Full Bluntal Nugety: Sam Ryan Interviews
Nugent, Ted
IrJlgl: g Full Bluntal Nugety B orn middle-finger first in ~948, Ted Nugent came into this world like a lion on catnip. He started bowhunting at the age of four and was strumming a guitar at...
...Hell, that's pure wnss world wimpland stuff...
...To be a hero, you've got to have moral and spiritual integrity...
...And I would like to see women with guns so they can shoot rapists dead...
...I'd rather make my own instrument and create new stuff everyday...
...With the truck only twenb~-five yards behind us, the flutter of wings erupted to my right as the mottled 'cock catapulted for open, dark sky, a red setter nipping at his tailfeathers...
...Shemane, my wife and my happiness...
...When the dry cleaner starts doing my laundry for nothing, he can t:ave a free CD...
...Gun control is the devil's agenda...
...I talk-radio show in Detroit, sits on the board of the National Rifle Association, and is an active member of just about ever'), hunting organization on the planet...
...I would have to give a great salute to Samuel Colt and Mr...
...That's how it was for me, the rain whipping sideways and peppering my face like microscopic birdshot...
...And that was a decMon that was made before I was wise enough to prevent the conditions...
...And while stoned hippies were preaching peace, Ted was blowing away his next meal with a shotgun...
...I would have been able to return fire...
...Remington...
...Why not just kill him when he's 18...
...I just don't have time to explain to them how the flesh of precious animals has sustained mankind...and to think in terms of animal rights --what does that mean...
...Having learned long ago to load the gun immediately and shut the door quietly, I was ready...
...But if you want the ultimate productive workout, lace up a pair of waterproof hunting boots, grab a shotgun, fill your pockets with shells, call the dogs to heel, then head straight into the nastiest sawgrass marsh wildzone you can find and prepare to magnahump and sweat up a storm...
...In conclusion, let me say how much we're looking forward to your writing a regular column for The American Spectator...
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...Add fire...
...For A1 Gore's information, throughout history, the hunters, fishermen, and trappers have always been the whistleblowers of environmental complications ! and abuses...
...There's an old saying: Rather be judged by 12 than carried by six...
...This late-term abortion stuff is murder...
...Forget it...
...But I'm sure Chuck was drunk throughout the creations of some of those pillars ofrock'n'roll history...
...John Browning is my hero...
...In fact, Ted has achieved cult status among hunting, pickup-truck-driving, redblooded #atriots...
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...I believe that the trails left by the off-road vehicles of sportsmen are no more offensive than trails left by a herd of elk migrating from its summer to its winter range...
...Abortion, obviously, is a horrible, horrible thing...
...What's your favorite recipe7 In my book, God, Guns ~ Rock'n'RolI, I've included the ultimate recipe: Kill stuff...
...IfI cooked for you, Sam, you'd be on your knees asking me to marry you within minutes...
...If Americans want to kiss their paychecks good-bye, if Americans want to kiss away the Constitution, their Godgiven rights, and the soul of the last best place on earth, then by all means vote for A1 Gore...
...Isn't it interesting that George W. Bush's initials are the same as those of the "Great White Buffalo...
...I'd get too bored with just one series of songs...
...Do you have a tax plan that you would prescribe for this country...
...At 18, Ted was a fullfledged, gun-slinging rock star...
...No drugs, no alcohol, no tobacco, no bulls--t...
...82 November 2000 _9 The American Spectator What do you think of President Clinton's seizing land out West to protect wilderness from man...
...My favorite food is whatever I kill myself, because a spiritual relationship forms when you take the life of an animal...
...Starting next month, Ted will be writing a regular column for The American Spectator...
...And God bless the Chinese for inventing gunpowder...
...The American Spectator _9 ~{o v e m b e r 2 o o o 83 I would not want to have lived a life without Johnny B. Goode--or without compositions of the Beatles, Stones, Yardbirds, Hen&ix, Cream, Aerosmith, Van Ha]en and Christina Agnilera--I love 'em all...
...But ifI were, I wouldn't want a CD...
...And within lo years, he would have the largest-grossing tour act in the world--eventually selling over 30 million albums...
...What's the greatest achievement of mankind...
...Bear with me, Sam...
...But those of us who have worn out LaCrosse burly boots know the truth...
...Or Rosa Parks on the bus that day...
...I believe in the death sentence at the scene of the crime...
...You need to get out when the rain is as close to snow as it can be in October...
...Drive safely...
...Ila fact, every year since 197o , I've planted a minimum of 1,ooo trees with these greasy, working-hard, playing-hard ten digits of electronic doom...
...How would you say your environmentalism differs from A1 Gore's...
...I'm never going to be stranded, because I'm too resourceful...
...The caliber of decent, caring, thoughtful human beings I have raised: Starr, Sasha, Tob> Rocco...
...You find a person who has actually thought about the issue and still supports creating an environment of defenselessness for good people-that's a sick son of a bitch...
...Despite the rampant drugs of the 196o's and 7o's rock world, Ted stayed loo percent sober...
...Now, those who are ignorant would be aghast at such a claim...
...Gun control is the devil's agenda...
...Until then, shut the f--k up...
...I understand you don't do drugs or alcohol...
...I wear out two or three pairs o of LaCrosse burly knee-high boots a year...
...I understand you're quite a chef...
...I'd just write one...
...The weather went from great to awesome (bad to worse for a nonhunter) and the building nor'wester brought with it visions of migrating timberdoodles, my favorite game bird in the world...
...This is what the Nuge had to say: What's the biggest issue on your political radar screen...
...The best exercise is woodchopping, treeplanting, or just cruising the wild...
...I wouldn't want a book, either...
...I'm just a guitar player...
...What's good for deer and other target species is certainly good for owls and snail darters...
...We are celebrating a hunting season this year in which there's more turkey, waterfowl, bison, cougar, elk, deer, eagles, wildlife, and timber than there has ever been in loo years...
...He started bowhunting at the age of four and was strumming a guitar at seven...
...I'm convinced that if we just lopped offthat gangrenous appendage, we'd save the national debt, probably a few times over...
...Now, lnind you, I'm all for anything that resembles exercise or any good workout in an embarrassing world of 5o percent obesi~', especially among children...
...Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and B.B...
...No one is better prepared to identify the offender than the woman being raped...
...King are my musical inspirations...
...But treadmills, stairmasters, and rowing machines...
...That's because we harvest a surplus in increased numbers every year...
...But because these groups have become so forceful and gained so much credibility, I do have a message for them: Don't tread on me...
...Why should people read your book God, Guns, ~ Rock'n'Roll...
...I'm really intrigued to do this column...
...First, I'd like to state that nobody in rock'n'roll qualifies as a hero...
...If people want to know the truth--and how God, guns, and rock'n'roll can bring them a dynamic quality of life-- they should read my book...
...The Winchester...
...My hat brim was pulled as low as possible to save my eyes, but I looked up, down, to and fro anyway, scanning every direction for the form of an exploding grouse or woodcock against the small openings to the gunmetal grey sky...
...Ted Nugent Celebrates the Aerobic Benefits of Killing the Food You Eat T ae-bo, step aerobics, kick boxing, jogging, Hi-Energy workouts...
...Where do you stand on the abortion issue...
...But on a personal note, none of them qualify as heroes...
...Today, he is one of America's most outspoken champions of the Second Amendinert...
...In your book God, Guns, Rock 'n'Roll, you say, "The IRS Sucks...
...They need the perspective of this guy who's out on the wonderful streets of this country without apologizing, without compromising, without backing off--'cause I'm one bad motherf---er...
...Friends of mine have had abortions, which I paid for...
...g,r "i don't care where you are, evil lurks...
...2. when he gets into office, stay on his case...
...That's my most famous song...
...Do you have any words for animal-rights groups, such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals...
...What are your thoughts on presidential candidates George W. Bush and A1 Gore...
...Do you have any thoughts on Napster, the system that allows people to share music over the Internet...
...The short 2o-gauge double swung with my eyes and barked 84 November ~ o o o . TheAmericanSpectator...
...I wish I'd been with Martin Luther King in Memphis that night...
...Then we won't have to go through the bulls--t of plea-bargaining...
...Who are your rock heroes...
...Are there any historical figures with whom you'd have liked to spend time7 I'd like to have been hanging around with Muhammad All around 196o...
...My intellect and my sense of reason compel me to never allow myself to be defenseless...
...Because the truth about God, guns, and rock'n'roll has been intentionally misrepresented and maligned by the major media in this nation forever...
...And anybody who could support partial-birth abortion is the devil's toy...
...If you were stranded on a deserted island, what book, CD, and historical person would you choose to keep you company...
...He's famous for having turned down acid from Jimi Hen&ix...
...Gun control...
...What has been your greatest achievement...
...I don't care where you are, evil lurks...
...Me and the setters could barely stand it...
...I think The American Spectator readers need me...
...r/b introduce him, we sent reporter Sam Ryan to interview the hard-drivin', hardlovin', full-throbbin', high-octane, deerslayin', all things-scarin', ballistic guitarboy...
...In the accompanying excerpt from his second book, God, Guns, & Rock'n'goll, Ted waxes poetic on the primal passion of man's oldest occupation...
...I mean, the kid's got everything but a skateboard...
...As for a historical figure, I'd take my wife, Shemane, and we'd make history...
...I never went to college because I was too busy learning stuff...
...He still tours and hunts regularly, is host of the No...
...That will separate the sheep from the warriors...
...And it wasn't long before Ted took his activism beyond the stage...
...But if Americans wish to retain what few God-given rights they still tenaciously cling to--there is a two-part equation before us: 1. Get everyone in your life to vote for George W. Bush...
...In between barbecues, do they have rights...
...Cause I cook so good it's delirious...
...I'm 5 z and in pretty good shape because I only eat pure, organic flesh...
...It was one of those mystical days where I quit my morning bowhunting treestand earl} on a hunch...
...But for the record, I have been involved with abortions in the past...
...And they actually pay to do it...
...He became known for his pro-hunting, antidrug sermons between sets at concerts...
...Wilderness has benefited wherever man has had access to it...
...I'm actually a hands-on, eye-witness kind of guy, not a s spectator...
...But I absolutely believe that the most bloated, obscene, blubber-infested bureaucratic institution that has ever existed is indeed the Internal Revenue Service...
...What do you think about capital punishment...
...I do believe it's murder, at least past the first trimester...
Vol. 33 • November 2000 • No. 9
