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March 29, 2004 - Us Weekly has details behind Kid Rock's appearance at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame gala on March 15th with new girlfriend Jaime Pressly, making sure the actress didn't feel out of place at the music industry event. "He kept an eye on her," a witness remarked. "The whole night, she was being led around by Rock." A pal of the rap rocker added that Pressly is "around a lot. Pam didn't go out to public events like this as much."

March 29, 2004 - Anonymous writes "At 33, Kid Rock has finally decided to quit smoking. It's been one week and counting for the Detroit rocker, who crushed his last pack of smokes on St. Patrick's Day. He's on a regimen of magnesium and vitamin C and last week got state-of-the-art laser treatment intended to kill nicotine cravings." Read more.

March 22, 2004 - Prince burst into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with some blistering funk, joined by Bob Seger, ZZ Top, and Jackson Browne. On hand were Alicia Keys, Kid Rock, and Lenny Kravitz. Watch a highlight clip at WB11.

March 17, 2004 - Greg Kot of the Chicago Tribune reviewed Kid Rock's performance to a nearly full house Friday (March 12) at Allstate Arena. Kot writes, "He's the people's rock 'n' roller, the Kid would have us believe, and he's updated his '70s rock populism with more than a touch of rap's swaggering rhymes and larger-than-life sense of identity." He added, "Beneath the pimp poses, Rock strove to show he has a sensitive side, as evidenced by the appearance of a white baby grand piano. He invested the ballads 'Cold and Empty' and 'Only God Knows Why' with a road-weary pathos borrowed from Seger's 'Turn the Page'." Read more.

March 1, 2004 - The Dallas Morning News reports Kid Rock and girlfriend Jaime Pressly trucked over from Fort Worth to eat at Bob's Steak & Chop House on Lemmon Avenue at the urging of Kid's Detroit Red Wings pals Brett Hull and Chris Chelios. Jaime, Kid and their party of 15 all wanted to smoke – a clear violation of the no-smoking ordinance championed by soccer mom Mayor Laura Miller. No problem, says Bob's owner, Bob Sambol, who isolated the group from the other patrons and allowed them to torch up. "Jaime Pressly can light the place on fire if she wants to," Sambol said.

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