Will the real Ted Nugent, please stand up!

[red-beard]

Here is the real Ted Nugent and his message

The Summer of Drugs
By TED NUGENT
July 3, 2007; Page A17 (Wall Street Journal)

This summer marks the 40th anniversary of the so-called Summer of Love. Honest and intelligent people will remember it for what it really was: the Summer of Drugs.

Forty years ago hordes of stoned, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," which was the calling card of LSD proponent Timothy Leary. Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco.

The Summer of Drugs climaxed with the Monterey Pop Festival which included some truly virtuoso musical talents such as Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, both of whom would be dead a couple of years later due to drug abuse. Other musical geniuses such as Jim Morrison and Mama Cass would also be dead due to drugs within a few short years. The bodies of chemical-infested, braindead liberal deniers continue to stack up like cordwood.

As a diehard musician, I terribly miss these very talented people who squandered God's gifts in favor of poison and the joke of hipness. I often wonder what musical peaks they could have climbed had they not gagged to death on their own vomit. Their choice of dope over quality of life, musical talent and meaningful relationships with loved ones can only be categorized as despicably selfish.

I literally had to step over stoned, drooling fans, band mates, concert promoters and staff to pursue my musical American Dream throughout the 1960s and 1970s. I flushed more dope and cocaine down backstage toilets than I care to remember. In utter frustration I was even forced to punch my way through violent dopers on occasion. So much for peace and love. The DEA should make me an honorary officer.

I was forced to fire band members and business associates due to mindless, dangerous, illegal drug use. Clean and sober for 59 years, I am still rocking my brains out and approaching my 6,000th concert. Clean and sober is the real party.

Young people make mistakes. I've made my share, but none that involved placing my life or the lives of others at risk because of dope. I saw first-hand too many destroyed lives and wrecked families to ever want to drool and vomit on myself and call that a good time. I put my heart and soul into creating the best music I possibly could and I went hunting instead. My dream continues with ferocity, thank you.

The 1960s, a generation that wanted to hold hands, give peace a chance, smoke dope and change the world, changed it all right: for the worse. America is still suffering the horrible consequences of hippies who thought utopia could be found in joints and intentional disconnect.

A quick study of social statistics before and after the 1960s is quite telling. The rising rates of divorce, high school drop outs, drug use, abortion, sexual diseases and crime, not to mention the exponential expansion of government and taxes, is dramatic. The "if it feels good, do it" lifestyle born of the 1960s has proved to be destructive and deadly.

So now, 40 years later, there are actually people who want to celebrate the anniversary of the Summer of Drugs. Hippies are once again descending on ultra-liberal San Francisco -- a city that once wanted to give shopping carts to the homeless -- to celebrate and try to remember their dopey days of youth when so many of their musical heroes and friends long ago assumed room temperature by "partying" themselves to death. Nice.

While I salute and commend the political and cultural activism of the 1960s that fueled the civil rights movement, other than that, the decade is barren of any positive cultural or social impact. Honest people will remember 1967 for what is truly was.

There is a saying that if you can remember the 1960s, you were not there. I was there and remember the decade in vivid, ugly detail. I remember its toxic underbelly excess because I was caught in the vortex of the music revolution that was sweeping the country, and because my radar was fine-tuned thanks to a clean and sober lifestyle.

Death due to drugs and the social carnage heaped upon America by hippies is nothing to celebrate. That is a fool's game, but it is quite apparent some burned-out hippies never learn.

Mr. Nugent is a rock star releasing his 35th album, "Love Grenade," this summer.

[rouxroux]

AMEN!!! Well said Ted...You kill it, we grill it! Many people can't understand conservative musicians.

[nostatic]

well, he misses a lot of the positive and ignores many of the issues of the time. Nugent is a guitar player, not an artist. So I wouldn't expect him to really grok some of what was going on. I do respect his take on things though and agree with many of the points. If only it were that clear-cut...

[pwd72s]

I recently voted for Ted Nugent...he's a board member of the NRA.

[chapo]

Wang Bang Sweet Poontang. Now where is my loincloth?

[Tobra]

Happened to pick up the WSJ and saw that. Can really wail on the old axe, but you must admit, Terrible Ted is a bit of a nutburger, though he would be a great invite to your barbeque, maybe kind of a downer when he starts preaching about booze while you are eating pork ribs it took two days to make and drinking a GD Shiner Bock.

[john walker's workshop]

well, not much we can do about it now. the damage is done. shoulda listened to the old folks, but naaaa....pass the doobie, and why's that van rockin?

[BertBeagle]

I don't know him but did run into him and the drummer Tommy Lee of another band and talked to both of them on the same day an hour or two apart in Del Mar, Ca. in '88. It was not during a concert and they were not playing music.

My impression was that they were both very egotistical and shallow. Nugent seemed to want all the attention from as big a crowd as he could draw while Lee seemed to expect people to recognize him as he moved around. At the time I had some idea of Nugent's stance on drugs, guns etc. but seeing him that day and watching him in action (maybe acting?) did not turn me into a fan.

My impression of that one encounter - he is a strange guy. I wouldn't vote for him running for anything.

[M.D. Holloway]

just another man with an opinion - bless his soul least he has one...

[creaturecat]

[RANDY P]

Originally posted by creaturecat

Creaturecat fabricated this.

The real link.

http://www.mugshots.com/Music/Ted+Nugent.htm

That mugshot was taken in 1993 when Ted got arrested for shooting a flaming arrow into his guitar during a show..

So tell me Cat, why do you make things up? How old are you? Did you really think this would stick?

Here's a helpful hint - if you're gonna make something up, at least remove the links to your source

happy 4th, you freak.


rjp

[Hoots]

Ted in 08. He's got my vote.

[rouxroux]

LOL creaturecat...how do the kids say it these days? PWNED?

[MichiganMat]

Like other conservatives I know, Ted can't seem to hold back his disdain for anything contrary to his beliefs and lifestyle. He uses his words only to scorn those around him. His message may be on target, I do agree with a lot of the points, but its sad he has to wrap it up in self righteous bull****.

Ted, beat it.

[tshore]

I admire Nugent for showing that clean and sober rock and roll isn't a contradiction in terms, but this rant is a typical pile of right-wing b.s. He's against people ruining themselves through drug abuse...that's great, so are the vast majority of liberals.

Nugent has a warped sense of what really is destroying lives in America today. Nugent doesn't have a problem with citizens possessing guns, but evidently does have a problem with citizens possessing, say, cannabis. I am not a gun control advocate, but compare the number of people in America killed by handguns with the number killed by reefer, and I think it will be clear which of the two is really more dangerous.

Since he pines to be named an "honorary DEA agent" (like Elvis!), we can assume he supports the government's insane "war on drugs" which has destroyed far more lives than drugs themselves ever have (think about it...what would you choose - a coke habit you need to kick, or a felony conviction and a 10-year prison term?). If Nugent is really concerned about the "exponential expansion of government and taxes", as he claims to be, he should be attacking the vast prison apparatus the government has set up to incarcerate people for "drug offences", instead of beating long-dead 60's cultural horses. But then, expounding true anti-government views like that wouldn't get his rants published in the Wall Street Journal...

Oh, and where was Nugent when Rush Limbaugh got busted for Oxycontin (which is more potent than herion)? I must have missed his
outraged missive blaming the addled moral condition of conservative radio talk show hosts on a culture of laxity and permissiveness that pervaded, say, the Young Republicans in the 1970s.

[kach22i]

Mug shot of Ted makes him look like just another homeless guy. I don't see any statement that the mugshot has anything to do with the "phone-in" to the Howard Stern show or any arrest. Looks like it could be an album cover by today's standards.

Courtney Love?

I'd take Ted's word over hers, and I think he's a little nuts.

[creaturecat]

Originally posted by RANDY P
Creaturecat fabricated this.

The real link.

http://www.mugshots.com/Music/Ted+Nugent.htm

That mugshot was taken in 1993 when Ted got arrested for shooting a flaming arrow into his guitar during a show..

So tell me Cat, why do you make things up? How old are you? Did you really think this would stick?

Here's a helpful hint - if you're gonna make something up, at least remove the links to your source

happy 4th, you freak.


rjp

yup - fabricated the whole thing on my own.....including the web page.
perhaps you should do some research of your own before you run off at the mouth. ignorance is bliss. you must be very happy.

http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/2007/07/the_hypocritica.html

[Moneyguy1]

I went to Woodstock and have to agree with Old Teddy. Only stayed a few hours....stepping over bodies got old really quick.

[creaturecat]

seems like Ted has something in common with the hippies; he was a draft dodger:

[Scott R]

That's not a fabrication, I was listening to the March 22nd show when he was on, he didin't even deny it. He's a monumental douche bag, and a terrible interview. I've heard more coherent interviews of crack whores.