All he ever anticipated “used to be to chop a couple of data, make a bit cash, be capable to have a style of rock’n’roll. To have it figure out how it did, I’d say I’m beautiful lucky.” So says Robert James Richie, higher identified to us as Child Rock, multi-platinum-selling raprocker whose albums Satan With out A Reason and Cocky – and later failed marriage to Pamela Anderson – have made him a famous person in his local US. Europe remained much less satisfied, no longer least when he took a extra nation rock course for 2003’s Child Rock. The United Kingdom can have been cautious however, as he proves underneath, he’s no longer wanting buddies.
We met after we have been doing fairs in Europe years in the past. Lars got here at the bus to fulfill me and hang around. They’re in reality just right guys.
I consider me and Lars on snowmobiles one New 12 months’s Eve a couple of years in the past, no shirts on, shit-faced, using thru a pasture. Me telling Hetfield this tale, and him sitting me down and telling me to watch out, cos we’ll do that and crash thru a fence and Lars’ll be high-quality and I’ll die, cos that’s the karma Lars has round him. And each and every time me and Hetfield cross out… We went wakeboarding and he fucked his again up. He came visiting to my space to journey bikes – I wasn’t even there – and he hit a fence and knocked himself out [After which Kid Rock deputised for Hetfield in Metallica for a few gigs]. So for him I reckon I’m the dangerous karma.
Scott Stapp
Euurrrghhhh… [laughs]. That’s a comic story about that entire intercourse tape fiasco.
It by no means got here out, via the best way, I paid the cash to quash it thru legal professionals and issues. I consider going at the Howard Stern display and he summed it up the most efficient. He says: “I’m no longer shocked you had a intercourse tape. As a question of reality we had a pool going within the studio and also you have been my subsequent individual. I perceive you being in a intercourse tape. However what the fuck have been you doing placing out with Scott Stapp?” I used to be like: “I don’t know what I used to be doing placing out with Scott Stapp. I’m the nicest man in rock’n’roll, as a result of I frolicked with Scott Stapp and were given him some pussy.
We have been enjoying with Metallica again within the day. They have been on degree, and this chick will get wild in my trailer and he or she’s bare and he or she’s blowing everybody. I’m sat there like: “That is rock’n’roll” [leans back in his chair with a smug look on his face]. There’s a knock on the door and it’s Scott Stapp with a video digicam. He’s like: “What’s occurring right here?” And I’m like: “Whaddya imply, what’s occurring right here?” And he requested if I minded if he were given in on it. I’m like: “Nah, after all I don’t thoughts, guy. Are available in, take your pants off. Have a lager.” After which I’m like: “Aren’t you in a spiritual band?” However I used to be simply seeking to be a pal to him. He simply gave the impression a bit misplaced. I simply figured if he hung round with a large canine he wouldn’t piss like a pet.
I feel I stated to him: “What’s with the digicam?” And also you simply know that factor’s popping out sooner or later. The item is, if it did – and it virtually did – I’d be a fucking hero; it could spoil his occupation.
Lynyrd Skynyrd
We’ve shattered with regards to each and every outside beer gross sales file in The usa. Do Skynyrd nonetheless revel in a birthday party? Smartly… er… they’ve had some problems and I don’t need to… We percentage the similar control. I’m gonna plead the 5th.
Axl Rose
I consider the primary time I met Axl it used to be me and Lars placing out at Bungalow 8 in New York. After which in comes Axl after which Lenny Kravitz, and we simply roughly had this assembly of minds on the desk. Lenny left, and it used to be me, Lars and Axl sat on the desk until about 11 within the morning, fixing the sector’s issues. I in reality appreciated Axl. He requested me if I sought after to sing with them, and I did. He used to be staying on the town and we tore up town for a couple of days. It used to be amusing.
I at all times give any person the honour they deserve. To me Axl is among the biggest rock singers in the world. And I’ve sung with him and he nonetheless is. An excellent fuckin’ songwriter. And I give him that admire each and every time I see him.
Ice Dice
I toured with Ice Dice in… I feel it used to be 1989. The Instantly From The Underground excursion. It used to be an entire load of rappers – Ice Dice, Too Brief, Yo-Yo, The Ghetto Boys, D-Great – and me. I had a ball. It used to be like I used to be the staff mascot. I realized how you can play dominoes and shoot cube, and I used to be one of these little white child in that sense. I used to be operating spherical in my skate footwear and Ice Dice’d be like: “I really like your T-shirt, boy.” We simply frolicked capturing bottle rockets off the roofs of inns, smoking pot and seeking to get ladies. Ice Dice’s a groovy, down-to-earth great man.
Fred Durst
I haven’t observed him in years. We were given fucked up one night time and ended up at the Howard Stern display. I feel we have been simply fucking round seeking to order hookers, and the ladies that saved coming to the door have been too fats. We have been like: “No…”
He’s a sensible trade man. He’d heard my file, Satan With out A Reason, previous and known as me up. I assumed they have been calling as a result of they appreciated my file and sought after to be my pal, however in reality they sought after me to open their excursion for them. We had some just right instances in combination, me and Limp Bizkit.
Howard Stern
I really like Howard. I were given beautiful pleasant with him over time. We needed to pull enamel to get on that display. As soon as he were given to understand me we have been at all times at the display. I at all times cross on after I’m round. However he doesn’t hang around an excessive amount of out of doors of the radio display. He comes out at times, and when he does he’s actual just right amusing.
Jerry Lee Lewis
I met him on a Willie Nelson display. We did Entire Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On with him on piano, Willie Nelson, Keith Richards and Merle Haggard because the backing band. A type of very surreal moments. He’s the true deal. You’re no longer fucking round with Jerry Lee Lewis, you’re no longer going to disrespect him, you’re no longer telling him what to do. Be informed that rule and also you’re gonna get alongside actual high-quality with Jerry Lee.
Keith Richards discovered the onerous method. We have been seeking to play Honky Tonk Lady and Jerry Lee’s enjoying some boogie-woogie piano. Keith used to be having a bit moan about it: “That’s no longer the best way we play it.” And Jerry Lee’s like: “I’m gonna play that music the best way I understand how to play that music or I ain’t gonna play that music in any respect. Do you know me, boy?” It used to be hilarious.
Tommy Lee
We’re buddies once more now. We first met again when everybody used to be calling me up seeking to get me to excursion with them. I assumed we have been buddies, however I felt roughly used after the entire thing. He were given me to paintings with him on his Strategies Of Mayhem file, and it got here to the purpose the place he didn’t even display up to do this file. After which he used to be gonna be in my video, and I’m getting telephone calls from him pronouncing: “Oh, guy, there’s site visitors and I don’t assume I’m gonna make it up there.” Fuck that, guy. That’s fucked up. However yeah, we have been roughly buddies even though.
He used to be beautiful pissed after I began seeing Pamela [Anderson]. Once we began placing out I known as him at the telephone to mention that I’d began seeing her, and he had a shit are compatible. They weren’t even going out. I used to be simply seeking to be cool, like a pal.
Pamela Anderson
We are saying hi. However I touched the range and it used to be fucking scorching. I don’t assume I’m going to the touch the range any longer.
Pamela Anderson and Child Rock all through VH1 Giant in 2003 (Symbol credit score: Jeff Kravitz)
Hank Williams Jr
He invited me to be in a video for his music Bare Ladies And Beer [from 1999’s Stormy], so I went immediately all the way down to Tennessee to shoot it as a result of he’s one in all my heroes. He’s a kind of other folks you meet who turns into like the most efficient pal you ever had.
I consider after I met him I had this KR ring on, and I had some others on too. He comes at the bus and he seems to be at me and says: “You prefer that flash-ass gold shit on, Accomplice boy?” And I’m pondering: “Oh, guy, I simply walked at the bus and he’s tearing me up!” And he is going to the again of the bus and springs again and he’s were given this large HW ring on, and he says: “Me too!” Me and him have torn up pianos in bars. We’ve had some nice instances in combination.
Hank Williams III
I don’t wanna know that man. He stated some shit about me on a file [notably Not Everybody Likes Us, from 2006’s Straight To Hell, which included the lines: ‘Just so you know, so it’s set in stone, Kid Rock don’t come where I come from/Yeah it’s true he’s a Yank, but he ain’t no son of Hank, and if you think that you must be fuckin’ dumb’]. I’m no longer gonna give that child the time of day. He’s were given a slightly a chip on his shoulder. It’s roughly bizarre, as a result of I’m such just right buddies along with his dad.
This interview firstly seemed in Vintage Rock 122, in August 2008.
