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Ted Nugent explodes at notion he's not a moderate

LOL who gives a ****? I guess if money "makes" you , that would matter! MONEY doesnt buy CLASS (or sanity in this case). Im rich in ways you cant even fathom. REAL wealth has NOTHING to do with MONEY. So what's your point? You think I care what his net worth is?

If his net worth makes him all important I assume your "nothing" compared to him too? lol! Silly Ric, High school was years ago....grow up.

PS. Money apparently doesnt keep one from sleeping with little teenage girls (while married) either, now does it? (Ted's own admission)

it doesn't seem to me that you are rich in "class" either... you sound kinda like Ted does when he goes into a wildeyed rant. <shrugs.>
 
Actually, Nugent plays a wicked guitar, and at one point, during the 1970's, he reigned as the number one guitar player in the world for a short time. His songs? Pretty lame, for the most part, except for Stranglehold, which was a great song.

Here in SE Michigan he was not even considered the best guitar player in the area - and that was at his peak.
 
it doesn't seem to me that you are rich in "class" either... you sound kinda like Ted does when he goes into a wildeyed rant. <shrugs.>

Didn't I explain to you once already that what you "think" of me doesn't matter? I believe I did... or something along those lines anyway. Chances are, you dont make your living "thinking"

:2razz:
 
it doesn't seem to me that you are rich in "class" either... you sound kinda like Ted does when he goes into a wildeyed rant. <shrugs.>
Thats the TRULY comical part about this. How many people tripped over themselves to rant on about Nugent...while ridiculing his rant?

Yeah...so money doesnt really matter I guess. And apparently there are some unknown musician and guitar Gods right here on our website...but I somehow doubt they could get past the first three bars of Smoke on the Water. And I would still love to see people stack up their life resume against his. I think we might see pretty quick who the pathetic insignificant ones are.
 
Didn't I explain to you once already that what you "think" of me doesn't matter? I believe I did... or something along those lines anyway. Chances are, you dont make your living "thinking"

:2razz:

nope, sure don't make my living "thinking"...I'm retired...my living has already been made....i'll continue to speak my mind regardless of whether it matters to you or not.


give us another wild eyed rant and tell us stories of class again... it's entertaining.
 
Thats the TRULY comical part about this. How many people tripped over themselves to rant on about Nugent...while ridiculing his rant?

Yeah...so money doesnt really matter I guess. And apparently there are some unknown musician and guitar Gods right here on our website...but I somehow doubt they could get past the first three bars of Smoke on the Water. And I would still love to see people stack up their life resume against his. I think we might see pretty quick who the pathetic insignificant ones are.

yeah, it's pretty funny.

I don't think they need to stack up their achievements next to ted for validation... I think they just need to step back and take a look at reality.
they might hate the fact that he is successful or talented or has had a long rock and roll career.. but their hate doesn't change a damn thing.
 
yeah, it's pretty funny.

I don't think they need to stack up their achievements next to ted for validation... I think they just need to step back and take a look at reality.
they might hate the fact that he is successful or talented or has had a long rock and roll career.. but their hate doesn't change a damn thing.
I really don't mind if somebody doesn't want to patronize the guy due to their serious disagreement with his politics. That's fine. But, just have the backbone to admit it. One's own political position is not affected one way or another by conceding that Ted is a fine and well-respected guitarist.
 
Whats truly amazing is the caliber of greatness, Michigan tends to produce...

Brilliant musicians have come from that state. A state of virtuoso entertainers

 
Ted's net worth is over 20 million

What's yours?

Why does it matter?

You know who was poor? Jesus. I challenge anybody to say that Ted Nugent is a better person than Jesus Christ.
 
I've never been a huge fan of Nugent, although Stranglehold will remain one of my favorite songs - ever. It's like one of those epic songs from the 70s that keeps going and going and going. I will say that, when someone starts to define themselves by their politics, it makes me look at them differently. I disagree with Ted Nugent and think he's a little wacked out, and because of that, it kind of leaves a sour taste in my mouth when I see him now. Nothing wrong at all with the old 1st amendment, nothing at all wrong with saying what you want to say, when you want to say it. People just have to remember that the 1st amendment only protects your right to free speech - not the ramifications that come with what you say.

Like it or not, he's losing long-time fans over this. He's gaining a few too - hard core right wingers. But he's losing people who have been with him for years.

Hope it's worth it.
 
It is amazing-
While the right wing apologists for Nuge climb into the trees and fling poo at anyone who dares call their hero a 2nd rate musician with delusions of grandeur they forget the judgments they pass down. I can't play guitar but I know what a real guitar player sounds like.

YOU can't run a nation yet YOU sit in judgment daily.

YOU have no idea what goes through a single woman's head, yet opine on the 'real' reasons they get abortions.

You have no idea what it is to be denied a marriage to YOUR loved one and yet YOU sit and judge gay marriage.

You all can stifle the rather childish comparisons like who has more money. IF it was a punk hollywood leftie with 20 million dollars you would shrug it off the money aspect because making money in one field doesn't make them any good in others.

Nuge is just another spoiled self centered 'rock star' who has been surrounded by suck-ups for so long he now believes his own fantasy.
 
Maybe he's become a political mouthpiece to remain relevent? It was either that or that TV show with Donald Trump where all the other washed-up has-beens go.
 
Maybe he's become a political mouthpiece to remain relevent? It was either that or that TV show with Donald Trump where all the other washed-up has-beens go.
Nah, I don't think he's "become" anything. I think he was just being himself and it got noticed by those who normally pay him no attention for a change.
 
... I like em both.. and many others too

Sorry don't care for Nugent.
If he wasn't political I still wouldn't care much for Nugent.:peace
 
Here in SE Michigan he was not even considered the best guitar player in the area - and that was at his peak.

Not in sounthmid Michigan either.:peace
 
who was the best guitar player in SE Michigan ?... and why, if he isn't the best, do you consider him terrible?

That would be Segar, if you wish to compare hit records have at it from Live Bullet or Cat Scratch fever?:peace
 
This. Excellent guitarist. Influential to many other guitarists. If you don't like his kind of music to begin with fair enough. Not everybody likes hard rock. But I sense that some don't like his music because of him and his politics... which makes those people no less "tools" themselves.

Anyway, back to the OP... I was amused by this quote from the OP's link...


To be fair, I have never met the guy in person. But my in-laws live in Michigan, and they have friends that do know Ted quite well. They pretty much all tell my in-laws that, up close and personal, Ted is an asshat of the highest order.

Third-hand info, but it fits with other reports I've heard about him over the years.

I do believe he is sincere in his beliefs, and I believe that he is pretty much always honest, and I do admire that. Sincerity and honesty is way too UNcommon in today's world. I don't disagree with everything he says, but he is too extreme for me, in an overall sense. He may be kidding himself, but he's not lying to me, if that makes sense.

Living in Nashville and knowing people in the music industry, I, too, have heard that he's an impossible dick to work with.
 
Whats truly amazing is the caliber of greatness, Michigan tends to produce...

Brilliant musicians have come from that state. A state of virtuoso entertainers



Motown, just to name a few, baby, that's how we "Michigan" roll.lol:peace
 
who was the best guitar player in SE Michigan ?... and why, if he isn't the best, do you consider him terrible?

Good question.

I view a guitar player as one who plays in the band. I am not really big on three minute mastaburtory solos designed to say "hey look at me". That is what Nugent did over and over again to get attention. His work within the song was merely adequate.

I would view Wayne Kramer of the MC5 as far better during that same time.
 
So you lied on a political quiz? What are your real results?

If we go off some computer generated political quiz it seems that i am a "libertarian socialist" but in reality im a democratic socialist...
A "political quiz" for one is not the most accurate thing and does not take into count a lot of other variables...
 
as i've already stated, we share similar views on gun policy... and that's about it.
i'm a fan of his music... not his politics.... he's a typical Republican to me.. he's quite a few notches to the right of me on everything but guns ( despite your claims, every single political spectrum test i've ever taken has put me right smack in the middle of the left right spectrum... but solidly libertarian)

and yes, you are being hackish.... one thing that has been made crystal clear in every one of your posts is that anything right wing is bad , horrible, or evil.... that's the reputation you have built for yourself here.

Yeah, I tend to react negatively to draft dodging hypocritcal asshats like Nugent.

As for my reputiation, thank you. That's exactly what I was striving for.
 
Thats the TRULY comical part about this. How many people tripped over themselves to rant on about Nugent...while ridiculing his rant?

Yeah...so money doesnt really matter I guess. And apparently there are some unknown musician and guitar Gods right here on our website...but I somehow doubt they could get past the first three bars of Smoke on the Water. And I would still love to see people stack up their life resume against his. I think we might see pretty quick who the pathetic insignificant ones are.

Gee, so if you aren't a draft dodging, right wing foaming at the mouth gun nut who defines rock and roll mediocrity, you are pathetic and insignificant. Good to know the pantspisser Nugent is held in such high esteem by you.
 
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