The whole Bush Upset really epitomized MTV, backslapping while backstabbing. Rage Against the Machine probably really hate MTV just ask bassist Timothy Cummerford, who smashed his bass onstage and later was arrested for assaulting a cop after he climbed up a column of stacked televisions. I'd venture to say the dough from his MTV-inflated record sales will pay for his bail and a shiny new bass. MTV really outdid themselves with the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The Rolling Stones had sympathy for the devil until Altamont, where he took his due out of the band's fan base.
Kid Rock is a devil without a cause.
He was let in by Jim Morrison, a man whom Kevin Coyne was courted to replace upon the Lizard King's death. Although Coyne demurred, proceeding to release almost 40 albums solo, his career path exemplifies the decline and fall of the modern pop hedonist. He held court at the Knitting Factory with a minimal backing band. Obviously, Dionysus all that ambrosia, excess, cigarettes has earned an aggravated case of the senior-citizen blues. Unfortunately Coyne doesn't have an equal mastery of song craft.