If it's too loud, you're ...

uwe · February 19, 2019, 07:18:11 PM

... best advised to protect your ears from the drums ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=119&v=X3MYV34mRL8

It's kind of touching to see that with Uncle Ted though: a drum screen.

doombass · February 20, 2019, 12:34:41 AM

Yes strange to see because I don't think the drums are that much responsible for his hearing problems.

uwe · February 20, 2019, 06:08:31 AM

I guess they have considerably reduced stage volume. I once read that if it wasn't for in-ear-monitoring, most rock artists in their 70ies now wouldn't be able to perform live anymore.

uwe · February 20, 2019, 08:33:34 AM

Actually, Nugent has written worse songs than this new ditty. For all his idiocy, he does have a real rock'n'roll feel. He's effortlessly fluid and has a great sense of rhythm guitar timing. That puts him into a league with Alvin Lee IMHO. He does know his Chuck Berry too, here at 4:13

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Basvarken · February 20, 2019, 10:26:21 AM

I think those screens are to prevent the bleed from the guitar amp(s)?
It looks like a live recording that was mixed and (heavily) doctored in the studio. If you have guitar amps bleeding all over the other mics you can't do any proper overdubs.

uwe · February 20, 2019, 11:16:36 AM

Could be. Nugent has a penchant for that, recording live and then smoothing it over, not to cheat (he's an excellent performer), but to catch a certain vibe he can't find in the studio, his Intensities In 10 Cities was wholly based on that recording concept:

TBird1958 · February 20, 2019, 11:41:08 AM

I'll just leave this here...........

Too bad I can't make it actually land on Ted.

uwe · February 20, 2019, 12:49:52 PM

Mark, get a grip!

Highlander · February 20, 2019, 12:53:28 PM

I still have the relevant badge, and the tour shirt...

uwe · February 20, 2019, 01:04:18 PM

Of the 101st Airborne? I didn't know you were that old, but that was a nice comprehensive tour in '44/'45 ... Normandy, Ardennes, Rhine River, Bavaria, Austria ...

TBird1958 · February 20, 2019, 01:38:25 PM

Quote from: uwe on February 20, 2019, 12:49:52 PM
Mark, get a grip!

Why start now?!

Basvarken · February 20, 2019, 01:43:51 PM

The only music that involved Ted Nugent that I can bear is Damn Yankees.

uwe · February 20, 2019, 01:52:49 PM

They were an excellent band. Ted fitted right in and served the group.

Jack Blades (the Night Ranger front man/bassist and chief songwriter AWOL with the Yankees), who can do no wrong in my eyes, shares many of Uncle Ted's political convictions, but isn't as inane about it.

westen44 · February 20, 2019, 02:04:58 PM

I never personally paid much attention to them, but Damn Yankees had quite a far-reaching and solid reputation. Now Ted Nugent says hunting is more important to him than that band--a way of thinking I simply cannot relate to at all.

doombass · February 20, 2019, 02:35:15 PM

Damn Yankees was an ok band but I never really got hooked by them. I like the three first Ted Nugent albums the best (like I guess most people). Like this for example (speaking of the topic headline...):