WaPo: Shooting from the hip: Ted Nugent rocks politics
This is the lead story on front page of WaPo today.......... even though the NRA convention was in May?
Shooting from the hip: Ted Nugent rocks politics
NRA member and musician Ted Nugent greets fans and signs autographs at the National Rifle Association's annual convention in May.
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The largest crowd was outside the third-level auditorium, where a line had been forming for more than an hour. By 9:30 a.m., as Nugent settled behind a folding table at the foot of the stage, the queue snaked the length of the blocks-long building. Hundreds of people waited, clutching old album covers, guitars, copies of his wild game cookbook, “Kill It and Grill It.” One teenage boy held a whitened deer skull sporting a six-point rack of antlers.
Those at the end would wait almost two hours to get to the ponytailed bowhunter with the grizzled beard and the bush hat who sat beside a pile of Sharpies. Nugent happily signed the albums and the skulls along with objects fans could purchase: Ted Nugent hunting arrows, T-shirts, photos of the Nuge behind a guitar or a newly killed buck, copies of his 2008 screed “ Ted, White and Blue .” He signed anything the conveyor belt of fans deposited in front of him, as he has been doing for decades. Back in the day, he would sign the bare breasts of screaming female fans. In Houston, the most titillating object may have been a loaded ammo magazine.
Between sips of a Starbucks double-shot mocha, Nugent dashed off his signature, shook hands, shouted “Semper fi” to the Marines and thanked each and every person for coming and for being a member of the NRA, where he has served on the board since 1995. At 64, after 6,400 arena-shaking concerts, he didn’t hear every word of adulation that came his way, frequently cocking his head and saying, “How’s that?” And when he stood for a photo with a boy in a wheelchair, he grimaced slightly on knees that are nearly shot from years of leaping from tower speakers.
But his energy was unmistakable — and remarkable, considering he had flown in from a gig in Tampa the night before and would be winging off within hours to do another in Atlanta that evening. His eyes were as fierce as the pair burning from album covers of the 1970s and ’80s. His hands drummed the table expectantly whenever there was a pause in the string of citizens stepping up to thank him, for the music, for “saying it straight” and for “not taking any s--t” from the liberals, the media, the government.
Patti and Les Baillio of Houston were typical of the crowd, which was a Nugent-specific blend of hard-rock nostalgia, blood-sport celebration and right-wing fermentation. Les is a bearded mechanical engineer and deer hunter who saw Nugent in concert as a student, still regularly watches Nugent’s hunting show on the Outdoor Channel and sang Nugent’s screaming anthem to independence, “Tooth, Fang & Claw,” to Patti on their wedding day. Les was sporting a cap from Nugent’s 2010 tour, “Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead.”
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/ted-nugent-guitarist-and-gun-lover-rocks-the-political-world/2013/07/02/7bb236dc-d203-11e2-9f1a-1a7cdee20287_story.html?hpid=z1
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But in the Wsh POST??? What happened to decency? 