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August 24, 2007

We are ashamed to be from the same country as Ted Nugent

"I have never contemplated how, what or if I should do this or that. I was raised to discipline myself to be the best that I can be. Good will, decency and positive energy drives my everyday. Always has, always will. My music and dreams have lives of their own. Unstoppable." - Ted Nugent (El Paso Times 8.24.07)

End quote. [emphasis added - MS]

Posted by Merry Swankster at August 24, 2007 05:25 PM

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Love it Ted...Keep up the entertainment! A+

Posted by: Tim at August 24, 2007 09:23 PM

Especially sad since Ted was the absolute first rocker I ever witnessed playing in a live setting--on a double bill w/Aerosmith at the Garden, many, many years ago, and I was moved as only a 15-year-old male with a bad bowl-cut can be. And since I basically broke my cherry on Ted Nugen, I kind of forgave him his idiocy over the years. Something about the opening chords of "Stranglehold" (easily his finest contribution to the rock lexicon, and well used in Dazed & Confused) served to keep Ted perpetually cool for me. But now it's over. It's like that scene in The Dead Zone with Christopher Walken, when Martin Sheen, as the Armageddon-desiring future president, holds the little kid in front of him to keep from getting shot, and then we know, and the dying Christopher Walken knows, that he'll never be president now, because people won't vote for a dude who hides behind babies, and the world won't end in a fireball while Martin Sheen glowers in the Oval Office. I mean, it's one thing to be into shooting animals with a bow and arrrow, quite another to hurl unwanted suggestions involving firearms at a presidential candidate and to implicitly defend the mad people currently in power. I'm ashamed to say I ever rocked out to "Snakeskin Cowboys." I'd burn my copy of Ted's eponymously titled debut long-player right now, only that would be fascist, and Ted would win.

Posted by: Anonymous at August 26, 2007 08:04 PM

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