In a new interview with “Rock Talk With Mitch Lafon”, Ted Nugent was asked why he thinks he hasn’t gotten the recognition that he deserves as a guitar player.
He responded:
“This isn’t ego. I have an ego, because I have self-esteem because I put my heart and soul into being the best that I can be. If you run a race and your chest breaks the ribbon and you’ve won the race, I think you can look in the camera and go, ‘Man, I’m fast. Man, I ran good.’ I think that should be celebrated. Excellence should always be celebrated.
He further added:
But remember, those people in the musical [sic] industry who make those decisions about who’s best and who is in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, they hate me because I’m against dope. And I am against dope. I don’t think it’s good. I don’t want my sons and daughters, I don’t want my grandkids, I don’t want my pilots, I don’t want my band, I don’t want my crew stoned. I don’t want them comfortably numb. I don’t wanna have to wake ’em up three times to get to the gig. I don’t wanna have to remind ’em how the song goes. I’ve had this all my life. And these people in charge of deciding this, they don’t like me because I’m on the board of directors with the highest votes for 25 years on the National Rifle Association. They somehow blame inanimate tools on crime.”
He continued:
“I know that Jimi Hendrix was a god, and Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and Joe Perry and Joe Bonamassa and Rickey Medlocke and Billy Gibbons and Eddie Van Halen and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Of course they’re the best. Steve Vai. Joe Satriani. Hell, Vic [Johnson] in Sammy Hagar‘s band is an unbelievable guitar player. Derek St. Holmes is an unbelievable guitar player. Brad Whitford… I could go on and on and on — unlimited. But to think that I don’t qualify in the top one hundred of guitar players in America is just a stupid lie. Case closed.”
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He is right
He needs to find a specific guitarist in a top 100 list who he is better than to give his case any credibility. “Best American Guitarist of all time” is a title with extremely fierce competition and I don’t think most Rock fans would find it difficult to name 100 guitarists who are better than him (especially if it includes all genres/ sub-genres from early Blues to the present day). Just my opinion though, anything like this is extremely subjective.
Is this the same Ted Nugent who crapped his pants to get out of military service?
Chicken McNugget
Hahahaha, now he can borrow pull ups from Donny Diapers….
Ted should be in the top 20 at the very least. Own style, has feeling, wild, great musician and composer. Classic albums, great solos State of Shock is an underrated album, songs like Saddle Sore, Paralized, the whole album is a wild guitar lesson. They don’t place him among the best because of his political ideology, for being pro-gun and against drugs. I may not agree with sport hunting for example, but that doesn’t make him a worse guitar player. Music industry is very hypocritical, as we see artists with no talent on the charts, just because of a cute face. Don’t hate me, just my opinion.
Ted nugent sucks. Tone, soul, technique are nonexistent in his work. Yeah stranglehold is a good song but he isn’t a great guitar player. Just an extreme white supremacist loved by his less talented brainless trumptard fans
Steve Houlette, by unnecessarily dragging your personal politics and injecting your angry, inflammatory, unsubstantiated rhetoric into this discussion, and topping your comment off with name calling, you have demonstrated how truly valueless your opinion is. How empty your life must be.
Ted rocks. No style? He has a totally distinct sound.
And…l must have missed YOUR decades long body of music releases…
You are an idiot… Nothing more to add
So you don’t like him because of his political views otherwise you wouldn’t have mentioned any of it that’s what’s wrong with this country people ate judged because there views not because of what they do
People are against you because you support the biggest TRAITOR of America you are a trumpet and that is wrong in so many ways. ???
What does talent have to do with your political views. Marlene, you sound like a racists pollitically.. Where is the love for others, even if they look different from you? Loving all types of different people takes maturity. Do you have it?
He’s right. And it’s ridiculous to say otherwise Joan Jett was on it. She’s a glorified riythem
Ted easily 25-50 best….no doubt about it. The lefts hate is the only reason he isn’t.
I don’t care about the so called critics choice… Terrible Ted, Uncle Ted or Sweaty Uncle Teddy
..he belongs in the top 10…He inspired some of the other people in the list 😜