During a recent conversation with “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk“, Ted Nugent recalled his friendship with late guitarist Eddie Van Halen.
Here’s what Nugent said:
“What a great man he was. What a force to reckon with, how he enriched our lives with his musical genius.
“And let me clarify, in case Howard Stern, his lying punks are listening, because they made up a dirty f*cking lie on ”The Howard Stern Show”, that I was jealous of Eddie and that we had a contention because of the way we played guitar. What a bunch of f*cking liars.
“Eddie and I were dear friends. When Eddie became clean and sober, guess who his first phone call was? To me. Because I lovingly prodded him to get the drugs and alcohol and tobacco out of his life.
”I did it in a loving way, and he was resistant, as most people are, but we had a wonderful relationship.”