You should see his wife
...ok she's about 45 but still...really really hot.
I guess being a mediocre guitarist with 2 or 3 good songs really pays off.
You must know absolutely nothing about guitar. Like him or not, Ted Nugent is a phenomenal guitar player.
shareNo he's not. Joe Walsh is (with The James Gang), Hendrix, Page, Clapton, Beck, Van Halen and even Zappa is. Nugent...not so much.
shareDo you play guitar?
shareYes.
Am I any good? No. But I can distinguish between good, very good (Ted) and great guitarists.
I do like him and his political stances. But not a big fan of his music anymore. I did buy one of his albums while in H.S. back in the 70s. (I don't remember the name of it it was so long ago)
I went into a record store in 1979 to buy his album "Cat Scratch Fever" but it wasn't available so I bought VH1. Van Halen is the only band in which I bought all of their albums when they were released. Up until DLR quit. Stopped liking their music with Hager singing. Became over produced.
Am I any good? No. But I can distinguish between good, very good (Ted) and great guitarists.
I play as well, and have since I was 12 years old (38 now), and I also know talent when I hear it.
At least you backtracked from “mediocre” to “very good” with Ted’s playing. I can live with that, but there’s no way in hell I’m going to stand by and hear him called a “mediocre” guitarist, because that is objectively not true.
I agree Van Halen got overproduced with Sammy Hagar, and while I prefer the Roth albums, I did like some of the stuff Van Halen did with Hagar. I think the song they did for the movie Twister, called “Humans Being”, was one of the best Van Halen songs ever, Roth or Hagar. That song is incredible in my opinion.
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has anyone ever said to an aspiring guitarist. "you should check out Ted Nugent"
shareHe's medicre among the group of famous guitarists.
Very good when you mix in the rest of us.
I've completely botched this one.
You have to get more granular than that. Ted has very good technique for his day, but his writing and choices are weak. And some of those other guitarists are more famous for reasons that go beyond their playing -- like the bands they were in, or the songs they wrote. Without The Eagles, Walsh would have a much smaller profile, similar to Ted's. And Zappa wrote interesting compositions, but he doesn't have the facility Ted or most of the others had. Neither does Beck.
shareI invite you to listen to the first 2 or 3 songs of James Gang Live album on Youtube. Walsh was at his best at that time.
Everyone's entitled to their opinion so it would be a waste of time to argue about the others.
I'm talking about fame, not the peak of his playing. Joe Walsh would suffer the same lower level of notoriety had he not played for The Eagles after The James Gang. Part of the picture here comes from more people being aware of you. Ted didn't play for The Eagles, Led Zeppelin, Cream, or Van Halen. He'd be viewed differently had ever been part of a bigger group, with better songs, that sold more records. Instead, he's the highlight of a smaller group (The Amboy Dukes, before going solo), just like Walsh had been pre-Eagles. Ted can play, he just can't write. And nothing sounded like Stranglehold in 1975.
shareI liked the one song I heard that he did with Damn Yankees.
shareJust to add, I remember hearing a story Ted Nugent told on hearing a young Eddie Van Halen for the first time. Van Halen was the opening band somewhere in the early 1980's and Nugent heard "a sound come from a electric guitar that I never heard before"..he went to investigate and witnessed a very young Eddie Van Halen warming up for the show. Nugent was completely floored by the new sound and the young guitarist skills.
shareWhen I first heard Van Halen I thru my cheap speakers in my pickup truck it all sounded like noise. Especially "Eruption".
shareNot that one has anything to do with the other but I was with you until you lost all credibility when you aligned yourself with Nugget politically. I never trust anyone who is out of touch with reality.
shareAnd you lost all credibility when you decided that political affiliation has anything to do with someone’s ability or talent when it comes to playing a musical instrument.
shareReading comprehension isn't your strong suit I see.
shareWhat I see is you writing that someone lost credibility to judge a guitar player’s talent when they aligned with him politically. Because you said “not that one has anything to do with the other” doesn’t really change the fact that you were “with him”, when the original discussion was that the OP didn’t think Nugent was a good guitar player, and that he “lost all credibility” once he said he supported some of Nugent’s politics.
What am I missing?
Oh well, darn.
shareYou don't need to play yourself to realize Ted knows how to rock. It comes through with every nerve shattering note he hits.
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