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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There are numerous Deadheads here on FR. Also Ann Coulter is an avowed Deadhead.
Once when I was at the New Orleans Jazz Fest (mid-1980s sometime) there was an evening concert on the Riverboat President. Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown opened, then Albert King, then SRV. To my estimation they played in descending order of musicianship, though if someone there had preferred Albert King I wouldn't have argued with them. SRV was drunk and stoned and kind of mailed it in for the most part. Based on that experience I pretty much ignored SRV after that. I later came to think I should have given him another chance but oh well.
I'm no fan of infidelity of any kind, but talk about a great example of "you snooze, you lose."
I thought she choked to death on a ham sandwich.
I'm disappointed Ted doesn't have a better grip on Cass Elliot's death than I do. Mama Cass died in her sleep of heart failure and was clean at the time.
He's quite the cunning linguist, isn't he?
“The sad thing is that todays youth ( our kids included ) have lived thru, or are living with, the next version of this culture.”
There is hope. There couldn’t be the recent conservative success that there has been (although that may be changing) without a rejection of that culture.
As for the kids, we can only hope. Maturity cures plenty. Hopefully my daughter won’t have to learn ‘the hard way’. I admit it worries me as well though.
SRV definately did bottom out in the mid 80s. There was a clip of him sloppily playing the Star Spangled Banner before a Houston Astros game, and the fans there booed very loudly. But he had cleaned up and was playing better than ever at the time of his death.
I'm sure you can help me out - I don't remember Ted saying that in the article.
Have you thought that theory through?
1. Your account of this is the first I've ever heard, so the accusation is hardly well-known if it's even been alleged...got a link? However, if the Nuge files suit, it will be on every front page in America.
2. How exactly do you prove that a particular sexual act DIDN'T happen 30 years ago?
3. If you're Nugent, don't her ravings just kind of make your point about the effect of drugs on the brain? Why get in her way?
True, but dead choking on your vomit is dead choking on your vomit.
WHAT?!?! You mean there were? Well, that trashes that argument. Thanks for straightening me out!
Do a Google search for "Ted Nugent" and "Courtney Love". The first I heard of it was an appearance of hers on Howard Stern.
Before & since that appearance, there's been plenty of talk, rumors, innuendo, etc - some of it from his own mouth - about Ted's historic preference for minors & adults who aren't/weren't his wife. Oh, and a baby out-of-wedlock where he was sued.
All of which is, according to Ted, apparently the fault of the Sixties & hippies. But not him.
Your quote; "Just saying, drug use doesn't automatically make one a talentless loser or socialist.
I think there is plenty of evidence to support the claim that drug users are, overwhelmingly, loosers, and in a variety of ways. While there certainly are some exceptions, they are insufficient to nullify that sentiment. And Ted did express that.
The problem is that you said "talentless loosers or socialists". I don't think drug use automatically makes one talentless or a socialist. From my recollection of the article Ted didn't say that; you did. If you want to take issue with what he said go right ahead. Just don't insert your own unsupportable ideas of what you think he said to do it.
No, that's an urban legend. There was an unfinished sandwich in her room when she died, and early press reports seized on that as a likely cause of death, even though the coroner reported by the next day that she had died in her sleep of heart failure.
If you want full details, the account in her wikipedia entry is accurate.
You should have. Pick up "The Sky is Crying." It has a sampling of the last songs he recorded and it's got some great stuff on it.
You ain't kiddin'. Even the "cutting room floor" stuff on "The Sky Is Crying" is played at a level few guitarists ever dream of.
That doesn't mean there's no evidence of your charge, I just think it's kind of silly to say "I just got done listening to the king of radio smut talking to a crazy drug user and you should know what a bad person Ted Nugent is because he has a fickle pickle."
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