Wyman & Ted Nugent

[js2013]

My first concert, Ted at the Sam Houston Coliseum I believe 1977. Great show!, but my hearing has never been the same.

Yeah Ted like his volume turned up to 11! LOL

 

[17VLD]

@AlNyhus Perhaps you would share your story about how Ted signed your Zebra rifle stock and his respect for the Spearchucker. Most liberals would probably call him racist for that but he had the utmost respect for the primitive native hunters on the dark continent. Still got that stock Al or did it go down the road?
Matt

 

[PhilKeil]

@AlNyhus Perhaps you would share your story about how Ted signed your Zebra rifle stock and his respect for the Spearchucker. Most liberals would probably call him racist for that but he had the utmost respect for the primitive native hunters on the dark continent. Still got that stock Al or did it go down the road?
Matt

Do tell, Do tell

 

[AlNyhus]

@AlNyhus Perhaps you would share your story about how Ted signed your Zebra rifle stock and his respect for the Spearchucker. Most liberals would probably call him racist for that but he had the utmost respect for the primitive native hunters on the dark continent. Still got that stock Al or did it go down the road?
Matt

Hi Matt. Yes, Ted signed the stocks on both my 22BR and 6BR. It was on my birthday in Y2K and I'd taken the day off to do some solo pheasant hunting...just me and the dog. I'd limited out within an hour so I decided to make the 90 minute drive to Yankton where Ted was doing a book signing at Dakota Archery for his new book 'God, Guns and Rock and Roll'.

When he saw the rifles, he hoisted them up and shouted to the crowd: " Now these are rifles!" When he was doing the 'spearchucker' logo, he said "I don't know why people get offended when you call 'em a 'spear chucker'. If you can kill stuff with a spear, you're a badass!"

Over several years, the 22BR accounted for literally a pickup bed full of spot and stalk red fox.

The 6BR has whacked fox and a ton of 'dogs.

Both are Stan Ware 'smithed rigs so they hold a special significance for me and are two rigs that would never go anywhere.

All the best! -Al

 

[Tparrish]

Al, thanks for sharing interesting read.

 

[PhilKeil]

Thanks Al that is cool

 

[17VLD]

Thank you Al! Such a great story thanks for the details. I guess I was thinking of Ted's Zebra Bronco when I thought you had a white/ black zebra stock too, now I remember that Randy @birdog has that one which kinda resembles the Bronco. Old age is the pits I don't recommend it to anyone
Matt

 

[ELR LVR]

Met Ted while working at Roush who had built his "Zebra Bronco".Always wanted to talk more about hunting than his Bronco.
His thoughts on a perfect day was get the kids ready for school,practice with the bow in his 40 yard living room. walk out his back door in Jackson MI. and hunt.
Tom

Forget building more guns
I need a 100 yard living room
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That'd be the life huh?
Watch some TV, load some up, test over the back of the couch
grab some cheetohs, sit back at the loading/firing bench, test another 5 shot group
then walk out the back door and shoot at 1000 yds

 

[birdog]

Thank you Al! Such a great story thanks for the details. I guess I was thinking of Ted's Zebra Bronco when I thought you had a white/ black zebra stock too, now I remember that Randy @birdog has that one which kinda resembles the Bronco. Old age is the pits I don't recommend it to anyone
Matt

Yes. Junebug has a zebra ST-1000 stock

 

[xr650rRider]

Was going through some transparencies and came across this one I shot of Ted Nugent during a bow hunt for mule deer in west Texas some 30 years ago. Ted, Gary Sitton and I were on the trip together but I was not hunting. I had my camera and asked Ted to give me his “bow hunting draw.”
I recall so well first meeting Ted before a concert in Amarillo when he was touring with a group I believe was named, “Damned Yankees.”
My friend, Gary Sitton from Abilene, Texas, was good friends with Ted and had invited me to go back stage while Ted was getting ready for his performance. I had my camera and at the time was shooting some black and white film. As Ted turned to go on stage he turned to one of his people and said, “I want this guy up front to shoot this performance!” I stuttered and said, “ but I didn’t come here to shoot photos!” Ted replied, “let’s see how good you are!” LOL!! Since that time Ted considers us, “Blood Brothers,” a title I wear with pride.
Since that time I consider Ted a friend although have not seen him in years. Those were the days…
Hope everyone has had a great weekend!!

You could see him tomorrow night in Saint Jo, Texas.
https://www.bandsintown.com/e/1034382097-ted-nugent-at-red-river-station?came_from=250

 

[Eric Leonard]

I never met him but saw him a couple times. He performed at the Charlie Daniels Vol Jam a couple times when I was there also.

 

[urbanrifleman]

Ted was fortunate and did his Yankee invasion to Texas when land was cheap.

Sadly, the paradise built by Henry Ford, which spawned him and Motown, is now a hell hole (as are most of all of the great industrial cities of the country), and now those cities have poured out their masses yearning to find cheap land also....

It's good Ted actually got some money and ran while he could before his lawyers and agents stole all his wealth. Which is pretty much what happened to all of those musicians from his generation.

 

[RED DIRT]

Seen the man twice in concert in 77/78, wildest show i had ever seen. My hearing is gone because of it, lol.

 

[urbanrifleman]

I wonder if Ted retained ownership of his music. I would love to talk to Ted in private so he could speak frankly about the REAL music industry.

Those people have effectively killed rock music today. Kids today listen to music from the 1970s and 1980s because the modern rock music industry is just awful. The song writing is marginal, the production is amateur level compared to the 1970s. Basically, a modern rock release sounds like a garage band demo from a band that would have never been signed in the 70s/80s.

In high school if you didn't have a copy of Double Live Gonzo and have all his between song scat memorized, you simply were not cool.

The man with the Birdland.

 

[Jr solocam]

Saw Ted open for 38 Special in the mid eighties. He was crazy, a good kind of crazy.....they don't make them like that anymore

 

[Kracken McGraw]

Ted was fortunate and did his Yankee invasion to Texas when land was cheap.

Sadly, the paradise built by Henry Ford, which spawned him and Motown, is now a hell hole (as are most of all of the great industrial cities of the country), and now those cities have poured out their masses yearning to find cheap land also....

It's good Ted actually got some money and ran while he could before his lawyers and agents stole all his wealth. Which is pretty much what happened to all of those musicians from his generation.

Motor City Madman.

 

[urbanrifleman]

Motor City Madman.

 

[Kracken McGraw]

You gotta be tough to even read the lyrics of Cat Scratch Fever. lol!

 

[jds holler]

I have loved to watch Ted appear on talk shows which were often in unfriendly territory and proudly destroy gun control lib-tards with logic and linear thinking. It's all the better if he hauls out his guitar and tears things up a bit.

His trade-mark guitar licks are pretty much the kind of shredding that his biggest hits are made of, but there is stuff other than those out there that display a lot of technical skill and creativity that he's not generally known for. jd

 

[Doug Casner]

Ive got that live gonzo album somewhere. Havent seen it in years. Ted needs to go on the view. Doug