Rock stars and bad behavior seem to go hand-in-hand. Case in point: Country music star Morgan Wallen has gotten himself into trouble again. “The Bad Boy of Country Music” seems to continue to make sure that moniker sticks. His latest antics? He allegedly threw a chair off the roof of a 6-story Nashville bar. He was arrested with 3 felony counts, luckily one of those isn’t manslaughter as the chair didn’t hit anyone.
This latest stunt comes 3 years after being filmed using a racial slur and 4 years after getting kicked out of Kid Rock’s restaurant. You’d have to be doing something pretty bad to get kicked out of a place called “Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock n Roll Steakhouse.” Kicking glass items and picking fights did the trick.
One might wonder how this guy still has fans. For some, it’s easy to forget that this isn’t the first time an artist had a habit of misbehaving. In fact, it almost seems that the more talented the musician, the worse their antics.
Some episodes of ‘rock stars being rock stars’ are worse than others. Some are still serving time for their escapades. Some have even committed murder. I think we can file those under “criminals that happen to be musicians.” But, that’s another post for another day.
Today, I want to remember some of music’s bad boys & girls, rock stars doing rock star things. These are things that seem shameful in the moment, but, years from now, we’ll look back, shrug our shoulders and say “wow, that was pretty crazy, eh? Rock stars SMH.” Kind of like throwing a chair off of a rooftop in downtown Nashville.
