I found his caveman antics on stage to be very insulting to my intelligence. I decided that very night that the only albums of his I would ever need in my collection would be Double Live Gonzo! and a greatest hits package, if he would ever have one. I knew, exactly at that moment that I was no longer a fan of Ted Nugent. To say I was disappointed was an understatement. And for all the notoriety about his guitar playing prowess, I found his solos to be similar in sound and execution from one song to the next. His songs all seemed to blend into one boring song. Little did I realize how good AC/DC was in concert, although I had all of their albums up to that point, including their great live album, You Got Blood If You Want It – Live! So the bar was set pretty high for the Motor City Madman.īoy, was I disappointed. I was a fan of the band before their set, but I walked away an even bigger fan. After their brief set, AC/DC came out and blew the crowd away. All I remember about their set was that one guy was bald on top and had let the rest of his hair grown really long, making him look like Riff Raff in Rocky Horror come to life. Next, we grabbed a couple of seats next to some other guys from our high school.
Before the concert, my buddy and I went into a restroom, only to be offered a multitude of illegal pharmaceuticals, all of which we passed on. What I witnessed that day was something else. As I had stated before, the price of my ticket was $7.50. So, one of my buddies on the basketball team and I got tickets to see Ted headline the concert with AC/DC, with original lead singer Bon Scott, and a newer German band called Scorpions the opening act.
TED NUGENT HEADS WILL ROLL LICENSE
I was 16 at the time and only had my driver’s license for five months. At least, until I went to my first concert on August 1, 1979.
TED NUGENT HEADS WILL ROLL FREE
Now, as a middle school student who had just entered his teens, I enjoyed Ted’s Free for All, Cat Scratch Fever and Double Live Gonzo! albums. So, this morning I researched this topic. Trunk’s list that always causes me pause when the artist’s name is mentioned – Ted Nugent. So, for Dio to be inducted, it was have to be one of those special inductions for major contributions to music.īut, there is one artist on Mr. And, although I understand his backing of Ronnie James Dio, arguably the greatest metal singer of all-time, outside of Heaven and Hell, the line-up of Black Sabbath that was popular in the early Eighties, Dio’s other bands, Dio and the original Rainbow, were simply okay. And, I can get behind his choices of Megadeth, Anthrax and Slayer. And, when he starts name-dropping various artists, I always agree with him when he begins his rant with Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi, and Motorhead. That album, released in 1981, was called Season of Glass, which happens to be a very good album.įor the past several years, metal impresario Eddie Trunk has rightfully been calling for the induction of more metal artists. It was arranged with the other objects Yoko Ono used in the photographs she took of those glasses for the cover of her album that was being produced the night Lennon was gunned down. And, I remember the somber feeling I felt when I saw the glasses he was wearing when he was assassinated. At the time that I went, back in the early 2000s, the Hall had a special display honoring John Lennon, so imagine my reaction to seeing actual handwritten lyrics to his immortal song “Imagine”. I remember seeing a concert outfit that Jimi Hendrix wore and not believing how small he must have been. Everywhere you look, you see something on display that will trigger a memory. If you ever get a chance to visit it, do it! My advice is to take a day to go through everything in the place. You know how much I love the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
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