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
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Alcohol is also in mouthwash, mouthwash isn’t a drug.
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Nugent for Pres :)
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Hippies gave us drugs, abortion, divorce, and crime......and the Nuge gave us Damn Yankees.
I’m not sure which one is worse....
“Cat Scratch Fever”
I thought he was singing Catch that Streaker.
Oh well, live and learn.
Unless you’re drinking non-alcoholic drinks, your claim makes no sense.
Ethanol, the intoxicating substance in alcohol, is certainly a drug.
No, they both did it. Not sure who was first, but Ted did it in ‘78.
Shut up and play, Ted.
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LOL. Doncha know that only applies to morons on the left, not hypocrites on the right.
If it were not for the drunk, stoned and stupid, Ted would have been playing to empty houses for much, if not all, of his career.
But, a lyricist who can put together the following should absolutely be revered above all others:
WANG DANG SWEET POONTANG
That Nadine, what a teenage queen.
She lookin’ so clean, especi’lly down in between; what I like.
She come to town; she be foolin’ around,
a puttin’ me down as a rock-and-roll clown. It’s all right.
Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
Wang dang, what a sweet poontang,
a shakin’ my thang as a rang-a-dang-dang in the bell.
She’s so sweet when she yanks on my meat.
Down on the street you know she can’t be beat. What the hell.
Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
“Hmmm. So there was no sex or drugs or high school dropouts or abortions before the hippies?”
No, there was, to be sure - including opium smoked by ‘pioneers’ heading west during the great expansion here in the US.
We just decided to glorify being a loser in the 60’s. The boomer’s essentially decided to veto the American Dream.
A sham, a ratrace, the Man in the Grey Flannel Suit. Boomers made ‘up’ into ‘down’, and ‘left’ into what’s right.
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 don’t drink it, I use it to rinse my mouth.
On the pics, where were they taken ? Monterrey Bay ?
HUGE Stevie Ray fan ping.
I had the pleasure of seeing him about 10 times in concert.
There was this little band from Liverpool that was very open about their marijuana and heavy LSD use. Wrote songs about it. Even sold a few records.
Unfortunately, drug use does correlate with death. Just imagine what Jimi would have been able to do if he had Ted's view of drugs. We'd be discussing how great his latest record is instead of his tragic early death 37 years ago.
Yeah I seem to remember that band from Liverpool...name escapes me...right at the tip of my tongue...wait a minute....
The Fourmost.
Yep. Stevie Ray Vaughn was the best. Pure talent.
Shame he died so soon.
Keith Richards is still around, and that guy was/is a walking pharmacy....
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