Toby Keith goes Vegas
Wow, is Toby Keith going to be remembering his most recent Vegas trip.
At the ACM Awards at MGM this weekend, there was a widely reported obscenity-laced tirade against a reporter for the Tennessean who picked up and ran with a Rolling Stone article by actor Ethan Hawke alleging an argument among Keith, Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson in 2003. (I bet the world was really concerned about that feud before.)
But Keith's fun in Vegas began before the ACM Awards. The Las Vegas Sun offered a first-hand account of a Jack Daniels-inflected, so-late-at-night-it's-early-morning performance at the singer's namesake bar on the Strip before the awards show at which he also chose to illustrate his dependence on a certain expletive as a primary vehicle of his verbal expression.
In addition to originals, he offered a few cover tunes, including J. J. Cale's "Cocaine." True class.
Well, these things sometimes happen on a Vegas jag. All you can do is go home and hope not too much damage follows you back there. I think Keith's fans will be OK with his behavior, and Kristofferson and Nelson fans will too. I doubt even Ethan Hawke fans will care one way or the other. Still, if the man had a little humor about himself, highlights could make for a fantastic Vegas-vacation YouTube post.
Photo: Ethan Miller / Getty Images
This Toby Keith event was at the ACM (Academy of Country Music) Awards...NOT at the CMA (Country Music Association) Awards, which happen in Nashville each November. Whatever happened to reporters fact checking the name of the event they are writing about???
Posted by: Jonathan Kirby | April 07, 2009 at 10:51 AM
I have corrected the mistake. I am obviously responsible for anything that appears under my name. Yet, I am saved from countless errors by great copy editors who often double as fact checkers. Then there is my lingering problems with the comma. I think, this particular mistake was made trying to save me from an error in editing as I have covered ACM in Vegas for years and never written about CMA before. The error is corrected. I am sorry it upset you. Yrs., Richard
Posted by: Richard Abowitz | April 07, 2009 at 11:06 AM
And why exactly are you sooo concerned?????!!!!!
Posted by: Sherry | April 07, 2009 at 01:13 PM
Toby and Jack seem to be best friends these days.I wonder when he's going to admit he's got a problem? Seeings that his dad had a drinking problem you would think he knows better.Now he has as much trouble with stuff going in the mouth as does stuff that's coming out of it. lol
Posted by: JR | April 29, 2009 at 07:29 PM