Throughout a current version of “The Nightly Nuge”, a news-style clip wherein Ted Nugent provides 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 (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Properly, 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 am spoiled to a fault, as a result of I lived in a whirlwind, the vitality vortex of essentially the most intense work ethic-driven music.

“The explanation we love AEROSMITH and AC/DC and ZZ TOP and HEART and JOURNEY and CHEAP TRICK and FOREIGNER and so many bands I might title… I can not overstate the unimaginable animal work ethic that we put forth to follow and follow and follow, as a result of the music makes us do it,” he continued. “And as younger youngsters, all we needed 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 needed to get that black soulfulness, so the work ethic was unbelievable.

“Now, we have nonetheless acquired 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 — actually the FOO FIGHTERS with the nice Dave Grohl; they nonetheless play fire-breathing actual soulful tight music. However I am afraid it will 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 am afraid that many of the profitable music immediately — a few of it’s thoughts-boggling.”

Ted added: “I do not know this gal’s title 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 title, Nugent mentioned: “Yeah, Taylor Swift. However that music, to me, seems like cartoon music. It seems like if I ran into a toddler’s cartoon present on a Saturday morning, I’d in all probability hear the No. 1 nation tune or I’d hear the No. 1 pop tune, as a result of it is all formulated to present a sure vocal supply and a sure chord change and a sure tempo that they study so intently that it isn’t natural and instinctive and attractive and unleashed and real and plausible.

“I preferred 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 mentioned. “And once more, there’s some nice artists. I acquired to play a few of my songs with the Massive & Wealthy band, with the Toby Keith band, and these bands are unbelievable. There is a Tim Montana; I acquired to play ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ with the Tim Montana band. Ira Dean, who co-wrote that tremendous Aaron Lewis tune ‘Am I The Solely One’. There’s some nice, nice musical moments nonetheless occurring — however not the limitless flurry of unimaginable music within the late ’50s and the ’60s and into the ’70s. And even the POISONs and the WARRANT and — I can not consider all these… RATT and among the huge 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 is predictable, and I am afraid it is largely cookie-cutter stuff. Now, solely the responsible must really feel responsible, ‘trigger there’s some nice artists on the market which might be making some great music. Nevertheless it’s simply not as uncooked and primal as my unique inspirations, and I cling to that.”

Final August, Nugent blasted Swift for her “hypocrisy” after she topped an inventory of celebrities whose non-public jets had produced the very best quantity of carbon dioxide in 2022.

Ted will launch his last-ever tour, dubbed “Adios Mofo ’23”, in July.

Nugent‘s self-titled debut album in 1975 was licensed double platinum in america, whereas “Free-for-All”, “Cat Scratch Fever”, “Weekend Warriors” and “State Of Shock” all reached the High 30 on the Billboard 200 chart.

Nugent has reportedly offered over 40 million albums and was named Detroit’s best guitar participant of all time by readers of MLive.

The conservative rocker, who been eligible for the Rock And Roll Corridor Of Fame as a solo artist since 2000, has loved a remarkably profitable and eventful musical profession over the previous 5 a long time, however his music is more and more overshadowed by his political outbursts.

Nugent‘s newest album, “Detroit Muscle”, was launched in April 2022 through Pavement Music. The follow-up to 2018’s “The Music Made Me Do It” was recorded with Ted‘s most up-to-date band, which included bassist Greg Smith and drummer Jason Hartless.

Final month, Smith, who had performed bass for Ted for the previous 16 years, introduced his departure from the legendary rocker’s touring band.