Ted Nugent

[alanmcorcoran]

Ted talks about animal fire, pragmatic addiction and loincloths... http://ocmusicscene.com/?p=1391

[Dupo]

Alan interviews the legend Ted Nugent and no one responds? Wow.

Great interview alan ... He is a little bit on the wacky side, but lives his life to the fullest.

[alantf]

Originally Posted by Dupo

Alan interviews the legend Ted Nugent

Who? (this question from a non American) :??:

[Moedad]

I was just able to sit down and read this interview. "Only for a few seconds" - so was it a phone interview, Alan?

Alantf - Ted Nugent is an iconic hard rocker who peaked some 35 or more years ago, but whose career is having a resurgence of sorts, perhaps in part because of his zeal for everything he does and believes, which dovetails rather nicely with how polarized American politics has become in recent years. The more, um, extreme folks on the left and the right are looking for extreme people to further the cause as they see it. The Republicans and Tea Party folks are happy (in general, which is another way of saying sometimes not quite as happy as others) to include activist/extremist rocker Ted Nugent in their ranks. And sometimes I think Ted would like to tell a lot of them to go screw :fu: themselves for being wimps.

[bonehead]

Noodge, A hard rocker and hunter, nuff said!!

[cayuse]

nice interview, Alan. I saw Nugent back in the '70s at Empire Stadium, Vancouver, Canada.
It was quite an experience. My friend and I made our way down to the field and placed ourselves about 50ft back from stage centre.

[Strelok]

I remember my Ted Nugent 8-Track had to switch tracks to play all of Stranglehold.

:tongue:

[alanmcorcoran]

Originally Posted by Dupo

Great interview alan ... He is a little bit on the wacky side, but lives his life to the fullest.

Thanks Dupo. Glad you enjoyed it, glad you read it. We're trying to get the word out a bit on the various music related going's on here in Orange County, CA and, of course, when the big names come to town, their fan bases overlap with and help build our local traffic. Also, it's fun to talk to these folks who have managed to support themselves (and a lot more) solely (or mostly) through their musicianship. I've been at it 40 years myself and still have a hard time getting anyone to listen to me for free!

[alanmcorcoran]

Originally Posted by Moedad

I was just able to sit down and read this interview. "Only for a few seconds" - so was it a phone interview, Alan?

This one was actually done vie the interwebs. It was funny - about two minutes after Ted sent me his answers, one of his fans sent us an e-mail demanding to know where he could find the interview. We contacted Ted, did the interview and put it up all in less than a day. Nuge fans are not patient!

[alanmcorcoran]

Originally Posted by cayuse

nice interview, Alan. I saw Nugent back in the '70s at Empire Stadium, Vancouver, Canada.
It was quite an experience. My friend and I made our way down to the field and placed ourselves about 50ft back from stage centre.

Thanks Cayuse. I hadn't seen him live, but had many similar experiences back in my day. Probably one of the reasons why the ringing in my ears never goes away anymore.