07.09.12
Ted’s riff-raff
Ted Nugent’s rock fans are the bottom out-of-sight riff-raff and wife-beaters of American country fairs, casinos and dive bars. After years of playing to them as a musician in Nugent’s band, and having to deal with Ted himself, I would think it understandable if you drank heavily:
People are always fleeing police, but usually it’s in a vehicle where they have a chance to get away. That wasn’t the case for Mick Brown, drummer for Ted Nugent, who tried to make his escape in a golf cart, according to the Bangor, Maine police department.
According to the police department, Brown, 55, reportedly stole a golf cart after a Bangor concert featuring Nugent, Styx and REO Speedwagon at Bangor’s waterfront pavilion.
Brown, who was reportedly intoxicated, evaded several people who tried to stop him and somehow picked up two women along the way, the department says on its Facebook page …
Brown was arrested and later released on $4,000 bail, and faces a court date of Aug. 15 for charges of operating under the influence of alcohol, driving to endanger, theft, and assault …
Ted Nugent himself has been in the news lately for his political opinions, most recently for suggesting that the South should have won the Civil War.
Nugent is also loudly teetotal.
Q: Michigan hasn’t gone Republican in a presidential election since 1988 and has been decidedly Democratic in the most recent presidential elections. However, recent polls suggest the state is up for grabs. Why do you think that is?
“Even those feeble-mined Michiganiacs on the receiving end of the government’s communist offenses of redistribution are waking up to how unfair and suicidal this system is for any meaningful quality of life in MI and America. This waking up is alarming all smart people to the disastrous results of the liberal democrats’ destruction of our great state.