Not sure what he was getting at here… Zach Bryan had a bizarre response to Kid Rock‘s congressional testimony last week, when he appeared before the Senate Commerce Committee during a hearing on concert ticket prices and fees. It’s an issue that Kid Rock has been especially outspoken about, meeting with Attorney General Pam Bondi on the problem earlier last year and even joining President Donald Trump in the Oval Office for a signing of an executive order aimed at taking action against ticket scalping. President Trump is joined in the Oval Office by Kid Rock for the signing of an executive order targeting unfair scalping of concert tickets: "This is a great first step." pic.twitter.com/yb9tKmUAgk — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 31, 2025 And during his opening statement during the hearing, Kid Rock held nothing back. Along with Kid Rock, the hearing also featured testimony from Dan Wall, the Executive Vice President of Corporate and Regulatory Affairs for Live Nation. And Kid Rock had harsh words for Mr. Wall’s company as the executive was sitting right beside him: “In 2009, Congress was told – under oath – that merging Live Nation and Ticketmaster would benefit artists and fans. The CEO of Live Nation called the merger an “experiment” and promised it would increase competition, empower artists, and lower costs. He also said, and I quote, “a system that empowers artists benefits everyone.” Almost need a rim shot after that.” Kid Rock would go on to call the merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation a “failed experiment,” although he admits it’s not the only problem with the ticketing industry: “Should Ticketmaster and Live Nation be broken up? Probably. Would that alone fix things? I’m not sure it would. But I am sure of this: No artist should be forced to sell their tickets without a say in who sells them and how they are sold.” He then went on to blame corporate greed and the lack of a competitive market for the problems the industry is facing: “If artists had real choice, real competition would follow. And tickets would end up in the hands of real fans, at the prices the artists set. It’s no secret this industry is full of greedy snakes and scoundrels – too many suits lining their pockets off talent they never had and fans they mislead. The truth is, much of this could have been – or still could be – solved through technology, especially proof-of-humanity tools. It hasn’t happened yet because there’s just too much money in the secondary ticket market. Ticketing companies didn’t fail to stop this – it seems they chose not to.” Regardless of how you feel about Kid Rock and his politics, his comments seem like something many (if not most) can agree on: There’s nobody who really thinks that Live Nation and Ticketmaster do a good job, right? It’s an issue that Zach Bryan has obviously been outspoken about in the past, even naming his 2022 live album All My Homies Hate Ticketmaster. When he played Red Rocks last year he priced all tickets at $50 and only made them available the day of the show in an attempt to combat scalpers and Ticketmaster’s disastrous “dynamic pricing.” But when somebody shared a video of Kid Rock’s testimony, with a caption featuring his quote saying that Live Nation and Ticketmaster should “probably” be broken up, Zach left a comment that had fans scratching their heads: “Are you f—ing kidding” What exactly did he mean by that? Surely he doesn’t disagree with what Kid Rock was saying, so was he saying that as an “of course Live Nation and Ticketmaster should be broken up” or was he for some reason upset that Kid Rock was the one delivering the message? Maybe he didn’t like the equivocation when Kid Rock said that they should “probably” be broken up and believes that Kid Rock should have issued a more forceful call for action. Regardless, people in the replies were calling on Zach to clarify his comment – but so far, he’s left us all guessing.   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by General Chunkey (@chunkeymonkey40) The post Zach Bryan Had A Head-Scratching Response To Kid Rock’s Congressional Testimony On Live Nation & Ticketmaster first appeared on Whiskey Riff.