Ted Nugent

These his album titles? I'm voting for Full Bluntal Nugity, not having ever really heard a note of his music. Damn Yakees is pretty close.

Love Grenade excellent too. I may have to become a fan.

Ted's recent work has been better than anyone has had reason to expect. Particularly when compared to other classic rockers now deemed oldies acts, whether they're just doing rehash or not. Craveman was marginally better than Love Grenade. Both were worth repeat listens. Full Blontal Nugity great versions of Paralyzed and Yank Me Crank Me.

However, if you want it like it was, at the top, then the must buys are Ted Nugent, Free for All, Cat Scratch Fever. And you gotta hear the first side of Double Live Gonzo.

Secondarily, Call of the Wild and Tooth, Fang & Claw show the development post-Amboy Dukes which would result in Ted Nugent. The difference on these two is that Ted's just not the singer
Derek St. Holmes would turn out to be, which also turned out to be Nugent's money shots.

As the Nuge was a resident in & unofficial spokesmayor for the town in which I grew up, separating the man from his music has always been a daunting task. I'm tempted to vote for one of the live albums simply for the titles: the man certainly knows his way around a turn of phrase (& apparently hasn't lost that knack b/c who wants the new Nuge joint to be titled anything other than Love Grenade

Going with FFA b/c it is the only one I own (& a fine album it is!)

Full Bluntal Nugity

lmao

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"Fred Bear" is a great song from his late period stuff.

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Just got twofer CD cheap with Call Of The Wild (1973)/Tooth, Fang & Claw (1974). Pretty good! Especially "Pony Express," "Cannon Balls" and "The Great White Buffalo." General lack of tight songwriting is made up for in inventive guitar riffs. These albums seem oddly forgotten in the scheme of things, when they seem a couple steps up from, say, Grand Funk Railroad and Alice Cooper's School's Out and Muscle Of Love.

I once delivered a pizza to The Nuge.

He tipped me with the pelt of a small woodland creature.

Tooth Fang and Claw is great. The instrumental "Hibernation" rocks.

Zero votes for Ted Nugent. "Hibernation" does rock, though. So does "Maybellene."

Did Sun Ra really make a record with Ted Nugent? Or is this just a rumor spread about "Black Antiques"?

I still love "Stranglehold."

the groove on Stranglehold is unimpeachable

you dudes need to vote in my 70s rawk poll

not many votes in total i guess but no votes for double live gonzo is crazy

I'm more of a Intensities in Ten Cities guy

"Stranglehold" is the best driving alone late at night about to get into some shit montage music ever. Has it been used in a movie like that before?

yeah it's been used in the movie called my fuckin life and the sequel my fuckin life 2: me fuckin shit up bro

Stranglehold's been used in a lot of movies. Put to good use in the Mark Wahlberg football movie "Invincible". Slow motion kickoff scene.

Ted Nugent ‏@TedNugent
I dance naked on billowy clouds with pudgy cherubs blowin revelry thru golden trumpets out their ass. NugeParty

ted nugent is his usual and charming combination of delusional and evil:

I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame, enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.

finally, many on the right are abandoning him. here's my favorite renunciation, from the washington times:

(nugent is an) aging rock musician with a loose mouth who was semifamous 40 years ago.

also lol at "what you must know how to do" in order to win elections in texas:

how to lead in prayer and know how to shoot a gun. Greg Abbott has done both, and he’s underscoring his credentials there by inviting Ted Nugent.”

finally, nugent's "apology" is, itself, lol-worthy.

I sell more records than he does now

this cracks me up because believe me I do not actually sell a whole lotta records

I sell more records than he does now

good! i hope you release an entire album arranged around the theme "I sell more records than Ted Nugent does now." i'd like to see an all-star benefit organized around shaming ted nugent into permanent retirement from politics.

i hate that guy so much.

does he still sing "jailbait"....hey, she's 13, what's the problem?

he was a semi-big act for a while in the 70s, iirc. "wango-tango."

i'd like to see an all-star benefit organized around shaming ted nugent into permanent retirement from politics.

literally any attention given to him counts as a positive. he has been in the entertainment business a long time. the only way he can sell tickets or records is to do things like call the president a mongrel. his audience now consists almost exclusively of people who get off on that, plus a few olds out of the internet bubble who'd show up to see "free for all" and instead get lectures on how the gestapo's coming to take their guns. every time he does something like this and he gets a few eyes on his name, he is stoked, because otherwise nobody is thinking about Ted Nugent.

that's true. similarly, he never seemed as happy as when he was invited to attend the SOTU address, when he knew cameras were focused on him.

I wonder if kozelek's cover of "free for all" outsells the original. probably not.

his audience now consists almost exclusively of people who get off on that, plus a few olds out of the internet bubble who'd show up to see "free for all" and instead get lectures on how the gestapo's coming to take their guns.

I saw him in NYC in 2000. He was opening for Kiss, but this was an off-night headliner at Irving Plaza. When he was actually playing, he was fucking great. Every song I wanted to hear, virtually nothing post-1980, except "Fred Bear." But even back then, he was going off on these tirades between songs—shouting about how Hillary Clinton could "suck on my machine gun," etc.—and it was just ugly and baffling. I mean, it was like song about pussy -> foaming-at-the-mouth political rant -> song about pussy. And in New York! I guess maybe on some level he figured he had to bring it even harder, being in the hometown of all the liberals and heathens and whatnot. It didn't spoil my fun; I thought at the time it was kinda funny that he was so insane. I still kind of felt that way until recently, but it's gotten a lot less funny as the years have dragged on, and frankly, "subhuman mongrel" puts him into that Dave Mustaine space where I'm not even sure I can enjoy the music anymore. I mean, I genuinely love all those albums from 1975-1980, and Spirit of the Wild, Craveman and Love Grenade have some really good songs on 'em, too, but he's just become so repulsively over-the-top...it's fucking depressing.

i think that particular concert (and it's "hrc can suck on my machine gun" line) got a lot of attention at the time

ted nugent should just run for the gop nomination in 2016. he'd have a decent chance to be the nominee, so we'd get the HRC -- Motor City Madman general election match-up this country has begged for, and that it truly deserves.

alright, let's all watch this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7yL-bSFd4A

FEEEEL YER HANDS

how drugged-up can that critter be ?

asshole

xpost I saw him maybe around the same time, and it was very similar: butt-rock classic, rant, shoot an arrow at a dummy of Saddam Hussein or Hillary Clinton, butt-rock classic, rant, repeat. It was just kinda ... gross. It's hard to tell which aspect of the performance is total bullshit. Is the politics an affectation, or is the music an afterthought? It was basically state fair fodder either way.

agreed -- butt-rock is not a term i've come across, but, very appropriate. Why is it that so many uber-white folk use their alleged patriotism to convey their obvious misogyny/racism?

I hope that buffalo took a shit on stage

Odds are strong that buffalo was killed and eaten.

"full bluntal nugity" is such a poorly formed "joek"