Ted Nugent Rails Against Rock Hall of Fame for Inducting Patti Smith, Grandmaster Flash and Madonna

Jzs wrote:

well,, wrote:

Ted Nugent is a fascist.

To the extent of your understanding could you please elaborate on how Ted Nugent qualifies as a fascist..?

He loves authority and the government and would marry them if he could.

bigmig19 wrote:

Styx with Journey wrote:

But Styx should be in

We all hate the Nuge-full nut job, but cat scratch fever his only song? He has a dozen songs on regular daily rotation on every classic rock station across the country 20/30/40 years later with no let up? Forgettable? Only to you my friend, only to you.

I grew up listening to only classic rock radio in the South for 10-15 years of my life. They only played two Ted Nugent songs ever:”Cat Scratch Fever” and “Stranglehold.”

I dare you to name even three other songs that you can say were “hits” of his.

Lenny Leonard wrote:

bigmig19 wrote:

We all hate the Nuge-full nut job, but cat scratch fever his only song? He has a dozen songs on regular daily rotation on every classic rock station across the country 20/30/40 years later with no let up? Forgettable? Only to you my friend, only to you.

I grew up listening to only classic rock radio in the South for 10-15 years of my life. They only played two Ted Nugent songs ever:”Cat Scratch Fever” and “Stranglehold.”

I dare you to name even three other songs that you can say were “hits” of his.

Great White Buffalo and Free For All got quite a bit of play.

sepreh wrote:

Prince and Nugent are on completely different levels.

Nugent is the sort of guy whose playing wows amateurs and bores musicians and pros. He's a run of the mill guitarist. Prince was a genius outlier whatever one thinks of his music. And a much better guitarist than Nugent.

No way Nugent should be in the HOF, but then I don't think Prince should be either.

Price is a pop artist, and Nugent is just run of the mill.

I really like Patti Smith - at least her first 2 albums. Anyone who says she's "not rock 'n' roll" music hasn't listened to those albums. So what if she wasn't big in the mainstream popular music scene at the time ? When you start breaking everything down to popularity, we should just say that Britney Spears and Justin Bieber should be in the R'n'R HOF, and to heck with all these Velvet Underground-type musical acts.

Personally, I don't like Nugent or his music. I used to like that one "Great White Buffalo" song, and I liked that one Amboy Dukes song he played on (Journey to the Center of Your Mind). His other hits, I just don't like. His riffs are kind of middling. His lyrics are stupid cokc-rock. Some can do that style well (like AC/DC), but most, like Nugent, just sound like idiots.

In my eyes, Patti Smith is far more talented and creative than Nugent.

Nugent - lame. Just all around lame music.

Styx - this can't be taken seriously

Triumph - neither can this

Rush - who needs it?

ACDC - underrated rockers, A. Young just churned the monster riffs

Velvet Underground - Loaded

Radiohead - this stuff sucks

Fish - lame

Your list is a disjointed WTF. You probably drink like a girl too.

Your tastes don't appear to have matured since high school, dude!

Hey look it's the annual thread where losers whine about the RnR HOF. Save some tears for next year!

bigmig19 wrote:

Styx with Journey wrote:

But Styx should be in

We all hate the Nuge-full nut job, but cat scratch fever his only song? He has a dozen songs on regular daily rotation on every classic rock station across the country 20/30/40 years later with no let up? Forgettable? Only to you my friend, only to you.

"He has a dozen songs on regular daily rotation on every classic rock station across the country 20/30/40 years later with no let up?"

Quoted for pure idiocy and inability to separate reality from fantasy.

Dozens of songs! HAHA! Are you including the Damn Yankees years? They don't count, dude. He had help from the Night Ranger guy when squealing "hiiigghhhh enufffffff!"

I grew up listening to AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, Rush, Van Halen and so on. I can say with complete objectivity that Nugent made some of the most derivative, unoriginal and forgettable music of the guitar rock era. He was a guitar shredder and was in the same ballpark as Satriani and Vai. But unless you were totally into his guitar playing, 8 minute versions of songs like Stranglehold are pretty painful. He did have a crazy stage show, which was mostly why he was able to sustain a following for so long.

The RRHOF is a stupid tourist trap in Cleveland, Ohio and a waste of IM Pei's talents. The project of selecting bands and artists for induction into the hall every year is about the most un-rock and roll thing you could possibly do. And after most of the big names in rock history have been inducted, we are left with stupid debates about whether the GoGos should be inducted but Devo gets passed over. Why does Ringo Starr get in as a best sideman but not John Bohnam or Keith Moon? And why is Nina Simone even in the hall? It is all just dumb stuff and anyone who cares about rock and roll and what it means both musically and as a social phenomenon would not care for a minute about it.

Complaining that the Rock and Roll HOF inducts non-R&R artists is like complaining that MTV doesn't play music videos anymore. Strong "old man yells at cloud" vibes. Very un-rock and roll.

Precious Roy wrote:

He was a guitar shredder and was in the same ballpark as Satriani and Vai.

I demand you retract this comparison.

Virgin Smith wrote:

Lenny Leonard wrote:

I grew up listening to only classic rock radio in the South for 10-15 years of my life. They only played two Ted Nugent songs ever:”Cat Scratch Fever” and “Stranglehold.”

I dare you to name even three other songs that you can say were “hits” of his.

Great White Buffalo and Free For All got quite a bit of play.

Those songs both suck.

Fred Bear is a better song than both of those combined.

i just looked at the hof list and its pretty telling. it doesnt seem like even half of those musicians were rock n roll. seems like ted cherry picked some randos from a much longer list of his more contained definition. it does reveal that the committee takes a loose approach to what is rock n roll, but as an american music hof i think it looks like a solid list to me.

if the hof stayed restrained to a tighter definition of whats rock n roll then theyd run out of acts to induct and people would barely care about it because music genres and styles are continously evolving, marrying, and transforming. baseball stays baseball but art isnt like that at all.

Kids don't even listen to rock anymore, or at least, they don't make their own. They listen to bad autotuned 3-note R & B rap stuff. Their favorite instrument is a 1-string bass played on their car's subwoofer.

It's foolish to build a hall of fame for a doomed music genre, it will become a museum.

Nugent far too radical for me, but he has a point: RRHOF has become a joke. There are laughers inducted every year and blatant snubs. It's a PC popularity contest on steroids.

Stoppit Smith wrote:

Iron and runes wrote:

I'm not too surprised. They gave in to the politically correct not to insult some non Whites and non rock and rollers. The whole thing is a joke.

variety.com/2021/music/news/ted-nugent-rails-against-rock-hall-of-fame-patti-smith-madonna-1235144878/amp/

Draft dodgers don't really have a valid opinion.

He has the God given right to say what he wishes.

But he's an invisible American...it carries no weight.

Sorry Nuge.

0/10 👎

One of the best all alltime guitarists in R&R history & not invisible to us Conservative Right-Wingers!

The guy packs a punch against the dangerous Leftist movement in this country.

He survived Covid at his age (72) without needing hospitalization! 💪

Badass Ted playing "Stranglehold"

Uncle Ted be da man!

eyeroller wrote:

Hey look it's the annual thread where losers whine about the RnR HOF. Save some tears for next year!

But these tears of average white angst and threads from the crying incels on how they can’t obtain a decent conservative woman make me chuckle. It’s a good reason to come back to letsrun.

Iron and runes wrote:

I'm not too surprised. They gave in to the politically correct not to insult some non Whites and non rock and rollers. The whole thing is a joke.

variety.com/2021/music/news/ted-nugent-rails-against-rock-hall-of-fame-patti-smith-madonna-1235144878/amp/

Ted Nugent is just pitiful. He is trying so hard to be relevant and to stay in the spotlight. No one that I know respects or plays his music. He is riding the far right for tribal loyalty to his brand. Without that he is nothing.

He is a sad pitiful man.

bigmig19 wrote:

Styx with Journey wrote:

But Styx should be in

We all hate the Nuge-full nut job, but cat scratch fever his only song? He has a dozen songs on regular daily rotation on every classic rock station across the country 20/30/40 years later with no let up? Forgettable? Only to you my friend, only to you.

nuge sucks and is a dinosaur trashfire

also a dozen?

most songs are 4 minutes

figure at most 12 songs/hour, given a 20% commercial rate (not including dj chatter/weather/etc)

288 songs per day

4% of all music played on classic rock stations is ted nugent?

i could name off the top of my head at least 50 acts that get more spins on your average classic rock station than ted freakin nugent