'Not the Full Story': Kid Rock Releases Statement on Controversial $5K Tickets to His Tour

The controversial country-rock star Kid Rock is speaking out after fans blasted him for listing tickets priced at $5,000 for his upcoming tour — after just testifying against Live Nation in the Senate to create “affordable” ticket prices.

Tickets for Kid Rock’s “Freedom 250 Tour” went on sale earlier this month, and posts flooded social media with screenshots of Ticketmaster’s prices. Seats close to the stage, dubbed “First Class,” were going for a whopping $4,000. Seats in the nosebleeds weren’t even close to affordable, priced at $200 each.

The sale followed news that Kid Rock would be teaming-up with Live Nation and Ticketmaster, locking tickets purchased to his upcoming tour to the Ticketmaster “Face Value Exchange” system – despite having testified before a Senate subcommittee in January calling-out their “monopoly” over the ticketing industry.

The performer and close friend of President Trump revealed plans to use the walled garden ticketing system on “Freedom 250” tour, which generally restricts transfer of tickets from one account to another and bars resale outside of the Ticketmaster-controlled system.

Following the fan outrage over ticket prices during the general onsale, Kid Rock took to social media over the weekend to explain himself, noting that this is “not the full story.”

“Here we go again,” he wrote in an Instagram post. “The fake liberal media says I’m charging $5,000 for front-row seats. They know damn well that’s not the full story.”

He went on to note that the expensive ticket prices people were referring to are “extremely limited First Class seats like I explained,” which include “FOUR tickets per row, first five rows only (5K per seat row 1, 4k row 2, 3k row 3, 2k row 4, 1k row 5) — Again ONLY 4 seats in rows 1 through 5 (20 “first class” seats in venues that hold 14k to 25k people).”

“But instead of reporting facts or that lawn seats are only 50 bucks or how we are cutting out the scalpers, they twist it for the headlines / clicks and to attack me — nothing new here.”

He added that “I WILL pray for them but I know that sooner or later God will cut ’em down.”

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Rock’s 10-date “Freedom 250” tour will kick-off at Dallas’ Dos Equis Pavilion on May 1 and run through June 20, wrapping at The Pavilion at Star Lake in Burgettstown. The newly-announced tour coincides with Rock the Country Festival, where Kid Rock will top the bill at most stops. 

Find Kid Rock’s full list of upcoming tour dates below:

Kid Rock | Freedom 250 Tour

05/01 – Dallas, TX @ Dos Equis Pavilion *&
05/08 – Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park at Walnut Creek *&
05/09 – Charlotte, NC @ Truliant Amphitheater *&
05/15 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre ^
05/16 – Tinley Park, IL @ Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre ^
05/30 – Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre +&
06/05 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center #
06/06 – Mansfield, MA @ Xfinity Center #
06/19 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center #
06/20 – Burgettstown, PA @ The Pavilion at Star Lake #

* = w/ Brantley Gilbert
^ = w/ Parker McCollum
# = w/ Jon Pardi
+ = w/ Big & Rich
& = w/ Them Dirty Roses

Kid Rock | Rock The Country Festival Dates

05/01-02 – Bellville, TX @ Austin County Fairgrounds
05/29-30 – Bloomingdale, GA @ Ottawa Farms
06/27-28 – Sioux Falls, SD @ W.H. Lyon Fairgrounds
07/10-11 – Ashland, KY @ Boyd County Fairgrounds (no Kid Rock)
08/08-09 – Hastings, MI @ Barry Expo Center
08/28-29 – Ocala, FL @ Florida Horse Park (no Kid Rock)
09/11-12 – Hamburg, NY @ Erie County Fairgrounds