{"id":41764,"date":"2014-06-29T12:04:34","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T17:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/?p=41764"},"modified":"2014-10-10T09:19:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T14:19:59","slug":"audio-interview-with-the-infamous-ted-nugent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/2014\/audio-interview-with-the-infamous-ted-nugent\/","title":{"rendered":"The Infamous Ted Nugent"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">by Steve Patrick<\/span><br \/>\n&#8211; Senior Columnist &#8212;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ted-Nugent-interview-2014.jpg\" alt=\"Ted Nugent interview 2014\" width=\"960\" height=\"400\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ted-Nugent-interview-2014.jpg 960w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ted-Nugent-interview-2014-350x145.jpg 350w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Ted-Nugent-interview-2014-500x208.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Nowadays it seems that Ted Nugent gets more attention for what he does off the concert stage, whether it be hunting or debating politics. Thankfully, the Motor City Madman has returned with evidence of what he does best with the upcoming release of his brand new studio record <em>Shutup&#038;Jam<\/em> due out July 8th on Frontiers Records.<\/p>\n<p><em>Shutup&#038;Jam<\/em> markes the first Nugent album to feature his longstanding touring lineup of Greg Smith (bass), Mick Brown (drums), and longtime sideman Derek St. Holmes. The first single from the record, \u201cShe\u2019s Gone\u201d, features guest vocals from Sammy Hagar who is a lifelong friend of Nugent\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p>Nugent took some time to speak with Hardrock Haven about <em>Shutup&#038;Jam<\/em> and his upcoming U.S. summer tour. The guitar legend had a lot on his mind, delving into topics like his double knee surgery, how his critics only fuel him, why Sebastian Bach didn\u2019t mesh on the Supergroup VH1 show, the last gun he acquired, and how he celebrates the 4th of July while on tour:<\/p>\n<p><center>::: Listen to the interview :::<\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<audio controls><source src=\"http:\/\/www.hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/int14\/Ted Nugent.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/>Your browser does not support this audio format.<\/audio><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Visit Ted online: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tednugent.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.tednugent.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>[Photo credit: Chris A.]<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Interview Transcript:<\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent2-262x350.jpg\" alt=\"ted nugent\" width=\"262\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41772\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent2-262x350.jpg 262w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent2-500x666.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent2.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/>HRH: Hello.<\/p>\n<p>TN: Hey Steve, Ted Nugent calling.<\/p>\n<p>HRH: Hello Mr. Nugent, how are you doing today?<\/p>\n<p>TN: I\u2019m doing so good it\u2019s stupid. How about yourself?<\/p>\n<p>HRH: Doing just fine.<\/p>\n<p>TN: Have you heard <em>Shutup&#038;Jam<\/em> yet?<\/p>\n<p>HRH: I have!<\/p>\n<p>TN: Well then your life must be almost as good as mine!<\/p>\n<p>HRH: (laughs) Well, it\u2019s been seven years since <em>Love Grenade<\/em>. Why the gap between studio records?<\/p>\n<p>TN: Oh I\u2019m a busy man. There\u2019s a lot of deer need killing around here. I don\u2019t know. I mean, I\u2019m such a lucky guy. I\u2019ve been able to make my own decisions for my own life for the last fifty years\u2026or sixty \u2026 well maybe not sixty. (laughs) Even though I think I was making my own decisions at the tender age of eight.<br \/>\nI\u2019m stoned on my music. I\u2019m intoxicated by my joyful calendar between the tours, and the hunting, and the charity work, and the family time, and just my lifestyle living on a ranch in Texas and back when I lived on my ranch in Michigan. It\u2019s the epitome of individual independence, self-sufficiency, hands-on, earthly celebration and we tour every summer like complete animals. And I just was not driven to capture my ongoing musical creations until this last winter.<br \/>\nJust whimsical \u2026 and I don\u2019t really apologize because I think what <em>Shutup&#038;Jam<\/em> represents is the volcano ready to blow. (laughs) It can only take so much magma. (laughs) And because I came off the greatest tour of my life\u2026well I was going to say the greatest tour of my life in 2013, but every year is the greatest tour of my life. I mean, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008 \u2026 are you fucking kidding me? What we accomplish on the road is just indescribable excitement and inebriated fun. I mean inebriated on the music because if you got drunk or stoned and tried to play my music you\u2019d hurt yourself and then I\u2019d fire you and kick your ass.<br \/>\nMy point being is that by the time we wrap up the tour I can\u2019t wait to start hunting and I hunt every day. I hunt every morning and every afternoon. When I was approaching the end of 2013 tour, my legs were so bad from two destroyed knees that I knew I had to go in and have both knees replaced which is not fun. I play guitar every day, so what you hear on <em>Shutup&#038;Jam<\/em>, for whatever reason with a seven year drought \u2026 it wasn\u2019t really a drought. You\u2019re hearing songs like \u201cI Still Believe\u201d that was written five or six years ago. \u201cNever Stop Believing\u201d was written five or six years ago. \u201cDo-rags and a .45\u201d was a lick I played with my band in 2007. It wasn\u2019t a song, but it was a lick and all my songs come from a pattern like all of our favorite songs.<br \/>\nI call it the \u201cpaperback writer writing style\u201d where you start with a killer groove or maybe\u2026a \u201cPretty Woman\u201d by Roy Orbison. You start with a great guitar lick and the great guitar lick inspires lyrical cadence. And the lyrical cadence\u2026if it\u2019s sexy and you\u2019ll start singing about sexy stuff and if it\u2019s really hard-driving and \u201cStranglehold\u201d-like you\u2019ll sing about independence and standing up for what you believe in\u2026or maybe more romance, I don\u2019t know. So it\u2019s all organic, it\u2019s all raw, irreverent, uninhibited, no rules, no parameters, no guidelines. It just happens every day and we decided I couldn\u2019t wait any longer, so we decided to go into the studio and there you have it!<br \/>\nAnd whatever that system was\u2026I don\u2019t think I\u2019ll ever repeat it, but if I ever sit back for a second, which I never do\u2026I would say, \u201cMan, whatever I did on <em>Shutup&#038;Jam<\/em> \u2026 that\u2019s what I should probably do next time.\u201d Except Steve, I\u2019ve already written more than a new album. I\u2019ve got a whole new album ready to go and sometime after this <em>Shutup&#038;Jam<\/em> tour I\u2019m going to try to capture it for 2015 or at least 2016 because the new songs are just stone cold motherfuckers. <\/p>\n<p>HRH: Looking forward to them! You mentioned some of the songs on <em>Shutup&#038;Jam<\/em> have been around for a while. I know \u201cI Still Believe\u201d and \u201cI Love My BBQ\u201d were both released as free downloads on your website a few years back\u2026<\/p>\n<p>TN: That\u2019s right! There\u2019s a perfect example! That was years ago. In fact, maybe they were released a few years ago, but they were written a long, long time ago.<\/p>\n<p>HRH: Were the versions on the album re-recorded from what was released on the website?<\/p>\n<p>TN: Absolutely. We went in \u2026 especially with Johnny Badanjek, the unbelievable god on drums from Detroit \u2026 the original Mitch Ryder &#038; the Detroit Wheels thundergod. It\u2019s always been my dream to have Johnny play on some of my songs. He played on \u201cI Still Believe\u201d and he played on \u201cShe\u2019s Gone\u201d with Sammy Hagar. So there were a lot of dreams and fantasies that I demanded I bring to fruition on this record and I knew that that song (\u201cI Still Believe\u201d) since it references Detroit, which is such a powerful force in my musical creativity on everything I learned from Detroit and everything Detroit represents musically attitude-wise, I knew I needed Johnny Badanjek to be on that with me.<br \/>\nAnd so we re-recorded everything\u2026even \u201cI Love My BBQ.\u201d Jon Kutz played on that \u2026 a drummer from Waco, TX who teaches music history. Just through word of mouth I discovered Jon and he just blew my mind doing some demos a couple times and so I hired him for the whole record. I did have Mick Brown come in and play on two songs \u2026 \u201dJohnny B. Goode Forever\u201d \u2026 did you hear \u201dJohnny B. Goode Forever\u201d?<\/p>\n<p>HRH: I did not, no. <\/p>\n<p>TN: Okay, because that\u2019ll be the bonus track I think on the Europe release. And then there\u2019s an acoustic \u201cNever Stop Believing\u201d on the Japanese release, so you\u2019ve still got to hear \u201cJohnny B. Goode Forever\u201d and the acoustic \u201cNever Stop Believing.\u201d And Mick also played on \u201cScreaming Eagles\u201d on the record. So yeah, it was a jam session. Just a big old musical party and barbeque and it was time to do it since both of my legs were inoperable. The pain was so overwhelming every day following the February 26th double knee replacement horror that I went in and completely forgot about the pain making this music. How cool is that?<\/p>\n<p>HRH: Very cool. Hopefully it doesn\u2019t take a surgery like that to get the next record, but glad you\u2019re doing well now.<\/p>\n<p>TN: Yeah, I\u2019d better plan something. Maybe I\u2019ll have my hysterectomy next year. (laughs)<\/p>\n<p>HRH: You mentioned Sammy Hagar guests on the song \u201cShe\u2019s Gone.\u201d How long have you known Sammy and how did he end up on the record?<\/p>\n<p>TN: Montrose opened up for us as early as \u201974, \u201975. Just one of the greatest rhythm and blues rock bands that ever lived. I ended up using Denny Carmassi on my <em>Spirit of the Wild<\/em> record. That was always a dream to have that unbelievable drummer propel my music. But I\u2019ll never forget when Montrose opened for us, Sammy, and Ronnie (Montrose), and Denny were all on the side of the stage watching every lick, every song because we all come from the same Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters, Howlin\u2019 Wolf rhythm and blues rock \u2018n roll inspiration.<br \/>\nSo we all had that musical communication that we all celebrated together and we became best friends back then. I\u2019ve jammed with Sammy and Sammy\u2019s jammed with me dozens of times over the years at some of the biggest concerts in the world \u2026 the big Texas Jams \u2026 100,000 people here, 100,000 there &#8230; and we\u2019ve always shared a musical enthusiasm for the bluesy, grinding, R&#038;B-tinted music.<br \/>\nI was at Sammy\u2019s 60th birthday in Cabo Wabo. Got up and played \u201cStranglehold\u201d and a couple songs with him. We\u2019ve always had that mutual admiration society thing going on and I just demanded that he sang on this record. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent3.png\" alt=\"ted nugent\" width=\"768\" height=\"768\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-41774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent3.png 768w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent3-100x100.png 100w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent3-350x350.png 350w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent3-500x500.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HRH: Well it definitely turned out great.<\/p>\n<p>TN: Yeah, I love it. What a great jam! What a great, classic, rhythm and blues masterpiece! <\/p>\n<p>HRH: Do you ever scare yourself when you play something like \u201cThrottledown\u201d on the new record \u2026 that is, are you ever surprised that you can still play like that at 65?<\/p>\n<p>TN: No, I don\u2019t because I\u2019m so alive every day and the stuff I do every day\u2026you know, teenagers would hurt themselves. Even with two bad legs I\u2019ve already killed a squirrel with my Labradors \u2026 the happiest Labradors on the planet I might add, Steve\u2026and I still run around. I still plant trees, work on my food plots, run the tractor and grade the driveway, set my traps, fix water crossings. I\u2019m still real active. I play my guitar every day. I have the most dangerous wife in the world. She does this Zoomba stuff and I sometimes glance at her\u2026(laughs) and then respond accordingly. No, I\u2019m a lucky guy. Clean and sober for 65.6 years and I\u2019m a lucky, lucky man. I mean, the people I surround myself with are so inspiration. They\u2019re so motivational and they\u2019re so dynamic and positive. You really can\u2019t stop that positive force when everything and everyone around you is so positive.<br \/>\nAnd I\u2019ve got to mention also Steve, maybe even more influential than the positive people, are the fucking haters. (laughs) On my Facebook you have all this positive, positive \u2026 we had 12 million hits one day and there was like 11,999,994 positive hits. There were like 6 people that wanted to kill me because I eat pheasants. (laughs) You gotta be fucking kidding me. It\u2019s so inspiring that you can piss off subhuman mongrels like that. I mean, you gotta literally be from Planet Mutt to hate someone for eating venison\u2026like we should shut down barbeques planet wide because Harvey the LSD Experimenter is upset that an innocent herbivore bit the dust. (laughs) This is more fun than Richard Pryor\u2019s afro catching on fire! So, the negatives are even more inspiring because they\u2019re so fucking funny!<br \/>\nAnd there\u2019s no substance to them. They all hate me\u2026they all hate me for the wrong reasons. I suppose there\u2019s a few you could hate me for, but it ain\u2019t because I eat pheasants! (laughs) I mean, right now the Huffington Post and MoveOn.org are trying to get all my gigs cancelled claiming that I\u2019m a pedophile because of a song called \u201cJailbait.\u201d I have to remind people that the Stones never fought people in the street and that they don\u2019t really have sympathy for the devil. And that Metallica never did, nor did they want to, kill them all! It\u2019s fucking music! <\/p>\n<p>HRH: Aerosmith has a song called \u201cJailbait.\u201d Why don\u2019t they go after them?<\/p>\n<p>TN: That\u2019s my point! That\u2019s my point! And Sam Kinison never butt fucked his girlfriend with a Volkswagen Beetle. It was a comedy act! (laughs) But to even have to explain this is so funny. <\/p>\n<p>HRH: Well you\u2019ve mentioned that you\u2019ve got a lot of detractors \u2026<\/p>\n<p>TN: No I don\u2019t, I have a handful of lunatic fringe, LSD consumers. (laughs)<\/p>\n<p>HRH: (laughs) I agree, they\u2019re on the fringe absolutely, but it seems like on this album you\u2019ve kind of taken a stance to move away from politics \u2026<\/p>\n<p>TN: Oh I\u2019m not so sure of that. You might want to read the lyrics to \u201cSemper Fi.\u201d (laughs)<\/p>\n<p>HRH: That\u2019s fair, but I\u2019m talking about track 1 where you say, \u201cEnough of that political stuff \/ The right \/ The left \/ The good \/ The bad \/ It all gets boring and old\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>TN: Yeah, well that\u2019s when it comes time to just get along. Again, I would offer Paul McCartney a wild hog scent-free tofu salad at my barbeque. I don\u2019t really care what you eat Paul, whatever you want I can get for you. But when it comes to making music, I suggest you shut the fuck up and jam.<br \/>\nAnd the same thing with my buddy Tom Morello. He\u2019s a great friend of mine. On the surface you would think we don\u2019t agree on anything, but unfortunately for his politic fraud \u2026 and I mean that with all due love and respect, Tom \u2026 he conducts his life just like I do. He gets up early, puts his heart and soul into everything he can be. He\u2019s in the asset column for his family, his neighborhood, his community, his nation, and his fellow man and he produces. Well, that\u2019s an entrepreneur \u2026 that\u2019s a capitalist. And the only way you can help needy people, even according to Bono, is to make as much money as possible so that you have extra money that you can give to people who need help. Hello?!<br \/>\nSo, when it comes right down to it, I don\u2019t care what you want for dinner. If you don\u2019t want to own a gun, don\u2019t. If you don\u2019t believe in meat, great. I\u2019ll make you a veggie burger. Whatever you fucking want. Just shut the fuck up and jam.<\/p>\n<p>HRH: Well we talked about \u201cI Still Believe\u201d and I was one of those folks that downloaded the original version from your website. Originally there was a line that said, \u201cWe\u2019ve had our ups and downs \/ Mostly downs with Obama\u201d. That\u2019s been re-tweaked on the album version\u2026<\/p>\n<p>TN: Yeah, I changed that to \u201cWhat comes around goes around\u201d \u2026 as a heartfelt gesture towards the apolitical. (laughs) Even then, those lyrics say in essence the same thing. Both phrases say the same thing, but I thought it would be more timeless because the music will be timeless and Obama will go the way of the dodo bird, I pray to God. Philosophically speaking, of course. I don\u2019t want him hurt. I don\u2019t want him dead, but I want his policies to go the way of the dodo bird. Glad I clarified that, Steve. (laughs)<br \/>\nI thought it was a gesture of civility and timelessness. Twenty years from now, I think the song \u201cI Still Believe\u201d will still be a rocking son of a bitch and Obama will have gone down in history as intentionally dismantling the ultimate quality of life ever experienced by mankind and that hopefully America will learn the lessons that everybody in Europe taught me\u2026or reminded me. I didn\u2019t need them to teach it to me, Obama taught it to me, although I learned it a long time before Obama was born \u2026 that the rest of the world is aghast that Americans are so sleepy, and so disconnected, and disengaged that they allowed a Barack Obama to get in here and bring such corruption, abuse of power, and criminality to the U.S. government \u2026 as he tries to turn us into those places that wish they were more like us. Now, according to Obama, we need to be more like them. That\u2019s disaster. <\/p>\n<p>HRH: Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p>TN: Absolutely.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent1-262x350.jpg\" alt=\"tednugent1\" width=\"262\" height=\"350\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-41776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent1-262x350.jpg 262w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent1-500x666.jpg 500w, https:\/\/hardrockhaven.net\/online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/tednugent1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 262px) 100vw, 262px\" \/>HRH: Couldn\u2019t agree more. You mentioned that you never felt the need to document this lineup on the road, but this is the first album featuring Greg Smith, Mick Brown, and Derek St. Holmes together. Are they excited about finally capturing that live energy on a record?<\/p>\n<p>TN: Absolutely! In fact, we were a little bit let down. Derek\u2019s scheduling just wouldn\u2019t coincide with the recording because I wanted him to sing other songs. Though, when the final vote was in, from everybody\u2026from Sammy Hagar, and Johnny Badanjek, and Jon Kutz, and Mick Brown, and even Derek, and Greg, and certainly Michael Lutz \u2026 they all agreed that the songs I sang, I should have sang.<br \/>\nAnyhow, yeah, but to have the Grease-ome Threesome, the Nigerian Rebels, Ted Nugent and the Subhuman Mongrels (laughs) on this record is just an indescribable joy from a musical standpoint. Plus, even though they are superior beings musically, they are also superior beings gentlemen-wise. They are just a joy to work with. There\u2019s no prima donnas. They put their heart and soul into everything they do. They\u2019re fun to be around. They\u2019re adequately goofy to deserve me. Their positive energy and spirit is what everyone dreams they could have in their lives and I have it every day Steve, so I genuflect at the altar of the American dream. It amazes me.<\/p>\n<p>HRH: I was a big fan of the brief VH1 show <em>Supergroup<\/em> where you shared a house with Evan Seinfeld, Scott Ian, Jason Bonham and Sebastian Bach. Will we ever hear all the Damnocracy recordings?<\/p>\n<p>TN: That would be great, but I doubt it. You could tell there was a little ying and yang going on there. Scott Ian and certainly Jason and \u2026 they were just great musicians. We shared real rhythm and blues. But old Sebastian \u2026 he needs to learn an awful lot about that soulfulness and I mean that with all due respect because he\u2019s incredibly gifted and he has a wonderful work ethic and a wonderful excitability and enthusiasm for killer music. But I don\u2019t think what we created is really worth unleashing. (laughs)<br \/>\nI think it would probably be better if it was in a non-TV environment because the TV production always disregards honesty. (laughs) They disregard spontaneity and a real world. You know, reality TV is really a hysterical term because \u201creality TV\u201d is always not real TV. From Duck Dynasty to the Kardashians \u2026 although I\u2019m afraid the Kardashians might be, which is tragic. But that being said, the answer is an unlikely no, although I admire the collaborative effort with all those guys.<\/p>\n<p>HRH: One part of that show that I really enjoyed was when you shared the stage with Joe Bonamassa. <\/p>\n<p>TN: Yeah!<\/p>\n<p>HRH: Did that happen as naturally as it appeared on the show? <\/p>\n<p>TN: Nope it was as spontaneous as \u2026 in fact, I got a lot of resistance when I recommended it. Um, I heard that Joe was going to be in town and I think he had actually contacted my office and there\u2019s a mutual admiration there for the guitar gods before us that he emulates and genuflects at their altar, as do I, and he knows I do. So, it was a natural desire for us to get together and spontaneously combust on the things that inspired us musically. So I insisted \u2026 we got our ass together and we just wandered in there. I don\u2019t even think we contacted Joe\u2019s people or the bar. I think we just (laughs) \u2026 we just decided to show up. <\/p>\n<p>HRH: What was the last firearm you acquired?<\/p>\n<p>TN: Geez, I\u2019ve got so many and I get them so often! I got a box of these wonderful POF (Patriot Ordinance Factory) ARs in both .223 and .308. Frank (DeSomma) over there at POF in Phoenix \u2026 he makes a wonderful, wonderful close quarter combat, and a sniper, AR. He sent three of those for my son Rocco \u2026 actually four, son Rocco, son Toby, and my wife Shemane and I. So, I\u2019m a lucky, lucky guy in that department too I must say.<br \/>\nHRH: Last question for you Ted, obviously you\u2019ll be out on tour during the holiday, but how do you celebrate the 4th of July offstage?<br \/>\nWell, first of all, make it perfectly clear that every day is Independence Day at the Nugent ranch. (laughs) We celebrate every day\u2026rugged individualism and ultimate self-sufficiency and independence in a really proletarian pragmatic way. We barbeque every day. We shoot our guns\u2026maybe not every day, but 5, 6 days a week often. We do that all the time. Shemane and I are going to be filming here soon in a few minutes after I get off the phone with you for a Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild episode\u2026some of Uncle Ted\u2019s favorite gun stuff. We\u2019re going to shoot our bows and carve up\u2026we\u2019re gonna quarter up a beautiful ram that I shot the other night, and we\u2019re going to teach people where the ultimate sacred flesh comes from and how to show reverential care in handling it\u2026and grilling it. We live to do that every day. Oh and when I\u2019m on the road I\u2019m a little bit limited because I\u2019ve only got about a dozen guns on the road with me. (laughs)<\/p>\n<p>HRH: (laughs) Only a dozen.<\/p>\n<p>TN: I had to reduce it to a manageable dozen (laughs) But we do go to the shooting ranges often on the road and of course everybody\u2019s got some killer barbeque for Uncle Ted. I mean, the office phone and computers just constantly blow up with wonderful, wonderful, kind, and much, much appreciated invitations for barbequing, and for fishing, and for hunting, shooting, training, and just outrageous invitations.<br \/>\nBut I think we can all agree that the greatest philosopher of all time was Dirty Harry when he said, \u201cA good man needs to know his limitations.\u201d And when I\u2019m on the road I really have to manage my time because I could blow up just attempting to pursue a small fraction of these wonderful invitations and I really have to rest. I do media every day I tour and the travel itself is a bit testing, so I don\u2019t get to do much gregarious activity when I\u2019m on the road, but I do enough barbequing and enough hanging out and training with enough law enforcement and military to keep me bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and to make sure my guitar solos every night breath fire. <\/p>\n<p>HRH: Well you\u2019re doing a hell of a job!<\/p>\n<p>TN: Yeah, I think so! In the spirit and energy department, those are flames coming out of my ass, yes indeed. So shut the fuck up and bring the marshmallows.<\/p>\n<p>HRH: Ted, you\u2019re a prince and a scholar. Thanks again for your time!<\/p>\n<p>TN: Alright Steve, thanks for the support! Godspeed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Photo credits: Jenny Risher]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">by Steve Patrick &#8211; Senior Columnist &#8212; Nowadays it seems that Ted Nugent gets more attention for what he does off the concert stage, whether it be hunting or debating politics. 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