Ted Nugent joined NIGHT RANGER on stage this previous Monday (July 3) on the Nationwide Cherry Competition in Traverse Metropolis, Michigan to carry out the DAMN YANKEES music “Coming Of Age” and the Nugent traditional “Cat Scratch Fever”. Video of Ted‘s look could be seen beneath (courtesy of the Shor’Line YouTube channel).

DAMN YANKEES was the Nineties supergroup that each Nugent and Blades have been a part of, alongside STYX‘s Tommy Shaw and Michael Cartellone.

Throughout a March 2023 look on SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Shaw was as soon as once more requested about the potential of a reunion of the DAMN YANKEES. He responded: “I believe we type of ran that factor till the wheels fell off of it. And I might like to simply preserve it like that. It was a implausible run. It was simply wild and wooly. We made these two data. The primary report, that was the shit. The second report, it simply began to lose the factor that it had on the primary album. And I believe everyone else knew that it was most likely time to return to your common job.”

Pressed about whether or not he could be open to revisiting DAMN YANKEES for a one-off tour or live performance, Shaw mentioned: “Michael is a everlasting fixture in LYNYRD SKYNYRD, and DAMN YANKEES with out Michael Cartellone simply would not be proper. And we [in STYX] do 90 to 120 exhibits a 12 months, and it’s a must to go residence a while. It is like having two wives, your two households.

“So far as I am involved, we had our day. We had large data, we bought numerous data, we obtained numerous airplay, and I simply do not understand how we’d be capable to match all that in,” Tommy defined. “I would not wanna inform the blokes in my band [STYX], ‘Sorry, guys. We won’t play any exhibits for a number of months.’ ‘Trigger that is what everyone needs to do.”

DAMN YANKEES fashioned in 1989 and launched two albums, an eponymous debut and the 1992 follow-up “Do not Tread”. Hit singles included “Come Once more”, “Excessive Sufficient” and “Coming Of Age”.

DAMN YANKEES has reunited twice since its early-’90s heyday — in 1998 and 2010.

In 1999, A&R guru John Kalodner tried to reunite the DAMN YANKEES for a brand new album for the Portrait Data imprint, however Shaw‘s commitments to STYX prevented him from taking a significant half within the writing and the recording. Kalodner later instructed Melodic Rock in regards to the aborted effort: “I did not suppose it was fairly ok, and on the time with 80’s type rock, you’d must give you one thing fairly spectacular. I used to be disillusioned within the report largely due to Tommy Shaw‘s non-participation. I say that was most likely the best downside. Tommy was completely an integral a part of it. He was busy with STYX and it was type of my mistake as a result of I simply could not management him. It is a type of tasks that I failed on. I imply the buck stops right here. It lacked the enter of Tommy Shaw.”

Shaw beforehand mentioned a hypothetical DAMN YANKEES reunion throughout a June 2020 look on “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”. On the time, he mentioned: “Effectively, we by no means broke up… We’re all nonetheless better of pals. [So] who is aware of? It is arduous, as a result of with STYX, we work a lot, and to try this [a DAMN YANKEES reunion], it could imply placing [the members of STYX] out of labor for some time. So it is a robust one. However each now and again, we wind up on the identical stage.”

Requested if he feels there may be some “unfinished enterprise” with DAMN YANKEES creatively and whether or not he wish to do a report or a music with the band to “put a button on it,” Shaw mentioned: “Effectively, we will at all times do extra. I do not suppose you’ll be able to ever put a ‘we’re achieved’ button on any of the members of the DAMN YANKEES. Who is aware of? By no means say by no means. And we have not mentioned by no means.”