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[Ediacara]

Rocker Ted Nugent takes aim at Illinois 'wimps'

Associated Press
Published August 12, 2003

SPRINGFIELD -- Rocker Ted Nugent called Illinois residents "spineless, apathetic, embarrassing wimps," just hours before performing at the Illinois State Fair.

Nugent, known for the song "Cat Scratch Fever," made the comments Monday during a radio show on WJJG-AM hosted by John Cox, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate. Nugent said Illinois residents fail to reach out to their elected officials.

"I get to feel the pulse of working-hard, playing-hard America," Nugent said. "And right now one of the most embarrassing, and I believe grossly irresponsible regions of apathy, is right now listening in Illinois. Illinois people have become so sheeplike. How many people listening right now have called their senator or congressman or governor?"

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[Guaranteed]

1. The NUGE!

Sorry, I had to say that.

[Ellen Forradalom]

2. Ah, crawl back into your cave, Ted

Just because we mopped the floor with the Illinois GOP last November doesn't mean you have to be sore about it.

[bif]

3. There's a reason he's playing state fairs.

Because he's a washed up asshole.

[Jeff in Cincinnati]

9. Next Stop

The Holiday Inn "Copa Cabana Lounge" in West Lafayette, Indiana.

[bif]

12. Reminds me of Spinal Tap

when they were playihng a state fair. They not only spelled their name "Spinal Pap" on the marquis but the headliner above their name was a puppet show!

Today's Show: Tod Nrugent @ 1:30!

[Jim Sagle]

29. And then he'll be a guest on Ask Rita.

[BiggJawn]

35. Don't you EVEN wish that POS has-been on us!

Ewww!
Let him play the "Polynesian Room" at the Crawfordsville Holiday Inn Express....

[Rich Hunt]

24. Ted washes?

I didn't know he washed.

:evilgrin:

[zekeson]

4. He's got nothing

He is musically uniteresting, politically dense, and is reduced to playing state fairs with 30 year old "hits" that were designed to appeal to 14 year old boys. oh, my, his words sting...

Go kill some endangered species with your bow and arrow, mullet boy.

on edit - uninteresting, that's UNinteresting

[JitterbugPerfume]

8. I will NEVER understand

the appeal of his so called music

Simplistic annd inane

just like HIM

[Ediacara]

11. forgive my ignorance

but what music is Nugent reponsible for?

[zekeson]

14. nope

I was a teen then and didn't understand why my friends thought his stuff rocked. I do, however, like Tom Robbins. When Jitterbug Perfume came out I bought it and photocopied the entire thing to send to a friend who was overseas studying.

The appeal of Ted? Can't imagine - it must be the family values thing:

I'm gonna get a little talcum
I'm gonna borrow it from Malcolm
Yeah you look so good baby I'm startin to drool all over myself
I got the droolin', droolin', get all wet, salivate, salivate
I got salivate late, salivate late, salivate late
Got salivate, salivate, salivate, salivate, heh heh heh
Yeah you look so good baby, I like it, I like it, I like it
You know what I been talkin' about honey
It's a nice dance, we gotta a nice dance goin' here
Now what you gotta do, I'll tell you what you gotta do
You got to pretend your face is a Maserati
It's a Maserati
It's a Maserati
It's a gettin' hotty
It's a Maserati, Maserati, Maserati
It's a fast one too man, that thing's turbocharged
You feel like a little fuel injection honey?
I'll tell ya about it, I'll tell you about it
I'll check out the hood scoop
I gotta get that hood scoop off, shine and shine and buff
I gotta buff it up, buff it up, buff it up, buff it up, buff it up,
Yeah, shiny now baby, heh heh heh
You've been drivin' all night long
It's time to put the old Maserati away
So you look for a garage, you think you see a garage
Wait a minute, Hey!, there's one up ahead
And the damn thing's open
Hello! Get in there!

[Pastiche423]

17. Are those lyrics his?

I'm an old rock 'n roller, know nothing about his music(?).

[zekeson]

21. amazing, huh?

You've missed nothing. That is just part of his song, Wango Tango, must have been about '75 or so. He was the wild man of rock in that era. Used to be in a band called the Amboy Dukes and had a psych hit called Journey to the Center of the Mind which wasn't half bad for drug tinged rock of the era. Then, he started being a rawk guitarist solo act that specialized in misogynistic and inane lyrics like the above. His stage act included outlandish leopardskin outfits, wild hair, bulging eyes, and thrusting his guitar from his crotch. A real class act. A comic book character.

[madrchsod]

5. on mtv cribs he made

a comment about how he screws his wife in his chevy while she was standing by him..she didn`t smile..what a creap. yup, ted your 15 minutes were up along time ago...

[slappypan]

6. Whatever happened to "Hello Springfield! Are you ready to ROCK!?"

Washed-up rock stars lack the civility they once had towards their State Fair audiences.

[XNASA]

7. Wang Dang, what a moran.

Skip along back to Chickenhawk HQ, Ted.

BTW, your guitar playing sucks. You're a hack. I can't even use it as a boast to say that I play better than you do. That's how much, you suck.

[AntiSmirk]

10. Ted made the audience recite The Pledge

I didn't read the Trib article linked to above, but our local paper here in Springfield (home of the ILL State Fair) said Ted led the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance. Rock on Ted, and thanks for your service to this country. Please come back next year, this time for the County Fair.

[Rich Hunt]

25. The Pledge?

Come ON - there is nothing more un-rock-and-roll than the Pledge. Rockers aren't supposed to have "allegiance"! Now old "bad-ass" rockers are acting like fifties boy scouts. Sheesh.

[enki23]

13. i'm sure he was sitting in a safe place when he said it

it would be funny to see him killed by an angry mob.

(well *i'd* laugh)

[MrBenchley]

15. I hope Illini called their senator or congressman or governor

to find out why a racist asswipe like Nugent was booked at the state fair and keep it from happening again.

[xray s]

16. If Nazi's had listened to rock and roll...

...they would have listened to Ted

[DinahMoeHum]

18. Oh Ted, go "kill it and grill it" (preferably a skunk)

n/t

:evilgrin:

[SideshowScott]

19. And the Right calls US Sore losers..Ted is an embrassment!!!

The guy cant get headlines for his music. Beacuse when was the last time he had any good news songs..I think the last time he had a hit is when I was in highschool in his band damn yankees..And before that it was in the 70's when he wrote anything good..So he goes the right wing jerkoff route to get ink

[Nomad559]

20. Derek St. Holmes did the vocals

All of Nugent’s platinum albums feature Derek St. Holmes on vocals. The million sellers consist of Ted Nugent, Free For All, Cat Scratch Fever, Weekend Warriors & Double Live Gonzo.

http://www.classicrockrevisited.com/derekst.homles.htm

http://www.rockandrollfantasycamp.com/musicman/DerekS.htm

[trapper914]

32. Tommy Shaw and Jack Blades wrote those

They only drug Nugent along to add a "supergroup" feel to the whole venture.

[davsand]

22. Hey, Ted, come to U of Illinois and SAY THAT!

Oh, wait, you aren't booked into a venue that large, and haven't been in a LONG LONG time!

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What an idjit! It is a good thing he didn't say that in Champaign-Urbana because we liberals here take our politics very seriously.

Laura

[Rich Hunt]

23. What an HONOR.

I'm thrilled. There is no greater honor than to be insulted - as a state - by Ted Nugent. He didn't stop with our politicians - he blames the whole lot of us.

I guess we don't have enough militias and that type of shit for him to love us. :(

[bluestateguy]

26. Run, Teddy Run for Governor of Michigan

Paid for by the Committte to Re-elect Governor Granholm.

[Ediacara]

27. didn't he promise in 2006

to run if Granholm won?

[Nomad559]

28. The World According to Ted Nugent

http://www.nocompromise.org/news/000731c.html

ON MILITARY SERVICE

He claims that 30 days before his draft board physical, he stopped all forms of personal hygiene. The last 10 days, he ingested nothing but Vienna sausages and Pepsi; and a week before his physical, he stopped using bathrooms altogether, virtually living inside pants caked with his own excrement, stained by his urine. That spectacle won Nugent a deferment, he says. "... but if I would have gone over there, I'd have been killed, or I'd have killed, or I'd killed all the hippies in the foxholes...I would have killed everybody." - Detroit Free Press Magazine , July 15, 1990

[PROGRESSIVE1]

31. More Right Wing Scum...

a real "SHITBAG"!

[BiggJawn]

36. "He's got CRAP-PANTS FEVER (do-do-doooo)...

CRAP-PANTS FEVER (do-do-dooooo)"

what a great patriot!
Trying REAL hard to get a pilodonial cyst like that other "Great Murkan"....

[zbdent]

30. You know, the Right should be ecstatic that the left

(generally) wants gun restrictions.

Just think about it. They also believe that we don't believe in God.

Couple that with wanting to use a gun, and there you go.

(for those who can't quite figure out what I mean, an atheist with a gun would be more likely to kill someone since there would be no witnesses; "God sees all" - funny how that doesn't stop some of these "chamber's loaded" Christians).

[blockhead]

33. Seen him a couple weeks ago

at, of all places, the North dakota state fair. He was going on and on about standing up for what you believe in, then going off on The Dixie Chicks and Jesse Jackson. Way to talk out of both sides of your mouth. He opened for Alice Cooper, which was a much better show.

[Fovea]

34. Well I guess he showed them.

Only one Ted Nugent vs millions of pissed off Illinoians.
This is the state of Al Capone and Mayor Daley sr. Ted oughtta consider that before he whines at them again.