Jamey Johnson Takes Belt Off, Whips Unruly Concertgoers Off Stage
Jamey Johnson pulled his band into Bismarck, North Dakota on July 24th for a show at the city’s historic Belle Mehus Auditorium, and then decided to pull his belt off to teach a lesson to a few unruly concertgoers about halfway through his performance. According to witnesses who spoke to Saving Country Music, two male individuals on the front row of the 100-year-old seated theater started causing a commotion as soon as the show started. It would end with the Grammy-nominated, and 2-time CMA Award-winning Jamey Johnson running them off the stage and out of the building, belt in hand.
“From the moments the doors were opened, they were already tuned up, screaming and hollering pretty much during every song,” one eyewitness tells Saving Country Music about the unruly fans, who were seated just left of stage center in the first row. Kelsey Waldon opened the show, and was the first to have to deal with their disorderly conduct. “They kept yelling out ‘Pam Tillis!’ the whole time she was playing.”
After Kelsey’s set, Jamey Johnson took the stage, and about halfway through his show, and just after finishing one of his signature songs “In Color,” he called the two individuals up on stage, coaxing them to climb up the 5-foot riser. Since there were no stairs, the two individuals had to belly flop up onto the stage, and once they made it to their feet, they started shouting and waving their arms in victory, not noticing that Jamey Johnson has set his guitar down, and taken his belt off.
“They start walking towards Jamey, and then Jamey just came over, belt swinging, yelling at them something along the lines of ‘Shut the fuck up!'” says an eyewitness. “He smacked one guy. For lack of a better illustration, it was like mom kicking kids out of the kitchen. Security hadn’t even made it up on stage at that point. It was a pretty fast-moving situation. Those dudes were off the stage pretty dang fast, ran back up the aisle, and were out of there.”
It’s probably worth noting that Jamey Johnson is a Marine veteran, and a pretty stout individual.
The Jamey Johnson crowd was said to be a little more rowdy for the regular performances at the Belle Mehus according to concertgoers, and multiple other individuals were kicked out of the venue during the performance. As for how the crowd reacted to the belt-whipping incident, “It was kind of 50/50,” says one witness. “There was people cheering, and there were people that were looking around going, ‘What the hell just happened?'”
Add it to a list of recent incidents involving Jamey Johnson taking a stand at one of his concerts. In July of 2017, Johnson refused to walk through a metal detector at a show in at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, resulting in the show being canceled. Johnson also took a stand at the Tumbleweed Music Festival a week later after he saw an attendee waving a “Blue Line Flag” meant to honor fallen police officers. Mistaking it as a protest flag, Jamey Johnson shouted down the owners.
There doesn’t appear to have been any arrests or further issues tied with the incident at the Belle Mehus in Bismarck, and no video of the incident has surfaced so far.
Gabe
July 30, 2018 @ 8:23 am
I don’t understand why people go out and start acting a fool, keep that BS behind closed doors
Cristy
July 30, 2018 @ 8:33 am
He has lost his damn mind. I was at that Tumbleweed show and it was pretty unnecessary.
Rob
July 30, 2018 @ 8:40 am
Well I wasn’t there but the dude is all about the music, and when you have drunk shitheads ruining your concert why not pull out some good old fashioned discipline?
KGD
July 30, 2018 @ 10:36 am
There were a few at his show at the Shed in Maryville, TN. Happens at Jinks shows too.
In fact a pretty big fight broke out at a Tyler Childers show I was at too.
It’s pretty common and pretty obnoxious.
L.
July 30, 2018 @ 10:47 am
Shitheads ruining a concert don’t really deserve much… but do they really deserve being called up on stage to be assaulted with a belt? (Go check out the comments on the article on this very page when Luke Bryan punched/slapped a fan in his audience. Including comments about how the person on the stage is “in charge” and has to be the bigger person.) Jamey may make better music than Luke, but that doesn’t make it cool for him to call a fan up on stage to hit them with his belt, any more than it does for Luke Bryan to wack someone in the face.
Rob
July 30, 2018 @ 11:09 am
You’re assuming I chastised Luke Bryan for that incident. I don’t remember what happened completely with that story. What I do know is a shithead is a shithead, and sometimes discipline is necessary.
Granny Clampett
August 1, 2018 @ 3:45 pm
I’ll tell ya somethin’ if a belt is good enuf for Jethro its darn tootin’ alright for a drunk shithead at a concert
Silent
November 27, 2021 @ 9:08 am
Granny done spoken. Shitheads best git while the gittin still good.
Ll28
July 30, 2018 @ 10:54 am
For someone who’s “all about the music,” he’s certainly taking his sweet ass time on putting anything new out. 🙂
Black Boots
July 31, 2018 @ 3:53 am
because assault is illegal?
i dunno i’m just spitballin
Andrew
July 30, 2018 @ 8:59 am
I was also there and I loved him telling them to take that flag down. Like Jamey I am also a USMC vet and the red, white, and blue is the only American flag, not some BS blue line flag.
Mattie
July 30, 2018 @ 9:06 am
It’s disrespectful to modify the American flag to either make a political statement, or to represent an organization other than the us military. That’s why a lot of folks were pissed. Not only that it blocked the view for a lot of folks.
S amato
July 30, 2018 @ 9:59 am
Sometimes you have to take things into your own hands not from the country I’m from the city I like country music you want to disrespect people you get what’s coming to you it’s called karma
I miss Stevie Gaines
July 30, 2018 @ 8:37 am
worth noting that Jamey Johnson is a Marine veteran, I like to see Jamey take a belt to almost every performer on cmt.
S amato
July 30, 2018 @ 10:00 am
I’ve seen Lynyrd Skynyrd back in 76 right before the accident and they flat out kicked ass
Ulysses McCaskill
July 30, 2018 @ 1:26 pm
They left so much good music on the table. There was never nor ever will be a band that so perfectly blended rock, country and the blues all into one sweet sound.
Kevin
July 31, 2018 @ 5:50 am
Yes there is Blackberry Smoke
Ulysses McCaskill
July 31, 2018 @ 6:34 pm
I don’t know why but I just never could get into Blackberry Smoke at all. I did enjoy the Honky Tonk Bootlegs record though.
Rob
July 30, 2018 @ 8:38 am
What a badass lol. 8 years a marine, not the kind of guy you wanna mess with. Now if only he’d put out some new music. Not sure if any of you guys have seen it but Cody Jinks has came onstage with Jamey Johnson many times and they kill it.
tucker33585
July 30, 2018 @ 2:10 pm
If i were Jamey I would but a deal with jinks to help him write
H.P. @ Hillbilly Highways
July 30, 2018 @ 8:39 am
This only furthers my theory that the future of country music is my dad forty years ago.
Greg Fields
July 30, 2018 @ 9:11 am
Sat in the front row at one of Jamey Johnson’s show a few years ago in St. Pete and before the show an usher came out and told everyone in the front row that Mr. Johnson did not want anyone yelling out song requests…Guess these guys didn’t get the message
S amato
July 30, 2018 @ 10:03 am
They didn’t get the message at the time but they got the message now
naturallynatalie
July 30, 2018 @ 3:54 pm
What, no Free Bird requests??? ????
Come to a Blackberry Smoke show and see how Charlie Starr handles those idiots!
Bryan James
July 30, 2018 @ 9:19 am
Where is the video!!! Anyone that’s seen Jamey knows he’s doesn’t talk much during a show other than saying hello once. I can’t imagine that nobody, out if the 2000 people there, didn’t whip out the camera and start recording as soon as he started talking about dragging a couple idiots on stage. It’s almost impossible. Was anyone there that actually saw it? Either it didn’t happen and this is the greatest marketing play I’ve ever seen or somebody has video of it.
Trigger
July 30, 2018 @ 9:38 am
The capacity of the Belle Mehus is just over 800, and according to the people I spoke to about the incident, they request no cameras or video equipment be used. That doesn’t keep anyone from whipping their phone out, but apparently the crowd was being respectful of those rules for the most part. Also, since it happened in between songs, even folks recording might have missed it, since even the most hardcore phone recorders usually take breaks between songs. In fact I haven’t seen any video whatsoever from the show, which is unusual for sure.
Bryan James
July 30, 2018 @ 9:52 am
Sorry, thought i was replying here instead of under your other comment. No ones come out and said they were there first hand either. That’s almost more impossible to believe than the no video. This is four or five days old. As close nit as the community that likes Jamey is online or on Facebook, for not one person out of the 800 or more that were there to say they saw it first hand doesn’t add up. I wish it was true, it would be one of the funniest thing I’ve heard of happening. But I highly doubt it lol
Kellie
July 30, 2018 @ 5:32 pm
You don’t know a North Dakota crowd. We like to watch our concerts, not videotape them.
Joe
July 30, 2018 @ 9:10 pm
I was there and it happened so fast that I couldn’t believe it at first and was kicking myself for not getting video
Kellie
July 30, 2018 @ 5:29 pm
The Belle Mehus doesn’t seat 2000. Probably 25% of the 2000.
Lorie
July 30, 2018 @ 6:17 pm
I was there in row 8 it happened, it happened so fast that nobody had time to take out a phone. And those of us that came to listen to the music were trying to do that not make a crappy recording that we couldn’t understand anyway. The Belle is a very small venue that holds maybe 500 which is why it was sold out. Could he of handled it different maybe but I think more bullies like those two need to be stopped quick. We probably would not have some of the bulling problems we have today if things would get taken care of quick, hard and to the point.
Amanda
July 31, 2018 @ 1:39 pm
I’m a big time Jamey fan and as such respect him, his music and any venue him and the band would choose to play in. Respect and appreciation are a common thread amongst his true fans and it wouldn’t surprise me if video never surfaced.
Dylan Murray
November 17, 2019 @ 1:41 am
So was there ever a video of this?
Trigger
July 30, 2018 @ 9:23 am
A lot of folks complaining there’s no video of this, but in a way I’m kind of glad there isn’t. It would have regulated the moment right beside another cool cat video. Country music is filled with stories like this handed down word of mouth over generations, which adds to the mystique. You watch a video, it’s over in 20 seconds and you move on. Not to say I wouldn’t watch one if it surfaced, but there’s something to be said about hearing and reading a story as opposed to seeing one.
Bryan James
July 30, 2018 @ 9:48 am
No ones come out and said they were there first hand either. That’s almost more impossible to believe than the no video. This is four or five days old. As close nit as the community that likes Jamey is online or on Facebook, for not one person out of the 2000 or more that were there to say they saw it first hand doesn’t add up. I wish it was true, it would be one of the funniest thing I’ve heard of happening. But I highly doubt it.
Trigger
July 30, 2018 @ 9:52 am
Well I interviewed two people who were at the concert, verified their identities, and they both corroborated the story. I found them after they posted about it on social media, so there are some accounts out there. But I agree, it’s pretty uncanny no video has surfaced yet.
HaydenLane
July 30, 2018 @ 5:25 pm
Bryan, I was there. Sitting right in front of an unruly group of women in their mid-thirties who were talked to by security several times and caught some sharp stares from Jamey throughout the show.
I was surprised that no one was pulling out a phone when the two men were climbing on stage. It was clear they knew they had done wrong; one of them took 15-20 seconds of convincing to get up there.
Anyway, they were assholes, the crowd in general was disruptive (typical in this hellhole), Jamey definitely did wrong, and it was damn cool to be there first hand and see it. I have mixed feelings lol.
63guild
July 30, 2018 @ 10:50 am
give it time and the 800 or so in attendance will magically be in the thousands of people who will say they were there
crazyredhead
July 30, 2018 @ 11:04 am
I was actually there and I have to say it happened extremely fast. Most didn’t even realize what was happening. I told the friend that I was with that I didn’t think it would be good when we saw JJ motion the guys up there. The crowd was unbelievably rude and noisy. I went to listen to one of my favorite singers and was downright embarrassed that my fellow North Dakotans behaved so badly!
Daniel Miller
July 31, 2018 @ 9:03 am
It’s like a ‘Tales from the Tour Bus’ story that perhaps Mike Judge will animate in a couple years. Makes it more fun not to have video.
Charlie
July 30, 2018 @ 9:25 am
Pretty much any way entertainers want to handle audience fuckheads is OK by me. The price of the ticket doesn’t buy you the right to display your assholiness in public.
Speedlimit9
July 30, 2018 @ 9:25 am
I take issue with the line about Jamey making a mistake about the blue line flag. The flag is red, white, and blue. Changing the color of the flag is an asshole move just like burning the flag, both are legal free speech but I’m going to use my legal free speech to tell you get out of my face with both.
Trigger
July 30, 2018 @ 9:45 am
Totally understand if people want to take issue with the changing of the American flag in any way, and don’t really have any desire to broach that subject again (it was covered ad nauseum in the original post about the Tumbleweed incident). However I do think it’s important to understand that supporters of the blue line flag are just trying to support law enforcement. They’re not protesting the United States, or the flag itself. You may think the blue line flag is misguided and I totally respect that. But I believe Jamey Johnson thought it was a protest against the US, and that’s why he spoke up. Also, as others have pointed out, apparently Jamey is color blind, so he may not have seen exactly what it was himself, or know what a blue line flag was at the time. I think BOTH sides of the flag debate are just trying to support service members, and that should at least be understood.
North Woods Country
July 30, 2018 @ 9:26 am
As a native North Dakotan from the absolutely beautiful Northeast corner of the state, I’m embarrassed by my Southwestern brethren.
Granted, I bet these were a couple of clowns who moved here during the oil boom. North Dakotans don’t act like this.
63guild
July 30, 2018 @ 10:52 am
sure they do, every state has assholes
Dobe Daddy
July 30, 2018 @ 9:26 am
Cool. Now do the same thing to FGL.
Earl Knapp
July 30, 2018 @ 2:44 pm
Who does FGL stand for ? “ Fog Horn Leghorn”???!!! He would clear the stadium of some rude squeaky voiced Yankees , double time !!!! Yee Haw !!
Bill
July 30, 2018 @ 9:36 am
My new hero!
Kevin Smith
July 30, 2018 @ 9:40 am
Drunken morons got what they deserve.
I’ve dealt with idiots just like em at concerts including an imbecile who tried to crowd surf and landed on my wife’s head, and then fell to the ground in front of me. Needless to say, he won’t forget me..Ever. I gave him the scare of his life and he slithered away probably with soiled britches!
Earl Knapp
July 30, 2018 @ 2:47 pm
You sound like a Baaaad Maaaan !!????????????????????????♂️
jemmy
July 30, 2018 @ 9:42 am
gotta give props to Jamey here. old school chops, buddyro! reminds me of when John Denver used to kick the bejesus out of anyone who stepped outta line at his shows. i once saw a 6’4″ biker drunk dancing at the front of a Denver show in Grand Rapids, pushing squirrely guys around and JD was off the stage in a heartbeat, done suckerpunched the prick. fair dues the bikey fought back but JD floored him with a couple haymakers to the chin. saw the dude done hop on his pussywarmer and get the hell outta dodge real quick afterwards. people talk about Waylon, Coe but forget true badasses like Denver and Little Jimmy Dickens.
Rob
July 30, 2018 @ 9:55 am
This surprises me. I never pictured him being like that.
Dirt Road Derek
July 30, 2018 @ 10:30 am
Wow, that’s the first time I’ve heard of any artist handling rowdy concert goers like that. Props to Jamey for laying down the law, but he better be careful. Stunts like this could land him in jail.
Mike Honcho
July 30, 2018 @ 11:43 am
I know you’re new to country music, but many of the best singers we have had spent some time in the pokey. We could use guys that aren’t tough just because they put on a pair of aviators. Reverse the pussification of America, or at least Country Music.
Dirt Road Derek
July 30, 2018 @ 11:58 am
You’re right, I’ve only been listening to country for 48 years, so my noob badge still has the protective film on it. My wife keeps asking if she can peel it off (what a weirdo, right?), but I can’t risk it getting scratched or stained when I’m careless with my juice box.
How’s the conversion to rap fanboy going? You’re only a couple weeks in, so by your standards you’re still gonna be a newbie in your nineties! Maybe if you really commit you can get a late starter exception?
Mike Honcho
July 30, 2018 @ 12:47 pm
Hey, man. I hate to burst your bubble, but Little Texas, Rascal Flats, Sugarland, and FGL are not country music. Maybe something to do with taking the dirt road. NTTAWWT.
Dirt Road Derek
July 30, 2018 @ 1:03 pm
You know what else isn’t country, Honcho? Whining like a little bitch because you don’t know how to turn the radio dial when you don’t like the song that’s playing, and declaring you’re going to start listening to rap. You moan and groan about the “pussification” of America, but you are that pussification. Have fun putting together your iHeart hip-hop playlist, Honcho.
Mike Honcho
July 30, 2018 @ 1:55 pm
Don’t make me take off my belt, precious.
Dirt Road Derek
July 30, 2018 @ 4:54 pm
If you take your belt off what’s gonna hold your skirt up, Honchess?
OMFS88
July 30, 2018 @ 2:16 pm
If going to jail is cool, consider me Miles Davis
Matt
September 14, 2019 @ 4:40 am
You win the internet forever. Best comment I’ve ever seen.
jemmy
July 30, 2018 @ 11:46 am
You’ve clearly never heard of the Cockney Rejects. See also my post above about the supposedly mild-mannered John Denver (see his autobiography for some accounts of his heavy drinking, drug-taking, and – unfortunately – domestic violence). Not condoning it either.
Dirt Road Derek
July 30, 2018 @ 12:06 pm
The dark side of John Denver was so depressing to discover, I’ve loved his songs since I was a kid. But seriously, who hasn’t heard “Oi, Oi, Oi!”? Just because this is a country forum doesn’t mean everyone here lives in a genre vacuum.
jemmy
July 30, 2018 @ 2:39 pm
good call, buddyro, my apologies. for the Cockney Rejects look out for the full-length documentary East End Babylon from 3 or 4 years back. as you may know they came from one of the most deprived areas of London, two of them were very good amateur boxers, another member was the nephew of a well-known London gangster, a serious hardman. great film, just as much if not more so about the decline of a people than the history of a band.
Dirt Road Derek
July 30, 2018 @ 2:50 pm
I hadn’t heard of the documentary, it sounds like a must-see. Thanks for the tip!
jemmy
July 30, 2018 @ 4:48 pm
trailer!
https://youtu.be/0neZO82iaE8
Dirt Road Derek
July 30, 2018 @ 4:55 pm
Nice!
Texas Music Jim
July 30, 2018 @ 10:33 am
Venue security should have tossed these morons but they didn’t do Jamey did it for them. I fully support Jamey’s actions. Some time assholes have it coming.Not sure why but having hundreds of shows attended of all kinds of acts all over Texas I have never seen anything like this.
Clyde
July 30, 2018 @ 2:23 pm
That was my first thought also. Where the hell was security? Their antics were going on right from the opening act. How bad does it suck when the performer has to perform and handle security and crowd control at the same time?
L.
July 30, 2018 @ 11:08 am
Why is the comment section here SO different from the comment section on the article about Luke Bryan barely hitting someone in the face? (To be clear, I can’t STAND Luke Bryan!) Just seems so hypocritical that people are generally supportive of Jamey’s incident – like hes such an amazing badass for doing it, yet against Luke’s, which sounded much more tame.
Clyde
July 30, 2018 @ 2:25 pm
What is barely hitting someone in the face?
Whiskey_Pete
July 30, 2018 @ 2:52 pm
a light tap?
Benny Lee
July 30, 2018 @ 7:28 pm
Knuckle kisses ????
Jason Hannan
July 30, 2018 @ 11:32 am
This reminds me of Bill Monroe, who would occasionally put down his mandolin, go out into the crowd, and bodily remove unruly audience members. Love it.
Sir Adam the Great
July 30, 2018 @ 11:33 am
I thought I told you to stay in the truck…
Troy
July 30, 2018 @ 12:53 pm
Well, if you act like a disrespectful child, you deserve to get beat like one.
Larry
July 30, 2018 @ 1:10 pm
Don’t forget, the king of all country singers, Hank Williams used to bust a guitar over the heads of unruly drunks that got out of line at his shows !!! Proud of you JJ, whip their asses and send them home to Mama.
Seth
July 30, 2018 @ 1:13 pm
If the incident happened like this article describes then jj is gonna be coughing up for a couple settlements at least.
Ulysses McCaskill
July 30, 2018 @ 2:48 pm
That’s the new age of pathetic men for ya. Act like a child and then sue when you get out in your place.
Ulysses McCaskill
July 30, 2018 @ 2:49 pm
*put
Ulysses McCaskill
July 30, 2018 @ 1:31 pm
I wonder if these drunk dudes were the same “flannel shirt beard-motherfuckers” that Sturgill threw out of a concert a few years back?
Wesley Gray
July 30, 2018 @ 1:35 pm
i’ve said it about million times before but seriously: if you can’t get wasted without being an obnoxious person, than you have no business drinking.
Tom
July 30, 2018 @ 5:55 pm
Or if you are going to drink, stay home.
SunfishQueen
July 30, 2018 @ 2:04 pm
In my opinion it’s the venues fault this happened.Too often the security at these venues are too busy watching the show to actually do their jobs. It’s a shame an entertainer is put in a position like this.
Jamey is 100% about respect. I do know he did NOT hit them with a belt, but I’ll bet he wanted too.
Whiskey_Pete
July 30, 2018 @ 2:55 pm
We should do this to obnoxious women in general.
Trigger
July 30, 2018 @ 3:08 pm
It was two guys that got kicked out.
I don’t like this comment.
Whiskey_Pete
July 30, 2018 @ 3:37 pm
Drunk women are bad too. It’s gender equality, come on now.
Sturgill_Jennings
July 31, 2018 @ 9:01 pm
That whole Maren Morris controversy has still got you shook up lol
Willie Potter
July 30, 2018 @ 3:42 pm
Whiskey Pete….
My wife would kick your ass.
Bad.
Country fan
July 30, 2018 @ 3:54 pm
It was a very disappointing concert. He was mostly playing long drawn out poor covers at the time the guys where heckling him. They where telling him to play his own songs, and he didn’t like it and acted like a child and threw a cheap shot at one of them and started swinging his belt. It was shameful and embarrassing on his part.
Kind of ruined Jamey Johnson for me.
Angie
July 30, 2018 @ 4:40 pm
He was probably performing those “long drawn out poor covers” because he wrote them. You might be surprised to learn who all has recorded HIS songs.
HaydenLane
July 30, 2018 @ 5:37 pm
I’m not going to defend Country fan’s comment, but he does play cover heavy sets and played a few that are probably older than he is.
Tom
July 30, 2018 @ 5:58 pm
Angie I said the same thing.
Tom
July 30, 2018 @ 5:35 pm
LOL. Those guys got embarrased. Not sure why people even go to Jamey Johnson concerts anymore. The shows haven’t changed in 5 years and have little to no energy. Until there is some new music I will not be attending his shows.
King Honky Of Crackershire
July 30, 2018 @ 6:02 pm
Man, what a redneck idiot Jamey has turned out to be. If he’s not going to release an album, he needs to hang it up
Kevin C.
July 30, 2018 @ 6:08 pm
>He called the two up on stage.
The original version I heard they were stage crashers. This version Johnson just seems like every bit as much of an a-hole as the talkers
Jeff Binder
July 30, 2018 @ 6:23 pm
Jamie’s clearly a graduate of the Faron Young Institute of crowd control. Valedictorian would be my guess.
Sam Cody
July 30, 2018 @ 6:27 pm
That’s the greatest thing I’ve heard in a long-ass time! 😀 …and if you think Trigger’s description in black and white is good… You should have seen it in color…
Biscuit
July 30, 2018 @ 6:52 pm
Whether it really happened or not, I like the idea of it because there are more and more people at concerts these days who are sloppy drunk, talking loudly through shows, with their cell phone selfie flash blinding everyone, to the point where they ruin it for others. I wish more artists would whip the shit out of people acting the fool like that at a concert. As BJ Barham said it, how would you like it if he walked into your place of work and screamed “expense report 2015!” over and over in your face while you tried to work.
Big Cat
July 30, 2018 @ 7:28 pm
I had a dream the other night jamey’s been using all this time to release a 4 album box with 64 brand new songs. Then I woke up and realized my nightmare was still true. I respect his motivations and desires but just hate knowing he could of been one of the best of all times. Guitar Song will always rank as one of the best country albums ever imo.
Oh and I’m glad he shut these assholes up.
Jeff
July 30, 2018 @ 8:21 pm
That is the most hilarious article I’ve read in a long time! LOL
Doug
July 30, 2018 @ 8:47 pm
Seems likely he was aware of how the two assholes were heckling Kelsey Waldon, so he was in a sense defending her honor. If I was in the audience I would have been very happy to see them go.
Charles
July 30, 2018 @ 9:02 pm
I support what Jamie did , kids acting out even if they were in their 20’s .If their parents think their kid was acting normal. Well no. & dad needs their Ass whip with a belt to.
If Jamie needs help , I will be glad , Jamie I got your back bro !
Stringbuzz
July 31, 2018 @ 8:13 am
Saw Kasey Waldon a couple weeks ago..
Awesome,. We spent a lil bit of time with her, such a nice person.
She needs to be supported. Definitely not heckled. Classless.
I don’t mind people enjoying shows, dancing, getting into it.
Hate when it gets obnoxious and manner less
Don’t really support Jamey on this though.. Point them out, let security deal with it.
He’s really been strange lately.
Kurt
July 31, 2018 @ 8:39 am
Would prefer to see him take off his belt and whip some new songs into shape.
Senor BB
July 31, 2018 @ 9:23 am
Sometimes an ass whuppin’ is called for! Or at least an almost ass whuppin’!
Brian
August 1, 2018 @ 3:46 pm
He could have handled that A lot more sincebly .
They needed embarrassed in front of the croud yes
But he just showed me he is a damn it out. Gonna hit
Somebody in front of all those people. Lawsuit . I
Liked some of his songs but now I like nothing of his.
A burnt out old junkie who got lucky.
Blues Man
August 2, 2018 @ 12:54 pm
I was at the concert and it definitely happened. Pretty much spot on as the article described. These guys were being assholes all night and the venue security let it go on and on. Finally Mr Johnson took it into his own hands. As far as videos surfacing, there were very few people with their cell phones recording which was odd but I wasn’t complaining. With such a small venue you can hear everything. A LOT of people were being loud and obnoxious and when Kelsey Waldon was playing were talking the entire time. It was very disrespectful and I’m guessing Jamey also took note of that. It’s too bad people cant just shut the fuck up and enjoy the show. Other than that it was a great show and I have even more respect for Jamey for putting a whoopin on those assholes in front of everyone. The looks on their faces as they ran out of the Belle was priceless!
Jim
October 6, 2019 @ 10:34 pm
Come on people that belt shit was fake as hell you really think if it was real them guys wouldn’t of sued the shit out of him and the place. What a bunch of shit. They probley got paid to do all that. Nothing real these days
Jim
October 8, 2019 @ 9:38 pm
Like trump says fake news
CM
September 3, 2021 @ 2:22 am
My brother was there, said he couldn’t believe his eyes. One of the guys that got whipped was a young guy i used to work with. I asked him about it and he admitted they had won the tickets and were drunk and pretty much deserved it!
Charlie
November 11, 2021 @ 5:06 pm
Shiooot! This story kinda makes me like Jamey more.
Charles A. Shortman
November 11, 2021 @ 5:10 pm
btw… Who gives a gol darn about it? Ain’t gonna change my mind about how gosh darn good this music is.