Kid Rock festival plagued by issues following Brantley | Music News

Brantley Gilbert had barely warmed up the gang before he was already asking for their forgiveness.

The Georgia-born nation singer stopped his efficiency Saturday night time at the Bellville, Texas, stop of the Rock the Country festival created by Kid Rock. Gilbert addressed technical difficulties, pausing to modify his in-ear screens before returning to the viewers.

Once the issue was sorted, he flashed a grin and rallied his followers back.

“Y’all ready?” he requested. “See.”

The second capped another bumpy night time for Kid Rock’s tour, which had already drawn national scrutiny before a single tune was performed.

Kid Rock carried out Friday in Dallas with his show starting with a pre-recorded video exhibiting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth offering Kid Rock a experience aboard an Army Apache helicopter from the a hundred and first Airborne Division, the same sort of navy plane that sparked a federal investigation just weeks earlier.

In the video, Kid Rock arrives by a personal airplane at a navy base where Hegseth is ready.

“Mr. Secretary, what are you doing here? Sir,” Kid Rock says in the clip, before Hegseth gives him a raise to the show.

The two are then shown boarding the helicopter, with cameras lingering on Hegseth’s “We The People” arm tattoo as the plane cuts across a sun-drenched panorama.

The stunt reignited debate over the navy’s relationship with the rock star.

In late March, Kid Rock had posted a video of two Apache helicopters touchdown close to his Nashville-area home in Whites Creek, a property he calls the “Southern White House.”

The clip went viral, drawing rage on the web over the perceived misuse of taxpayer-funded navy tools.

The Army suspended the concerned pilots days later, but Defense Secretary Hegseth swiftly reversed course.

“No punishment. No investigation,” Hegseth wrote on X, also thanking Kid Rock. “Carry on, patriots,” his post concluded.