  Mickeymac Member Username: Mickeymac Post Number: 34 Registered: 08-2008 |
Why are yall's take on Ted Nugent? I know some people dont like him because of his political views, and his music. I like the Lourdes and the Amboy Dukes, but I dont like his solo work. I dont agree with everything he says, but at least he has the guts to speak his mind. Also whenever he mentiones his home turf of Detroit, he always acknowledges the Funk Brothers. He gets high points with me for that one. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 3389 Registered: 07-2004 |
He's a ground-breaking rock musician and a total idiot. | ||
Alan55 Member Username: Alan55 Post Number: 2262 Registered: 09-2005 |
Nugent should follow the same advice all of his political brethren screamed at the Dixie Chicks when they voiced their political views - "Just shut up and sing!" | ||
Django Member Username: Django Post Number: 2096 Registered: 10-2003 |
Ted did a "benefit" show for developmentally disabled kids in Northern Michigan. He wouldn't show up until paid his fee for doing the "benefit". $10,000 I think was the number. During his sound check before the actual show, someone brought some of the kids to watch him warm up on stage. Ted promptly said into the stage mic "Get these retards outta here until Im done". Exactly what I would expect from him. Ive never been able to listen to Stranglehold the same way since then. | ||
Eastburn Member Username: Eastburn Post Number: 491 Registered: 03-2008 |
I used to be involved with a youth alcohol & drug treatment program. We ran "The Great American Drug Bust" annually. Folks could pay to have friends arrested who then had to raise donations for their bail. Pretty common fund raiser. Nugent was our "celebrity arrestee" one year. He drove in from Jackson with his wife & spent the whole day with us. Got us publicity on all the rock stations and helped raise a whole bunch of money. Had a lot of fun with him. Down-to-earth as all get out. Great guy as far as I'm concerned. | ||
Jarvo Member Username: Jarvo Post Number: 6 Registered: 09-2008 |
he is so full of himself its sickening... he is a phoney...in the same vain as rush limbaugh...always professing how "we as americans" need to live our lives...when his own backyard is not what he claims it to be... he is such a great patriot and upstanding and honorable citizen who loves our country and supports its troops...the mention of his name kinda rubs me the wrong way yet ask him to tell us how he avoided the draft and his chicken-shit stance on the vietnam war, being the great loyal patriot that he is. ...or how he treated his first wife... or how he was touring and raking in tens of millions of dollars and was damn near bankruptcy himself... i used to enjoy his music and his live performances when i was a youngin' way back in the 60's and 70's...but now i think he is full of shit and is just another tool for the lame-ass greedy right wing | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 8844 Registered: 10-2003 |
He plays a mean guitar, and can shoot a bow like nobody's business. End of his talent list. | ||
Long_in_the_tooth Member Username: Long_in_the_tooth Post Number: 137 Registered: 01-2007 |
Kill'em an Grill'em | ||
Duke_sims Member Username: Duke_sims Post Number: 74 Registered: 05-2008 |
Nugent is way overrated. Yeah, he had a couple good songs -- but so did Mott the Hoople. Big whoop. And I'm glad Ted enjoys hunting. So does my Uncle Joe. The difference is, my Uncle Joe is too busy actually hunting to spend his time constantly telling everybody about it. | ||
Daddeeo Member Username: Daddeeo Post Number: 181 Registered: 09-2008 |
You have to take a celebrity's endorsement with a grain of salt. When they get out of their realm of expertise, they often don't know what the hell they are talking about. Ted gets pretty obnoxious when he gets political. | ||
Rjk Member Username: Rjk Post Number: 1246 Registered: 11-2003 |
I don't see what the big deal is. There are plenty of Hollywood stars who talk about politics, but it's not like they force their way into your living room. If you don't like turn the channel/station. These people are pretty easy to ignore. | ||
Ggores Member Username: Ggores Post Number: 418 Registered: 10-2007 |
I think Ted does his fair share of hunting, enough so to speak in an informed way regards ecology. I don't see how one like him can be "overrated", because he's largely dismissed when it comes to being regarded as anything beyond a sort of comic-book persona. But he's been just that for 40 years. I, and friends, like alot of his work, perhaps Free For All (with some good contributions from Meat Loaf) is about his most substantive work. But he also gets alot of criticism's. He's known to have bad personnel problems, and private-life issues (while maintaining all the while how he is so "toxic-free"). But I think he's alright. He speaks well of Michigan. He's a lightining rod for retaliatory remarks, but that's his style. He'd probably think me a complete whimp, though, cuz I don't hunt. But there ya go. In my book, his most memorable saying is when he can be heard at the end of Baby Please Don't Go, from Double Live Gonzo: "San Antonio! San Antonio! Suck my bonio!" And that cover of George Harrison's "I Got To Tell You" was a pretty, ummmm, unfortunate endeavour. I have heard that Cliff Davie's... ah, forget it. Still, Ted was one of the best concerts I attended as a yunggin scruffian. | ||
Bobl Member Username: Bobl Post Number: 130 Registered: 07-2008 |
He was smart enough not to fall into the destructive hard drug culture that ruined so many in the late sixties. Accomplished showman with a sense of humor. Hard worker who played a good guitar. Obnoxious, egotistical and narrow minded, which he has a right to be. I wish he'd lighten up, come back down to earth and show a little kindness and understanding to those who do not agree with him. Maybe play some inspired, original music again. Time to take a journey to •••••••••••••••••••• | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 2488 Registered: 07-2007 |
He believes anyone who can wake up to an alarm clock and go to work should. He believes people should carry their own weight and not be entitled to something just because they are alive. This is scary to most libs who want government to control many aspects of your life. | ||
Downriviera Member Username: Downriviera Post Number: 1011 Registered: 02-2008 |
I like how he tries to explain how the song Journey To The Center Of The Mind is not about drugs. Yeah right. | ||
Lferg Member Username: Lferg Post Number: 31 Registered: 07-2008 |
I've never been a huge fan of Ted's music, but can't hear his name without thinking about Detroit! | ||
Lefty2 Member Username: Lefty2 Post Number: 2490 Registered: 07-2007 |
It was written by the group's guitarist, Steve Farmer. Nugent said he never did drugs and punched someone into a pool in high schools when they wanted him to hit a j. | ||
Ddaydave Member Username: Ddaydave Post Number: 581 Registered: 04-2005 |
2 things I don't like about ted first he is a chicken hawk he admitted it in a free press article years back. second most of his hits were sung by Derrick ST Holmes but never would give the guy any credit to the guy saying there could only be one alpha male in the band strangle hold was sung by Derrick and many others | ||
Youdummy Member Username: Youdummy Post Number: 5 Registered: 08-2008 |
I told my parents many times that I never did drugs, but that never made it true. I also didn't appear on an album that's cover was nothing but bongs and hash pipes. | ||
Izzyindetroit Member Username: Izzyindetroit Post Number: 114 Registered: 07-2008 |
I really enjoyed his VH1 tv show a few years back. It was terribly trashy entertaining. I especially liked when he would keep the anti-gun and animal rights activist just to make them suffer and entertain himself. | ||
Pffft Member Username: Pffft Post Number: 1760 Registered: 12-2003 |
If Ted had served in the Vietnam Era instead of going through all kinds of shenanigans so he wouldn't have to be a soldier...he might have some respect from those of us old enough to remember. It'd be different if he was a conscientious objector. He wasn't, and isn't. Chicken. Hawk. | ||
Ddaydave Member Username: Ddaydave Post Number: 582 Registered: 04-2005 |
http://www.timesargus.com/apps /pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2006052 8/NEWS/605280336/1015/EDUCATIO N05 also google ted nugent chickenhawk | ||
Larryinflorida Member Username: Larryinflorida Post Number: 3061 Registered: 02-2007 |
Controversy sells. Musicians er Arti...um Guitar Players that have a right leaning view are the exception and automatically controversial. But much of his culture is from being weaned on pure Mort Neff and Jerry Chipetta. Michigan Outdoors, lol. And while the need to be hunter-gatherers has diminished in our society, We may see a return for self-sufficiency, and bagging your own quarry to eat, depending on the outcome of the election. So he may just be ahead of his time. | ||
Lowell Moderator Username: Lowell Post Number: 5084 Registered: 07-2008 |
Hitler was a decent artist and the worst human being ever. Personality, humanity and creativity often have no relationship. | ||
Reddog289 Member Username: Reddog289 Post Number: 633 Registered: 08-2007 |
As Peter Werbe said 'GREAT GUITARIST' and leaves it at that. My whole life i,ve heard so many things good and bad about Ted so who to belive. | ||
Hpgrmln Member Username: Hpgrmln Post Number: 609 Registered: 06-2007 |
I have to wonder how much of what we hear is really him, or if he's very good at putting on an act to fit an image. Much of what he says just seems too exaggerated to be serious, like he has to work hard at it. | ||
Kenp Member Username: Kenp Post Number: 1225 Registered: 03-2006 |
Anybody who endorses Detroit in their music and views is cool with me. I grew up listening to Ted and like many of his songs. I dont really like to listen to him talk so I just turn the station. Everyone on here blasting him for being out spoken seem to be the same type to me. And why bring Hitler in to this, wow! | ||
Johnlodge Member Username: Johnlodge Post Number: 8848 Registered: 10-2003 |
Lowell! Reductio ad Hitlerum! | ||
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk Post Number: 391 Registered: 11-2006 |
LOL!Lowell | ||
Mickeymac Member Username: Mickeymac Post Number: 36 Registered: 08-2008 |
What's Hitler got to do with this. |
