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name Ted Nugent has evoked a bold list of responses over the course
of his 35+ year career: fanaticism, joy, anger, accusation, support,
and ultimately, controversy. But why does a man who spends his every
waking minute promoting all that he believes in (Family, independence,
self awareness, fun, conservation, work ethic, constitutional rights,
and defying drugs, alcohol, and tobacco) draw such opposition? So
many members of the media from local anchors to VH1 executives have
abused thier access to Nugent by giving agenda ridden accounts of
their encounters with him.
While he is notorious for being outspoken, Nugent has proven that
he has an impressive array of faculties. He is intelligent, articulate,
and always well read on the matters for which he crusades. Combine
these attributes with an outrageous sense of humor and major attitude
and you've got motivational stimuli beyond your wildest dreams!!
Ted Nugent also has an impressive list of past accomplishments and
current activities well beyond his verbal skills. Many of these are
rarely acknowledged by the media at large. As a guitarist he is truly
one of the greats. With his unique tone and fluid style he is an original
whose versatility is unparalleled. He has sold millions of albums
and has been a top concert draw since the 60's. Ted is a special deputy
sheriff in Michigan. He founded the Ted Nugent camp for kids in which
children learn about nature, independence, hunting, and general accountability.
Nugent is on the board of directors for the NRA. He is a political
activist and often appears at campaign rallys and keeps in constant
contact with senators and congressmen to voice both his support and
concerns. He writes for over 40 different publications on a wide variety
of topics. The list goes on and on. But don't get hung up on the details,
or whether or not you agree with everything he says. The most important
part of Ted Nugent and the message he preaches is participation! He
doesn't just boast or complain about things, he is a participant!
He is very active in the things he enjoys and believes in, as well
as the things he is concerned about changing.
Ask yourself these questions: Are humor, passion and a dynamic lifestyle
foreign concepts to you? Are drugs and alcohol an important part of
your life? Do you revel in dependency? Do you see life as a spectator
sport? If you are offended by Ted Nugent, chances are you answered
yes to one or more of these questions and might possibly fall into
the liability column of life. If so, avoid this interview at all costs,
because you might hurt yourself trying to grasp the priciples discussed
herein! However, if phrases like "Workin hard playin hard", "Live
it up" and "For the people by the people" ring a bell, than dive right
in and enjoy! Ted Nugent is here to deliver the truth and a little
common sense by way of flaming arrow, or in suppository form. Take
your pick!
Ted:
So did you witness the jam I did with Scorpions that night (Ted jammed
with Scorpions on the last night of their tour with Whitesnake in
Detroit)?
TW: Hell yes I did!
Ted: I am Craveman am I not? Well the beautiful thing is, there was
images of stormtroopers getting slaughtered by GI's that night! (Laughs!)
TW: (Laughin )And those were just the images coming off the stage!
Ted: Yeah, those were just the ones coming out of my ass!! No, I love
that band.
TW: You know, I've seen you jam with Van Halen, Bon Jovi, Skynyrd,
Aerosmith....
Ted: Oh yeah! I am jamboy!
TW: Well, you know what you should do? You should get a video together
with whatever clips you have and release "The Ted Nugent All Star
Jams". I know there have been many others like Heart and SRV.
Ted: I really should. As a matter of fact I understand Sammy Hagar
is taking our numerous jams from over the years, I have jammed with
Sammy more than anybody, and he's supposedly using them in his next
DVD. This is important: My career has nothing to do with being a rock
star. Nothing to do with getting pussy. Nothing to do with posing
or making money or selling out stadiums or having platinum albums.
My career is based on one simple premise: jammin'. I jam, therefore
I am. And I just said that right now, I want a copy of this tape!
TW: I gotta interrupt you there, I don't believe the pussy part, because
I know you too well!
Ted: No, that is merely a biproduct of being the best that you can
be!
TW: It was a diversionary tactic!
Ted: It wasn't even diversionary, it was just unstoppable! I mean,
if you love doing the breast stroke in white water rapids you're going
to get wet!! I just wanna jam. The primal scream erupted in me the
year Elvis performed on Ed Sullivan. Not because of his haircut or
his swiveling hips, but more so because of Scotty Moore's guitar playing.
The tribal rhythms coming off that bass and snare, which was the entire
description of his drum set at the time.....
TW: But what about that high pitched screaming coming from the opposite
end of the stage?
Ted: Well, that's the manifestation of a cultural celebration as personafied
by guy a whose the epitome of what I'm supposed to be! Without the
destructive, soul diminishing embarassment of drugs, alcohol, tobacco,
and shitty food. I perform on all levels as God meant for me to perform
at any time in my life. I will continue to perform at an optimal level
because I am operating at optimal capacity. Because I haven't diminished
my capacity.
TW: Well, I'm one of the few rockers whose with you on that. To this
day I have never been drunk or high....
Ted: Well God bless you! Oh, you've been high. You've been higher
than anyone on drugs!
TW: Well of course, because I've listened to your radio show! But
I've never indulged in any of the typical poisons....
Ted: You don't need to! Let the guinea pigs do that. And then you
just step over their carcasses! How simple is that?
TW: Well, speaking of primal screams, I was just working on my review
of Craveman (Nugent's new album), you want to hear it? So far I only
have two words: HOLY FUCK!!
Ted: That will do it! My boys rock and I attribute that to the afore
mentioned clean and sober celebration of God's gifts, together with
Tommy Clufetos who is a Detroit drum god, and Marco Medoza who is
a tejiuana bass god. The dynamic talent of the virtuosos from the
damn Amboy Dukes, to the Damn Yankees to the damn Ted Nugent band
and on and on is enough to cause me a spiritual erection at every
turn. I am so thankful for the energy, the fire, the passion, the
gift, the piss, the vinegar, the barbecueness of everything that Marco
and Tommy bring to my music. I am the luckiest son of a bitch that
ever lived!
TW: The guitar tones on this album were unusually huge, even for you!
Ted: How about the epitome of My Baby Likes My Butter On Her Grits?!
Not only is the lyrical content the coolest damn thing....
TW: Oh wait, I've got to quote a lyric here: "My balls drip catnip"
(laughing)
Ted: Of course they do! Mine do to Troy!!
TW: (Laughing) Unbelievable! That is the lyric of the album!
Ted: My balls drip catnip/why don't you just admit/were pussy whipped/
and like it! C'mon! If there is a better lyric I'll suck Mike Tyson's
dick on tv!!
TW: Well, let me just answer that for you: there isn't! The only problem
I had with the album is that there are a couple titles that would
have been better to call it. One would be "Say it loud, I'm black
and I'm proud"
Ted: Amen. I agree with that. I admit my failure there!
TW: The other one would have been "Niggas With Attitudes" (NWA)
Ted: No question! There's no question, except some people thought
I was promoting North West Airlines, so I decided not to! (Laughing)
You're right, I am a nigger with an attitude, and James Brown WISHES!
TW: (Laughing) My Baby Likes My Butter has a really unusual lead tone
on it.
Ted: It's a beast! It's the almighty Byrdland.
TW: It just sounds really wide and full, was it more room miked?
Ted: Yeah it was. The Peters brothers did such an amazing engineering
and production job. They are big fans of the beast guitar tone and
they captured it well for me. I am an experimentor and I've gotten
in trouble in the past with music and guitar tones. I have some recordings
that I'm certainly less than pleased with, where I listened to outside
influences because I'm a team player. I am also an adventurer. I don't
just like to hump the road less traveled, I like to hump where there
is no fucking road.
TW: Which albums aren't you happy with?
Ted: Well, there's moments on Penetrator, where Brian Howe sang some
of the songs, that I just didn't care for the balance of the instrumentation.
Let's see, what else?
TW: I just listened to Tied Up In Love today, oh my God!
Ted: That's a great song.
TW: I think that album might be the most underrated.
Ted: I think that and Little Miss Dangerous. Do you realize that only
a couple cities other than Detroit around the nation play the song
Little Miss Dangerous? Every time they do the phones go berserk because
it's a monster.
TW: I guess being from Detroit I take it for granted that everyone
else is hearing it to.
Ted: How about this: being from Detroit you take for granted that
my best song ever is Fred Bear and everybody knows that. Did you know
that there is no other place that they play it other than Michigan
and Wisconsin? Well, they play it in Texas.
TW: They're not gonna "get it" anywhere else.
Ted: Well, when it's exposed they do! But radio is so constricted.
I think the song holds it's own musically.
TW: Getting back to your guitar tone, it sounds like a lot of things
on the new album were close miked because it sounds real "in your
face". Is that what you usually do miking wise or do you use some
room mikes too?
Ted: Well again, my ears are pretty much gone. But I certainly have
a great connection to my tone. I am a tone addict. The Peters brothers
found places in the room and against the speaker that they miked with
different mikes and played them back for me and I liked them so we
went there. So there is such a divers variation of mike use, mike
placement, and mike styles as well as amplifier choices. Mostly Peavy
5150s but I also used some experimental XXX Peavys, some old Fender
Bassmans and Fender Band Master amplifiers. So there is just an unbelievable
arsenal of amplification that I used on that record.
TW: One thing I wanted to ask you about was the Hear N Aid project
in 85.
Ted: That was cute!
TW: What do you remember from that?
Ted: I remember I was watching Yngwie and Neal Schon and some other
guys doing guitar solos and every time they did their solos I though
"Shit, I could rip the snot out of that one!" and all I did was SING!
TW: Yeah, how come you didn't play on that?
Ted: I can't imagine.
TW: You just weren't asked.
Ted: Yeah, I wasn't asked and I guess I'm not quite as belligerent
as they think I am, because I should have just demanded it!
TW: So you weren't there just for the recording of the chorus....
Ted: No, I was watching these guys do guitar solos and I was eating
my fucking heart out because I knew I could have snorted 'em!
TW: What did you think of Yngwie? He was pretty new at the time.
Ted: Yngwie is great. In fact, here is a news flash for you: When
I saw you at the Fox (Theater for the Dokken/Whitesnake/Scorpions
show) I was there not just to see my buddies, but because I was literally
auditioning Barry Sparks who was playing bass with Dokken that night.
Marco is not available for my tour because he is going to Europe with
'Snake and Marco recommended Barry because he said (Barry) is a mother
fucker. I gotta tell you too Troy, once again the gods of good fortune
soar up my ass! I jammed with Barry the next day, holy fuck!!! He
is a motherfucker!! I just cannot believe this shit!
TW: Yeah he played with Yngwie, he is a heavy cat. He is way beyond
Dokken.
Ted: Oh yeah, just light years! There is no way they can even use
him!
TW: I said to him "Man, this has to be the easiest money you have
ever made (playing in Dokken)!"
Ted: Yeah, he's on one cylinder up there!
TW: So how did you get asked to be a part of Hear N Aid?
Ted: I can't imagine!
TW: Did Dio call you up?
Ted: Somebody called, and I said "Sure!". I was in town so I went
down.
TW: One of the things that cracked me up in watching the video is
where your spot is in the "choir" in the back corner with Chris Holmes
(Wasp). You being as clean and as crazy as you are and him being as
toxic and as crazy as he is!
Ted: Isn't that cute? (Laughing) I think that moment where he stood
next to my cleanliness is the only reason he is still alive today!
I think I may have cured some of the toxins that were dripping through
his soul! God, I'm looking at the new Victoria's Secret catalog, should
we just go on a spanking(spree) here? What is with these bitches?
TW: Oh I know, and they're just multiplying!
Ted: They are out of fucking control. These catalogs come and I just
toss the mother fucker! I don't even want to do that to me!
TW: With all that out there, if there wasn't a Shemane, who would
you be eyeing for the queen of the forest?
Ted: I don't know, there are so many stunning morsels of bitchdom
out there, I can't even begin to comment. Thank God for Shemane, but
the poor woman has to deal with me! And my monogomy comes in avalanches.
Her new book "Married to a Rock Star" from Lyons Press is coming out
in a couple weeks and it's an expose' from hell! The whole world will
finally learn what a complete prick I am! (Laughs loudly) I am hopelessly
monogomous and I love her with all my heart and soul. We are inseperable
from the spirit.
TW: I can see why.
Ted: How beautiful did she look that night?!
TW: Ted she looks better than she did 15 years ago! If I may be so
bold, she looks so damn fine I have to remind myself that you're packin'!
Ted:
Good reminder! (Laughs) Because there's no bag limit on assholes!
I get a bonus for every asshole I cripple!
TW: No, I'm not one of the assholes, I just had to state the obvious!
Ted: Oh yeah, it's obvious and I take that as a compliment. She is
a fine as babe and she defies gravity.
TW: You're a blessed son of a bitch!
Ted: Goddamn right!
TW: Well that's one of the things that I have always admired is the
balance that you maintain in your life. The music and family and hunting.....
Ted: Well again, that is an important aspect that I am truly astonished
at the failure of the journalistic community (to note), both left
and right, both music and hunting, both daily news papers and other
publications. I'm a New York Times best fucking seller! It's not because
I'm Ted Nugent, it's because my book had guts. My book was written
phenomenally. I just found out too Troy, that my Blood Trails book
which I self published in 1990, my God Guns and Rock N Roll book and
my Kill It And Grill It cook book, all three would have made number
one on the New York Times best seller list if the system that determines
them credited sales through author distribution. In other words, anything
that the author buys doesn't count towards determining sales. I didn't
buy them, I have a distributorship that sells sporting goods and we
sold hundreds of thousands of those books.
TW: So the ones you sell through your own company, they didn't count
those?
Ted: They don't count 'em!!! How's that?!!
TW: That's like the politics with Soundscan in the music industry.
Ted: HELLO!! You can litterally have an album that sells more than
the number one on Billboard but if it didn't sell in Soundscan qualified
locations it doesn't count! That's just fucking retarded!
TW: That's not 'total' sales.
Ted: It's called dishonesty. Unfuckingbelievable.
TW: I have to say, your book is like a modern day bible!
Ted: It is, because I merely celebrate the truth in all it's good,
bad and ugly glory. I am the megaphone for the truth, and I'm not
talking about TED's truth, I'm talking about THE truth! If people
would just quit with the whining and excuse making and the denial,
the crime, the bloodsucking, the pain, the death and the vulgar over
taxation etc. would all just go away! We the people would pull ourselves
up by an honest boot strap and we would just get rid of politicians
that defy the truth.
TW: I wanted to ask you about the Kiss tour in 2000. It was interesting
to me with you and Gene on tour together. As different as you two
are, I still see a lot of similarities.
Ted: Sure, he's clean and sober and likes twang. Unfortunately he
likes fat twang! I don't. (Laughs) Yeah he's an alfa male kind of
guy.
TW: Did you spend much time around him?
Ted: Absolutely! Gene and I go way back. We have great relationship.
We traveled together a lot (on the tour).
TW: Any interesting stories?
Ted: Oh no, he's the consumate businessman. He's always taking care
of business.
TW: Speaking of dangerous toxic levels, did you spend any time around
Ace Frehley?
Ted: Yes! (Laughing) I invited the entire Kiss band and crew out to
my house for a barbecue when we came to the mid west. It was interesting
because everyone came except Gene and Paul. And I don't want to shine
a bad light on the guys, but it turns out it was because they refused
to mingle with the crew! Which I found just pathetic! So I had the
whole crew out and cooked them dead pigs, pheasants, quail ducks,
geese, deer, moose, elk, snake and beaver. Ace came and we shot 10's
of thousands of rounds of amo. I set up a whole skeet range and a
whole machine gun range. We had the guys come out. Ace wanted to shoot.
He loves guns, God help us all!
TW: You gave Ace a gun?!
Ted: Yeah, but I stood behind him and held both arms. But you want
to know something? He's a deadly shot. He took a long time to shoot,
but boy when he shot he was right on the money! He's a good man, he's
just gone.
TW: What a shame too, because he got his second chance in life which
you just don't get, and he's blown it again! All the same mistakes.
Ted: It's unexplainable. Don't try to use logic to explain it, you'll
hurt yourself. There's no logic to it.
TW: I read a quote from you somewhere about Prince and a story about
your Byrdland. Did you go out to Paisley Park?
Ted: Well, a great Michiganiac leged Steve Fortney who was my guitar
technician for years, he came from the Brownsville Station camp. Steve
developed a reputation as being an ace guitar technician. And he was
an ace human being. He was one of the greatest guys who ever lived.
I don't tour during the hunting season, so my guys have to go work
elsewhere and I encourage them to do so. Of course when you work with
Ted Nugent especially as a guitar technician, everybody wants you.
Prince offered the biggest amount of money so Steve went and worked
with him. Prince was facinated with my sounds and Steve raved all
about the mighty Byrdland. So I allowed Prince to borrow one of my
Byrdlands and measure it up and compare tonalities and dynamics. And
he had a number of custom guitars made for him that were of the same
dimensions as my Byrdland neck because he was so moved by it. In fact
I think he ended up buying a couple Byrdlands. I think on that song
Kiss he played a Byrdland. That was the Nugent influence as conveyed
through our late great blood brother Steve Fortney. Steve did die
in a terrible traffic accident a number of years ago right on the
Lodge Freeway.
TW: Are you a Prince fan at all?
Ted: Yes, I'm a big Prince fan. I love anybody who is that cocky and
silly. Plus he's a killer guitar player.
TW: One thing I wanted to talk about is being a Nugent fan, I find
myself always defending you to other people. I think a lot of it has
to do with you being misrepresented almost everywhere. A couple of
things in specific was the VH1 Behind The Music. I was pissed off
after I watched it.
Ted: Well because it was so slanted!
TW: Oh it was SO slanted!! And that was the only one that was. You
watch the Ozzy one or the Motley one. These guys were serious liablities
back in their day, but by the end of the show they were made to look
like loveable victims!
Ted: Oh yeah, the more criminal you are the more they'll like you.
The more drug infested you are the more they'll play up to you. I
stand for all the right things and they couldn't have been more mean.
How beautiful is that? But that's a great sign. I don't take that
as a negative, I take that as an irrefutable indicator that I stand
for the right things! Because the people who celebrate the wrong things
have a problem with me. How beautiful is that?
TW: Did you see it for the first time on TV like the rest of us?
Ted: Yep, yep.
TW: What did you do when you saw it? Did you shit?
Ted: I said "Those cocksuckers!" The final analysis of it: the producers
of that blatant biased misrepresentation will lose in the long run.
I will be fine in the long run.
TW: Yeah, but that could have been a great thing for you. But you
get done watching it and you almost have no choice but to think "Oh,
Ted Nugent's an asshole" by the way it's edited. Did Bill Bonds have
final editing choice on that thing or what?!
Ted: Unbelievable.
TW: That was the other example I wanted to mention. You did (local
news anchor) Bill Bonds (show) in 95.
Ted: And I crushed him.
TW: Oh my God, what was he trying to do? The thing where he was saying
"So you would KILL somebody if they threatened your family?" He forced
you to say that you would kill somebody.
Ted: YEAH!
TW: Well who wouldn't? (defend their family)
Ted: Don't you see, in the final analysis that doesn't hinder my career
or my popularity, it actually enhances it! First of all you have to
realize that you're in an environment that is overtly liberal. You're
going to run into Rock N Roll people, especially as a journalist (in
that world), who celebrate denial, liberalism, and tolerance. Even
the tolerence of evil and crime. Those people will always be pissed
off by me because I represent the heart of productive America. People
with jobs. People who put their heart and souls into being the best
that they can be. They fuckin' love me. When I was at the feed mill
this morning every farmer, rancher, cop, dentist, hardware store owner,
welder, mechanic, every autoparts guy: they fucking love me! They
say "Keep up the good work, keep representing the truth". I get that
everywhere. At every Cracker Barrel and every gas station, every airport,
school, and church I go to I am constantly bombarded by constant praise
for standing up for what THEY believe in. Never ever on the streets
of America have I been approached with anything negative. Because
the negative people know they're wrong, know that I'm right, and they're
scared of me. How beautiful is that?
TW: Do you still get your share of threats?
Ted: Oh yeah, but only through the mail and the internet. They don't
have any balls. Now, when they have 20 of them in San Francisco a
couple years ago and they surrounded Shemane and I, boy was that a
target rich environment! I was so tempted to glock 'em! I nearly arrested
the motherfucker!
TW: They surrounded you?
Ted: You didn't hear about that? It was in all the news papers. The
animal rights people were protesting in Neiman Marcus in San Francisco
and surrounded Shemane and I and just taunted us viciously. As soon
as one them made contact, I merely neutralized him with a half nelson
and delivered him to the local police! I arrested him! Absolutely!
I did it with such force, such conclusive alfa male snarl that all
the other 19 protestors backed off. (Laughs)
They were taunting and screaming and calling Shemane a whore and a
slut, a murderer and molester, just vicious. Shemane was getting angry,
and I'm going "Honey relax, this is perfect! You've got the lowest
scum in the world finding fault with you. That means that you are
the best there is!" I was laughing. The one guy, his name is Bahskar
Seenha, who is a multiple felon convict for burning down buildings,
he said "So where's your next hunting trip?". I said "Oh it could
be any day now" and he goes "We'll be there too to gun down you and
your family". That's when I took him into custody. It was beautiful.
He spent three days in jail. I went shopping. Then he said "He threatened
to get a gun and shoot us!!" I said (sarcastically) "Yeah, I'd really
have to go a long distance to get a gun!" We know that can't be, I
had a fucking gun right on my belt! Asshole! Don't ever feel sorry
for me. Don't ever think that it hurts. All the negativity absolutely
buoys my spirit. If the assholes ever stop voicing problems with me
then I would think they were ok with me. There is always going to
be monsterously evil, ugly, indecent people. When they stop complaining
about you, you're fucking up!
TW: Well I am a fellow Sagitarian so I am well versed in pissing people
of with frankness.
Ted: Stand your fucking ground! When you stop pissing off the assholes,
you become one!
TW: I also wanted to talk about the remasters. What happened to the
albums from right around the '80 period: Weekend Warriors, Itensities,
Scream Dream, State of Shock?
Ted: They haven't remastered those? Those will probably come up. I
hope so, because that's some good shit.
TW: Those four and Double Live Gonzo. Those are the five that are
left.
Ted: Boy I hope so. Because Double Live Gonzo, what a beast that is
huh?
TW: Well, I've heard you bash that album though.
Ted: Well, yeah there are moments on it. There are moments of phenomenality.
Baby Please Don't Go? Get the fuck outta here! I thought Stranglehold
plodded a little bit. That was not one of our better Stangleholds.
It was ok, but it wasn't a killer one.
TW: Did you have the final choice of tracks on that album?
Ted: No. I should have, but I was in divorce court. I was wrestling
another beast at that time.
TW: So you did record several shows to choose from right?
Ted: Yeah dozens. But you stop and listen to Hibernation: get the
fuck outta here!
TW: Oh there's definitely moments. That's always revered as the classic
Ted album, so I was surprised when I heard you bash it.
Ted: I think Full Bluntal Nugity is the better live album.
TW: Were you legally not able to use the Sam jam on the album (Sammy
Hagar joined Ted during his set for a few songs).
Ted: No, you're not going to believe that: the motherfuckers didn't
have his mike on! So we got the recording but without his vocals.
Sick motherfuckers. I could have just killed somebody!
TW: Oh, I thought it was because of conflicting record labels that
you couldn't include it.
Ted: No, it would have been so fucking good!
TW: Do you have the SpitFire remasters from the mid eighties period?
Have you heard them?
Ted: Sure.
TW: I saw an old laminate from the Lick Em tour. Was that the original
cover, with the shorter top on her?
Ted: Yes! Major tits on escape. It was gorgeous! And her shorts were
clinging to chow.
TW: You should have used that for the remasters!
Ted: Ya think?! (Laughs) But with a lot of those things I gotta tell
ya, that's just more evidence that I'm not in it for imagery or stardom.
When my manager Doug Banker who I have iminent respect for, makes
the decision to remaster something I say "Yeah, go do it. Make the
decision yourself, I'm busy." That's really how I am. I am very hands
on overview wise, but when it comes right down to it I go "Yeah, go
ahead make a decision I'm in deer camp. I'm sleeping!"
TW: Another thing that I think is grossly underrated and under acknowledged
is Spirit OF The Wild.
Ted: OHH! What a great fucking record!!! Tooth Fang and Claw? Get
the fuck outta here!!
TW: I Shoot Back!
Ted: Heart and Soul, I Shoot Back: get the fuck outta here! Love Jacker
should have been a number one single in the world!!
TW: I thought the biggest mistake of the project was to release Hot
or Cold as the single.
Ted: That was stupidest thing! See I should have been involved with
that. That was a dumb fucking mistake. That was not representative!
TW: Then just like labels do, they go "Oh, no response to the single?
See no more life in this album, goodbye!"
Ted: If the world wasn't controlled by media that was politically
strangled, Love Jacker would have been a number one single everywhere.
TW: Speaking of radio, I have to mention your radio show. I started
listening to it back in 86 when you had a week long morning slot every
fall here in Detroit. It was always riveting!! It gave me an attitude
to last me through Christmas! I can't tell you how motivating and
stimulating it was for me over the years.
Ted: Well thank you. I gotta tell you Troy I get an awful lot of that.
Even to this day I still get people that say that what I said changed
their lives. Most of the time, the people that say I changed their
lives and improved their lives, they started out hating me because
I was bringing up information that they were guilty as hell about!
Only the guilty need to feel guilty. If you're squirming, look in
the mirror, you're looking at guilt!
TW: I know you've jammed with Hendrix and a lot of other bands in
the 60's. Did you jam with Vanilla Fudge?
Ted: Oh yeah! We toured with Vanilla Fudge. Tim Bogart, Carmine Appice
on drums, and what was the keyboard players name?
TW: Mark Stein! Is that how you met Carmine?
Ted: You bet. That was in '67.
TW: Did you ever jam with Jeff Beck?
Ted: Not with Jeff Beck, no. I was a Jeff Beck fan though. I love
him. How could you not. The guy has soul. Plus he shoots a bow and
arrow and loves horse power!
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