On Morgan Wallen’s Latest Arrest (The Chair Incident)

Once again, Morgan Wallen has made an embarrassment of himself. And once again, it’s an embarrassment that unfortunately country music has to answer for since Wallen continues to crown the genre as country’s most popular artist. It’s also an embarrassment for his fans that despite the repeated incidents, continue to defend Wallen’s clearly indefensible actions, characterizing country fans as being as careless and dull-witted as Wallen himself.
Nonetheless, charging Morgan Wallen with three felonies and another misdemeanor for an incident where nobody was hurt, and nothing really happened seems excessively punitive from a police department in Music City that has a long track record of being overly aggressive.
What Happened:
On Sunday night, April 7th, Morgan Wallen was at Eric Church’s newly-opened bar on Lower Broadway at 200 Broadway. This is on the lower part of Lower Broadway near the river. At around 10:30 PM, Morgan Wallen reportedly threw a chair off the six story building, which landed about three feet from where two Metro Nashville Police officers and another individual were standing near a patrol car. After a brief investigation that included checking surveillance footage, police determined that it was Wallen who threw the chair.
Morgan Wallen was placed under arrest at 10:53 PM and charged with three felony counts of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon, as well as a misdemeanor of disorderly conduct. The bond for the three reckless endangerment charges were $5,000 each, and the bond for disorderly conduct was $250.00. Wallen was booked into jail, promptly paid the $15,250, and was released at about 3:47 in the morning.
Video from the arrest, as well as a mug shot show Wallen smiling the whole time.
According to a security guard, the chair thrown in the incident was made of stainless steel and weighed about 20 pounds. For it to reach where the police officers were, it would have needed to be thrown hard as opposed to dropped over the side of the building. The motive seems to be nothing. “They just say he was being an idiot and just threw it. There really wasn’t no argument or nothing about it. Just him being drunk I feel like. He wasn’t in the right state of mind,” the security guard says.
The History:
Regard the following quote:
If Morgan Wallen was a young male suitor in pursuit of your sister or daughter, he would be one of those beaus where it is undeniable they are trouble, with not just red flags flying right out in the open, but a rap sheet to back up these presuppositions—yet at the same time they possess an irresistible charisma that almost immediately drops guards, and they know how to say and do the right things at the right times to wiggle out of trouble, and to get one everyone’s good side, despite a pattern of bad behavior.
This is Morgan Wallen’s career and music in a nutshell. He will tell you, “No I swear baby, I won’t do it again. I’ve changed,” and then get arrested outside Kid Rock’s bar on Lower Broad. He’ll then tell you he’s learned his lesson, and is taking a break on social media, only to show up on Tik-Tok making out with random co-eds in Tuscaloosa when he’s supposed to be quarantining for SNL.
Those were the opening two paragraphs to Saving Country Music’s review of Morgan Wallen’s 2021 release, Dangerous, The Double Album. Note that this opinion was shared before Morgan Wallen’s now most notorious controversy—the N-word incident in February of 2021, which made all his previous offenses look paltry, and put the entirety of country music in the crosshairs of the race debate, including the race hustlers who’ve now been on a full court press to undermine country music and exact tithes from it’s institutions so they can continue to fund their attacks.
This is something that has been fiercely relevant in the last few weeks due to the release of Beyoncé’s new album Cowboy Carter.
It was ignorant to defend Morgan Wallen then, even if you think the N-word incident was overblown (and it was). And it continues to be ignorant to defend him now. Whipping a chair off a 6-story balcony onto the extremely crowded Lower Broadway street below is indefensible even if it didn’t hit anybody. It’s remarkable that it didn’t.
And yes, country legends have done much worse things over the years, from Johnny Cash starting a forest fire, to George Jones nearly shooting one of this good friends. And yes, it’s silly that we sit back and tell these stories, starry-eyed about how “Outlaw” these guys were, and hold them up as heroes. It was stupid then, and it was stupid now. But it’s also stupid to act like Morgan Wallen has earned the same level of respect to be considered within that lot, or that this latest incident makes him any more “Outlaw” than he was before.
The Overreaction:
What’s also stupid is to act like Wallen should be a convicted felon for his actions, and that a chair flung over a balcony is the same as a Colt revolver. Often law enforcement trumps up charges knowing they will get plead down through the District Attorney. It is good that Nashville’s finest didn’t treat Wallen with kid gloves. He did deserve to be reprimanded, and perhaps even detained for the incident. But let’s not act like it’s the end of the world.
Nobody was hurt or even really affected, luckily. This is what misdemeanors are for, to deter dangerous behavior. Felonies are there for major crimes, which didn’t happen here. Morgan Wallen may be plenty stupid. But he’s not a menace to society. He’s just a menace to country music.
The Outcome:
Morgan Wallen is not a good spokesman for anything: country music, rural culture, right wing politics, hairstyle choices, or anything else. This is why he wasn’t named the CMA or ACM Entertainer of the Year, and continues to get passed over for major industry awards, despite his commercial success. It’s not a conspiracy theory. It’s not “woke” culture. It’s his own inexcusable behavior, and his fans should recognize that.
You also continue to have a strange cohort of traditional country fans who seem to come out of the woodwork whenever something comes up with Wallen. They wouldn’t get caught dead listening to Wallen’s tractor rap in a previous era, but seem perfectly willing to defend him and his music to the death in a misguided effort to “own the libs.”
And as Morgan Wallen continues to get away with unfortunate incidents, it’s unlikely these incidents will stop. He already reportedly has handlers around him, though apparently they couldn’t get a handle on the chair before it fell six stories. How to make sure he doesn’t hurt himself or others is something his label and management need to get a handle on. Because fair or not, Morgan Wallen’s actions continue to reflect negatively on country music, even though Morgan Wallen is really the only one to blame.
Morgan Wallen has yet to apologize or publicly address the incident.
April 8, 2024 @ 5:16 pm
I am fine with him being charged with a felony. Don’t do stupid shit that can kill people.
April 8, 2024 @ 7:36 pm
It’s along the lines of “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes” if you ask me.
I am agreeing with you, by the way.
April 10, 2024 @ 7:28 am
“I’m in a custody battle. They’re trying to force custody on me and I don’t think that’s right!”
April 8, 2024 @ 5:24 pm
I hope Morgan Wallen checks into rehab and gets the help he needs.
April 8, 2024 @ 5:32 pm
Morgan Wallen is no Outlaw. Please Trigger! You know better than that! He’s a top 40 country star who refuses to do anything about his drinking problem.
April 8, 2024 @ 5:34 pm
I didn’t accidentally call Morgan Wallen an “Outlaw.” Did I?
April 10, 2024 @ 11:46 am
Based on the number of people here wanting him to catch multiple felony convictions, he’s gotta at least be close to being an outlaw in the eyes of many people.
April 8, 2024 @ 5:40 pm
Reckless endangerment is exactly what he did, I don’t think the charges are overblown.
April 8, 2024 @ 7:56 pm
I don’t think anyone would argue this wasn’t reckless endangerment.
In Tennessee, reckless endangerment is a Class A misdemeanor. That is what this incident feels like.
Reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon is a felony. It was the graduation of the charges here that has Wallen facing three felonies.
Can a chair hurled from six stories up be deadly? Absolutely. But I believe the intent of the law is to cover actual weapons like guns and blades. I find it very unlikely a District Attorney or a jury of Morgan Wallen’s peers would find grounds to convict him of three felonies involving a deadly weapon in this case. This is a classic case of bringing higher charges in hopes of pleading them down to avoid trial.
BTW, I know I’m in the minority opinion here. But I do believe these distinctions are important. I have no love for Morgan Wallen. But he’s an idiot, not a felon. Nobody was harmed here.
April 8, 2024 @ 9:55 pm
“But I believe the intent of the law is to cover actual weapons like guns and blades.”
You’re not a lawyer. The felony he’s being charged with is specifically not with a firearm, that would be a class c felony. A deadly weapon in Tennessee is defined as “Anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury”. As you said, it’s lucky no one was injured or killed from a heavy chair thrown with force from that high of a distance. His actions very much meet the standards for the class e felony. It still might get pled down, but you are clearly unqualified to give legal analysis.
April 8, 2024 @ 10:39 pm
Hey thanks for leaving the disclaimer here that people should not get legal analysis from the comments section of a country music blog.
“Anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury”.
In my country music blogger opinion, no jury of Morgan Wallen’s peers would ever conclude that Morgan Wallen intended to use the chair to cause serious bodily injury. You would have to prove intent, which would be extremely difficult. “Manner of its use” would likely be difficult to prove as well, but easier than the former. He was a drunken baffon who whipped a chair off a roof, not wielding it and threatening people.
My deeper point is that everybody knows these felony charges will not stick. They bring them so they can get a conviction and a guilty plea on lesser misdemeanor charges without having to bring the case to trial. Gotta love how some purport to support Black Lives Matter, but when it comes to actual criminal justice reform matters, they want Morgan Wallen spending 30 years in prison and his rights as a citizen taken away for a victimless crime because they hate his music or he said the N-word once.
Morgan Wallen will lawyer up and be able to wiggle out of this situation one way or another. But the Black dude in east Nashville that gets shaken down and arrested on trumped up charges won’t be able to afford a lawyer, or the higher bail, and will have his life ruined from being overprosecuted over a victimless crime.
April 9, 2024 @ 3:33 am
“…You would have to prove intent, which would be extremely difficult.”
The only intent required to be proven is whether or not he intended to throw the chair over the wall. Prosecutors do not have to prove that he intended to hit someone…otherwise it would have been aggravated assault or attempted murder. That’s the entire point of it being a “reckless” charge.
April 9, 2024 @ 7:48 am
” “Anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.”
So yes, intent is part of this law.
Can a chair flung from six stories kill someone? Of course. Is the manner of a use of a chair to kill someone? No. Was Morgan Wallen’s intent to kill someone? No.
This is a semantic argument. But it’s the argument prosecutors would have to make to a jury of Morgan Wallen’s peers. But my deeper point is that argument will never be made because there is no intent to prosecute Morgan Wallen on felony charges.
April 9, 2024 @ 7:53 am
“You would have to prove intent, which would be extremely difficult. “Manner of its use” would likely be difficult to prove as well, but easier than the former. He was a drunken baffon who whipped a chair off a roof, not wielding it and threatening people.”
This is why you shouldn’t be giving legal analysis. You clearly don’t know what you’re talking about. Reckless endangerment doesn’t require intent to harm or threaten people, that’s why it’s called “reckless”.
It’s victimless because he got lucky. That’s why reckless endangerment charges exist.
“In the manner of its use” wouldn’t be hard to prove at all. Even your rudimentary layman analysis of the situation concluded that the chair could have killed someone.
No one is saying 30 years. Now you’re overreacting just like the people you complain about. But his actions very clearly fit the crime. If you care about criminal justice reform, this is poor way of showing it. You did a good job reporting on the killing of Mark Capps, but doing a poor job as an armchair legal analyst now.
He likely will get a deal, but these charges aren’t “trumped up”.
April 9, 2024 @ 7:58 am
“Reckless Endangerment in the First Degree is defined as conduct that presents a genuine risk of death to another person, performed under circumstances that demonstrate a depraved indifference to human life. In other words, you acted in a way that could have gotten someone else killed, and your actions indicate you simply don’t care that you did so.” If we agree that the chair could have killed someone, and that Wallen didn’t give a damn, I think we can can agree that he committed felony reckless endangerment. If he was a teenager with a not yet fully developed brain, I could agree that he shouldn’t be facing charges that could change his life forever. But he is a 30 year old grown-ass man who has had multiple opportunities to pull his head out of said ass and has declined to do so because he thinks he can get away with it. If he gets away with it one more time, whom might he kill the next time?
April 9, 2024 @ 8:18 am
“So yes, intent is part of this law.”
You are so wrong, it’s laughable. First, it’s manner of use OR intent. The manner of use isn’t how it’s typically used, it’s how it is used in the situation, which is to say, thrown off a roof. Also, his intent was to throw the chair off the roof, he succeeded in that. Throwing a chair off the roof is capable of killing someone, as you noted. He does not need to intend to kill someone, only use the item (throwing the chair) in a way that’s capable of killing or seriously injuring someone.
You really really suck at legal analysis. You have no clue what prosecutors will or will not have to prove because you’re so ignorant of the elements of the crime, even when they’re laid out in front of you and you quote them.
April 9, 2024 @ 10:03 am
” “Anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.”
So yes, intent is part of this law.”
Not exactly.
The word “OR” means that for the statement to apply it’s sufficient that the condition mentioned on either side of the word applies. If both conditions must apply, then the word “AND” would be used.
So if anything “in the manner of [the chair’s] use” is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury,” then the act fits this statute.
That’s at least from a strict language analysis.
If you were defending Wallen on a criminal felony charge in Tennessee, then you would look up and see if there are cases where this issue was brought up on appeal and argued before the state supreme court and read their decisions on the matter.
April 10, 2024 @ 12:14 pm
The real victim is his poor publicist. He probably ages 10 years every time Morgan’s rat face is above a chyron that says “WALLEN IN CUSTODY” on TMZ. Saying he’s learned a lot is kind of ringing hollow. I’m sure he’ll top this eventually though, like driving a monster truck through a cemetery, or pulling a Chris Gaines to release an explicitly racist album under his anagram name “Marlon Wangle”
April 10, 2024 @ 2:10 pm
Dr. Manhattan, I have laughed until my face hurts at your comment and now want to spend the rest of the day watching “King of the Hill” reruns and reading about the Killdozer rampage of 2004.
April 8, 2024 @ 10:15 pm
Poor Eric is probably going to feel obligated to put a barrier around that balcony.
April 8, 2024 @ 5:41 pm
It remains true that for many of his fans the things that make him trash are specifically why they like him
April 8, 2024 @ 5:44 pm
The embarrassing part for him is getting arrested at a soulless, tourist trap bar. You’re Morgan Wallen, what are you doing hanging out in a place like that in the first place?
April 8, 2024 @ 6:35 pm
When Morgan Wallen was at his low point after the N-word incident, Eric Church was one of the first to reach out to him, mentor him, let him back into the fold, allow himself to be seen with Wallen in the public, etc. Church played a crucial role in that moment, and it seemed like the two had remained close ever since. My guess is Church wanted Morgan Wallen to be there to help build clout in his brand new bar, and then Wallen does this. I generally think all of these artist-themed Lower Broadway bars are a joke. But this feels like a really bad way to return the favor Eric Church did to Wallen, is to have this incident happen at his bar, and to sort of throw all the good will Church showed him over the balcony.
April 8, 2024 @ 11:28 pm
He and Church performed a hit single together.
They are pals.
Sorry, that flies in the face of your bar purity.
April 11, 2024 @ 7:56 am
There is also the business of paying celebrities and influencers to show up at your club to drum up business by getting paying customers to come to see the celebrity. This can be five or six figures for an hour or two of just being in the club and partying for free.
April 8, 2024 @ 5:46 pm
He doesn’t hold a candle to the various incidents of, say, George Jones, Faron Young, Johnny Cash, the GOAT Waylon Jennings, etc.
But somehow they seemed more cooler. Wallen just seems more immature schoolboy type. I think that is the difference in perception.
April 8, 2024 @ 7:40 pm
Because they basically were the epitome of self confidence in public. Wallen while I do not mind him so much, isn’t that type of dude. Maybe he wants to be? Maybe he is trying to play the whole “there is no such thing as bad publicity” game?
Who knows, eh?
April 8, 2024 @ 11:32 pm
Self-confident?
Waylon spent his declining years trashing every new country star who didn’t kiss his ring because he couldn’t handle his lost popularity.
Any public confidence George Jones had was fueled by drink. Same as Wallen.
April 8, 2024 @ 11:30 pm
They sound “cooler” because those incidents have decades of mythology behind them.
Waylon walked off a talk show because the first interview went too long. That wasn’t cool. It was petulant.
April 9, 2024 @ 7:34 am
Petulant or not I think it shows character
I’m not good at sports. I’m not somebody gifted with fine motor skills and athletic ability. But my parents made me play sports because that’s what American kids have to do. Not only was I bad at them, I got bullied relentlessly. I didn’t get to not participate in something I didn’t enjoy, and I didn’t get to tell my parents I was getting bullied or talk to the coach because everyone would tell me to suck it up and get over it.
Are used to work in a bakery and they came up with the boneheaded policy that twice a shift. I have to stop what I’m doing, in the bakery, and go check produce for expired produce. Even though they were supposed to have people in that department to do that job, and nobody in the produce department ever came and got the bakery caught up.
I think we’ve raised several generations of people who have been forced to participate in things, from music, lessons to sports, and walking away is a privilege.
As an adult, I don’t have to put up with things that don’t make sense, I don’t have to endure things that I don’t wanna do or deal with people I don’t wanna deal with. I get to walk away anytime I want. And maybe someone whose parents didn’t force them to suffer through things that didn’t build character, but just build resentment, can’t understand that.
I don’t know a thing about Waylon’s childhood. I read his autobiography years ago and I don’t really remember anything about it. I don’t even remember if there was a whole chapter dedicated to his childhood or not. I can’t speak for why he might’ve chosen to walk off in that situation. But I can tell you that I don’t think walking out of things is petulant, because to me, not having to participate in things, is the greatest part of adulthood.
And I can certainly see why people who were raised to just do things, and that everything builds character, no matter how unfair it is to have to do it in the first place, might admire someone who doesn’t have to play by those arbitrary rules
April 10, 2024 @ 7:19 am
To clarify this point:
I think we’ve raised generations of people who ‘do’ things because they don’t know that not participating is an acceptable option.
A whole lot of people who never got the chance to decide what their time and dignity is worth.
And also, a whole lot of people who, through laws that affect poor people more than rich ones (Elon Musk can park wherever he likes and pay whatever fines he incurs, i cannot) who follow arbitrary laws (You can have six kids in a two bedroom house but can’t catch three salmon even though the reason the salmon population needs watching is because of the people who have six kids) who can’t help but envy the celebrity who lives outside the rules of society.
We ALL want to break free of some rules.
We ALL want to be the judges of the value of our own time and dignity.
but also, celebrities get pitied for struggling, they get people to worry about them.
If you or i did a lot of cocaine every one would abandon us. we’d go to jail or die without any friends.
But when a famous person does it the world prays for them to kick the habit, get help.
We don’t just envy people who don’t have to suffer indignity, or who get to make their own rules, we envy people who can suffer publicly and still be loved when we suffer in silence because no one will reach out to us.
I’m not saying this assessment is true or that people know they do this
But at a subconscious level THIS is why we love the story of Hank, of Cash, of Jones
April 10, 2024 @ 9:30 am
I dunno, Fuzzy, I think that CountryKnight is right. I haven’t always, but I’ve really grown to love Waylon, to the tune of collecting all 67ish of his albums and going through his catalogue from front to back (mostly CDs of course, because fuck vinyl and all that “it sounds better” crap even though it’s physically incapable of producing the same high and low-end frequencies). But he was a prima donna when it comes to how he thought he deserved to be treated. And it clearly goes much deeper than just basic dignity, as he did seem to expect everyone to kiss his ring. To bring it back to your example, he didn’t walk off the talk show because he “wasn’t good at them” or because he didn’t want to be there. He walked off because the guest that ran over ate into his time, and that just wouldn’t do for King Outlaw.
There are plenty of stories of him doing things like this, which you would obviously know. And yes, there is a mythological element to these types of stories that you’re absolutely correct in saying are people living vicariously through public figures who have power and money. But as for Waylon specifically, who enjoyed self-mythologizing and criticized every young whippersnapper who didn’t pay their dues according to his own standards, I think CountryKnight’s description is accurate. It might show character, but Waylon showed a lot of this part of his character when he maybe should have kept it to himself, at least in later years when he had already won the war he helped start. Pretend for a second if someone like Garth Brooks acted like this. He would have every right to, given how undeniably successful he is. But instead, he feigns humbleness and still gets criticized for it. As someone who openly thinks he’s insincere (or at least bad at seeming sincere), I can only imagine the shitshow if he were openly arrogant.
I say all of this as someone who completely and utterly understands being forced into sports and other things that waste your time just because of dumbass preconceived notions. And as someone who, taking it a step further, thinks our culture’s fascination with stupid little games like football are asinine on the whole. Ultimately, I think both of you are correct, but I think Waylon in particular is a bad example for you to hang this explanation on, as he tended to be melodramatic.
April 12, 2024 @ 8:58 am
good to know you’re still around. don’t see your comments often
April 12, 2024 @ 9:44 am
I appreciate that, glad you’re still around too. I don’t comment as much because I don’t have as much time to anymore. But also because lately I’ve lost the thread a bit with country music. Even still, I check SCM daily and haunt the comments section without saying much like the ghost of readers past.
April 11, 2024 @ 3:19 pm
Fuzzy,
Here is how Trigger described the incident:
“In September of 1998, Waylon was scheduled to appear on the Late Late Show hosted by Tom Snyder. Going into the taping, Waylon was already a little bit sideways with the situation because he thought he deserved a full-hour slot, but instead, the show’s producers had him share the show with Dr. Laura. When Dr. Laura’s segment began to eat into Waylon’s time even more, he walked off the set, leaving Tom Snyder hanging.”
That isn’t taking a stand. That is prima donna behavior. How dare Waylon share a time slot! C’mon, if any modern singer pulled that stunt, he or she would be roasted here. Waylon, like Hank and Jones, “get away” with outrageous behavior because we like their music. It was great music. But those fans behave like sports fans when they make excuses for poor actions because of good songs.
My famous melodramatic Waylon moment comes from the 1975 CMA Awards. In his autobiography, he relates how he wanted to walk out or expose what a sham the voting process was. Instead, he played nice and then went home and wrote profanity on his award. What a try-hard.
I love his music (even though he is wildly overrated in the canon) but the man couldn’t handle anything that threatened to cut into his fame. He alienated Tomper and Willie and disliked early 90s country merely because their stars were shining while his star faded. Unless a singer was Travis Tritt who kissed the ring. Then, you were kosher. Let’s face it he didn’t hate Garth Brooks out of genre purity (Garth, like Waylon, dabbled with rock sounds in their country). He couldn’t handle how a pudgy doughface guy could become a national star. The guy took a shot at Alan Jackson’s hit song over the name. The same man with a novelty song called “Luckenbach.” A song in which he namedrops himself.
April 12, 2024 @ 9:52 am
Agree to disagree, but I think Waylon is kinda underrated these days. As Trigger and others have implied, he never really got to have a victory lap at the end of his career like, say, Johnny Cash did (who, quality aside, is about as overrated as a country star can be — “I hate country music but like Johnny Cash”, anyone?). Waylon also died just a few months after 9/11, so I don’t know that it was really noticed the same way it would have been if he’d died a few months before or if he’d made it to around 2004, or even later.
On the other hand, he’s one of those names that gets dropped a lot in certain circles, so I get where you’re coming from.
April 8, 2024 @ 5:55 pm
Republicans like when he does something disrespectful so they can protect him from “cancel culture”
April 8, 2024 @ 7:41 pm
Gotta get political for… why, exactly?
April 8, 2024 @ 9:58 pm
Where are you when there were rants about communists on every article? Morgan Walden being protected by conservative culture warriors is relevant to the article’s background and context regarding the last incident he had.
April 9, 2024 @ 7:47 am
It’s literally irrelevant at the very, very best. All Trig mentioned was that he was “…not a good spokesman for right wing…” which is just Trigger’s way of supporting the very thing that is tearing country music apart – left wing nutjob politics.
I am in a lot of political discussions here but I keep them TO the articles that mention politics in a more specific manner than this write-up. You are dragging politics into this article and the ensuing discussions of said article and you are doing it for zero credible reasons whatsoever outside of wearing your heart on your sleeve.
This is not a politically charged article. Sure, I get it. Trigger is a lefty on a scale no one realizes which is what is hurting this country. Ask your grocery bill. Ask your gas tank. Heck, look at the top 10 states where “middle class” families need to make upwards of $100,000 to be middle class!
Stop making this about politics. Especially since democrats and republicans are two sides of the same fucking coin.
April 9, 2024 @ 8:05 am
We’re not getting into political discussions here folks.
April 9, 2024 @ 9:52 am
Yet then you get the “left wing nut jobs going” lol. Like clockwork!
April 8, 2024 @ 7:51 pm
I have a gold fish…sorry I thought we were making comments that don’t matter
April 9, 2024 @ 6:41 am
I’m offended by goldfish. How dare you (insert applicable label here).
LOL, some people need to put down their phones for awhile and disconnect from the government programming.
April 8, 2024 @ 6:00 pm
People are acting like they never had the urge to throw a chair off a rooftop bar before!! Some might even go so far as to claim it is a “natural inclination” one inherits at birth. Good grief.
April 8, 2024 @ 6:03 pm
Maybe this time around Mr. Wallen should try what is known as the Geraldine Defense (as in Geraldine Jones, the character originated by the great black comedian Flip Wilson on his 1970’s TV comedy variety show), which is known as “The Devil made me do it!” (LOL).
Otherwise, the country music establishment in general, and fans in particular, should ignore him altogether–even though they obviously won’t, because he is too much of a cash cow (albeit an obviously toxic one).
April 8, 2024 @ 6:11 pm
Still waiting for a review of Josh Morningstar’s new single from his debut LP…. couldn’t care less about this, CMT or Beyonce.
April 8, 2024 @ 6:12 pm
If driving drunk is a felony, so should be throwing chairs off six-story buildings drunk. Both could kill someone equally the same.
April 8, 2024 @ 6:46 pm
In most states, Drunk Driving isn’t a felony until the third conviction. In this case, Morgan Wallen is being charged with three felonies for the same incident.
One of the things that has inferred my opinions on justice is someone close to me was put in prison for two years for drunk driving. Never hurt anyone. Never even caused any property damage. It definitely deterred them from ever doing it again. But meanwhile, violent criminals were receiving lesser sentences, and someone with a substance abuse problem was incarcerated and institutionalized.
I definitely think Morgan Wallen should be held to account for his actions. But if that chair had landed three feet from you and me as opposed to members of law enforcement, it may have not even made it to a 911 call.
April 8, 2024 @ 11:33 pm
In some areas, violent criminals aren’t even charged now.
Justice isn’t blind. She is selective.
April 9, 2024 @ 6:53 am
Country music, CorningWare, and the law! I thought any DUI was a felony.
Do you think those horns screwed up Brooks & Dunn during their performance of “Should Have Been a Cowboy”?
April 9, 2024 @ 7:50 am
No idea. They should have had that song practiced up so no matter what technical issues surfaced, they could fight through it.
April 8, 2024 @ 7:21 pm
I completely disagree that Nashville PD’s response is an overreation. Throwing a 20lb chair from a 6th floor balcony could have killed someone; thankfully noboby was injured. I’m not saying that Wallen should be doing hard jail time, but damn, play stupid games…win stupid prizes. Also, what a slap in Church’s face with his asshat out of control drunk buddy bringing in bad PR already.
April 8, 2024 @ 7:27 pm
I don’t know enough about what constitutes a misdemeanor vs a felony, so I won’t comment on that. I will say that this is unbelievably reckless behavior. It’s not a stretch at all to say he could have paralyzed or even killed someone. A chair coming from above at that speed is going to hit someone’s head before any other part of the body. And it will do so with a significant amount of force.
If someone is drunk enough to throw a chair off a 6th floor balcony, they’re also drunk enough to not have much control of where it lands.
I think this article way too easy on Wallen here. Just because there was no damage or no injuries doesn’t mean this isn’t extremely serious. It’s pure happenstance that there were no injuries. If he were messing around and shot a gun instead (but didn’t hit anyone), would you have the same reaction?
April 8, 2024 @ 8:06 pm
In this article I said that Morgan Wallen was an embarrassment to himself, his fans, and country music. Not sure how much harder I could have been on him, and from my knowledge, Saving Country Music is the only outlet so far to share any opinions or analysis on this matter beyond reporting the facts of the case.
My one quibble is with those facts. Nobody was injured. Reckless endangerment in Tennessee is a Class A misdemeanor, and that’s what this incident feels like to me. It was graduated to a felony by adding the “with a deadly weapon” charge, which I can’t imagine any jury would convict on, and few prosecutors would even bring.
The idea here is to get Wallen to plea down to the misdemeanors so they avoid trial. Prosecutors do this all the time, and the result is a breakdown in the justice system that is unfair to both the defendants, and the public.
A class A misdemeanor still comes with serious consequences. He would probably still have to do jail time, pay fines, and do community service. A felony can mean you lose your rights as a citizen for the rest of your life. You can’t vote, you can’t own a firearm. It wouldn’t really affect Wallen, but felons can’t work in many jobs and have a hard time finding work.
This is how we’ve created such high recidivism in the United States. You get a felony, and basically your life is over. I have no love for Morgan Wallen, but that seems like a steep price to pay for an incident where nobody was even hurt. Especially three felonies.
All that said, I don’t want to downplay the seriousness of this incident. I’m taking it very seriously, and I think the country music industry should as well.
April 8, 2024 @ 10:15 pm
The chair became a deadly weapon once he threw it off a six story roof. Also not a legal scholar, just pretending here.
Tennessee Code Title 39: Criminal Offenses
(5) “Deadly weapon” means:
(A) A firearm or anything manifestly designed, made or adapted for the purpose of inflicting death or serious bodily injury; or
(B) Anything that in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury;
https://codes.findlaw.com/tn/title-39-criminal-offenses/tn-code-sect-39-11-106/
There’s a lot of asymmetries in our legal system as far as particular crimes and punishment are concerned, but it’s not a stretch call a 20 lb steel chair a deadly weapon given where he was when he threw it. I say, the charge fits that definition.
#birdlaw
April 8, 2024 @ 10:47 pm
I think you would have a real hard time convincing anyone that Morgan Wallen intended to use the chair as a weapon, “made or adapted” the chair as a weapon, or “in the manner of its use,” wielded the chair as a weapon. He was reckless, not malicious.
Again, I think what Wallen did was egregious and he should have been arrested and prosecuted for it. Of course it could have hurt or killed someone. But it didn’t. Felonies are reserved for the times when it does.
April 9, 2024 @ 7:05 am
“in manner of its use . . . is capable of causing death or serious bodily injury.”
Doesn’t need intent to cause death or injury. Doesn’t actually need to cause death or injury. Doesn’t need to be a traditional weapon.
Yes, it will get pleaded down. But let’s not pretend like his actions don’t rise to the legal definition of this felony charge.
April 9, 2024 @ 6:21 am
“Not sure how much harder I could have been on him”
I appreciate you taking the matter of whether it’s a felony or misdemeanor seriously. And I get that it matters and has implications beyond Wallen. But by spending so much energy saying that no one got hurt / it’s a harmless crime, it comes across as being easy on Wallen.
I don’t care as much about the legal ins and outs of this case. Maybe the felony aspect of this deserves it’s own space so that we don’t get lost in the weeds.
I do care that Wallen got drunk and nearly killed a police officer by acting like a 12-year-old.
April 9, 2024 @ 7:55 am
2 paragraphs of the 15-paragraph article pointed out that the felony charges were brought so that Wallen will be able to plea them down and get convicted on misdemeanor charges without the matter going to trial. I would say that it’s this comments section that is “spending so much energy” on this point as opposed to the crux of what I was arguing in the article.
And when Wallen pleads down to misdemeanors—which will happen—we can all revisit my initial comments and this comments section, and perhaps it will make more sense at that time.
April 9, 2024 @ 8:55 am
Look – I’m saying this as a reader. Those two paragraphs are important and made the whole tone of this article come across as “No big deal – no one got hurt.”
Just my interpretation of what I read. Based on the comments, seems like I wasn’t alone.
90% of the time I agree with you in lockstep. But this assessment feels off to me as a reader.
April 9, 2024 @ 1:51 pm
10-4, and I appreciate the feedback. Perhaps this wasn’t the best forum to broach this subject. But I do think trumping up charges on citizens in victimless crimes is an issue. Whenever I see it happen, my inclination is to speak up.
April 9, 2024 @ 5:45 pm
Fair enough. I was being honest too when I said that these are important questions to asked. We’d be better off if more journalists and media folks had a skeptical eye like yourself when it comes to these sorts of things.
April 8, 2024 @ 7:43 pm
Trigger, you should reach out to Morgan and tell him he needs YOU to interview him. I think we’d get clear answers if you could and he would.
If you had the desire that is. Which you likely do not. But I think you would ask the right questions.
April 8, 2024 @ 8:07 pm
Oh no, a music star acting reckless. Good golly oh molly. From what i just read, not a soul was hurt. Was it dumb? sure. Do I care at all? Not even a little. Have I ever heard a Morgan Wallen song? maybe, but I didn’t know it.
Waylon used to snort 20K of cocaine a week. That it reckless and insane. What Morgon is doing is lame on the chaos scale.
April 8, 2024 @ 10:12 pm
I think it’s bizarre to compare this to things that some celebrities did 40-50 years ago.
April 8, 2024 @ 8:14 pm
i just wish the liberals would stop trying to cancel him over his continued abhorrent behavior. he’s a good guy! somewhere. deep down? right?!
April 11, 2024 @ 7:19 pm
As soon as the Marjorie Taylor Green crowd learns how to police themseves…..Lol Lo
April 8, 2024 @ 8:15 pm
“Well excuse me, but I think you’ve got my chair…”
April 8, 2024 @ 11:41 pm
…this famous texan pickup lline gets a whole new meaning when shouted from a 6th floor rooftop terrace down to the police on the street.
April 8, 2024 @ 8:58 pm
It’s ok. Some of his best friends are chairs….
April 8, 2024 @ 9:12 pm
“no one got hurt” is a terrible defense for a grownass man behaving in that way.
April 9, 2024 @ 7:59 am
“No one got hurt” was not used as a defense of his actions. 13 paragraphs of this 15-paragraph article were used to point out how Wallen’s actions were completely inexcusable, and fit a deeper patter of behavior that has become an embarrassment for Wallen, his fans, and country music. 2 paragraphs were used to explain that felony charges were brought as a punitive measure to try and get Wallen to plead down to lesser charges, which will happen.
April 9, 2024 @ 8:22 am
Felony charges were brought because his actions fit the elements for the felony charge.
That is a different discussion than whether he will plead down, which I think we all agree he will, to his benefit.
April 9, 2024 @ 9:13 am
it’s just my opinion that the “no one got hurt” comment was too much even if it was just one line in a 15-paragraph article. it is true that no one got hurt but we should keep in mind that the difference between “no one got hurt” and someone ending up dead or a quadriplegic is just dumb random luck.
in my opinion just going by what cops are like when they are being cops wallen was damned lucky he wasn’t charged with attempted murder on a peace officer. tacked on nonsense charges are a serious problem for people that cant afford good lawyers but dunno why that is being brought up in this guys situation trust me it wont affect him in the least aside from a few more hours on his legal bill.
April 9, 2024 @ 1:49 pm
” tacked on nonsense charges are a serious problem for people that cant afford good lawyers but dunno why that is being brought up in this guys situation.”
It’s being brought up in this situation because people not named Morgan Wallen that don’t have millions of dollars to wiggle out of charges get hit with trumped up charges every single day in the United States and it has led us to incarcerating our population more than any other civilized nation while still not stemming actual crime, meaning things that happen where people are actually victimized.
Perhaps this wasn’t the best forum to broach this subject. I know I’m in the minority here caring about this. But this really is a serious issue, and something that has affected multiple people I know.
April 10, 2024 @ 7:12 am
sometimes you gotta play the cards you have, because of the cards you safely presume your opponent will play.
Situation A: ignore it
SCM gets dozens of comments, emails and inquiries about ‘why no morgan wallen chair article
Alternate result: Morgan Wallen enters public consciousness specifically for throwing a chair down at some cops deliberately. misinformation
Option B: cover it neutrally (as so done)
result: conservatives wig out about cancelling a guy for having a few
Alternate result: liberals wig out for being too lenient
You can’t really win with any coverage of a controversial guy, Trig. you do you and for what it’s worth i thought this was a fair and non-biased article that both explains how the system might treat this and how it maybe ‘should’ treat it in an ideal scenario, as well as what it represents for Morgan Wallen
April 8, 2024 @ 9:13 pm
I don’t know what’s worse, this goofball throwing a chair, or Eric Church opening a bar on Broadway. I imagine it has to be six stories for Church to be able to fit his overinflated head and ego into the bar.
April 8, 2024 @ 9:32 pm
I’d be embarrassed & super thankful nothing bad happened from my dumb choices. This should make him think about his sobriety. *Not saying it will.*Thank God nobody was hurt. I have seen more dangerous antics and closer calls at bon fires, way back in my 20s. I think most of the charges are excessive.
April 8, 2024 @ 9:33 pm
I’d be embarrassed & super thankful nothing bad happened from my dumb choices. This should make him think about his sobriety. *Not saying it will.*Thank God nobody was hurt. I have seen more dangerous antics and closer calls at bon fires, way back in my 20s. I think most of the charges are excessive.
April 8, 2024 @ 10:14 pm
Sorry, throwing a 20-pound steel chair off of a six-story roof onto a sidewalk where people are walking and congregating creates a very substantial risk of causing death or catastrophic injury. It should legitimately be charged as a felony. At the very least, Wallen needs to provide an explanation as why he did it and why he won’t do it again. (Assuming that he’s not going to mount a defense asserting that he DIDN’T do it.)
Should he should be able to work it down to a misdemeanor–by taking anger-managment classes, doing community service, getting drug- and alcohol tested, and staying out of trouble? Maybe. [It’s not unusual to work out a deal where a defendant pleads to a felony with the provision that if he serves his sentence, gets drug-tested, stays out of trouble, etc., then in 6 months, or a year, he’ll be allowed to replead to a misdemeanor.]
I thought the n-word incident with Wallen was overblown because (1) he apparently did not direct it at a black person, but at one of his white friends, (2) it was not meant for public consumption and (3) I believe in some sort of equity. Hip-hop stars can say pretty much ANYTHING and the general attitude is “that’s just hip-hop” or “He’s playing a character.”
But this latest incident is, if anything, “underblown.”
April 8, 2024 @ 11:37 pm
Wallen is a grade-A meathead and most of his songs are generic but if Waylon or any Outlaw performed this same act in the 1970s, it would be recalled today as a badass feat.
And the point can’t be denied when George Jones’ gun story is lauded.
April 8, 2024 @ 11:47 pm
…one thing at a time – this time a mug shot.
love,
morgan
April 9, 2024 @ 1:32 am
Perhaps he was just publicising his mate’s new bar, knowing it would be the second sentence in any story. But yes, pillock’s gonna pillock. What a magnificent example he is setting his son.
April 9, 2024 @ 2:16 am
What a fool, probably a drunken fool. No excuses.
April 9, 2024 @ 3:56 am
Reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where Elaine throws the electronic phone book out of the limousine.
But seriously, if it went 3 ft in another direction, it would be murder.
April 9, 2024 @ 4:01 am
It will go down in History! ‘Can you remember where you were when Morgan Wallen threw the chair? Did you feel a chill as it flew down through the air? Missing a couple of cops who were just standing there? In the history of the American nation, It defies a rational explanation…’
April 9, 2024 @ 4:53 am
Love his music and everything country, but he’s got some issues that need to be dealt with on a personal level. It says the PD has over-reacted? If that chair hit anyone, if it didn’t kill them, they’d be in a world of hurt for sure. Not judging, not MY place to, but it would appear to me that alcohol is a very big factor here and he needs to get a handle on it before he hurts himself or someone else. Hate to see anyone destroy themselves over something that can be controlled but HE has to take the first step and keep walking that line, I hope he can take care of himself before he loses the fans respect but more importantly, his own self respect. Peace out.
April 9, 2024 @ 5:55 am
Wasting time writing about a pop music singer of others songs is simply that…a waste of time. I could not recognize one of his songs, other than the Isbell cover. Bottom line, he is the modern day Bay City Rollers who will be remembered as…well…as a singer of pop songs. Move along, this is a story about nothing. I think the dude is trying very hard to keep his name “out there” by these antics. Who gives a shit. I was just about to say he will soon go the way of….errr…who were those two country rap dudes that were popular with the young girls….not bullshitting…I forgot their name…they were big a few years ago….but they sucked and apparently got angry with one another due to differing political views and broke up. Thankfully the kids are starting to recognize decent country music played by those who wrote their own songs and actually are talented musicians. This dude is….well…I don’t know…from what I am told…is a wanna be country music singer who’s music sucks.
April 9, 2024 @ 6:07 am
I think the question is not if Wallen deserves it but whether or not any other drunken douchebag would get the same charge in the same circumstances. It is kind of stupid to argue that a chair is as deadly as a gun but 2nd amendment purists love to point out that more people get murdered with blunt instruments each year than rifles. A 20 lb. metal chair certainly could be used to kill in a fit of rage and we all understand that it could have killed anybody it fell on. I’m sure you are correct that it’s a plea down charge but that’s an issue with the criminal justice system not Wallen. I strongly suspect that anybody else would get the same charges particularly if they were on the cops radar for previous behavior. I doubt many would be seen joking and laughing with the cops as they drove away. And his whole attitude here gives us reason to think that he doesn’t take this situation very seriously and probably does not need to. He’s rich and a lot of other people’s money rides on him so he’s going to have a lot more defense both legal and cultural than the average idiot gets. While the big incident was most certainly overblown it didn’t really hurt him but in fact cemented a culture war cult of personality status for him. Calling his big album “Dangerous” seemed like an obvious reference to that rather than being outlaw. What he is really now is a spoiled and out of control rock star.
April 9, 2024 @ 8:02 am
” I doubt many would be seen joking and laughing with the cops as they drove away.”
Morgan Wallen’s demeanor is a major part of this story, and if this situation goes to trial, it will be used against him.
April 9, 2024 @ 6:39 am
Put the guy in jail. Just do it. For a few months? A year? Fine. It’s not an overstatement to say that he could have killed or seriously injured someone here, and he didn’t care at all. I don’t care how drunk you are – doing something like that means you are a danger to society.
The guy needs a true wake up call, not some PR-massaged slap on the wrist. What has he done to deserve lenience? Nothing.
Put. Him. In. Jail.
April 9, 2024 @ 6:40 am
Too bad you used Morgan Wallen’s “N” word incident to attack folk who want to hold Country music accountable for its history (and present giving its recent handling of several instances where black performers’ work were rather harshly scrutinized) of less-than-progressive of BIPOC (Black,Indigenous,People Of Colour) fans and artists,but that’s something this ol’ black cowboy has come to expect from certain quarters of the industry
I thought Wallen was on the road to sobriety,which I hope for his and Country music’s sake he finds and travels as the genre’s most popular artist and one of its best.In his early thirties,mastering abstemiousness will be the key to a much more fulfilling life and career for this talented,troubled young man.
April 9, 2024 @ 7:39 am
Still, the biggest crime he’s committed is continually releasing terrible hick-hop and the general public shooting it to the top of the charts.
Serious though, glad no one was injured. What an insane thing to do, especially in a place as crowded as Broadway.
April 10, 2024 @ 8:44 pm
My thoughts exactly. The real felony here is his horrible music! That’s what he should do hard time for. Waylon and GJ seemed cooler because they WERE cool and great artists.
April 9, 2024 @ 8:11 am
5,000 thousand ppl go missing in Nashville every Saturday but they caught the exterior decorator wooooo yeeehaw
April 9, 2024 @ 8:33 am
over two capacity ryman shows worth of people go missing in nashville every week? what. lmao.
April 10, 2024 @ 3:43 pm
That’s just the Saturdays that Garth isn’t in town….
April 9, 2024 @ 8:13 am
If he wanted this much attention, he should’ve just went to the CMT awards…Just another cry for attention.
April 9, 2024 @ 10:50 am
If the 2024 CMA Award show was as bad as critics say, then Mr. Wallen should have won the Entertainer of the Year category!. What a “Drunken Baffon” with a KKK dragon complex!. This is the worst article about country music I have read. To compare this common rascal to legends like: “George Jones, Faron Young, Johnny Cash or Waylon Jennings” is inexcusable Trigger! – why not a more familiar story — Jelly Roll of “I Need A Favor?.” “…no intend,,,victimless crime” bullshit. If Mr. Wallen does not go to jail because “it was a “victimless crime” then you are invoking the unfortunate Derek Chauvine “murder” case and “The Black Lives Matter” saga in a very charged political era that began in February of 2021!. Yeah, “posting bond and avoiding jail time” is nothing shot of “White Privilege” because a 20Ib chair is a lethal weapon. Wanna try?.
April 9, 2024 @ 11:06 am
*CMT
April 9, 2024 @ 10:51 am
Church must be delighted, you can’t pay for advertising like this. Imagine how many people are saying ‘I didn’t even know Eric Church had a bar’ and ‘so out of all the bars in Nashville that’s where stars like Morgan go’.
It doesn’t make it any more appealing to me, but it will to a hell of a lot of people.
April 9, 2024 @ 12:08 pm
I’m not as familiar with Morgan or his music as many of y’all are.
But this guy is not going to end well unless and until he grows up.
That may or may not include treatment for substance abuse disorder or for other mental health-related issues.
I hope he gets whatever help he needs so he can grow up.
I’m so happy that he didn’t hurt anyone.
April 9, 2024 @ 12:10 pm
The above post about Morgan is supposed to be from TNChris, not TN.
thanks.
April 9, 2024 @ 1:03 pm
I’m betting a strong partial explanation on the harshness of the charges is that he tossed the chair so close to some cops.
They were likely pissed, and that could’ve passed through to the charging. Who knows if he gave them attitude, as well.
But I bet you that he might’ve gotten a misdemeanor — or even nothing — if the chair landed next to anyone else
April 9, 2024 @ 1:13 pm
No doubt. I think if this issue involved civilians, there may have not even been anyone to make a 911 call. That doesn’t excuse the behavior. It was a stupid thing to do that put lives at risk. But the police perhaps thought someone was trying to hit them, took it personally, and brought the maximal punishment.
April 9, 2024 @ 5:57 pm
I think that the chair landing by police officers simply sped the process up. I have a hard time imagining a civilian in the same situation in the same spot with the same 20 lb chair thrown from six stories above landing feet away saying “whoa, that was a close one” and letting the whole thing slide and not saying anything to anyone. I have a hard time believing that if a civilian came into Eric Church’s bar, or any other bar, and said a chair was thrown from your six story roof, that no action is taken.
This is downtown Nashville, in a heavily trafficked area; not saying there’s zero chance that nothing gets reported and nothing happens, but I’d bet the chances of that are much more slim than one of the dozens of people at the bar or on the street that witnessed it report it, can’t imagine Nashville brushing of weaponized chairs falling from the sky.
Not sure if this analogy holds water, but if he was driving a car and went through a crowd without malice or intent to harm but didn’t hit anyone, would/should that be considered a misdemeanor given no loss of life?
April 9, 2024 @ 1:37 pm
The “Charter: for “Saving Country Music” Trigger, “is to fight for the purity of the genre, for balance and fairness within its focus and ranks…”. Real Country Music fans consider: “George Jones, Faron Young, Johnny Cash and Waylon Jennings” Country Music Giants and Legends because of their Historical importance to the American story. From their experiences and “errors” there are lessons to be learned of what to do and not do. Mr. Wallen, who you have claimed “country’s most popular artist” does not belong in this category; let alone genre. He lost the 2024 Entertainer of the year award to Mr. Jelly Roll who won three awards more than any artist; so, where is your article about Mr. Jelly Roll?. Mr. Wallen has failed American civics class more than once and should be taught a lesson. The smile on his mug shot is appalling!
April 9, 2024 @ 1:41 pm
I really do enjoy your prank comments, Sylvia.
April 9, 2024 @ 4:48 pm
The charges are absolutely appropriate. This dumb fucker through a chair off of a 6th story balcony on Broadway. This shows a complete disregard for human life, dude is a sociopath.
April 9, 2024 @ 6:39 pm
How many people were in the street, and did he check before tossing the chair.
April 9, 2024 @ 6:53 pm
It’s Def a stupid thing to do. Are the charges excessive , maybe but at some point he needs to get a grip. Now a lot of people are still harping on him cause of the n word incident which was always a Dust up about nothing. Personal private conversation between friends, should have stayed that way. But he obviously has some personal demons that need attended to.
April 10, 2024 @ 2:44 am
Legend. If you don’t like him, Fuck You!!!
April 10, 2024 @ 5:32 am
It’s all about choices. If he had thrown HIMSELF off the roof we’d all have a reason to cheer him.
April 10, 2024 @ 5:34 am
Considering what Broadway has become, I can’t really blame the cops for lowering the boom on him. Gotta start holding drunks accountable for their actions in public.
I can see some stupid Wallen fan getting drunk and tossing a chair over the side in worship to their hero. Someone might get hurt then. Maybe some actual accountability on Wallen’s part might discourage copycat behavior down the line.
Then again, it is downtown Nashville, who am I kidding…
April 10, 2024 @ 7:25 am
I don’t think Morgan Wallen is malicious. i think he’s an idiot. he just radiates high school football jock who got passed through the grades despite a 1st grade reading level because he kept winning games.
He seems like a college boozer who studied anatomy… outside of class hours (ahem)
That doesn’t make him a bad guy, but it does make me think he’d have been mean to me in high school. he just seems like a guy who is rebelling against authority because growing up everyone made him follow the rules and no one explained why the rules mattered.
Lots of people are at this stage in life. it’s not so uncommon.
I think community service is essential, not because what he did was more or less awful, but because community service is an enlightening experience that hopefully can help him meet people and see himself from the outside.
April 10, 2024 @ 10:15 am
Tour Rider
Morgan Wallen’s “Ignorant” Tour 2024
Copy of Lowriders Magazine
Baby oil
3 Tarps
Pita bread, hummus, sprouts
Bro staging area
50 Bottles of Jack Daniels
Celestial Seasonings Tea (Lemon, Green, Peppermint)
Action figures (Marvel, DC… etc NO POWER RANGERS!)
Hot Babysitter for baby
WWF Royal Rumble Dish Network Package
100 green M & M’s
Reasonably current New Yorker Magazine
5 metal chairs (For throwing)
April 10, 2024 @ 11:50 am
I’m with Trigger. American society is over criminalized. Too many laws and too tough of sentences. He should pay a fine at most and be facing felony charges.
April 10, 2024 @ 11:53 am
So incredibly ridiculous how much time is being spent by fans, the media and radio about this incident. An idiot throws a chair off a building. Goes to jail. Front page and features stories everywhere.
Why must ignorance be celebrated and spotlighted so much?
Aren’t there more deserving artists, stories and songs to write about?
So happy the media is helping the idiot raise funds to cover court costs by way of back end streaming revenue boosts that come as a result of stories like this.
Bravo. ????????
April 10, 2024 @ 12:33 pm
It might sound surprising from someone who wrote an article about it, but I agree. I did feel like it needed to be addressed. But dovetailing with my opinion that three felony charges are too much for this incident, so is the press obsession. Nobody got hurt. Nothing really happened. Yes, Wallen should face consequences. No, it doesn’t deserve a dozen news stories. But as we’ve seen over the years, Wallen makes for succulent click bait.
April 10, 2024 @ 4:47 pm
Yep, the media needs Morgan Wallen. They gotta have a villain and he’s their exhibit A. Country music bad, got it? Racist, got it? He’s popular with the bad racists, got it? He’s crazy, he trys to murder people with chairs, lock him up, string him up, cancel him at once!!! Dont you people get it, he’s baaaaad! A menace, and the sooner we can make an example of him, the better off civilation will be!! Outrage!!! Outrage!!! Outrage!!!! Aghhhhhhh!!! ( screaming at the sky)
April 10, 2024 @ 5:34 pm
: D You know this is going to fly right over the head of …
April 10, 2024 @ 2:14 pm
So, let’s summaries from where I came across “Saving Country Music” article Tigger, “Has Country Music Been Saved?” Based the 2024 CMA Award show articles I suppose not. Therefore, so much for your theory of fussing other musical genres into an already established musical genre — “The Traditional Country Music” of Nashville Tennessee and “The Traditional Texas Western Swing” sounds of Bob Wills and the “Neo-Traditional Texas Western Swing” sounds of Mr. George Strait Sr. and the “Ace in the Hole” band. There are many reasons to keep an idea just an idea in this case. However, you are masterful in “New Country Music” which I dont understand and perhaps, may never understand sadly.
April 10, 2024 @ 4:06 pm
Are you concussed?
April 11, 2024 @ 7:30 pm
Syl, Run out of Beyoncé threads to troll??
April 10, 2024 @ 5:06 pm
the real story here is “entourage failure”.
axiomatic for those in one’s entourage – the “entouragers” – is that they keep the “entouragee”, in this case morgan wallen, alive and liked and productive.
otherwise, poof to the easy-living entourage gig.
morgan wallen’s entouragers failed him. again.
i wonder what whitney houston’s (r.i.p) entourage is up to lately.
April 10, 2024 @ 5:34 pm
I’m a TRUE outlaw for being a boyishly handsome,genius-level brainy,70-year-old black Country music fan.
April 10, 2024 @ 5:38 pm
Especially if the perp is black,brown,yellow or red,FCRA .
April 11, 2024 @ 4:17 pm
Morgan Wallen is a great singer, and far better than Jason Isbell. His studio musicians are first-rate. Some of his songs are really good, and some aren’t. He connects with a lot of you people who know he isn’t Mr. Clean. They aren’t either. That’s why Wallen fans are also often Zach Bryan fans. They also know, as we all know, that Wallen needs to get a handle on his drinking.
And we all also know that felony charges are stupid, like, Fani Willis level stupid. That said, part of his sentence needs to be rehab.
April 11, 2024 @ 7:47 pm
He deserves what he gets. He’s in the public eye. And as far as being drunk, what if this was an F350 instead of a chair? I’m sure you all would be calling for a “Fanni” if you/loved ones got hit….
April 11, 2024 @ 7:54 pm
If he was driving an F-350 drunk and got pulled over it would be a misdemeanor unless it was his 3rd offense. If he hit someone in both cases, separate charges would stem from the incident.
April 13, 2024 @ 6:36 am
Brad,would you care if Jimmie Allen,Kane Brown or Darius Rucker did dumb stuff ? (Oh wait,two of them already have!)
April 14, 2024 @ 11:29 pm
Obviously he’s not going to get three felonies, and obviously this is reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon. Just the same as if he threw a rock. I’ve seen someone fall 25 feet onto concrete and it was horrific. A twenty pound stainless steel chair from that height would absolutely kill or permanently mess up someone’s life. That’s what the law is for. The thing I have not seen in the comments or coverage is what does Eric Church think? If someone I knew or had industry contacts with did something like that at my joint the shit would absolutely be gloves off apocalyptic shit on their dumb ass.