While discussing his secret to success in a new interview with Tucker Carlson, Kid Rock addressed the retiring rock bands that decide to reunite once they are out of money.
“Few of them yeah. A lot of them I think,” the rocker said before mentioning how Creed’s Scott Stapp changed his life. “Scott Stapp changed his life around, he was pretty messed up for a while trust me. I hear Creed’s back doing great stuff. So it is possible, it’s not a story you hear very often.”
“A lot of time the band breaks up like, ‘Screw you, screw you! We all hate each other,’ and blah blah,” he added. “Then 10 years later like, ‘You got any money?’ They’re like, ‘No do you?’ They’re like, ‘I don’t either.’ They’re like, ‘We’re getting the band back together! Reunion tour!’”
Kid Rock retired from touring back in July last year. The rocker first announced he would retire in 2022. “At 51 years old, it’s not getting any easier to do jumps and carrying on on-stage,” the singer explained. “But I’m really keeping myself together, I’m getting prepared mentally, physically, working out every day, trying to eat healthy, all that (expletive), ’cause I want to be just top notch. I want to be at my peak for this tour, because I really don’t know for the unforeseen future if we’ll do a big tour again.”
He added that his health wouldn’t allow him to be on stage in his 70s like Mick Jagger.
And it appears that he would love to get back, but not for the money as he addressed recently. “Eventually I’d really like to get back to trying to bring people together,” Rock said in a video on social media. “We can believe differently, I think. It’s one of the things that’s made this country great,” adding the “powers that be want to divide us” but that “united we stand, divided we fall.”
Since his retirement announcement, Kid Rock has done a few shows at different conventions and the Rock The Country festival this year.