Can you listen to Ted Nugent music any more?

[cynatnite]

I had stopped listening to it and I gave away a CD of his that I had.

Every so often Stranglehold would come on the radio and I find myself getting so lost in the song that I would forget everything else. At one time, he could put out some music.

Now, I don't think he would have the ability to string two notes together.

[muntrv]

1. Nope. I usually switch channels when his tunes come on.

[Enrique]

2. if by "anymore" you mean "ever"

then no.

[mimi85]

41. Ha - good one

I never did listen to his "music" - it sucked.

[Historic NY]

51. Exactly...can't stand him.

[Uzair]

3. He made some great music back in the day

I haven't paid a single cent for any of it.

[aristocles]

4. Never did, never will. eom

[narnian60]

33. My response, also.

[jberryhill]

67. Two? What's the other one?

[evlbstrd]

6. Not since Amboy Dukes

Careful With That Axe, Eugene.

That's, what, 40 years ago?

[rdharma]

14. No not.......Careful With That Axe, Eugene.

No........ That was Pink Floyd.

Ted's one hit wonder with the Amboy Dukes was "The Journey to the Center of the Mind".......

[evlbstrd]

86. Thanks.

I must still be drug addled.

[Initech]

7. He's doing a concert not too far from where I live in July.

[NRaleighLiberal]

8. any "more"?

never a fan!

[cynatnite]

10. Thanks...

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. no worries...we all have musical skeletons in our closets!

Mine was Kansas....did I really love their music so much so long ago?

[cynatnite]

16. Now, wait a sec...

Am I supposed to not love their music? Wayward Son? Dust in the Wind?

Please, don't let it be so!

[NRaleighLiberal]

19. You know, I was a pretty good guitar player back then and really liked playing along with Kansas!

It's the high soprano vocals and earnest philosophical lyrics that haven't aged all that well (I probably haven't either)!

hope you are having a splendid Saturday!

half way through a Sierra Nevada anniversary stout...gotta go make dinner!

[cynatnite]

21. It's been good. Enjoy your dinner!

[cantbeserious]

9. He Makes Music?

eom

[pinboy3niner]

11. Never did, never will

We reported for our draft physicals the same year. My appointment was less...dramatic...than his. I also remember him saying that if he HAD served, he would have killed his fellow troops who were hippies in their foxholes.

[L0oniX]

12. Never did and never will ...except for the Amboy Dukes ...Journey to the Center of Your Asshole.

[bemildred]

13. Who is Ted Nugent? nt

[onehandle]

17. No. Thankfully, I never bought anything of his, although I was in the time and demographic.

When he comes up on SiriusXM rock stations, I make him go bye-bye.

Pedophile Pants Pooper.

[madrchsod]

18. never could....

[pacalo]

52. Same here.

[taterguy]

20. Yes

[nomorenomore08]

22. With a smirk on my face, maybe...

nt

[MrSlayer]

23. Anymore? I could never listen to that hack.

Seriously, his music sucks and always has.

[femmocrat]

24. I never did. I don't even know if he is rock or country.

He is just hateful, IMO.

[Mr.Bill]

25. I saw him in the 70s when Stranglehold came out.

Not a bad show, mediocre guitarist at best. Never bothered to listen to or see him again.

[tarheelsunc]

26. Never did, never cared to, hopefully never will. eom

[pintobean]

27. Yes

I like his first solo album and some of the Amboy Dukes stuff. I saw him in concert a few times, back in the day. I wouldn't buy anything of his ever again, but I'm not going to stop listening to his stuff just because he's a right wing asshole nutcase.

[murray hill farm]

28. Music????????????

When was that???

[HockeyMom]

29. Never did back in the day

Not about to now.

[RebelOne]

37. Ditto. n/t

[lame54]

30. yes...

Love 70's Ted

[Raine]

31. NO but then I NEVER listened to him. nt

[Quantess]

32. All I can think of is poopy pants. Bum-cakes.

So, no, I get no enjoyment from hearing Ted Nugent.

[Half-Century Man]

34. Unlike the majority here

I liked quite a bit of Nugent's music. Stranglehold, Fred Bear, Great White Buffalo, Dog Eat Dog, Death by Misadventure etc. etc (Cat Scratch Fever was interesting the first 8 times I heard it). I could hear a certain zeal for life in his music, sometimes angry zeal, sometimes a fuck destiny sort of zeal.
His deepest song is "Fred Bear" which advocates that humans could benefit form learning to hunt with a bow: The tranquility of nature, the discipline of stalking, and the sense of accomplishment from obtaining your own food through your own skills.
His commitment to opposing the draft, something thousands of democratically inclined young men did, was taken to extremes. But, he stayed in the USA instead of going to Canada. I choose to not judge him for what tactics he used. I see it in the context of the time. Our death toll for Afghanistan is something like 1000 a year, right? How would we have reacted if the butcher's bill had been 1000 a month for the last 10 years?

His current political position has caused me to feel uncomfortable listening to his music.

[theaocp]

40. I'm glad I waded through many posts to get to yours

This is essentially how I feel about Nugent. I still harbor animosity toward the man, but also feel Fred Bear's message and can try to understand a time (the Vietnam draft) that I was not around for. Thanks for putting this out.

[sigmasix]

80. let us not forget ted's sweet tooth for little girls

Nugent spent the 70s and 80s raping the youngest girls in the crowd his roadies could find. He has desribed his attraction to pre-pubescent girls as a sweet tooth. He has given interviews wherin he describes the methodology of the rapes and asserts his rape of children as one of his rights as a alpha male to sexually conquer the women (wives or children) of beta males. Nugent's world is a sick dystopian nightmare ruled by "alpha" males with really big guns and racist, paranoid conspiracy theories.
Everytime I hear one of his songs all I can think about is the screams of pain from his victims and the destruction of thier lives.
Fuck pedophiles like Nugent.

[Loup Garou]

85. Jailbait

"Jailbait" is the fourth song in Ted Nugent's second live album "Intensities in 10 Cities" The song references Nugent having sex with underage girls, with the lyrics "Well I don’t care if you’re just thirteen/You look too good to be true/ I just know that you’re probably clean/ There’s one lil’ thing I got do to you."

I´ve got no inhibitions
So keep your keys out of your ignition
I steal a car like I got the curse
I can't resist the old lady's purse

Jailbait you look so good to me
Jailbait won´t you set me free
Jailbait you look fine fine fine
I know I´ve got to have you in a matter of time

Well I don´t care if you´re just thirteen
You look too good to be true
I just know that you´re probably clean
There´s one lil' thing I got do to you

Jailbait you look so good to me
Jailbait won´t you set me free
Jailbait you look fine fine fine
I know I´ve got to have you in a matter of time

So tell your mama that I´m back in town
She likes us boys when it´s time to get down
She´s got this craving for the underage
I just might be your mama's brand new rage

Jailbait you look so good to me
Jailbait won´t you set me free
Jailbait you look fine fine fine
I know I got to have you in a matter of time

Honey you you you look so nice
She´s young she´s tender
Won´t you please surrender
She's so fine she´s mine
All the time, all mine mine
It´s all right baby
It´s quite all right I asked your mama
Wait a minute officer
Don´t put those handcuffs on me
Put them on her and I´ll share her with you

Jailbait, jailbait

[toddaa]

87. This one blows Ted's away

(rip Wendy)

[Warren DeMontague]

35. PANTS CRAP FEVER!!!!

That one Amboy Dukes song is good, although the Nuge himself claims it never occurred to him that it's about psychedelic drugs.. when obviously it is.

[Buzz Clik]

36. Any more? You mean like, "Can you watch Fox News any more?"

Never did. Never will.

No idea what Nugent songs sound like. May have heard one in a grocery store or elevator, maybe, but never on purpose.

[Flashmann]

38. Can you listen to Ted Nugent music any more?

No.

Partly because of his reprehensible political and moral positions.I'd already given up on Nuge the Stooge years ago because:A)His music started all sounding the same to me. B)I wasn't 17 years old anymore. C) My tastes in music evolved,his music did not. D) Shamed out of wanting to listen to pants shitter by musician friends who considered him,by virtue of his playing everything in the key of A,to be a marginally talented hack and a joke.

[HolyMoley]

39. Anymore?

Depends.

Double Live Gonzo was a smoking album when it came out, and it still is.

I loved every track on it.

With the exception of Cat Scratch Fever, pretty much all his studio releases are pure crap, especially anything put out in the last 20-25 years.

Nugent is a decent guitar player (or was), but, not nearly as great as he pretends to be.

[Initech]

44. Ted Nugent and "Depends" should not be in the same sentence.

You do know what he did to get out of the Vietnam draft right?

Theodore Anthony Nugent first received a high school 1-S deferment in February 1967, when he was 18. After briefly being reclassified as available for service, Nugent got a 2-S college deferment when he enrolled in Oakland Community College in Michigan.

In August 1969, Nugent took his draft physical and was rejected for service. He was classified as 1-Y, indicating that he was qualified for service only in time of a national emergency. The 1-Y classification was usually issued to candidates saddled with significant medical or mental issues.

In interviews, Nugent has provided varying accounts of how he avoided a seat on a troop transport to Southeast Asia. In a 1977 High Times interview, he claimed to have stopped bathing a month before his draft physical, adding that he showed up for the exam with pants “crusted” with urine and feces. “I was a walking, talking hunk of human poop,” recalled Nugent.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/ted-nugent-draft-dodger-467132

[HolyMoley]

46. When I posted that reply title, the same thing came to mind.

I actually read that interview when it first came out in High Times magazine (76-77?).

I was in the Army then, and at the time, thought it was pretty amusing, but that was before he self promoted himself as a tried and true American bad ass and patriot.

Everyone has said stupid shit at one time or another, but for him to continue with trying to excuse it away by claiming he made it up to freak out the interviewer, is probably worse than the story itself.

Just admit you fucked up and move along with your life.

[Initech]

71. What pisses me off about the Nuge is he's such a hypocrite.

It's like OK so he's a right winger, loves guns, is on the NRA board of directors, blah blah blah.

But then he's going off on this shit about supporting the troops and talks about how he pooped his pants to get out of serving our country when he could have done so. Really when you think about it the Nuge really is the patriotic equivalent of Milli Vanilli.

[HolyMoley]

73. I'll have to give credit where credit is due.

He's not stupid, uneducated or ignorant by any measure.

His message is as irrelevant as is the bulk of his music.

But, realizing that his record charting days and sold out venues were a thing of the past, he found new opportunities to keep the cash flowing in.

I have to wonder sometimes if the shit he says is actually genuine, and how much of it is him laughing all the ways to the bank.

[Initech]

76. Yeah I really wonder that too.

[Initech]

42. Pants crap fever!!!!

[madokie]

43. Can I? hell I never could

[madinmaryland]

45. No. I've heard his shit since the early 70's and it always was SHIT.

[janlyn]

47. the nuge....

As my brother would say. I have never really cared for his music. Or really anything that I would lump into what I call the "felon rock" category. My taste always tended to the unusual and far from main stream.
My brother on the other hand loves the nuge but what can I expect, he also likes wrestling and nascar!!!

[zbdent]

48. I can honestly say that I didn't care for his music long before I didn't care for his politics ...

[jberryhill]

68. Nailed it for me

[cherokeeprogressive]

49. He's ALL I listen to on my way to Olive Garden while coming home from a NASCAR race in my Hummer...

where I never seem to escape trouble for breast-feeding my 6 year old pit bull, Precious, while fondling my open-carried Glock 21, Delicate Flower.

[cliffordu]

50. I never could.

I know a scumsucking cretin and a fucking bloviating coward when I see one.

His 'music' was ALWAYS pure unadulterated syphilitic shit.

[tularetom]

53. Nah, if I want to hear three chords I can play it myself

Believe me I'm no fan of current rock, country or hip hop music but that Nugent stuff sounds like what anyone of three million early 70's high school garage bands were putting out. To tell you the truth it seemed pretty amateurish at the time and it just sounds like shit now.

[cali]

54. I always thought he sucked- in a major way. fucking hated him then. hate him more now

[alarimer]

55. I never could because it sucks.

It stretches the definition of "music" beyond all recognition.

[zappaman]

56. Hypocritical drugged out asshole...but

I still love his first 3 records.
Part of the soundtrack of my teens.

Everything after CAT SCRATCH FEVER is worthless except for DOUBLE LIVE GONZO, his live LP.

[AndyA]

57. I never listened to Nugent's music in the first place

So it didn't make any difference to me. I never liked him, and I like him even less now.

[Skip Intro]

58. I'll do it. Nugent was a huge star. Some of his older music is still killer.

He was huge. This was back when black light posters were big, peyote was easy to find, and a guitar solo in a rock song lasted longer than three seconds. He could play a guitar. And he had a fucking insane stage presence.

I gotta give credit where credit is due.

I remember liking a lot of his songs but could only remember three, so I went to youtube to jar my memory. He is killing it in the live vids from the 70's.

For those who don't know, this was Ted Nugent once upon a time:

And he had Paralyzed, Dog Eat Dog, and several others.

To answer your question, I won't not listen to Nugent music because of politics. What he does now doesn't change what he did in 1979.

[HolyMoley]

63. Hard to belive this is the same guy nowadays.

More like laid back Grateful Dead with early 80's metal hair...

[IDemo]

59. Nope, I got rid of the 8-track player in 1976

along with the '68 Beetle it was attached to, with the 5" Radio Shack speakers.

[jberryhill]

69. Did you replace it with an FM converter?

[heather blossom]

60. NOPE

No

[gejohnston]

61. I never could stand it

even before I knew his politics or mine.

[arely staircase]

62. If I couldn't separate an artist from their art I would be pretty limitted in what I look at, read

or listen to. I like a lot of Mel Gibson's movies and I think Clint Eastwood is a brilliant director. Having said that, Nugent hasn't written a good song in decades. He lost me in the 80s with that crappy Damn Yankees pabulum.

[truebluegreen]

64. Never could.

[donco]

65. He couldn't carry a note

in a five gallon bucket before I knew he was a wingnut. Still can’t.

[Owl]

66. No. And it was never worth listening to.

[gvstn]

70. I was never a Nugent fan, Meatloaf on the other hand

Really had a great album. He made an ass out of himself at the Romney gig but I'll still sing along with a few of his songs if they come on the radio and I'm in a certain mood.

[etherealtruth]

72. The only thing I ever liked was "Snakeskin Cowboy"

I have no desire to listen to anything that psycho has recorded or has to say

[Populist_Prole]

74. Not since I was 18

Even then I thought that as quality hard rock/metal music it was on the cheesy side. Not really all that "heavy" and too many solos. Basically numbskull party music, background stuff. Some other poster mentioned a 70's garage band sound: Good description.

[Blue_In_AK]

75. I never could listen to it

even before I knew he was such a douchebag. Not my cup of tea.

[alp227]

77. Never was a fan of Nugent, but Pantera (RIP Dimebag Darrell) did a good cover of "Cat Scratch Fever"

[Monk06]

78. I stopped listening when Cat Scratch Fever came out. He's a shit musician regardless of his politics

[dogknob]

79. I Ignored him then. I avoid him now n/t

[WCGreen]

81. I kinda lost interest in his music after I had my first non self inflicted orgasm...

[jambo101]

82. He's a damn good guitarist.

But he now sets the bench mark for right wing nut job, his hatefull gibberish directed at our duly elected government is rude and ignorant and sets a dangerous precedent for others to rally around his lunatic drivel that totally ignores the fundamentals of democratic process.
Used to like his music and had all his albums but those albums have been relegated to the dumpster and anytime one of his songs comes on the radio a channel change is forthcoming.
What a sanctimonious pompous coward he is.

[Jamastiene]

83. Not really.

Then again, the only song he did that I ever liked was Cat Scratch Fever. Even at that, I only liked the chorus and the guitar parts in the song. I didn't even really ever know the verses, only the chorus. So, it was easy for me to swear the guy's music off when he turned into a right wing asshole.

[olddots]

84. " there's no accounting for taste "

Its an old expression that could be applied here or not applied here.

[LWolf]

88. Well, I haven't listened to him since

he was on my radio in the 70s.

Could I? Sure, if I liked his music and wanted to listen. While I didn't dislike him in the 70s, I wasn't a fan, either. He simply doesn't register with me as important enough to follow, or to hate, or to boycott.