An Entertaining Family
William and Susan liked to have fun and regularly hosted barn parties every Friday night. “Just crack open a keg and hear Bob Seger jamming all night,” Kid Rock recalled to Rolling Stone magazine. Those evenings were fun—unless his parents had too much to drink, which was often the case.
William Ritchie and Kid Rock. Source: Pinterest
When that happened, they would ask Bobby to put on a performance for their friends, which usually consisted of the future singer jumping around and lip-syncing to Bob Seger’s Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man or Jim Croce’s Bad, Bad Leroy Brown. While Rock jokes that he hated doing those performances, they did spark his interest in music. He tried to learn guitar (which didn’t turn out too well), so he turned to drums and turntables.