Posted on 07/30/2007 8:10:20 AM PDT by DogByte6RER
Ted Nugent Blames Hippies for Divorce, Abortion, Drugs and Crime
7/3/07, 2:22 pm EST
It was only a matter of time before Ted Nugent decided to rain on the Summer of Love’s anniversary parade. In an article from today’s Wall Street Journal titled “The * Summer of Drugs,” the notoriously opinionated guitar god took some time off his busy hunting schedule to blame “stoned, dirty, stinky hippies” for “rising rates of divorce, high school drop-outs, drug use, abortion, sexual diseases and crime, not to mention the exponential expansion of government and taxes.”
* Highlights (including some choice words for Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin) after the jump:
* On the Summer Of Love: “Honest and intelligent people will remember it for what it really was: the Summer of Drugs.”
* On Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison and Mama Cass: “I often wonder what musical peaks they could have climbed had they not gagged to death on their own vomit.”
* On the hippie movement: “Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco.”
* On life as the Nuge: “Clean and sober for 59 years, I am still rocking my brains out and approaching my 6,000th concert. Clean and sober is the real party.”
-- Zachary Weiss
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In my humble opinion, no Albert King, no SRV or Hendrix and a reduced-capability Eric Clapton (on Eric, check out “Strange Brew” and he quotes “Crosscut Saw” nicely). Stevie had a LOT of Albert King licks.
Sorry...I can’t tell you much about the models or the photographer or where the pics were taken.
The pics are from the vendor who makes and sells the shirts.
For more info, go to:
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I am a big fan of their products. I really like their anti-Che shirts...
Ted is right. Thank god not everyone from that age indulged in sheer idiocy.
Ted is right....but who/what was behind the hippie movement. That’s actually the question here. It’s a lot bigger than a bunch of kids in the 60’s. I’d say it’s more sinister than any of us know.
It helps to be old enough to remember the original discussions. There WERE once Democrats with character - (excuse me, there I go getting sentimental and longing for the "good old days".)
I’m only addressing the lemmings of that movement, not their handlers.
I’m sure that a heavy communist element was the source. After being demonized by president after president, they had to change their tactics. That’s why you see (on anti-war hippie sites), their great affection for Castro and every other communist dictator. Whatever the hell that has to do with the peace movement I have no idea, and is very telling in regard to their agenda.
This humble commentator prefers nearly anything coming out of San Francisco from the late 60’s early 70’s over anything Ted has put out in his career.
Ted’s over-loud, fairly predictable, mostly derivative blues rock, accompanied by largely inane lyrics? Thanks but no thanks.
{ducking}
I agree, with the exception of Stranglehod, and epic song IMO. But after that he went into radio friendly wuss rock.
| Songfacts: You can leave comments about the song at the bottom of the page. |
| This is about hallucinogenic drugs, which were big at the time. It described the feeling of an acid trip. |
| Ted Nugent was the group's guitarist. Nugent takes pride that he never did drugs, and claims he had no idea this was a drug song. He thought it was about looking inside yourself. It was written by the group's other guitarist, Steve Farmer. |
| This was the only hit for The Amboy Dukes. in 1970, Nugent brought in new members and changed the name to Ted Nugent And The Amboy Dukes. The group broke up and Nugent went solo in 1975. |
| The Ramones recorded this on their album Acid Eaters. The song is given one of two titles, depending on whether it's on the original release, or a compilation (such as Weird Tales). Depending on the album, the song is either called "Journey To The Center Of The Mind (Amboy Dukes)," or simply, "Journey To The Center Of The Mind." (thanks, Chesid - Fremont, CA) |
Because it would open the door to his various extramarital affairs going on the public record.
Given the choice between letting a known attention-seeking lunatic libel you, or letting her lawyers completely eviscerate your private life, most people would choose the former.
Plus, he’s totally off on Mama Cass. She died of a heart attack, most likely due to her weight than anything.
Well, that’s a little like choosing the best of the worst. I’m no fan of Ted or his genre m’self.
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The Allmans SHARED the stage with "those bands from San fran" because they all had something in common---talent. Something Nugent lacks. That's why he runs his mouth so much. No one wants to hear his guitar. You want souless music...look up, what were they called? Damn Yankees? Worthless trash.
not with the busy-body fools who want to subjugate everyone else to their mores?
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Uh, teach, that’s the whole purpose of Ted’s comments (dirty hippies and their behavior = bad) and the further comments made on this thread. At least that’s how it seems to me.
“No, we had drugs, and we had abortion, but it was considered shameful, took its toll on families, and God was thought to be watching.”
I’m 42, so there were always drugs from day one as far as I knew. Historically, it seems there was mostly alcohol before that. Weed, smack, all that stuff was for .. er .. “jazz musicians”. If you get my drift. But alcohol was a huge issue. Look up Carrie Nation and the suffragists and “Gin Alley” and so on — and it’s always been thus, at least in Europe and here which is basically Europe Junior.
As far as abortion, there have always been abortions, too. Illegal sometimes, not illegal other times. Roe V Wade wasn’t because of hippies — all the USSC judges were way too old to be hippies, after all, and hippies didn’t have any say over who got to be on the USSC.
I would say you were right on as far as your “glorify being a loser” comment. “Tune in turn on drop out” wrecked a whole lot of lives.
has anyone here ever attempted to actually listen to that crap that the Grateful Dead is so famous for?
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Routinely and for years, I have. Without apologies. Some of my favorite roots rock. If you have not heard them play acoustically (yes, they did quite a bit of acoustic stuff), then your opinion is based on a ridiculously inadequate sampling of their music.
I went to my fair share of their concerts from 72-81 or so, and while I thought the ‘scene’ was kind of silly, their music was not.
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