Posted on 02/21/2005 12:38:54 PM PST by rface
"Due to inclement weather, TED NUGENT is not able to leave Michigan and will not be appearing tonight."
For a group of teens, the sight produced a statement you're not likely to hear often.
"No Ted Nugent?! Oh my god. Your mom is going to be so pissed."
- Protest outside -
....confrontation brewed outside the hall. Keith is an outspoken supporter of President Bush. Nugent is an outspoken gun advocate and so far right he makes Rush Limbaugh seem like a candidate for the next Kennedy family reunion.
...The 17-year-old wore a T-shirt with the president's likeness and the word "LIAR" emblazoned on the front. Posters carried pointed phrases like "Stop Redneck Americans and Cowboy Politicians" and "A Redder Shade of Neck for a Whiter Shade of Trash?"
"You guys are a bunch of candy asses," one angry vet jeered. Robert Doyle of Marshalltown just smoked, literally and figuratively. On Doyle's right biceps, the words "Redneck" and "Marine" were tattooed around the Corps' emblem.
Police officer Andrea Jennings and another officer moved the high school aged protesters away from the Dome in large part because they were concerned about the kids' continued health.
CEDAR FALLS --- Camouflage hunting jackets, cowboy hats and military insignia marked a good portion of the UNI-Dome crowd.
Of those who put their allegiances so clearly on display, two out of three went away well-satisfied Sunday night. Toby Keith and the Big Throwdown Tour rocked their world, dishing out generous helpings of patriotic tribute and down-home modern country music.
"How many rednecks we got up on in here tonight?" Keith said, setting the tone early for a what proved a raucous evening.
There were Ford trucks, horses, American flags and red, white and blue pyrotechnics. Those elements --- and Keith's popular songs --- created a frenzy.
"This is the best show I've worked," said Ty Burke, a sophomore at the University of Northern Iowa and member of the Dome event staff.
Burke was close to center stage but back about 25 rows. His task was to keep an aisle clear and fans from standing on chairs. The distinctions between rows blurred, though, as revelers danced with themselves and their neighbors, sang at the top of their lungs and embraced Keith's effort without reservation.
Once the music started, chairs were an afterthought. The party was on.
"That's what you want, right?" Burke said.
The camouflage crew, however, came up half a stage short. Their man, Terrible Ted Nugent, bad boy of the 1970s and avid hunter, was scheduled to open for Keith. But fans of the Motor City Madman were greeted with signs taped to every door at every entrance.
"Due to inclement weather, TED NUGENT is not able to leave Michigan and will not be appearing tonight."
For a group of teens, the sight produced a statement you're not likely to hear often.
"No Ted Nugent?! Oh my god. Your mom is going to be so pissed."
Russell Nitson of Reinbeck said he was offered a free basketball ticket as a makeup call. But for a devoted-and-graying long-hair, that didn't have quite the same ring as "Cat Scratch Fever."
Instead of Nugent's screaming guitar, and well, just plain screaming, Tribe Nuge got an acoustic soloist. Tim Rushlow, lead singer for Little Texas, played a short set to warm the stage.
"I was really curious to see what kind of show Ted was going to put on for these folks," Nitson said. "These folks aren't ready for Ted."
Heather Tousignant, director of operations for the UNI-Dome, couldn't do much more than shrug her shoulders at the last-minute cancellation.
"It's a bummer. Weather," she said.
"Because it's a promoted show, we can't give refunds."
Protest outside
As Rushlow played, confrontation brewed outside the hall. Keith is an outspoken supporter of President Bush. Nugent is an outspoken gun advocate and so far right he makes Rush Limbaugh seem like a candidate for the next Kennedy family reunion.
It seemed a ripe situation for Andrew Alemao and about 10 other junior and senior high school students to make a political statement.
"We're here to protest the Second Amendment," Alemao said.
"Obviously we don't know how to use guns in this country."
The 17-year-old wore a T-shirt with the president's likeness and the word "LIAR" emblazoned on the front. Posters carried pointed phrases like "Stop Redneck Americans and Cowboy Politicians" and "A Redder Shade of Neck for a Whiter Shade of Trash?"
They picked a tough audience. The 40-, 50- and 60-year-old veterans stopping by the northwest entrance for a cigarette break were in no mood for the teens' doe-eyed sentiments.
"You guys are a bunch of candy asses," one angry vet jeered.
"Yeah, I'm a redneck. At least I love my country," Jason Card of Waterloo said.
Robert Doyle of Marshalltown just smoked, literally and figuratively. On Doyle's right biceps, the words "Redneck" and "Marine" were tattooed around the Corps' emblem.
"I gave up four years of my life for this country. And this is what I have to put up with," he said.
Police officer Andrea Jennings and another officer moved the high schoolers away from the Dome in large part because they were concerned about the kids' continued health.
"We told them to go stand in the grass," Jennings said. "They said, 'That's OK. Our mom said we had to go home.'"
Once Keith took the stage, Nugent and protesters were forgotten. He played most of the crowd's favorites --- "Beer for My Horses," "Stays in Mexico," "Who's Your Daddy?" --- and frequently took time out to engage the audience with extended setups between numbers. A suggestion to down a drink for the country's firefighters, police and highway patrol; two for military men and women; "and one for the good ol' U.S. of A" rocked the walls.
Keith ended with "American Soldier" and "Courtesy of the Red, White & Blue," anthems about America's strength.
And at least one redneck Marine was satisfied.
"That was awesome," Doyle concluded.
Call Dennis Magee at (319) 291-1451 or e-mail dennis.magee@wcfcourier.com.
Obviously, many high school students don't have a clue as to the meaning and intent of the U.S. Constitution.
Which is why I love the man.
Toby's the man.....right on bro!
How...liberal.
First concert Ted missed in 5500 shows. (Hardest working man in show business?)
These kids aren't representative of American youth. I have seen a lot of evidence to suggest that today's teens are MORE conservative than their parents.
ya know, we gotta really look at who's teachin them what in the schools....it just ain't right.
This is hardly much different than the Khmer Rouge teaching little Cambodian kids to kill their own parents.
The 'evil' ones go right after the soft and pliant minds.
and we let them....
Pencilneck......
Morons. How about a poster that says "Stop Liberal Americans and Communist Politicians??"
"Police officer Andrea Jennings and another officer moved the high school aged protesters away from the Dome in large part because they were concerned about the kids' continued health."
Why? They might have learned what evolution is all about!
Anyone who does stuff like that is already not healthy in my book.
Misleading headline alert! The story didn't mention what type of weather, but only that Ted was stuck in Michigan due to it. Well, that's a lot different than just blowing off the concert because he didn't feel like it or 1,000 other similar reasons that one thinks of when told someone is A.W.O.L. (Not the poster's fault - the headline comes from the website.)
Stranglehold was our unit song...Ted is awesome!
check this out :
www.redneck.com
is available...unbelievable that no one has that.
Personally, I think 'A Redder Shade of Neck for a Whiter Shade of Trash' is a pretty funny slogan. It might become my new tagline. . .
"Redneck" is an ethnic slur. These multiculturally sensitive liberals need a lesson in tolerance. Here's a good suggested textbook.
"Police officer Andrea Jennings and another officer moved the high school aged protesters away from the Dome in large part because they were concerned about the kids' continued health."
Sounds like they almost became candidates for the Darwin Award.
Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com
ROTFL.
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