Uncle Ted, Grandaddy of Gonzo, Whackmaster

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RidgeHunter

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YOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWW! Who came to get mellow? I say, I say WHO CAME TO GET MELLOW TONIGHT? Anybody who wants to get mellow can turn around and get the f*ck outta here, alright?

This guitar right here (and as a matter of fact I did it one time on Safari), this guitar is guaranteed to blow the balls off a charging rhino at 60 paces!

This guitar, it just absolutely refuses to play sweet sh*t, ya know? It just refuses.
 

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This is now a Ted worship thread.

I haven't seen Ted in about 3 years, and he put on a great, deafening show. I was down front surrounded by goobers in ear plugs. But he still doesn't play like he did in the 70's. He just doesn't jam out and drag solos out like he did back then (he stops mid song to scream and yell about things that piss him off now), and I doubt it's as loud. But still, it's Ted Fawking Nugent, and I don't think he's ever put on a bad show (save for Damn Yankees).

Ted is right up there with the most influential musicians in the history of hard rock. Nobody played that hard in his heyday, nobody had feedback control like Ted did. Double Live Gonzo ranks right up there with the top albums that de-pussyfied rock. Blue Cheer, Ted Nugent, MC5, and Sabbath. They were it, man. When Ted was playing like he did in the late 70's, there was NOTHING out there that loud or that heavy. Nothing. One of the concerts I would see if I could go back in time. Dad saw him Probably 10-15 times in the late 70's, when most agree he was the loudest band playing.

Skip to the last 2 minutes of this vid. Master of Mastodon Mating Feedback Guitar indeed.


St. Holmes nailing rhythm guitar, Ted running around like a lunatic leaning back into his stack to get feedback. So much awesome.


Solo beginning about 3:30 is much awesome.


Hey, gimme a drum beat. I'm gonna play a 16 minute solo over it and tell people it's a song. (My favorite Nugent song)
 
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I went to see Ted Nugent open for KISS's first farewell tour when I was like 13. He pretty much stole the show.

Also, from his Wikipedia page:

Wikipedia said:
He has had two wives and has eight children, including three out of wedlock in two liaisons almost 30 years apart. In the late 1960s, prior to his first marriage, Nugent fathered a boy, Ted (Mann) and a girl, whom he gave up for adoption in infancy. This did not become public knowledge until 2010. The siblings were adopted separately and had no contact with one another. The son learned the identity of his birth father in 2010 through the daughter's quest to make contact with him and their birth parents.

I wish I could watch a reaction shot of the guy finding out that his real father is fscking Ted fscking Nugent.

E: Also apparently he grew up in the same generic Chicago suburb as I did.
 

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Ted was at FireLake Casino in Shawnee last night and I saw his limo in town. Now I love the whack 'em and stack 'em king as much as the next guy, but a big long pink Hummer limmo for Uncle Ted????
 

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