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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He was specifically lamenting the loss of great artistic voices, wondering what they could have done if a) they had been sober, and b) if they were still alive.
Mark
Bump
Alcohol is also in mouthwash, mouthwash isn’t a drug.
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Now there’s a cogent point.
Morphine is used in hospitals as medicine, therefore it isn’t a drug.
Can I recommend a logic course for you at the local community college.
Again, I think that it was the drugs. I've always wondered what the Jefferson Airplane (and Hot Tuna) would have sounded like had Jorma and Jack been sober!
It would have been amazing.
Mark
I read once that it was begun by the beatniks and that 60's teenagers got involved because the beats needed younger women, as the beatnik women were beginning to put on poundage and saggage.
Infifdelity is wrong right. Who better to preach about it than somebody that has lived through the probelms of it.
My guess is that those days are long over for Ted. I don't think that Shemane would put up with that, and given the fact that she seems to be as handy with knives at gutting wild game as he is, if he doesn't want to get neutered, he's going to "keep it in his pants," or at least, keep it in hers!
Mark
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That's not what Nugent is saying.
When Hendrix died at 27, he was - as Nugent testifies - a brilliant talent who hadn't released an album in two years because he was more interested in partying than recording.
His incredible recording career lasted only two years (1967-1969) thanks to drug abuse.
In short, everything but the Kennedy assassination.
Good grief.
What did one Deadhead say to the other after the drugs wore off?
"Man, this band sucks."
I mean Stevie Ray Vaughan is dead, and we can’t get Jon Bon Jovi in a helicopter. Come on, folks. “Get on that helicopter John. Shut the —— up and get on that helicopter! Yes, there’s a hair dresser in there. Yeah, go ahead in there, yeah yeah.” - Dennis Leary
“(Those born from 1965-1981)”
My DOB is Nov. 1, 1964.
I guess I’m too old to be an Xer but too young to be a Boomer...
That’s damn fine with me!
Ted said "mostly soulless". That sounds about right to me.
He should be wearing a hooded cloak and carrying a scythe.
I thought it was Gerry and the Pacemakers.
” Ted is right. Thank god not everyone from that age indulged in sheer idiocy.”
My wife and I often talk about our making the right choice not to join in with all of this when it was going on.
Many of our 60’s friends are no longer around, drugs,drinking, took their tool on the way to “Nirvana”
The sad thing is that todays youth ( our kids included ) have lived thru, or are living with, the next version of this culture.
And almost as good as FZ
I doubt the Nuge would disagree. Hendrix, however, has been dead for a long time and for no good reason. That is the Nuge's point.
At least Stevie minded his own business and focused on his craft. He had a great band Double Trouble, they showcased his talent too.
I don’t think he ever had that windswept look like Bon Jovi. LOL!
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