Maybe you don't like Ted's Personality. But it's impossible not to like his music. One of the greatest frontman and guitar player in rock n roll history.
Damn right he is the greatest. I had practically every album he ever put out even Ted Nugent and the Amboy dukes. I'm sorry I shouldn't say all I bought from the '70s to the '90s those albums and eight tracks. And got some good VHS videos live.
I have seen him in concert and loved his music for 45 years and only JUST listened to some Amboy Dukes stuff… it’s funny seeing Ted as a teenager on the guitar… some of that Dukes stuff is cool!
Such an injustice that he's not in the Rock Hall. This man ruled the 70's, then the Damn Yankees in the 80's . My first concert in 1978. I've seen him no less than 15 times and he never disappoints.
Saw him at Madison Square Garden '76-'77 warming up for Black Sabbath, nobody knew who the frick he was but he kicked ass and took names...will never forget that concert.
This was the month of my 18th birthday. I loved Ted Nugent. Still do. We visited my grandparents farm in Pennsylvania. Everyone went to bed. I stayed up to watch this.
Three things I like about Ted. First, he puts all his energy into a show and never fails to entertain (I saw him 5 times in concert), He always looks like he is having fun and never takes himself too seriously when he is playing music. And Three - he plays good old rock n' roll style of guitar - every time he plays a song, the solo is never exactly the same twice.
Nothing wrong with his politics. He believes in the constitution and is an environmental warrior who loves the land, despises corporate greed, eats free range, rarely eats slaughterhouses meat as he hunts his own and believes a man is a man and women are women. Not sure how that is radical.
I remember seeing this performance on TV back in 1978, and think Ted was so cool. I became a fan when I saw this. The hall of fame is no hall of fame without Mr. Nugent in it.
I stayed up late on a Saturday night at 12 midnight to watch this show as a teenager. It was way past my bedtime. It was the weekly Midnight Special with live music every weekend. I just bought Teds album and I wanted to see him play and I turned the TV up. And he blasted the place! Ted did not disappoint me! He rocked hard! I was never into Metal but I loved hard rock like Aerosmith, Heart and the Nuge! Thanks to RU-vid I get to see this again! I remember Wolfman Jack too! 🎸😎👏🏻
I always liked stripped down good playing! Not that effects drenched metal screaming and tapping. Came off so gimmicky and all those bands had the same pedal and effects. There was an assembly line of metal bands that came out after Van Halen (Hair Bands). Always liked it better when it was just Rockn' Roll and you did your own thing
Right on...I'm 60...so I was 15 in 78....those were the good old days for rocknroll and partying.....and those bands you named are classic rock bands.....I also liked Zepplin, Sabbath, and Skynyrd and BTO and ZZTop, and Floyd.....hell..I never cut my hair because of this music....Rocknroll!!!!!!!
@@bryanlongshore6198 Man that show was so great! Live music at midnight on TV! I stayed up late for it every weekend. Nugent rocked the place! I had never heard hard rock guitar chords like that on TV before! I was thrilled! That will never happen again. Those were good times! I’m so grateful for RU-vid so that I can relive those moments over again. RU-vid is like a Video Musical Jukebox from the past!
I live in Windsor,Ontario,Canada which is right across the river from “Detroit Rock City” which is where Uncle Ted is from & resides out in the Michigan wilderness where Ted runs around pretty much naked with nothing but a loincloth lol 😂 I really liked Ted Nugent’s FM radio station called “102.7 The Bear” which replaced 102.7 Z-Rock which i thought was an awesome radio station where they played all the great rock N roll songs across the board such as Led Zeppelin,Black Sabbath,PanterA,Danzig,Billy Idol,Motörhead,Megadeth,ZZ Top Yadda-Yadda 🤘
when in doubt, i whip it out... i got me a rock and roll band... it's a free for all... you rock,Ted, then and still now. loved this video. thanks for posting.
Ted Nugent was one of my friend's favorite musicians back in high school. Riding in his vehicle, that was all you listened to. Well it was all you could hear.
In addition to Ted's playing, singing, and screaming, his band at that time is top notch. That bass line is addictive! Heavy duty all around. Ted's got the best scream in rock n roll, in my humble opinion.
Love me some Uncle Ted! He is from my home town in Michigan! I’ve been lucky enough to see him many times! He would play in Detroit on New Years Eve for years! It was awesome
man....i actually remember watching this with my best friend and my first girlfriend, 1st time i had ever seen ted nugent even move! i had been a fan for several years, but it aint what it is today, (technology) ya had the album and that was it, unless you were lucky enough at 16 to go see him, i was telling everyone to shut up and flat turned my back to my first love, i remember cheap trick, aerosmith, geeez so long ago.
Exactly! We couldn’t even see video back then, Midnight Special, Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert, you had to wait until it aired. And vcr’s didn’t exist. Hard to believe, but you are so right!
I'm not knocking Ted but........."greatest" is a bit of a stretch.... Al Di Meloa, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Petrucci, list goes on and on. Ted is good no doubt, consistent player, but there are many players more "virtuosic" than he.
@@barklordofthesith2997 So if a guitarist isn't virtuoso they can't be one of he best? So those you mention are better than Page, Hendrix, Young, SRV. Again being a great guitarist is more than playing fancy chords real fast that sounds robotic.
TJ - "One of the greatest guitar players" Also TJ - " if a guitarist isn't virtuoso they can't be one of he best?" No, they cannot. They can be a great songwriter (Kurt Cobain) but not one of the best guitarists. Also, if you think the playing of anyone i listed sounds "robotic" you need to get your ears checked.
I doubt he would accept it nowadays....but it's a shame the Rock-n-Roll HOF wankers will not select him to go into the HOF because of their political bias.
It's why us metal heads, who are supposedly stupid, take the hall of fame as nothing but a fucking joke. Being in it should mean something, to so many of us, it doesn't. It's nothing but a big building that's there to take suckers money. IT SHOULD BE ALL ABOUT THE MUSIC, but you've got these Rolling Stone (does that zine suck or what) types who are more interested in politics than music, and what the flying fuck does, or should, politics have to do with music? Problem #2-the HOF is trendy, accepting groups or a person popular at the time versus someone who has made a REAL contribution over many years, but those years happened 20-30-40 years ago (in other words their real reason for being is to make money, NOT GIVE TRIBUTE TO THE ROCK AND ROLL BANDS that are the reason for their existence), and there is the most damning evidence that this is not a true rock and roll hall of fame, it is just the best one the administrators have come up with in hopes of drawing your cash out of your pocket. It's a FUCKING JOKE. PERIOD.
It's sad but when he spouts his political views it's like full force trauma..lol Hes getting crazier as hes getting older but the man's a legend with the guitar . Double live Gonzo is the most kick ass live album ever made .
I missed this somehow, but I did catch him host The Midnight Special and introduced me to ACDC. Also had Golden Earring, Aerosmith and REO Speedwagon on. I love this version of free-for-all, the tone is so in your face!
i love ed nugent i saw him in concert at the lawlor events center in reno nevada. for any one whoi does not know this, he is arapaho indian but not full blooded.
This..... Was America my friends...... I was a baby at the time but I got to experience a glimpse of this before everything went to shit in a handbasket.
