Ted Nugent loves to brag of his skills as a hunter. In interview, he regularly carps about how excellent he is as a steward of the wild.
And, very recently, he was named the favorite celebrity hunter in Outdoors magazine.
But if you’re read these continuing posts on Uncle Ted, you’ve come to see his true character. It’s a veritable banquet of serious flaws in demeanor and lapses in sound judgment. So readers will not be surprised to read this next item on the alleged mighty hunter:
Rock star and gun rights advocate Ted Nugent was fined $1,750 today in Yuba County Superior Court after pleading no contest to baiting deer on his hunting show “Spirit of the Wild.”
Yuba City attorney Jack Kopp, representing Theodore Anthony Nugent, 61, entered a no contest plea to Department of Fish and Game charges of baiting deer and not having a deer tag “countersigned” at the closest possible location, said Deputy District Attorney John Vacek.
Baiting deer is legal in some states but not in California, said state Fish and Game spokesman Patrick Foy.
Furthermore:
Nugent was originally facing a charge of killing a “spike” — an immature buck — on the program but the charge was dropped during negotiations between his attorney and the Yuba County District Attorney’s Office, said Foy.
A spike is a deer with two antlers that have not yet “forked,” Foy said.
A Department of Fish and Game warden saw the show in March and “just about fell out of his chair” when he saw Nugent with the buck, according to Foy.
A subsequent investigation led to the baiting charge.
If you grew up in a community of hunters, and DD did in Schuylkill County, PA, knocking off a spike buck is about the worst thing you can do.
First up, the senseless comparison to infamous murdering villains:
I find it painfully disheartening that the United States of America voted for Barack Hussein Obama, the leftist community organizer, in a time following the horrors of Sept. 11, 2001. Would America have voted for a clueless, inexperienced man with an anti-American voting record with the name Adolf, Eichmann or Stalin following World War II? I think not.
Then the apoplectic run-on sentence, with slurs as the candy pieces in the teeming bowl of cereal:
It is unfathomable to me that such support exists for a man who was raised and abandoned by avowed Marxist parents, whose mentor was a self-avowed Marxist, who studied and preached Marxism and communism, who attended a radical, America-hating church led by a radical America-hating pastor, who had this radical, America-hating pastor baptize his children and marry him and his wife, who has appointed as czars a gang of flagrant communists, Marxists, socialists and America-hating, capitalism-hating, U.S. Constitution-hating radicals, who associated regularly with convicted homegrown terrorists and 1960s radicals and other such egregious violations.
Did he use the word hating enough while getting his hate on?
With absolutely no sense of self-consciousness, Nugent then writes:
Their mindless shoveling of massive barges overflowing with cash at the American education system has produced the dumbest group of dropouts in the history of mankind who can neither read, write, talk, spell …
Coming to a casino in Palm Springs, Nugent was interviewed by the local newspaper.
Palm Springs, CA, newspaper: Have you ever considered running for political office? What would your platform be? What kind of change do you think you could bring about if you were elected to Congress or the Oval Office?
Nugent: I have been prodded to do so for many years and it could still happen.
I would return America to a streamlined, dramatically smaller, absolutely accountable, open, transparent government for the people, by the people, about the people.
I would end all welfare except the benefits that have been earned and paid for, and those deserved by the hero warriors of the U.S. military. No able-bodied American would ever again get a handout.
I would reduce the fat, lazy, redundant bloated Fedzilla by 50 percent ASAP, and then work on another 50 percent of that.
I would not have an exit strategy for the war on terror. I would have a victory strategy and win fast and furiously. I would wage a real honest-to-God war on drugs and end that suicidal scourge once and for all.
There is much work to be done and it is all obvious as hell how to fix things. I would fix things.
Today the Dubuque newspaper’s editorial board took the unusual step of rebuking Ted Nugent over his show at a local casino.
It reads:
It was bad enough that rock musician Ted Nugent made racially insensitive remarks on stage last week in Dubuque. What made it worse was that audience members cheered.
Anybody who thinks racism is in Dubuque’s past had better think again.
Nugent commented approvingly that he saw so many white people in the audience. He commended Dubuque for being a “white town.” The crowd — not just a few fans here and there — cheered. (That is not to say that everyone in the audience was a Dubuque resident and that everyone cheered. But no expression of disapproval was heard, either; hopefully, some were too shocked to respond.)
People who attend performances, whether they are stand-up comics or musicians or the like, might expect some political comments to be interjected during a show. But Nugent’s remarks crossed the line.
It’s impossible to defame Ted Nugent. The man’s image — in his columns and even more so when the voltage is high onstage — shows him to be a public face of crazy white rancor in a turbulent social climate.
Figuratively speaking, Nugent’s the old guy with the smirk on his face, shouting fire in a crowded room of anxious white people.
Paradoxically, Nugent and the Tea Party continually insist Martin Luther King , Jr., is an inspiration. More bizarrely, Nugent now regularly maintains from the stages of his summer tour, and in interview, that he has always been a soul man and, for instance, that he is “black enough,” unlike the President. His enemies, Nugent says, are soulless.
It’s not just a weird joke or WTF peculiar, it’s insane.
Why Nugent is the way he is now is virtually beyond explanation.
Is it his dwindling audience of bottom-out-of-sighters and a need to cater to the worst among them?
Is it because he believes his future is with the race-baiting demagogues on Fox News?
Is it because he bitterly hates unions and US auto companies in Michigan, and a black president saved them? (While Nugent chose to move to Waco, Texas.)
Cases can be made for all three but none tell us why he’s such a corrosive extremist, one who hypocritically laments the same stuff in newspaper interviews.
Observers can only tell that Nugent’s irreversible decline in music popularity has only been slightly offset by semi-literate success as a spewer of insults and hatred from the extreme right. And that his political views and beliefs are poison for killing what’s left of the middle class, the people who used to be his big audience in 1978. Even while he maintains otherwise.
Are there any bets among readers how long it will take Nugent to direct the same black bile against the new GOP enemy: Middle class “special interests,” like teachers?
Nugent has shown he can’t be underestimated or outguessed. Just when you think he can’t raise the bar on a wealthy white man’s resentment, that he’s gone as far round the bend as possible, he surprises you with something even more unpleasantly nuts and insulting.
However, Nugent is a good fit for the summer of 2010. He’s a perfectly nasty fellow for a perfectly nasty time.
And what about the economy’s future? Everything we know about economic growth says that a well-educated population and high-quality infrastructure are crucial. Emerging nations are making huge efforts to upgrade their roads, their ports and their schools. Yet in America we’re going backward.
How did we get to this point? It’s the logical consequence of three decades of antigovernment rhetoric, rhetoric that has convinced many voters that a dollar collected in taxes is always a dollar wasted, that the public sector can’t do anything right.
The antigovernment campaign has always been phrased in terms of opposition to waste and fraud — to checks sent to welfare queens driving Cadillacs, to vast armies of bureaucrats uselessly pushing paper around. But those were myths, of course; there was never remotely as much waste and fraud as the right claimed. And now that the campaign has reached fruition, we’re seeing what was actually in the firing line: services that everyone except the very rich need, services that government must provide or nobody will, like lighted streets, drivable roads and decent schooling for the public as a whole.
Once again, it’s worth emphasizing that Ted’s extremist politics are aimed at wiping out his old audience. He wants to live in a country where there’s no taxation, no government except for the military and absolutely no paying for a social contract or anything associated with a civilized western nation that has a middle class.
We’re heading toward Krugman’s vision. One to also include the pleasure of watching Ted Nugent on a summer tour of casinos, cursing out the bloodsucker and entitlement class enemies from a stage in Iowa, then going back to the hotel to submit an opinion piece on how all taxes for the rich need to be eliminated. And that Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King are his inspirations.
Photo gallery of the Nuge’s show at the House of Blues — Chicago.
His obviously spreading middle on display, look close — around pic 2 — for a knee brace. Aging not optional, even for Ted.
And this home video from his tour is just baffling: Nugent doing his very average version of “Soul Man” — sort of like the Blues Brothers, only not quite as fair — at one of the House of Blues franchises.
Part of Ted’s shtick this tour is emphasizing how much the soul man he is. And how all his heroes are black. Before he jumps into a tired blues not nearly as good as the rest of the material in his set. If it were done before any other audience than the one here, 100 percent all-male percent bottom-out-of-sighters in baseball caps, it would be uncomfortably awkward.
However, “Unlike the President, I’m black enough,” Ted informs. There can be no doubt, he’s the antic card of the party.
In an abject example of how music journalism is the home of cream puffs, a recent interview for Goldmine magazine has the reporter asking Nugent what he thinks of all the “rancor.” Without pointing out those Ted columns showing him to be among the most rancorous.
Goldmine: Let’s talk politics a bit. You’ve never been afraid to express your political views. What do you think of the rancor and division in our nation today?
Nugent: It is heartbreaking and totally unnecessary, really. The line drawn in the sand is a direct result of the curse of apathy and the cluelessness that results from intentional, lazy disconnect. Those who are not interested in doing anything for their country, but rather demand a shopping list of bloodsucking demands from America have the perfect president and gang of czars for their sheep-like, self-imposed dependency. It’s embarrassingly soulless, really. On my side of the line drawn in the sand are ass-kicking, hard-working American families who don’t want the government to do anything besides protecting our borders and enforcing our laws, and to basically get the hell out of our way to be the best that we can be. The criminality of the Mao Tse-Tung fan club in the White House will go down as one of the most bufoonish, ignorant crimes in the history of the world. Damn shame. Sadly, we get what we ask for. I fight it every day of my life. And I shall win.
And Ted really likes to repeat how he’s the soul man while maintaining that his enemies are soulless.
After covering Ted Nugent’s “racially tinged” show at the Mississippi Moon Bar, the local newspaper took an unusual step. It published another article today, one underlining his race-baiting at the venue.
“Managers at other venues agree that Ted Nugent’s racially tinged remarks likely would not stop a show,” reads the Dubuque paper today. “Their contracts with entertainers often don’t address contentious comments.”
Musician Ted Nugent made racially tinged remarks throughout his show Thursday night at the Mississippi Moon Bar in the Diamond Jo [Casino].
Within a few minutes of starting, Nugent commented on the race of his audience and the city of Dubuque.
“There’s a lot of white people in this crowd — I like that! (Dubuque) is a white town.”
Nugent also pointed out at least one audience member and questioned his race.
The entertainment manager of the casino told the newspaper the business doesn’t yank the plug on entertainers during a show. He added an implication that the Nugent crowd certainly knew what it was coming to see. And approved.
Which is probably entirely accurate.
DD notes that this blog’s Nugent ticker ran a longer piece on the infamous rocker getting thrown off the bill of the Muskegon (Michigan) Summer Celebration in 2003. For allegedly racist comments made on a radio show, remarks which had the announcers yank him.
Nugent sued the Muskegon Summer Celebration for defamation and breach of contract. He won only his $80,000 guarantee.
Scroll down through the Nugent tab to see the longer piece.
With a touch of irony, it’s also worth reprinting Nugent’s latest howler, from the WaTimes today:
My hero, Rosa Parks, refused to give up her seat on a bus, thereby spitting in the face of racist and dumb laws.
This — in another of his columns railing on illegal immigrants and Arizona.
This blog has followed Ted Nugent through his summer tour of firetraps, casinos and brokedown fairgrounds in the hinterlands. They seem like a century’s worth of downfall away from 1978 and headlining status at California Jam II. It’s even a long trudge from when DD saw him with Damn Yankees at the Allentown Fairgrounds.
The Dubuque newspaper sent someone to his latest, a performance in that town’s “Mississippi Moon Bar.” The journalist notices Ted can’t control his contempt for people not like him, so this particular gig warms his heart.
“Some fans flock to see Ted Nugent not only for his music but also his in-your-face, sometimes racially tinged commentary,” reads the newspaper’s subhed.
“There’s a lot of white people in this crowd — I like that! (Dubuque) is a white town.”
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Many of the concertgoers sported cowboy hats and camouflage.
In Ted’s last two columns for the WaTimes — no links — he has furnished no less than four paragraph-long run-on sentences.
It’s Nugent’s anti-talent.
And the best way to describe it is to say the man uses run-ons as a delivery system for name-calling his enemies. Every last one he can think of, like pouring out a teeming bowl of Lucky Charms cereal with slurs substituting for the pieces of candy.
Lo!
This president’s overtly destructive, clear-and-present-danger agenda is surpassed in transparency only by his ultra-leftist public voting record and overall lifetime conduct of consorting with the enemy as a child and student of Marxism, socialist and racist community organizer, congregant of the blatant America-hating black-theology- and social-justice-spewing Rev. Jeremiah Wright and close personal friend of convicted communist terrorists like Bill Ayers, and by his unflinching appointment of an array of communist czars, including Van Jones, Cass Sunstein, Anita Dunne, et al.
Or this one, which would leave ya wiping the spray of spittle from your goggles if the man were standing out front delivering it:
Each and every conservative and liberal American who knows that we cannot spend and tax our way out of debt, who knows that an exit strategy instead of a victory strategy is the same as surrender, who knows Fedzilla is criminal in its refusal to be accountable with our hard-earned tax dollars being blowtorched with unprecedented and insane wastefulness, that a federal government suing Arizona for simply implementing constitutional law is treasonous, and who fails to communicate this with everyone we know is actually complicit with this bizarre, fundamental transformation of the greatest country in the history of humankind.
Note: I’m sorry, Bonze. I know these hurt the eyes.
The death tax should be eliminated permanently, capital gains slashed to next to nothing, and the George W. Bush tax cuts made permanent.
If it occurs to Ted that the far right policies he espouses have destroyed the middle class in this country, he never shows it.
Paradoxically, that was his audience. And the bottom-out-of-sighters who follow him around during his tour of Indian gaming casinos now were also part of it.
With less and less income, they will see to it that Ted continues to keep ticket prices lean. And that he plays only country fairs where his show is included with the price of admission and establishments where the teetotaler can watch from the stage as others drink a lot.
In Ted’s WaTimes column, the former Motor City Madman complains that no one in the White House knows how to run a business.
Ted knows this because he doesn’t know how to run one.
Take tednugent.com.
On his website, Ted thinks he can charge for the same columns we read for free at the WaTimes and Human Events. That’s just plain dumb.
Ted calls these things his “SpiritWild Writings” and he wears an Indian headdress. Perhaps this explains his new penchant for playing casinos.
Once again, it’s worth emphasizing that Ted’s extremist politics are aimed at wiping out his old audience. He wants to live in a country where there’s no taxation, no government except for the military and absolutely no paying for a social contract or anything associated with a civilized western nation that has a middle class.
There may be a bit of sense to this.
If Ted thinks that in a few years most of his bread will be buttered by writing polemics and books as a crazy old antic butler for the upper class, it’s not a bad strategy to recommend things that endear you to them as often as possible.
In other pertinent news, Yahoo published a survey including statistics showing the accelerating destruction of what’s left of the the middle class.
Wealth and power are rapidly becoming concentrated at the top and the big global corporations are making massive amounts of money. Meanwhile, the American middle class is being systematically
wiped out of existence as U.S. workers are slowly being merged into the new “global” labor pool.
What do most Americans have to offer in the marketplace other than their labor? Not much. The truth is that most Americans are absolutely dependent on someone else giving them a job. But today, U.S. workers are “less attractive” than ever. Compared to the rest of the world, American workers are extremely expensive, and the government keeps passing more rules and regulations seemingly on a monthly basis that makes it even more difficult to conduct business in the United States.
So corporations are moving operations out of the U.S. at breathtaking speed. Since the U.S. government does not penalize them for doing so, there really is no incentive for them to stay.
Damn those benefits like health insurance and all those pesky regulations for keeping the local environment clean and seeing that people do not get an entirely shitty deal.
“Despite the financial crisis, the number of millionaires in the United States rose a whopping 16 percent to 7.8 million in 2009 … Approximately 21 percent of all children in the United States are living below the poverty line in 2010 – the highest rate in 20 years,” it reads..
Today’s Nugent column at the WaTimes is remarkable for one thing.
For the first time in many weeks, the Nuge does not mention the “Mao Zedong fan club.” Plus no run-on sentences as eye-poppingly awesome as the critter the Nuge gave birth to two weeks ago.
A copy editor may have been working extra hard. Or perhaps another ghost-writer was hired to give Ted a bit of a hand.
However, it didn’t help a great deal.
Ted is plagued by paranoid conspiracy thinking, nicked — as usual — from the broadcasts of Glenn Beck. He is, as you’ll see, determined to get the word out that he’s being attacked using methods from all those on the Beck-approved enemies list.
[The] Democratic machine will work overtime once again to demonize conservatives and the Republican Party as jingoists, racists, anti-civil-rights, anti-immigration, anti-minority and even anti-Mexican. I know, as I previously have been the target of its vicious personal lying attacks and smear campaigns straight out of the playbook of Richard Andrew Cloward, Frances Fox Piven and Saul Alinsky.
Ted’s the real McCoy in rock guitar, a total original. In prose, he’s a weak imitator, always working to make a good impression at Fox News.
Teacher, teacher! I just worked Mr. Beck’s three most hated people — Richard Andrew Cloward, Frances Fox Piven and Saul Alinsky — into a single sentence!
See here. An old lady is persecuting you, Ted? Really now. That’s a new low.
Here’s Piven, framing it in 2009, after being demonized by Beck.
Excerpted from the YouTube interview:
The idea is to say everything would be nice in American society if it weren’t for these Columbia professors. If it wasn’t for their nasty scheming, no financial crisis. Can you think of anything sillier than to attribute the financial crisis to an article published in a low circulation magazine in 1966?
However, Nugent’s current column is primarily aimed at describing another massive conspiracy — how the Obama administration and Democratic Party will enslave and destroy Mexican immigrants, just like it did with black society.
And that Republicans are, therefore, the best friends of Mexicans because they don’t want that:
[Look] at what the Democrats have done to black America over the past 50 years. What once was a proud, strong people now lies in ruin because of Fedzilla programs designed specifically to enslave and destroy instead of liberate and build. Amazingly, black Americans still overwhelming vote for Democrats. Be wise and learn from their mistakes.
Ted Nugent’s summer tour of rib shacks and an astonishing number of casinos is being shot by amateur videographers and posted to YouTube.
Presumably, they’re devoted fans.
Here’s a Ted rant, deployed nightly, just as described by a Houston newspaper reporter days ago.
“All the children get a free machine gun,” roars Ted. The mayor of Chicago is a piece of shit. Is Chicago in Canada? On the president: “I have a love song for the rookie clueless piece of shit.” “This song is for all the motherfuckers that are fucking with me all the time … hey Barack,” etc.
And then he goes into a cursing instrumental he coined at a happier time in 2000, “Klstrfuckme.” Performed with somewhat less vigor than I have on record.
And here is a video, taken from the Pasadena rodeo near Houston, of a biographical short Ted projects behind hisself during shows. At about 1:30 you’ll notice the startling appearance of Martin Luther King amidst the imagery of camo and shooting stuff. You can date the various stills by eyeballing Ted’s middle, which spreads as he nears 2010. It’s like using carbon-14, only easier.
As said, an unauthorized book on Ted Nugent as a portrait in US extremism occurred to me while recently looking over the the stuff in the blog tab I’ve archived on the guy.
It looked like a good basis for an outline because Nugent publicly shows a form of destructive and irrational extremism which has always been present on the fringes of society. But which how now been mainstreamed with barely anyone blinking an eye.
Nugent’s politics are essentially the same as the white ricin kooks I used to write about years ago.
His is the philosophy of the survivalist nuts who wrote things like The Poor Man’s James Bond, a stupidly mean series of books — always found on the bookshelves of loner white weapons freaks bound for jail, packed with articles on how to make guns, bombs, ammo, poisons, incendiaries and boobytraps in case the tyrannical government was coming for you.
Part of the come-on adorning the back of Kurt Saxon’s Poor Man’s James Bond reads thusly:
Also, in the event that our nation is invaded by Foreign Devils, it is up to you to destroy them with speed and vigor. Or — and perish the thought — if our Capitol should fall to the enemy within, I expect you to do your duty.
Ten years ago that was still the domain of the total crackpot, someone who had to self-publish to get the word out. Not so, anymore, as a listen to Ted Nugent and Alex Jones proved in about fifty seconds over the weekend.
Nugent now signs off a growing number of his columns with blandishments to go “varmint hunting” with “no bag limit.” He tacks it to the election in November, just so you know he’s speaking figuratively.
But, if you take the guy’s words seriously — and he certainly does, one naturally wonders if Nugent only tacks on the voting part because an editor makes him. Or as an act of self-preservation because he still has a hunch he’d be crossing a line of civilization he’d never be able to retreat back over if he didn’t.
Beset by paranoid conspiracy thinking, Nugent either parrots virtually everything that’s on Glenn Beck — a man who in the passing of a day continually links the Obama administration to Nazism and/or communism. Or in GOP memos issued for any given week.
But Beck is a much much larger force than Nugent, who as a commentator and pundit, exists only at the behest of Fox News, where he gets thrown scraps for being a colorful character.
I do know that at one time Nugent was a mainstream rock star in every sense of the word.
So in this man there is a radical reversal of fortune or ways and means in his life. And it coincidentally mirrors the decline of manufacturing and the growing desperation of the middle class.
To where now Nugent’s musical audience is almost exclusively non-payers from Paul Fussell’s bottom-out-of-sight demographic. And his bread-winning, aside from his live shows, is alms from the political audience where he’s a convenient carnival servant to the big celebrities from the extreme right.
Much more recently, like now, one sees Nugent as a a barnacle in the latest John Rich video.
Rich, of country megastar band Big & Rich, is now on a year or two long solo act kick, apparently so as not to have the psychedelic hippy, Big Kenny, always at his stage right.
And an article at Gibson guitars on Rich’s new song, “Country Done Come to Town,” is here. (The video is embedded here, too. By all means, watch it.)
It’s an amusing modern country tune and Nugent features prominently, well shot at angles minimizing his spreading middle third.
A vid about a power-drinking party hearty, Nugent takes his place as part of the festivities (which look like a beer endorsement), elbowing away from the bar in a move that looks just like what you’d expect from a thirsty shot drinker. Mr. Rage On About the Virtue of Teetotalism must have taken the day off.
The modern country audience — at least the imagery of it — is a natural one for Nugent. In fact, it was his audience in the late Seventies, in a harder form. But now Uncle Ted’s way up around the bend and the country music power structure is conservative in the sense that it won’t stomach too negative public politicking or abide the crazy and mean. With the latter only given dispensations for super freakishness in quick cut video or tucked away in hidden CD “bonus” cuts for purposes of hardy-har-har. (See Brad Paisley and Little Jimmy Dickens or anything involving Two Foot Fred.)
One sees Nugent’s plight pretty clearly.
He’s infamous but not as bankable as his musical talent deserved to make him. Nugent can be a spokesperson for Massey, the much vilified coal company, or a good ol’ boy with no lines in a straight-to-video Toby Keith movie, someone who gets fifteen minutes on Alex Jones, or be the star of a low budget reality show no one watched — where he injured his leg in a chainsaw misadventure.
There is a pathos to it, a description to which Nugent would probably strongly object.
The Toledo Blade ran an interview with Nugent over the weekend, another advance story stemming from his tour of third-tier concert venues this summer. But Nugent is nothing if not a gamer, more than willing to do his own publicity. And when he stifles old and crazy Ted for a few moments the results are often not bad:
Having marked his 6,000th concert in 2008, Nugent acknowledged in an interview by e-mail that he’s lost most of the hearing in his left ear from playing guitar in front of walls of speakers all those years, “and I limp pretty bad after double knee surgery due to the meniscus-smashing amplifier leaps for 40 years too. Ouch!” he said.
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Nugent’s guitar and loin cloth have been on display in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, but despite The Nuge’s relentless touring and career sales of 30 million albums, the Motor City Madman has yet to be inducted into the hall.
“I often feel like an Indian up on the hill overlooking my sacred hunting grounds desecrated by white idiots,” he said.
“Political clowns” on the selection committee have disrespected rock pioneers — citing Hall of Fame inductees Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry as examples — by electing “anti-rockers like Patti Smith, ABBA, and Grandmaster Flash into the same institution. That is just plain rude,” he said.
On Sunday night, Nugent was playing a third tier dump in Oklahoma called Cain’s Ballroom. Cain’s was famous for being one of the venues the Sex Pistols played on their only tour of the US before breaking up.
Manager Malcolm McClaren purposely booked the band through the heart of redneck America, putting them in open combat with the locals. At the end of the tour in San Francisco, the band disintegrated.
The first of three YouTube videos show Nugent onstage at Cain’s on Sunday night. It’s as dire and claustrophobic as any video from the back of the crowd in a firetrap can be.
The next is a professional news clip of the Sex Pistols at Cain’s in 1978. Hang on for the reaction of the locals at the end.
Now you’re wondering, “Where was Ted in 1978?”
Headlining California Jam II. Punk rock had nothing on him.
Getting old is hard on everyone. Some manage it better than others.