Throughout a current version of “The Nightly Nuge”, a news-style clip through which Ted Nugent presents his tackle the information of our world each evening, the legendary rocker was requested for his opinion on the “present state of music in America.”

He responded partially:

 “Effectively, thank God I used to be born in 1948 as a result of Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and Little Richard and James Brown and Wilson Pickett and the Motown Funk Brothers and all these nice soulful musical authorities impressed all the perfect music that we nonetheless love immediately. So I’m spoiled to a fault, as a result of I lived in a whirlwind, the power vortex of essentially the most intense work ethic-driven music.

“The explanation we love Aerosmith and AC/DC and ZZ Prime and Coronary heart Journey and Low-cost Trick and Foreigner and so many bands I may identify… I can’t overstate the unimaginable animal work ethic that we put forth to observe and observe and observe, as a result of the music makes us do it,” he continued.

“And as younger youngsters, all we wished to do was be as tight as James Brown, as energized as Chuck Berry, as soulful because the Motown Funk Brothers and Wilson Pickett and Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters and Mose Allison and Lightnin’ Hopkins. We wished to get that black soulfulness, so the work ethic was unbelievable.

“Now, we’ve nonetheless bought some bands which might be doing it, like Greta Van Fleet out of Grand Rapids, Michigan right here. There are some bands on the market — definitely the Foo Fighters with the good Dave Grohl; they nonetheless play fire-breathing actual soulful tight music. However I’m afraid it’ll by no means be prefer it was with The [Rolling] Stones and The Beatles and The Who and The Kinks and Led Zeppelin and what Van Halen created and what the Ted Nugent band and Ronnie Montrose and what Sammy Hagar nonetheless does — so many individuals on the market nonetheless doing it. However I’m afraid that a lot of the profitable music immediately — a few of it’s mind-boggling.”

Ted added: “I don’t know this gal’s identify with the lengthy legs, however she will get a thousand bucks a ticket or no matter it’s.” When co-host Keith Mark threw out Taylor Swift’s identify, Nugent stated: “Yeah, Taylor Swift. However that music, to me, appears like cartoon music. It appears like if I ran into a toddler’s cartoon present on a Saturday morning, I’d in all probability hear the No. 1 nation music or I’d hear the No. 1 pop music, as a result of it’s all formulated to provide a sure vocal supply and a sure chord change and a sure tempo that they study so intently that it’s not natural and instinctive and horny and unleashed and real and plausible.

“I appreciated it once we had been within the experimental stage of making an attempt to duplicate what Chuck Berry had invented, what Little Richard had invented,” Nugent stated. “And once more, there’s some nice artists. I bought to play a few of my songs with the Massive & Wealthy band, with the Toby Keith band, and these bands are unbelievable. There’s a Tim Montana; I bought to play ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ with the Tim Montana band. Ira Dean, who co-wrote that incredible Aaron Lewis music ‘Am I The Solely One’. There’s some nice, nice musical moments nonetheless taking place — however not the limitless flurry of unimaginable music within the late ’50s and the ’60s and into the ’70s. And even the Poison’s and the Warrant and — I can’t consider all these… RATT and a number of the large hair bands, they performed actually good — they had been nice musicians. However there’ll by no means be a 1966 ever once more, as a result of it was so uncooked and primal. Now it’s predictable, and I’m afraid it’s largely cookie-cutter stuff. Now, solely the responsible have to really feel responsible, ’trigger there’s some nice artists on the market which might be making some great music. However it’s simply not as uncooked and primal as my authentic inspirations, and I cling to that.”