Now that's showmanship!

Dude, quit stealing my shtick

Ah thanks for following up on this. I was wondering WTF when I read his Wikipedia entry just a day or two later. Maybe this is like a genitally-based nip slip?

That's showmanship and it's punk rock.

oh wow, he really showed up those christian Rcktwn staff members. I mean come on, it's so easy to go into a place that you know is all ages and a little more "moral" shall we say than other rock clubs and create a big stir. You know what kind of place it is before you play there, so if their rules or agendas limit your creative freedom or whatever reason you need to justify balls on stage, why play there in the first place? Next week I'm taking my punk band down to the Adventure Science Center, we're going to do a bunch of lines and just fucking wreck the place during our set, that will show those eight year olds whats up!

How dare you insult J.D.? He's a GOOD BOY!

looks like a pissed off eric giles in that picture.

Michael W. Smith should just forgive him. It's the Christian thing to do.

maybe some of our new rockabilly friends can answer this for me: is this the kind of thing Howlin' Wolf was talking about when he sang, "We gonna pitch a wang dang doodle"?

This story is nuts.

It's sack-religious!

Sorry, but that's a pretty dick-dumb thing to do. You just can't wag your junk at a bunch of kids at Rcktwn of all places. Hello. And who would want to? It may very well be big showmanship and big punk, but this dude is officially fucked which is a shame. Perhaps the biggest shame of all, though, is all the sheltered and overprotected kids that were lucky to get to go to Rcktwn aren't even going to be allowed to go there anymore.

Look on the bright side, at least JD gave the kids a concert story they can tell forever! I'm sure they aren't taking this nearly as seriously as the 'adults' who run that bizarre place.

Perhaps he was just trying to get the monitors turned up and his hands were busy handling the mike and the harmonica? It happens!

This is a shame because the whole idea behind the club is, "Parents, you can drop your kids off and they will be safe". It has nothing to do with being sheltered, I dunno any parents who would be okay with their kid catching an eyeful of nut sack.

It sucks because it's one of the few places youngsters can see live music on a consistent basis and there is a lot of value in being around that. I hope parents understand that this guy was being an idiot.

as hilarious as i think it is on the surface, when it comes down to it, he totally exposed himself to minors. In the eyes of the law, it's the same as if he strolled past a playground or a high school parking lot and whipped it out.

in the words of Walter Sobchak: "8-year-olds, dude... "

Granted, i was 16 when i watched the Fun Girls from Mt. Pilot have a circle jerk on stage when the played a thrift store in Huntsville and i grew up just fine... or did i?

Sadly this is the most sex-ed some of these Christian kids ever get.

What an IDIOT. If you think it's so rock n roll to whip out your dick on stage, why would you be playing at Rockettown in the first place? (Basically, what everyone else just said.)

So I wanted to check out their website. And I laughed my ass off when I saw the domain name:

http://www.cockadoodledont.com/

That's for serious too. That's a beautiful thing.

maybe they should start going by "the sac-shakers."

I'm curious, at what point did he think to himself:

"You know, the only thing that could possibly make this moment any better would be if i could just pull down my pants and show off my scrote....

...by golly, i'm gonna do just that."

p.s."wilkes' mother" & bossk, you make the comments section worth reading.

Did anybody else noticed that the Tennessean didn't mention J.D.'s weekly comic strip in All The Rage? It seems a little suspect, don't you think?

now that you mention it, i thumbed through the rage today and saw that wilkes's strip was an announcement that he was going on "vacation." so now i'm wondering if he not only planned his dick-flap, but even secured some time off for it. y'know, just to make sure he could fit it in.

That would make sense, the dude is pretty fuckin' smart.

hey guess what the world isn't a safe place...good luck finding guaranteed "safe places" for kids (and adults) to go. Maybe instead of screening children from life we could teach them to be strong thinkers, so that they can make good choices whether we are there or not.

I don't condone gratuitously wagging your dick in children's face's, but rock and roll is supposed to throw our conventions back at us (this includes men, women and children...and nutsacks full or partial). Shame on Rocket Town for trying to catch the glint of the knife without the sting. That's life you get both. You want to book rock and roll and let in children...well I say buyer beware.

I wouldn't pretend to know what rocket town's agenda is but too bad for them trying to spin counter culture into disney goo.

Any idiot could have told you what to expect from a Shack-Shaker show. And apparently any idiot can call the cops when they they get offended by their guests.
J.D. is a smart, brash kid, too bad he might take the full rap (art after all has its price). Too bad no one at rcktwn has the balls to take their licks for making irresponsible promises to parents and creating the situation in the first place.

I'm pretty sure you can still be very "rock and roll" without showing off your nutsack to kids. Or at least only do it in venues where nobody gives a fuck.

if rockettown didn't want that kind of thing then they shouldn't of booked rancid. stick with the little kid stuff.

Come On, they didn't screen this band. The LSS has been spitting and blowing snot on fans for years.
If you are of legal age to drink, that should be your choice to be spat upon or "blown".
It's another story when a band comes up with this kind of behavior at an all ages show.
Cheap publicity for the band. Bad management for the club.
Fact is, what he did was illegal - any one who dared to do it at Opryland would be ass-wiped.
So... he deseves special treatment?
Bullshit.

Hmmm....I've been all over the blogosphere and I haven't seen one comment from anyone that was there saying they actually saw this happen. Wheres the vids? Yeah...

Hey Jimmy, I was there. It did happen. It was very clear to me that J.D. was just caught up in the routine putting on a show. There was plenty of spitting, snot shooting and damn fine entertaining going on. He had taken off all the clothes he could, thrown all the confetti out of his pockets, danced his ass off. Next thing ya know, the hand goes in the zipper and out comes Jr. it lasted about 1-2 seconds and back in it went. No wanking, No wagging it about, No pointing to it. Just pulled it out and kept on singing. Bad lapse in judgement but NOT criminal in the eyes of this parent.

dude, i was there that night. and all i have to say is this:

people! quit being so damn square! someone shows their pubes to (get this) a mostly 16 and up crowd. big deal.
i only saw like, what...five little kids that night?
grow a pair and shut up.

ps- all i saw was upper pubes. no dick. no balls.
he showed his upper pubes, ripped some out, closed himself.
done. THAT's what happenned.

dude this is so last month.