Ted's shtick has been the same for ages: rub people the wrong way. I first saw him in 1977 touring Free for All and of course he did what he then always did at gigs: Tell the invented story how he and his band had coincidentally just met a group of Hare Krishnas at the local airport only to beat them up. Now I have never seen Hare Krishnas at airports, but Ted met them all the time even when he wasn't flying or when the city didn't even have an airport, but let's not quibble about details. He always won and came away unscathed too, which must be vital for a guitarist. Now we all know that Hare Krishnas like all preachy religions can be a pain in the proverbial body part, but even as a teenager I wondered why it was important for him to tell this night after night. Perhaps he liked the heroic image. Hare Krishna beater, wow!
Fast forward some 40 years und basically nothing has changed. When he shoots ("arrows") a bear, it's not sufficient for him to do that quietly and boast about it before his hunting pals (shoot unsuspecting bear with hi-tech arrow - wow!), he has to film a lurid vid about it, knowing full well how that will offend more people watching the creature die in pain (und trying to get away wounded) than entertain a hunting audience. His mindset is that he tries to be as offensive to people from the main street to the left spectrum as Marilyn Manson tries to be to, say, Evangelicals. Except that Brian is more artsy about it und leaves the bears out which are largely apolitical anyway so I've heard.
It's all not very adult and kind of tiresome, really.