"I never wanted to be a rock star. I only wanted to
make incredible, dynamic, thump master music.
And when you are inspired to perform that music
you so crave there is no bullshit baggage."
Celebrate the great All-American rock and roll spirit
as Detroit's Gonzo Guitar Master, Ted Nugent,
unleashes a mighty new live assault, Full Bluntal
Nugity on Spitfire Records in June.
Recorded live at The Palace Of Auburn Hills on
December 31, 2000,
Full Bluntal Nugity throws rocket fuel on twelve
firebreathing Nugent classics including such
delightfully lascivious odes to the female form as
"Cat Scratch Fever," and "Wang Dang Sweet
Poontang" alongside signature power cuts,
"Stranglehold " "Free For All" and "Great White
Buffalo."
Augmented by the worlds greatest rhythm section
of legendary drummer, Tommy Aldridge (Ozzy
Osbourne) and virtuoso bassist, Marco Mendoza
(Thin Lizzy), Nugent's uncompromising brand of
sonic bombast slams the bullseye every time. It'll
rattle your cranium with devastating force and have
you screaming for more. "When I saw what we were
doing in 2000 on the KISS tour, the outrageous
intensity, enthusiasm and energy; the tightness,
attitude and Spirit of what Tommy and Marco were
bringing to my classic, historical songs and new
stuff, I said, "My fuckin' God, we've gotta capture
this shit! So we set up mics and recorded my New
Years Eve Motor City Soulfire. The energy that night
metastasized like some kind of cancerous,
monstrous positive beast. And that's what we
captured (laughs)."
Tracks for Full Bluntal Nugity include: "KLSTRPHK,"
"Paralyzed," "Snakeskin Cowboys," "Wang Dang
Sweet Poontang," "Free For All," "Yank Me Crank
Me," "Hey Baby," "Fred Bear," "Cat Scratch Fever,"
"Stranglehold," "Great White Buffalo," and a
deliriously dangerous "Motor City Madhouse."
Nugent reflects on the live experience. "When you're
playing live you don't have to worry about how it's
recorded, how it's produced, how someone thought
the record could be better facilitated via a studio
maneuver. What you're getting is the beast untamed
in his wild environment. My musical vision is as pure
as the eye of the storm."
Forget Survivor, CBS highly rated reality series.
That's kid stuff--Uncle Ted would eat 'em up and spit
'em out and still have room for dessert. After five
decades of ruthless hand-to-hand, rock-n-roll
combat, Ted Nugent is rock and roll's true survivor.
"Two words describe why I've lasted so long,"
reveals the Gonzo King. "Priorities and discipline.
The priority is healthy self, mind, body and soul.
Number two, I discipline myself. When the hippies
and the punks and the droolers and the pukers and
the gaggers laughed at me for not taking their
poisons, I mean give me a break! You call that peer
pressure? A guy puking ain't my peer!"
Born in Detroit in 1948, Ted Nugent was vaccinated
by the rock and roll bug at a young age. Receiving
his first guitar at age six, Nugent attacked his
instrument like a man possessed, quickly mastering
his six-string weapon of choice. Fronting such local
outfits as his 1963 Michigan Battle Of The Bands
winner
The Lourdes and The Royal High Boys helped
Nugent prepare for the long rock and roll battlefield
ahead.
His first big slam dunk came in 1967 when Nugent's
band, The Amboy Dukes, were signed to
Mainstream Records. A year later, the group scored
a breakout #16 hit with "Journey To The Center Of
The Mind," a sprawling, mind-expanding seminal
psych-rock classic that stands today. Between the
years of 1967-1975, despite a dizzying series of
personnel changes, Nugent kept the Amboy Dukes
kickin' out the jams before embarking on a solo
career.
Nugent's magnificent self-titled 1975 debut
album set the stage for a spectacular career of
hell raising Gonzo guitar mayhem. A master
guitarist, accomplished songwriter and wild
showman, it was no surprise that the success
of Ted Nugent led to a rapid fire succession of
multi-platinum albums including Free For All
(featuring budding musical star Meat Loaf on
several cuts), Cat Scratch Fever, Double Live
Gonzo!, Weekend Warriors and State Of
Shock. Nugent remembers those years, "It was
like a runaway freight train. This one just
happens to be up your ass. It doesn't matter
whether I'm playing a song around a campfire
for four of my best hunting buddies in New
Mexico or in front of a half a million people at
the Cal Jam, I always perform the same way. I
was just down in the studio with my new
drummer a half an hour ago. How can you not
play "Motor City Madhouse" without giving it
everything you've got? (laughs) The lick won't
let you get away with it. I like to soar with the
eagles. I like to go where no one's ever tread
before and do things that aren't supposed to be
legal on the guitar. I crave that stuff."
By the turn of the Eighties, however, like other
Seventies giants, Aerosmith and KISS,
Nugent's commercial fortunes took a nosedive.
But like a soldier fiercely committed to the
battle at hand, the ever resilient Nugent rallied
on, recording a string of new studio albums
(Scream Dream, Intensities In 10 Cities,
Nugent, Penetrator, If You Can't Lick 'Em, Lick
'Em) and logging millions of miles on the rock
and roll highway. The Nineties saw a major
renaissance for the "Motor City Madman" in the
shape of a new supergroup, his Damn
Yankees, a band whose recruits included
former Styx guitarist, Tommy Shaw and
ex-Night Ranger bassist, Jack Blades. The
group's self-titled 1990 debut was an instant
success and included the # 3 smash, "High
Enough." Life was mighty good for "The Nuge"
in the Nineties. Enjoying the overflowing fruits of
his newfound commercial success, Nugent was
able to deftly balance a blockbuster career with
Damn Yankees and as a solo artist, while
allowing ample time for his other great love,
hunting, and what he celebrates as The Great
Spirit Of The Wild."
"Since 1959 it's been one big fire-breathing
peak for me," explains Nugent. "I don't mean to
discount that success to anybody. I
acknowledge these incredible highpoints and I
thank God for them and I thank my family for
putting up with my ass, but you know I'm so
deep into it that it's almost like someone has to
go, "Hey Ted, you've made another million
dollars" and I go, "That's neat, I'm goin' deer
hunting."
In today's politically correct climate, Ted
Nugent revels in his outlaw status. Equally
adept in the great outdoors with a bow and
arrow or decimating concert audiences with an
ear-splitting, sensually stimulating guitar riff,
Ted Nugent is undeniably one of rock's most
colorful and outrageous personalities. Now
barreling headfirst into the 21st Century, after
five decades of dedicated service in the
trenches, Ted Nugent remains a singularly
distinctive, and uncompromising artist whose
joyous thirst for rock and roll is unequaled.
Willfully headstrong, and savagely opinionated,
Nugent's plate is robust and full. A world
renowned hunter, NRA board member, New
York Times best selling author, magazine
publisher (Ted Nugent's Adventure Outdoors),
award-winning writer for over forty publications,
radio personality, and business entrepreneur,
Ted Nugent still lives and dies for the raucous
"wango tango" primal scream that is his sacred
R&B rock and roll. After blasting Full Bluntal
Nugity, you will too
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