down, but it’s so tough.
Beer is too expensive at shows.
Yeah, when I was a kid, there was a way to work it out where people who sat on the lawn could bring coolers. I would be the first one to take a price cut if everyone else will, but as soon as you say you’ll take a price cut, everyone just jumps up for joy because they know they’re going to make a bunch of money on. You try to take the money and give it back to your fans in other ways.
When does your beer come out?
We’ve been trying it, it’s good. We’re trying to shoot for Labor Day. We have some great stuff as far as marketing. Not only is it a good beer, it’s made in Michigan, made in America, and we’re getting everything we can, like the barley and the hops, in the States. It’s creating jobs in Michigan at the brewing company. We know people are hurting here so we’re trying to take that whole approach, “This is all made right here for hard-working American people,” and I’m not going to sell it out to the Belgians any time soon.
What does it taste like?
It just tastes like good American light beer, a regular beer and a light beer, an everyday beer. The people who listen to my music are hard workers, and we’ve been trying to put together a package with Jim Beam for those hard workers. Jim Beam has a new thing called Red Stag. I’ve been singing about and drinking Jim Beam my whole life, and when they approached me for a deal, it was a no-brainer. We’re trying to work something out with Moderno where if we can get around the logistics of different markets of having to sell beer and liquor separately, we’d like to pair a shot of Jim Beam and one of my beers. Get off work, get a 22-ouncer and a shot, you’ll be all right. We have funny-ass ads.
What's it called?
It’s going to be called Bad Ass Beer. The ads are so funny. There are so many funny ads you can do with a thing called Bad Ass Beer. There’s one where it looks like the Budweiser horses, and they’re all up in the air, just freaked out, like they went haywire, and whatever they ride on is smashed up, and it just has my beer sitting in the front, it says “Bad Ass.” And “…and the horses they rode in on.” There’s another one where we f*ck with Corona. We have an old rusty truck with no tires on it and it’s sitting on the Bad Ass beer, and it says, “The only way you’ll ever see a lemon on it.” We’ve got another one with the Bad Ass beer simulating like it’s f*cking the St. Pauli’s girl. We’re all doing it locally with an ad agency here in Detroit that does a lot of car ads. The guy lives next to me and runs my favorite bar here. They come up with really funny stuff. It’s just wide-open for f*cking with people. And the beer actually tastes good, there’s no aftertaste.
OK you ready?? Share the vision!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/05/kid-rock-knows-beer.html
Pop & Hiss
The L.A. Times music blog
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Kid Rock's taking aim at Bud with new beer
05:59 PM PT, May 12 2009
Oh, Kid Rock. When he’s not mashing up Lynyrd Skynyrd with Warren Zevon to produce a massive hit ("All Summer Long"), pimping babes decked out in decidedly non-P.C. Confederate flag bikinis for said song's video or enticing young men to think about joining the National Guard, the self-proclaimed “Son of Detroit” is trying his hand at creating the next great American beer.
“It’s going to be called ‘Bad Ass Beer,’ '' Rock boasted to Rolling Stone magazine recently from his suburban Detroit studio, where he’s hard at work recording the follow-up to his multi-platinum 2007 release, “Rock N Roll Jesus.”
“It just tastes like good American light beer…an everyday beer,” he raves, extolling the fact that his brew will be an all-American endeavor, right down to the hops. “It’s creating jobs in Michigan at the brewing company. We know people are hurting here so we’re trying to take that whole approach.”
While we wait to see if Bad Ass Beer will come to usurp the likes of Natural Light and Coors as the beer of the American working man, what’s even more intriguing to us is the series of competitor-mocking advertisements Rock is working on to promote his new golden dew.
“There’s one where it looks like the Budweiser horses, and they’re all up in the air, just freaked out, like they went haywire, and whatever they ride on is smashed up, and it just has my beer sitting in the front. It says, ‘Bad Ass. And ‘…and the horses they rode in on,’ ” Rock tells the rock mag. “There’s another one where we [mess] with Corona. We have an old rusty truck with no tires on it and it’s sitting on the Bad Ass beer, and it says, 'The only way you’ll ever see a lemon on it.' "
But for Rock, it all boils down to flavor: “It’s good, and there’s no aftertaste,” which sounds like as good a tagline as any -- definitely better than meaningless boasts such as "triple-hops brewed" or "beachwood aged."
Expect Bad Ass to hit shelves in time for Labor Day festivities. Beer run, anyone?
-- Scott T. Sterling
Photo: Associated Press
Jack McKenzie of Drinks indicated, "Distributors and retailers are very happy about the level of support, and we are seeing a tremendous increase in the level of brand support and retail activity."
Retail activity? That means sales. It isn't increased traffic, or managers thinking about ordering, or allowing Jack to put in POP displays.
It is SALES plain and simple.
Our resident bartenders would do well to play on a new drink for the Summer Concert Tour. Submit it to the company and Chritine and Jack MacKenzie now! Last year, Monster sold over 5 million Monster Bombs at their nationwide Monster Bomb parties.
The drink will be called a "Blazed and Confused"....an Olifant infused energy drink. Of course, Olifant Red in color!
Do it now!
Huh. So now it is in press release form. How we going to spin this now? Oh wait, let's come up with a mythical formula how ad dollars translate to real sales, and our portion thereof.
My understanding is that Olifant USA is what we purchased. Olifant was retaining Europe and Australia. I'll go back and check.
Clowns?
I beg to differ. Real deal.
http://www.cttouring.com/Clients.htm
It is truly amazing. The only place in the entire US Financial System where having good news BEFORE the company announces it as a leading edge to a good investment to make money, and it gets spun as a negative....until the company announces it. And then it is still preseumed a negative.
In case you didn't catch the highly acclaimed JT release, there is a follow up out for this past holiday weekend!
And to think, we wanted to do a Tequila! lmao
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/d-in-a-box/51523/
http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/digital-short-motherlover/1099491/
Huh. Snoop on Geffen Records. Funny how that works.
On Tour
May 11 Snoop Dogg at Richmond, Virginia
May 12 Snoop Dogg at Norfolk, Virginia
May 13 Snoop Dogg at Raleigh, North Carolina
Jun 13 Snoop Dogg at Manchester, Tennessee
Jul 10 Snoop Dogg at Primm, Nevada
Jul 11 Snoop Dogg at Irvine, California
Jul 12 Snoop Dogg at Santa barbara, California
Jul 14 Snoop Dogg at Albuquerque, New Mexico
Jul 15 Snoop Dogg at Morrison, Colorado
Jul 18 Snoop Dogg at Quincy, Washington
Jul 22 Snoop Dogg at Vancouver, British Columbia
Jul 24 Snoop Dogg at Mountain view , California
Jul 25 Snoop Dogg at Chula vista, California
Jul 30 Snoop Dogg at Atlanta, Georgia
Jul 31 Snoop Dogg at St petersburg, Florida
Aug 01 Snoop Dogg at Miami, Florida
Aug 02 Snoop Dogg at St augustine, Florida
Aug 05 Snoop Dogg at Columbia, Maryland
Aug 06 Snoop Dogg at Holmdel, New Jersey
Aug 07 Snoop Dogg at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Aug 08 Snoop Dogg at Mansfield, Massachusetts
Boston? Your "Elephants" just became a herd.
Add Da Dogg
CT Touring Twittered and Facebooked it. They are the promoters. They must be the ones buying stock in my opinion. Why else would you talk positive about a company if you don't have shares? After all, nobody pumps a stock that doesn't own any right?
Blazed and Confused Tour?
Need I say more? lol
We have Snoop Dogg now picking up Olifant to endorse for his Summer Tour.
Out on Twitter this evening...
http://twitter.com/CTTouring
Blazed and Confused Tour!
http://www.cttconcerts.com/
We learned something very important today. Products are shipping on the new line of credit. Bad Ass Beer is the name of the beer and it will markedly transform this company. And strangely, while no investment analysts were willing to comment on DKAM because it is a penny stock, the VP on Investments at Janney Montgomery Scott gave many comments. And that also means that JMS is fully aware of everything that DKAM and Kenny are doing. She undoubtedly now knows how huge this KR beer introduction will be. Funny how a strong slew of buying came in late yesterday and will continue.
Now we know it's going to run then. Thank you!
CC with huge news coming up!
All kinds of good looks on Trump Vodka last night on The Apprentice. The first firing had the bottle clearly displayed several times. Amazing to think that nobody seems to care because it wasn't on the first or second episode when PK said it would be on every episode. Like I said before, he has absolutely no control over what gets shed in post production. All he knows is the vodka was in the suite and getting filmed in each and every episode. And it's his fault it wasn't there every time eh? Was it his fault it managed to get some great looks the past two weeks?
We did get some good looks in the suite on Sunday's Apprentice. Yet, another huge missed golden opportunity for Drinks. Dennis was drinking vodka over the top in his vodka and cranberry blitz he put on. Seeing the way he exited though perhaps good WE were not responsible. On Sunday's show, they focused solely on the champagne and only in the background did we see the Trump Vodka. The opportunity missed was while everybody was toasting champagne, Jessie was toasting a screwdriver made with Trump Vodka that we did not get to see him make with the Trump. It was just there. And I doubt it was a champagne cocktail. After all, it is Jessie!
Uhhhhh yeah. But OMG! That makes perfect sense. Why didn't anybody think of this before??
Ooops, they did. Now quick! Change the subject before anybody "gets it."
On a totally related note....
Who is Muffin?
I'm only going to say this once. The Sovereign line was tightened for EVERYBODY by Banco Santander. So anybody that weighs in otherwise is an imbecile at best. And what Credit Line? OK, onesies and twosies, and use your toes. MBC makes the beer. DKAM buys the beer ON TERMS from MBC based on pre sales orders received; to fill those exact orders. They carry no inventory so no credit is extended or required. Sales are made. Sales are paid. MBC is paid. DKAM profits the difference.
It ain't no, "Hey, we made this at considerable expense to us, now come buy it!"
Nobody will ever get it. At least if everyone here has anything to say baout it.
Certainly it appears Patrick's idea of a "measured" introduction on the Bad Ass Beer will be following Kid around on his tour with promotions. More will be added to this preliminary schedule including the big one in Sturgis the first week of August.
06/06/2009 Enterprise, AL
Bama Jam Fest
06/26/2009 West Palm Beach, FL
Cruzan Amphitheatre
06/27/2009 Tampa, FL
Ford Amphitheatre
06/28/2009 Atlanta, GA
Lakewood Amphitheatre
06/30/2009 Houston, TX
Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
07/01/2009 Dallas, TX
Superpages.com Center
07/03/2009 Greeley, CO
Greeley Stampede
07/04/2009 Kansas City, MO
Sandstone Amphitheatre
07/05/2009 Milwaukee, WI
Summerfest
07/07/2009 Pittsburgh, PA
Post-Gazette Pavilion
07/08/2009 Holmdel, NJ
PNC Bank Arts Center
07/10/2009 Cuyahoga Falls, OH
Blossom Music Center
07/11/2009 Indianapolis, IN
Verizon Wireless Music Center Indianapolis
07/12/2009 Tinley Park, IL
First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
07/14/2009 Buffalo, NY
Darien Lake Performing Arts Center
07/17/2009 Detroit, MI
Comerica Park
with Special Guest Lynyrd Skynyrd
07/21/2009 Maryland Heights, MO
Verizon Wireless Amphitheater
07/22/2009 Cincinnati, OH
Riverbend Music Center
07/24/2009 Raleigh, NC
Time Warner Cable Music Pavilion at Walnut Creek
07/25/2009 Virginia Beach, VA
Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater
07/26/2009 Charlotte, NC
Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre Charlotte
07/29/2009 Boston, MA
Comcast Center
07/31/2009 Hershey, PA
Hersheypark Star Pavilion
08/01/2009 Washington, DC
Nissan Pavilion
08/02/2009 New York, NY
Nikon at Jones Beach Theater
08/29/2009 St. Paul, MN
State Fair Ground
09/04/2009 Toronto, Canada
Molson Amphitheatre
09/05/2009 Syracuse, NY
New York State Fair
09/06/2009 Essex Junction, VT
Champlain Valley
I won't argue the point because it is more than obvious and completely on topic. But WAMUQ is done, gone, buried, bankrupt, a disaster personified with nothing to offer investors in the way of hope for reconciliation going forward.
And it is a higher price now than Drinks.
It's not a response to an attack on the message boards. It is a response against a personal attack and stalking ritual against the entire Kenny family. Documented.
Amazing the idiotic mentality that pervades. A "candidate" in one hand and a tangible object in the other. So, every stock in the known universe is allowed to go higher on Candidates and implications. But DKAM is the ONLY stock anywhere that cannot do anything until it is old news.
You just can't make this stuff up any better unless you tried.
A for effort.
Point of order Admins. ANYTHING we post about our icons, whether they mention a DKAM product or not, is completely On Topic. Their perception in the media and their activities all relate to our continued relationship with them.
So, PK terminated the deal to prevent DKAM from getting into bed with a known crook, criminal, and obvious manipulation artist, as well as also preventing whatever dilution would have resulted.
Most stocks would have doubled by now on these types of things.
But this is DKAM and we whine because of all the sales we didn't get from it.
Great find! But the Evans links with Blom were all out there. Glad somebody finally posted it.
For anybody that wants to refute what I said, please save yourselves the effort:
http://de.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=M6K.BE&m=a&d=
http://de.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=M6K.DE&m=a&d=
http://de.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=M6K.SG&m=a&d=
http://de.finance.yahoo.com/q?s=M6K.F&m=a&d=
Correctamundo. Several accounts. NITE knows nothing right?
I'll explain it and it is quite simple. A very large short position was taken offshore after the financing deal in 2007. It shows up on no books. It was also naked shorted with reckless abandon off shore and it also avoids ex clearing of the DTCC. At that time, several individuals were employed to hit the airwaves and talk negatively about the company at all costs to drive the price of the stock lower by getting retail investors to sell. What you're seeing now is a culmination effort of covering those off shore short shares at this depressed price along with a resulting accumulation effort to go long on the stock's next subsequent run to the upside. It all came to light through what they believed was a hidden paper trail when they had DKAM improperly listed on 4 exchanges in Europe without the company's consent. Once WE made the company aware of this impropriety, the stock was subsequently delisted from those exchanges but the trail remained and the perpetrators recognized for FINRA prosecution. It's just a matter of time now before warrants, etal, etc, etc. So, keep up the good work!
Because more important issues are at hand. And, only room for three. This is why we don't have CC's.
This also means that Kid Rock Bad Ass Beer is available and will be sold at Comerica Park. No artist is allowed to bring in their own beverage to any stadium outside of those brands the venue already sells. Therefore, is Bad Ass Beer the Official Beer of the Tigers? Or of Comerica Park? Maybe neither, but it will be the best seller before and after Kid comes and goes from this event. Remember....in order to offer beer specials, the beer would have had to be on sale beforehand at regular price. Duh.
I'll take a stab at this one...
The beer will be selling in the summer heat faster than.....
Use your imagination and then double it.
Pssst, keep looking for news. It's out there. If you wait for a bone from the CEO you'll go hungry. We don't do advertising. We do distributing and manufacturing and...and...and...
I know he did. He also stated there weren't enough margins in beer and the enterprise value of the stock WAS $1.50+ on less revenues than the company will actually do. Oh well.