Child Rock stormed off stage throughout a Saturday efficiency at Jon Bon Jovi’s Nashville bar after scolding the viewers for not clapping. You possibly can watch his outburst under.
Rock made a visitor look at JBJ’s Nashville, the place Bon Jovi keyboardist David Bryan was internet hosting his celebration. The “Bawitdaba” singer took the stage for a shambolic cowl of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary,” struggling to discover the appropriate key and mumbling the lyrics because the backup singers did the heavy lifting, earlier than he finally halted the track to lambast the viewers.
“No, fuck them. Fuck them. Hey, hey, cease, cease. When you ain’t gonna clap, we ain’t gonna sing. That is the way it’s gonna work,” Rock mentioned. The group obliged him and commenced clapping, to which Rock instructed, “Do not get too quick.”
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The band made it by means of one other minute — with a number of viewers members nonetheless clapping, thoughts you — earlier than Rock determined he’d had sufficient. “You understand what, fuck y’all. You ain’t gonna clap, I am going,” he mentioned earlier than strolling previous a bemused Bryan and off stage. His unceremonious exit was met with a mixture of applause and boos.
Solely God is aware of why Rock could not get an appropriate response out of the JBJ’s Nashville crowd. But he ought to know higher than anyone that each viewers member is born free and might train their proper to clap as they see match.
Maybe Rock could have higher luck working a crowd on his Rock the Nation touring roadshow, which runs from April by means of July. Hopefully he would not harbor this resentment all summer time lengthy.
