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September 29, 2002 - Pamela Anderson and her future husband Kid Rock visited Turkey this week for a quiet vacation but it turned into anything but that. The celebrity couple continually had their romantic vacation interrupted by dozens of cameramen and photographers, eventually infuriating the rock star. Kid first displayed his anger at a marina as the couple were about to board a yacht. Later that evening, the pack of photographers were once again there to watch the couples every move. Clearly displeased, Kid Rock turned again on the assembled camera crews, threatening the photographer from the marina to a one on one fight, before lunging at him. Click here for four video captures.

September 29, 2002 - Us Weekly caught up with Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock to talk about their much publicized relationship. Asked about the false reports of their breakup, Pamela said, "What are they saying now? I can't keep up with who is saying what." Kid Rock added, "I get pissed if I miss a good tabloid rumor about us. We like to get the dirt to entertain us while we're pooping." As for Pam's Hepatitis C, Rock said, "It's in sickness and in health, you know? You take the blows as they come. I'm proud of her." Will the couple get married soon? "Pamela and I just want to settle down and figure everthing out," Rock said.

September 23, 2002 - Adam Graham of The Detroit News spoke with Matt Shafer (aka Uncle Kracker) and his brother Mike. Mike was a resident DJ at Daytona's nightclub at 14 Mile and Rochester Road, took on an unknown from Romeo named Bob Ritchie, who called himself Kid Rock in a Sunday night DJ competition. The two eventually became friends, and it wasn't long before Matt met Ritchie. "My brother was totally in awe of Bob," Mike says. "He hung around with Bob as much as he could. He was all in." Read more.

September 22, 2002 - Corey Levitan of the New York Post spoke with Uncle Kracker, who talked about growing up in Detroit with fellow musicians Kid Rock and Eminem. Kracker talked about Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson's tabloid friendly relationship saying, "I read a lot of stuff how one gets drunk and the other doesn't, one is a bad influence," acknowledging that Rock gets most of that blame. "But they both have their priorities in the right spot." Read more.

September 21, 2002 - Norm Clarke of the Las Vegas Review Journal reports that there is a rumor circulating that Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson will get married on stage during intermission before Aerosmith's concert November 9 at the MGM Grand. MGM Grand spokesman Scott Ghertner has no info on the wedding, but it's reported Rock has arranged to have the stage cleared so a wedding set can be installed.

September 21, 2002 - Launch.com reports Kid Rock will take part in this year's Farm Aid concert which takes place on Saturday (September 21) at the Post-Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake. "Oh, they've been asking me to do that for years, for the last few years," Rock said. "We just haven't been able to fit that into the schedule. It's even gonna be tough this year, but we did have the day off. It's right after the Detroit show. It's really the last place I want to go after playing two shows at (Detroit's) Joe Louis. I'd like to stay home and have a day off, but it'll help the farmers out. I'm looking forward to playing it. I'm just not looking forward to the scheduling." Read more.

September 18, 2002 - Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd kick off a two-night stand on Thursday (September 19) at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, the first time both acts have performed together. Rock said, "I think it'll just be a good night of music. You know, we have our little antics and stuff we do, but I think people have come--in Detroit--to expect that, and they already know that. But I think it's really just gonna be three-and-a half hours of just really good music and a good time. I think it'd be great just to end the whole night with 'Sweet Home Alabama.'" Read more.

September 18, 2002 - RollingStone.com reports country chanteuse Allison Moorer will be singing the part Sheryl Crow recorded for 'Picture', Kid Rock's next release. Moorer is convinced the song will receive a warm reception from country audiences. "Kid Rock can work it any way he wants to work it," she says. "He has a great attitude about music and the music business. I really admire his bravery, because he goes about it in what I think is the right way, which is to have fun, put it out there and let the people decide." Read more.

September 15, 2002 - Rob Zombie Ozzy Osbourne Barenaked Ladies, Creed, Kid Rock, Green Day, Blink 182, Incubus, Korn, and The Who are amongst several celebrities who have designed a mask for the Hospice of Michigan for their "Mask Project 2" charity auction. You can check out the masks and bid on them at ebay.com starting September 17-27. Check out more information here.

September 15, 2002 -  Wendy Case of The Detroit News reviewed Kid Rock show at DTE Energy Music Theatre stage Friday night where the hometown guy received a "hero's welcome." Case said, "Though the production was pretty standard fare for Rock -- scantily clad cage dancers, plenty of pyrotechnics and multitudinous nods to Detroit and his hometown of Romeo -- it drove home the most basic element of what makes a Kid Rock show so much fun: The man is a great entertainer." Read more.

September 15, 2002 - Brian McCollum of the Detroit Free Press chatted with Detroit's own Kid Rock, and asked the rap-rocker if he's transforming into a Southern rocker. "You're definitely seeing Kid Rock evolve. Into a Southern rock guy? I don't know. A country guy? I don't know. There's so much that's close to my heart," he says. "Being a DJ is in my heart -- that's where I came from. It's simple -- people appreciate good music. It's about trying to avoid the overnight trends. Rather than trying to follow something, I'm trying to create something. I learn from the people who came before me, what they've seen in their careers." Read more.

September 15, 2002 - Marc S. Malkin of New York Magazine reports Kid Rock had a tough time getting around in the Hamptons over the Labor Day weekend. Rock stayed at Lava Records honcho Lee Trink’s Southampton home and couldn't find a limo to take him to Atlantic Records boss Ahmet Ertegun's place. Couldn't find a town car either... so he settled for a cab. Rock had the same problem later trying to get to the Stuff magazine’s party at the PlayStation 2 house in Sag Harbor. After looking for a ride for an hour, even a cab wasn't available. A staffer working the party was sent to pick him up in a pickup truck.

September 14, 2002 - Kid Rock is lashing out at record labels after being told by Interscope his next single, 'Picture', cannot make use of Sheryl Crow, who duets on the original version. Rock wasn't necessarily surprised by the move and fumed, "Good old politics--heads of record companies and all that bullsh**, and, you know, people having albums out, and singles rights, and worried about if it's gonna stop the sales of maybe Sheryl's record, you know, if this thing takes off, people buying my record. It's all a bunch of bullsh**. You can't just make music and put it out. And, the same goes to say for my label (Lava)--you know, Jason Flom never lets people use his artists. He's always, 'No, no, no, no,' so, it comes time for someone else, everyone goes, 'Fu** him. He doesn't let anybody else get down, so why should we let him?'" Read more.

September 14, 2002 - Get Real Detroit chatted with home town hero Kid Rock and asked him when he expects to release a new album. "I don’t know," he said. "I’m going to shut down at Thanksgiving, some time around there. This tour is really tough. I’ve never been away from home this much because they tour day-on, day-off. I haven’t done this schedule in a long time. I realize it’s great for the fans and that’s really why I’m out here, but come Thanksgiving, I’m going to shut it down. I’ll be home, be home with the family, and start a record. And however long it takes." Read more.

September 11, 2002 - LFI has photos of Journey, the Doors, Stone Temple Pilots, Default, Billy Idol, and Kid Rock at the Harley Davidson 100th Anniversary Open Road Tour at California Speedway in Fontana, California on Sunday (September 8). Check out the photos here.

September 9, 2002 - The New York Post reports Kid Rock was spotted buying suede jeans at the Tommy Hilfiger store in SoHo for his Jones Beach concert.

September 7, 2002 - Us Weekly reports Kid Rock stormed out of the party hosted by the Strokes at Levi's in New York's Milk Studios after the MTV Video Music Awards last week. A spy says Pamela Anderson's fiance "had to go to the bathroom, but there was a big line, and he tried to cut." Nobody let him though, so Rock "got pissed off and left."

September 6, 2002 - The Las Vegas Review Journal reports Sonny Liston's 1961 pink Cadillac, recently used to deliver an engagement ring to Kid Rock and Pamela Anderson, is going on eBay. Owner "Buffalo" Jim Barrier still has a beef with Kid Rock, who rented the car and didn't make restitution when the engine blew before it was returned to Las Vegas. Read more.

September 6, 2002 - The New York Post reports gossip is spreading that Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock are no longer a couple after Pam appeared at a bang-up party Tuesday night thrown by make-up artist Vincent Longo in a Cannes seaside mansion... without her fiance. Spies noted the two haven't been seen together in a while. Anderson's rep said, "That's news to me." 

September 4, 2002 - LFI has photos of Kid Rock and Run-DMC performing in concert at the Tommy Hilfiger Jones Beach Theater on Friday (August 30). Check out the photos here.

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