Louder with Crowder - April 27, 2017


Ted Nugent Calls Out Cowardly Conservative Rock Stars! | Louder With Crowder


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8 minutes

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1,579

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123

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3

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Ted Nugent is a rock god and rock god's rock god. In this episode, he talks about the importance of being a Christian conservative in the rock and roll world, and why he believes drugs should be legalized in America.

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00:00:00.000 And a guy the other day said, hey Ted, I really like your political views.
00:00:03.000 And I went, views?
00:00:04.000 What, do you think the Constitution is a view?
00:00:07.000 What, a Bill of Rights like a hunch that I have?
00:00:12.000 Let me ask you this.
00:00:13.000 You know, there seems to be a huge difference.
00:00:16.000 I've noticed this.
00:00:17.000 There are people like you and the Alice Coopers of the world, and even Rob Zombie.
00:00:21.000 Like the Hard Rockers, or even as you go toward the Shock Rockers, tend to be more working class conservative as opposed to kind of the elitists.
00:00:29.000 I don't even know if you'd put it in a rock, but the people like the Coldplay, U2. There seems to be a divide, and I think people are often surprised that Ted Nugent is Ted Nugent, or Alice Cooper is Alice Cooper.
00:00:39.000 Because, I mean, it's Alice Cooper, right?
00:00:40.000 Who would have thought he'd become a Christian conservative?
00:00:42.000 There's a trend with that Do you think there's a specific reason for that trend in hard rock?
00:00:48.000 Because it's always fascinated me Well, it should fascinate you because the media would indicate otherwise, 180 degrees otherwise.
00:00:56.000 I'll tell you, and again, I'm 68 and a half years old, getting ready for the greatest tour of my life at the most outrageous, flamethrowing musicians a guitar player could ever do.
00:01:05.000 Playing the greatest love songs in the history of the world.
00:01:08.000 What would your life be like without Wango Tango, for example?
00:01:12.000 I don't know.
00:01:13.000 I might not have a life.
00:01:14.000 Wango Tango could be responsible for my birth.
00:01:17.000 Well, Steven, you remember the baby boom? 0.98
00:01:19.000 Yeah, I was boomed.
00:01:21.000 That was me.
00:01:22.000 Anyhow, my point being is that it doesn't come to a surprise to me whatsoever.
00:01:28.000 Going back with my band, the Lourdes, we won the Battle of the Bands in Detroit in 1963.
00:01:34.000 We opened up for the Gods of Thunder, the Motown Funk Brothers and Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Supremes.
00:01:44.000 And I opened up for Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels and Gene Pitney and Martha and the Vandellas.
00:01:49.000 That's why I'm like this, Stephen, because I am so appreciative of the blessings that I have been exposed to and I've been able to cultivate with my fellow working hard, playing hard musicians.
00:02:00.000 And let me tell you, The term working hard, playing hard really, really describes successful musicians.
00:02:07.000 Work ethic we must focus and retain.
00:02:07.000 Sure.
00:02:11.000 It would scare most people.
00:02:13.000 I will go out this summer and I will play 60-some concerts and I play six nights a week.
00:02:20.000 Yes.
00:02:21.000 Ferocious high energy.
00:02:22.000 At my age, I should just blow up for the second spot.
00:02:26.000 I think Iggy Pop did that once.
00:02:28.000 I think he actually did.
00:02:29.000 He was a case study in spontaneous combustion.
00:02:32.000 Well, I saved my blowing up for the encore because I don't...
00:02:36.000 I'm a big crescendo fan, but every song has eight crescendos.
00:02:39.000 My point is it doesn't surprise me at all.
00:02:41.000 I know these people.
00:02:42.000 Let me in, let you in for a little secret that probably won't surprise you, but it is a shocker the way I look at it.
00:02:50.000 I'm not going to name names, but I could name the top artists on the planet.
00:02:57.000 Who I've worked with, I've communicated with, I've had a little red wine and Verner's ginger ale backstage.
00:03:03.000 We've talked about every possible issue that references quality of life, the musical heritage of the black heroes that inspired all of our great music, Hollow Wolf, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Freddie King, James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, et cetera, et cetera.
00:03:21.000 And let me quote 90% of them.
00:03:24.000 And this is going to piss you off, because it pisses me off, and I let them know it pisses me off.
00:03:29.000 Here's what they say.
00:03:30.000 And this goes back to the 1960s.
00:03:33.000 I'm glad you stand up for that stuff, Ted, because I'm not gonna.
00:03:37.000 They'll never buy my records again.
00:03:39.000 Right.
00:03:39.000 How's that?
00:03:40.000 How's that for a bunch of spineless, little sackless wonders?
00:03:44.000 That really drives me nuts.
00:03:46.000 That's why the media and government and certainly academia has gone so far left because nobody had the balls to stand up and know that if you smoke dope, you're a liability.
00:03:59.000 Who do you want to smoke dope? 0.93
00:04:01.000 Your pilot?
00:04:02.000 Your babysitter?
00:04:03.000 How about your landscaper?
00:04:05.000 Who do you want high in life?
00:04:07.000 And the answer to that is nobody.
00:04:08.000 It cures cancer, you fool.
00:04:11.000 Learn the science.
00:04:13.000 Believe me, I've gotten into arguments about this, too.
00:04:17.000 I don't care what people put in their body, but I've not seen positive repercussions from people doing it personally.
00:04:22.000 But there is a difference.
00:04:23.000 Why the discrepancy between a lot of new rockers?
00:04:26.000 Let me give you an example.
00:04:27.000 My mother-in-law, she toured with Aretha Franklin, Joni Mitchell, Grateful Dead.
00:04:31.000 She was a backup singer. 1.00
00:04:33.000 She left.
00:04:35.000 She now does, like, gospel.
00:04:36.000 She's just as good as it gets. 0.82
00:04:38.000 And I wouldn't just say this, as good as it gets.
00:04:40.000 My mother is an award-winning wardrobe stylist.
00:04:42.000 She did the big comedy Just for Laughs Festival, all the French-Canadian sitcoms.
00:04:46.000 So I was raised in a family.
00:04:47.000 I've been around creative people and artists, even at the highest level.
00:04:51.000 I mean, at this French-Canadian show, Le Crea, where my mom would work, for example.
00:04:53.000 One day, we'd have Eminem come in when he was at the top.
00:04:56.000 The next day, Moby.
00:04:57.000 But he was really popular at some point.
00:05:00.000 There is a disconnect.
00:05:02.000 There is definitely a chasm between, like you said, the hard rockers seem to be distinctly conservative as opposed to mainstream rock, modern alternative rock.
00:05:14.000 And I do, because it's still a hard work.
00:05:16.000 Listen, let's be honest, even if we don't like their music, they still have an incredible work ethic.
00:05:19.000 As Greg Gutfeld says, a lot of these Hollywood liberals, they don't act liberal in their own life.
00:05:25.000 They only get by by an incredible work ethic and they believe that they get what they take, but they don't espouse that.
00:05:30.000 Why do you think it is specifically people like hard rockers?
00:05:33.000 Is it just the balls factor?
00:05:36.000 Is it the scrotum factor?
00:05:37.000 Do we go back to that?
00:05:38.000 Well, and again, being slithering throughout the inside all my life.
00:05:44.000 I mean, literally, I started playing my guitar 60 years ago, and I had a band in Detroit.
00:05:48.000 We played Boogie Wookiee and Honky Tonk at the Michigan State Fair in 1958.
00:05:52.000 So I've been around the block.
00:05:55.000 In fact, I built the damn block, blew the block up, and still went around it.
00:05:59.000 Well, that's every block in Detroit now.
00:06:01.000 They're all blown up.
00:06:02.000 And another fascinating angle that I guess no one has ever admitted to is that you can't be a success without busting your ass.
00:06:14.000 Just the schedule on the road, even those...
00:06:18.000 Pussies that take two days off. 0.99
00:06:21.000 I mean, my God, I don't want you to hurt yourself.
00:06:25.000 What the hell is that?
00:06:26.000 But anyhow, here's one for you.
00:06:30.000 The insulation factor in the world of celebrity is what killed Jimi Hendrix and Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison.
00:06:39.000 I looked John Belushi in the eyes.
00:06:42.000 I looked Keith Moon in the eyes.
00:06:44.000 I looked Jimi Hendrix in the eyes when they offered me their drugs and alcohol.
00:06:48.000 And I went, God damn it.
00:06:50.000 You're killing yourself.
00:06:52.000 Bon Scott made fun of me because I wouldn't drink his jack with him.
00:06:55.000 And I said, Bon, you son of a bitch, this is going to kill you, man.
00:06:59.000 You are there.
00:07:00.000 You have a gift.
00:07:01.000 You have a soul of musical projection and an authority, but you don't need that stuff.
00:07:07.000 I don't know what you're talking about.
00:07:09.000 So the installation...
00:07:10.000 Wait, what did he sound like?
00:07:11.000 James Nelson Reilly?
00:07:12.000 You don't know what you're talking about!
00:07:14.000 That was Don Lemon.
00:07:15.000 That's exactly how they sound.
00:07:16.000 I'm real good at replicating that.
00:07:18.000 My point is, is that the insulation factor, nobody told Elvis, you can't do that.
00:07:24.000 Nobody told Jimmy, you can't do that.
00:07:27.000 I've been trying to, but they kind of laughed at me because I... We're good to go.
00:07:53.000 Will so insulate you, you have your road manager, you have your assistant.
00:07:58.000 I have road managers and I have assistants, but I tell them what to do and I listen to them because Bob Quant, Linda Peterson, Doug Banker, my team, are my blood brothers.
00:08:07.000 They will tell me when I'm doing something stupid, at least I'm waiting for them to, because I've never done anything stupid, so what the hell?
00:08:15.000 The point is that the insulation factor can all of a sudden make you think That, well, we need to feed the hungry, when in fact most of the hungry are buying dope and whiskey.
00:08:26.000 Maybe they should spend it on nutrition.
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