July 4, 2007
Ted Nugent Helps Us Remember The 1960s
The Wall Street Journal ran this piece by Ted Nugent yesterday. If you're at all inclined to check it out, do so soon, because the password protection will kick in at some point.
More or less, Nugent uses the 40th anniversary of "The Summer of Love" to rail on against drugs and "stinking hippies." There is a bit of a point in there -- that illicit substances can be destructive -- amid all the broad brush strokes, self-congratulation, and castigation of certain aspects of the 1960s cultural movement.
The line that caught our eye was his dismissal of our city as "ultra-liberal San Francisco -- a city that once wanted to give shopping carts to the homeless."
Excuse me? That's the best example of ultra-liberalism in San Francisco? Hurrumph. That's nothing. So much for keeping up with the last few years, sir.
And, seriously, how cool would the piece have been if one of those little WSJ headcut drawings of Nugent had accompanied it? We love those things. We think it'd have looked a little like this. Or not.
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illicit substances, not "elicit."
Nugent thought about running as a Republican for the Governor of Michigan ... he smells bad himself. Beef jerky anyone?
thanks, buddy.
here's the "Teditorial" on Ted's own page
http://www.tednugent.com/hunting/news/2007/default.aspx?PostID=172358
He is one pathetic shithead. His miracle food is venison? He probably rips the flesh off a live deer with his teeth as he shoots a an AK47 into the air in glee.
Jimi Hendricks and Janis may be dead of drugs, but at least they had culture changing hits that are still listened to today. You know, just like Ted what's hiz name...
So much for peace and love. The DEA should make me an honorary officer.
Ted Nugent is stewing at the prospect that he will never be Elvis Presley, just a low rent Richard Nixon lobbing love grenades at his everyone who has made his political enemies list.
Rock and Roll was supposed to be dangerous. Ted Nugent's "Nancy Reagan" style R&R threatens nobody in spite of 35 albums and 6,000 concerts (is he playing amusement parks with Spinal Tap or just Cotati Harbor?).
Damn, we just missed our chance to see Ted at the "4 Bears Casino & Lodge" in New Town, ND.
You snooze, you lose, I got stoned and I missed it. Uh, what was this thread about again?
But wait, if you're hanging around Royalton, MN on July 28 you can see Ted at the Halfway Jam 2007 Festival Grounds or if you're in Tower, MN on
July 29 catch the Nuge at Fortune Bay Resort & Casino.
Its hardly work if you can get it.
-marc
Ted Nugent is just as skanky as you would imagine- as evidence of his short lived reality show on VH1 proved.
He is really a gross whackjob.
Who's Ted Nugent?
While Ted is a moron, I do agree with him on a few points. Drugs are bad and shouldn't be glamorised. Though Ted wrote "Journey to the Center of the Mind" around the same time so how can he talk. I think the music from Haight Astbury was pretty lame too. I'd take Ted if not his counterparts the MC5 or the Stooges from Detroit over the Dead or Jefferson Airplane any day.
You might enjoy THIS take on Ted's lunatic attack.