Kenny Chesney / Jason Aldean Concert at Lambeau Results in Scary (& Hilarious) Police Squawk
This story has been updated (see below).
Kenny Chesney rolled his Big Revival Tour with special guest Jason Aldean into the historic football town of Green Bay on Saturday night (6-20), and set his stage works up on the hallowed ground of Lambeau Field for a stadium concert. The show also included openers Old Dominion, Cole Swindell, and Brantley Gilbert, who the local Journal Sentinel reviewer singled out and chided for his, “‘bad ass’ attitude [that] was certainly overblown, between a ridiculous ‘tough guy’ video intro, his drummer’s mohawk, the brass knuckles attached to his mic, and his barking stage banter, similar to a WWE wrestler.”
Local media and some sports fans were somewhat leery of Kenny Chesney’s arrival at Lambeau since the last time country music’s beach king came to town in 2011, it resulted in 15 arrests and 60 ejections from the concert, as well as concerns about how so much foot traffic and temporary construction could impact the playing field. The 2011 Chesney concert was also the last time a concert had been held at the football shrine, and some sports fans cited Chesney’s now infamous concerts at another famous football stadium—Heinz Field in Pittsburgh— as a concern, where Chesney-mania has resulted in shocking photos of trash and bloated arrest statistics for the last few years.
***UPDATE***UPDATE: The Green Bay Police and Fire have released updated numbers for the concert. Capt. Paul Ebel said, “I don’t recall, in my 27 years ever having a game where we were this busy.” 25 people were arrested, another 125 people had their tickets confiscated, and a total of an estimated 250 to 300 ejections from the concert. Alcohol was said to be the major issue at the concert. Green Bay Metro firefighters also responded to between 50 and 60 calls for assistance and transported four or five people to area hospitals, said battalion chief Steve Sellin. These numbers were also significantly higher than at average Packer games.
One enterprising local reporter, Doug Schneider of the Green Bay Press Gazette decided to listen in to the police scanner during the concert and Tweet what he heard—something Schneider is known for doing during Green Bay Packers games. The result is somewhere between scary and hilarious, and once again lends to the theory of the subversion of country music.
And yes, I first discovered this through The Big Lead so hat tip to them, and it’s yet another example of disdain for today’s country music bleeding into the sports realm.
Enjoy, and feel free to vote for your favorite below.
“I’m goin’ round n round with that vehicle. I’ll get it stopped eventually.” #scannersquawk #RoundaboutPursuits
Doug Schneider (@PGDougSchneider) June 21, 2015
“Passed out in the women’s bathroom” #scannersquawk
Doug Schneider (@PGDougSchneider) June 21, 2015
“Kids throwing big firecrackers into the street. There’s kids and motorcycles nearby.” #scannersquawk
Doug Schneider (@PGDougSchneider) June 21, 2015
Trigger
June 21, 2015 @ 6:07 pm
Though the visual of watching a police cruiser follow some drunk endlessly circling a traffic roundabout like Clark Griswald in “European Vacation” is quite fetching, I’m going to choose, “She’ll call us back if she smells it again.” for the win.
BrettS
June 21, 2015 @ 6:14 pm
” he’s , uh, dirtied his pants ” hahaha. Weird, I go to randy and Wade’s acoustic show and this stuff never happens. And it’s called Hold My Beer and Watch This tour lol.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
June 21, 2015 @ 6:18 pm
that honda in the roustabout just have been a hoot to watch. color me amused and butter my biscuits.
Summer Jam
June 21, 2015 @ 6:27 pm
Anyone else notice that most people who go to concerts are usually lowlife trash?
Fuzzy TwoShirts
June 21, 2015 @ 6:30 pm
Exactly the opposite. Of course the concerts I’ve gone too recently include Scythian, the Time Jumpers, Rhonda Vincent and the Rage, Leahy, and Brother Brian Glenn. Worst thing I’ve seen are elitist old ladies acting like they’re better than everyone. One lady called Ranger Doug “one of Roy Rogers’ singing cowboys.” I wouldn’t consider than “lowlife trash.” Of course I’d never go see Jason Aldean, sooo..
Summer Jam
June 21, 2015 @ 7:04 pm
@ Fuzzy, “exactly the opposite”. yeah, ok LOL! i’m not even gonna argue.
Theresa
June 21, 2015 @ 6:56 pm
You are so off base & insulting at the same time.
Summer Jam
June 21, 2015 @ 7:01 pm
@ Theresa, Freedom of Speech
Steffan May
June 21, 2015 @ 6:27 pm
Wow…agreed, somewhere between hilarious and scary. Hard to believe this is real. Seems like it should be a scene from the movie “Ideocracy” (just watch the first 5 minutes, that’s all you need). Is country music the canary in the mine? Humanity doesn’t seem to be moving in a positive direction. My favorite: “There’s throw up all over the section.” Sweet Jesus, that’s an image I can’t un-imagine.
Bill
June 21, 2015 @ 6:30 pm
One asshole at a time…
matt
June 21, 2015 @ 6:32 pm
I live near Buffalo, and the rural area outside the burbs is very ignorant and very bro – country. Anyway, we managed to get Kasey Musgraves in town by some stroke of luck a few months ago, and most of the audience was those sort of folks. I think they showed up because they figured “why not, she’s country, right? I think I heard a song by her once.”
That was such an embarrassing concert to be at. A bunch of people got smashed, and refused to shut up whenever kacey was telling anecdotes on stage or just doing her thing. She seemed pretty peeved by the end of it, and actually took time mid set to call out a very intoxicated man in the front row.
So every time I hear about things like this, I can’t help but think of that concert. For me, It really illustrated just how far “country’s” fan base has deviated from the music that it once revered. Culture shock of the worst kind
Seth
June 21, 2015 @ 6:57 pm
Unfortunately my Kacey experience was the same. Loud people who just wanted to get rowdy and make a scene because that’s what the radio tells them concerts are for: anything but the music.
Michael
June 22, 2015 @ 9:24 pm
Mine was much better, then again she was with Willie Nelson and Allison Krauss so the biggest problem we had were people smoking joints.
j
June 23, 2015 @ 12:15 am
Thats a good problem to have Michael. lol
Wallace
June 21, 2015 @ 6:36 pm
I wonder what this guy says about how this concert compared to what he usually hears with Packers games.
Bomber
June 21, 2015 @ 6:40 pm
As a law enforcement student, I’ll be sure to put in for overtime hours at country concerts if I want to be entertained for a night.
Seth
June 21, 2015 @ 6:56 pm
Sorry to get scatalogical but the folks that messed their pants are my favorites.
MOreb
June 21, 2015 @ 8:12 pm
Caller wants to leave disabled vehicle along I-43 “because she’s going to the Kenny Chesney concert.”
And here we have my nomination for displaying the most worryingly skewed set of priorities I’ve seen since the events of the graveyard shift I worked two weeks ago.
Jim
June 21, 2015 @ 8:24 pm
Been to many Packers games. Not even going to try pretend that there isn’t a lot of beer being consumed. Never once saw a fight, or even anyone being ejected for anything. This type of event brings them out of the woodwork. Bad-ass singers attract a lot of Bad-ass, ignorant fans. Lord knows we have a lot of them up here in the Badger State.
pete marshall
June 21, 2015 @ 8:37 pm
I really like going round and round in the vehicle.
CountryKnight
June 21, 2015 @ 8:57 pm
Most were probably Packers fans. That fact alone is enough proof to deduce a hypothesis. They booed Brett Favre after he gave them years of service; they are definitely not going to behave during a concert.
Albert
June 21, 2015 @ 11:48 pm
I remember when all this kinda shit happened back when Ray Price was the hottest country concert act .
NOT !!!!!!!!!!!
Fuzzy TwoShirts
June 22, 2015 @ 6:55 am
You can’t mosh pit to “Pride,” Albert.
TX MUSIC JIM
June 22, 2015 @ 2:54 am
Very sad. Weird thing is I was at this years Jimmy Buffett show in Frisco, Texas at the soccer stadium plenty of alcohol being consumed no fights, no bodily fluids anywhere but the restroom no arrests. I guess it’s because of the older crowd. Then again no reports like these from Chesney’s show at Cowboys stadium either. Could it be a regional thing?
lisa
June 22, 2015 @ 5:26 am
I went to a Buffett show a few years ago, and had heard about all the drinking and partying. Ive been to SO many Kenny Chesney shows, and obv there is tons of drinking at those – so I was expecting something similar. I was amazed how much fun Buffett was in comparison! People are definitely drinking and partying, but everyone was so much more calm and laid back and friendly. It was a nice mixed-age crowd. For a group of friends and I, its always been a summer tradition to see Chesney for about 10 years… the older we get though, the less fun it gets. The people just get drunker and drunker each year. We are going this year, and I have a feeling it might be the last one. I just dont get why people cant just drink and enjoy themselves – they have to drink to fall down. Is that REALLY enjoyable?
scott
June 22, 2015 @ 5:51 am
Made me remember the 1st time I saw Springsteen. Spread out on the lawn at Alpine Valley, a few girls next to us asked if we’d watch their stuff while they used the bathroom. Total strangers looking out for each other. It was a simpler time, I guess.
Dave Schultz
June 22, 2015 @ 4:41 am
The last Packer – Bear game had somewhere in the neighbor hood of 60 arrests and ejections. I’D say the concert was tame in comparison lol.
Derek
June 22, 2015 @ 6:08 am
“He’s, uh, dirtied his pants.”
Country concerts bring out the classiest people, don’t they?
Though, I was reading about this at another website and they had spoken with a police officer who says that they don’t usually have this much police action at a single Packers’ game, which I found to be an interesting tid-bit.
Brett
June 22, 2015 @ 6:14 am
I know that “She”™ll call us back if she smells it again” probably refers to weed, but it’s so much more fun to use your imagination.
MH
June 22, 2015 @ 6:55 am
The fight in the restroom was clearly over who had the biggest truck.
Trigger
June 22, 2015 @ 8:27 am
And by “truck” you mean . . . .
Enjoy Every Sandwich
June 22, 2015 @ 7:02 am
“he’s, uh, dirtied his pants” Is this what the fans of bro country mean by “evolution”? 😀
James
June 22, 2015 @ 7:58 am
Thank goodness I can go to concerts at venues like Floore’s Country Store and Gruene Hall, where this sort of crap is somewhere between few and far between to non-existent.
Note: as others have mentioned, this is not representative of all country concerts. Only the ginormous stadium shows. And oddly enough, more commonly it seems to happen “up north”. Disappointed that this continues to be the way “country” is represented though.
Charlie
June 22, 2015 @ 8:27 am
Once again, a bunch of us rednecks got together and several of them showed their asses. I continue to fail to see the need to waste the time to report on the natural course of things, but it looks like a quick one for Trigger to whip out, so no biggie.
If I may be allowed to steer the focus back to something that matters more than a rat’s ass, I ran across another interesting show in my area. I found it as a result of checking out some of the stuff I found here on SCM, so thanks a bunch!
Whispering Beards is in Friendship, IN, which is just west of the Cincinnati area. Check it out at the following link. Friendship is one of those out-in-the-woods funky places. I have been to the flea market there, and they have muzzle-loader shoots there. In the summer the hoot owls carry off chickens in the day time, and in the winter they have to pipe in sunshine. But it’s a nice place. Friendly.
http://www.whisperingbeard.com/festival/
Mike
June 22, 2015 @ 8:37 am
Blame Canada. They are the ones who brought us that Fireball shit. It’s destroying a generation.
Trigger
June 22, 2015 @ 8:44 am
So funny that Fireball is actually mentioned in one of the squawks. Priceless.
Jack Williams
June 22, 2015 @ 8:46 am
“Person who”™s drinking from small bottles, puking and falling on people.”
Gets my vote. I mean, wouldn’t that just suck?
Mike
June 22, 2015 @ 9:13 am
I’ve got tickets to this tour at Gillette stadium in august. Friend of mine wanted to go so I got him tickets for his birthday. I had the extra money so I got tickets for me and my girlfriend, cause fuck it, I used to listen to Kenny in my childhood.
I’m considering selling the tickets at this point. This just seems downright dangerous
Arthur "Two Sheds" Jackson
June 22, 2015 @ 10:43 am
I thought the first tweet summed it all up very nicely except the dumpster fire was onstage.
Robberino
June 22, 2015 @ 11:31 am
I’m not a big concert-goer, but could someone please tell me what the point is of spending money on a ticket and getting shitfaced so badly that you don’t even know where you are anyway? Seems like a waste of money, beyond the obvious disrespect for the attendees that go for the music.
JC Eldredge
June 22, 2015 @ 3:28 pm
An expensive ticket at that. These seats probably went for $100+.
Liz
June 22, 2015 @ 2:13 pm
Oh man, I was at this concert due to a friend of mine having an extra ticket. Can confirm – it was a urine, beer and ego-soaked hurricane of Bro Country chaos. “Stone Cold Country” flags everywhere (I still don’t get what that phrase means, but I’m going to assume the country is cold because it was DOA). Prime people-watching, though. Tons of vomit. Tons of drunk chicks in crop tops with tattoos of little birds/dreamcatchers. Jason Aldean’s performance was even less inspired than his latest album and Brantley Gilbert sang just enough songs to remind us why he stopped being relevant in 2012. However, Grace Potter made a guest appearance to sing “You and Tequila” with Kenny Chesney while he pretended to know/care about Cole Swindell, which was nice of him. Despite being elbow-to-elbow with sweaty strangers for seven hours, I’m damn glad I saw Kenny live again – say what you will about “The Revival,” but the man was born to perform. I used to love concerts – even ones of this magnitude – but the douchebag demographic that the new generation of country music attracts is what has ruined it all for anyone who isn’t a total f*cking walnut. It isn’t country music that causes so much trouble at these gatherings, I don’t think. I’ve been to a whole slew of country shows in the past where people managed to be upright and functional the whole time – it’s the Bro Country mindset and the constant perpetuation/encouragement of getting wasted that seems to flip a switch in people, causing them to act like heathens. They think it’s cute, and “country,” but it isn’t. It’s going to ruin a good thing for everyone. I didn’t see any major violence/drama, but then again, I stayed pretty glued to my seat, because avoiding the vomit was like a high-stakes game of “the floor is lava.” I hope they enjoyed paying $100+ a seat for a concert they won’t remember. Assholes.
2/10. Wouldn’t do it again.
Harpo
June 23, 2015 @ 6:51 pm
It’s hard for me to think of any of these bro country acts as “bad ass”. I have seen everyone from Cash to Paycheck and Waylon to Jones, and so many more( not bragging just thankful to have seen them).
I never thought of any of them as bad ass, more as having very interesting life styles.
Maybe the bros never heard Waylon say “don’t give up the music for the show”
JC Eldredge
June 22, 2015 @ 3:31 pm
Kenny does put on an amazing show. Your line about tattoos of little birds and dream catchers made me laugh. That is so true.
jake
June 23, 2015 @ 9:10 am
I performed at a tailgate event for this right by the stadium. The crowd didnt seem that bad….but then again that was BEFORE the show so maybe people we’re quite as intoxicated at that point
Teresa
June 23, 2015 @ 7:15 pm
I am unsure which comment was left that said that country concerts were to blame and white trash. I have heard of some pretty violent and outrageous happenings at other events. I am Southern, I love country music and I also have all my teeth and a college education. Let’s not make this a white trash, Southern thing, and if we want to be nasty and vile, some of the above comments could use some grammar work and an oxford comma or two.