Fort Knox drops Ted Nugent from concert plans

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Source: The News Enterprise

Following rocker Ted Nugent's recent comments about President Barack Obama, he has been dropped from a scheduled performance at Fort Knox, the post announced Thursday afternoon.

Nugent set off a controversy at last weekend's National Rifle Association convention when he criticized high-ranking members of Obama's administration and offered support for possible Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney.

In a video posted on YouTube by the NRA, Nugent said, "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year. If you can't go home and get everybody in your lives to clean house in this vile, evil America hated administration, I don't even know what you're made out of."

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Army Entertainment and the Fort Knox Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation are committed to carrying out the concert, according to a news release. REO Speedwagon and Styx remain scheduled to perform as part of the post's annual summer concert June 23. The possibility exists that a replacement will be selected, post officials said.

Read more: http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/content/fort-knox-drops-ted-nugent-concert-plans

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You know you're a has-been when you get kicked off a bill with REO Speedwagon and Styx in 2012.

[Tunkamerica]

1. He won't get to play the same two songs he's been playing for 30-40 years?

What a loss for the people of Fort Knox.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

8. Did you forget about Wango Tango?

[EnviroBat]

23. Stupid song, by a stupid man...

I've never understood how his crap passes for music.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

25. Yup.

[Botany]

31. I had to stop the video

No talent suck ass crap

[UnrepentantLiberal]

32. Preformed by an intense moron.

[VWolf]

38. Wait, I thought Wando Tango was one of the two,

Cat Scratch Fever being the other.

Is there a 3rd???

[UnrepentantLiberal]

40. Wang Dang Sweet Poontang

He doesn't have a large vocabulary.

[SemperEadem]

44. then there's Stranglehold

"i got you in a stranglehold baby
then i crushed your face"

yeah, I'm all ready for lovin' after hearing that one...

[calimary]

51. Really like that camel-through-the-eye-of-the-needle in your sig line, SemperEadem!

mitt romney's self-portrait?

[SemperEadem]

56. thanks

definitely something that covers those of his ilk...

[pasto76]

17. too bad. Inciting violence against the CIC would be whole new ballgame on post

guess he chickened out. Again.

[CatWoman]

2. GOOD!!!

HA HA indeed

[xtraxritical]

41. Why dis REO & STYX?

Great bands.

[CatWoman]

55. I didn't diss REO and Styx

I like both of them.

I can't stand Ted Nugent.

[BeHereNow]

3. I have no problem with this- in fact it gives me hope.

Hope that the American people are waking up and
saying, "No this hate mongering is not who we are."
I can dream, can't I?

BHN

[orpupilofnature57]

4. I wanted to have him arrested for child abuse

for taking his daughters entire elementary class to Shrubs second inauguration .Great guitarist ,supreme redneck asshole.

[groundloop]

5. THIS is better punishment than Secret Service could have dished out

Poor Teddy won't get to spew his vile at Fort Knox. Hurting his ego, that egomaniac will remember this far more than anything else.

[Bette Noir]

33. Losing a paycheck.

When spewing dirt loses people money, they might stop.

[lunatica]

6. Paying the consequences of his vile spew must really be galling

Anyone who talks like that in public deserves the blow back. He should be ready to pay the price for what he says and does. But instead I'm pretty sure he'll double down like Limbaugh did.

[Kolesar]

7. REO and Styx, LOL

I will confidently predict that Ted Nugent will never be nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

[mahatmakanejeeves]

9. Ted Nugent, REO Speedwagon, and Styx?

Who's booking the acts for this event? Someone the age of the soldiers' grandparents? Look, I like Styx too, but I also liked them back in 1977. I should point out that I have Ted Nugent on open reel tape, but I don't have any of his albums on eight-track or that new format that all the kids are talking about, cassette.

[AlbertCat]

14. Ted Nugent, REO Speedwagon, and Styx?

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Being a child of the 70's... I'm still going "Ewwwww".

But I feel the need to mention that my niece listens to 60's & 70's stuff all the time. She was listening to James Taylor's Sweet Baby James and I said "Geez, your mother had that album in Jr High!" and my niece replied "Well, modern music sux." She likes people who can sing, not rap, and can hit notes without being autotuned. She also likes string sections and horn sections that are actually strings and horns. I told her to also try jazz.

[Webster Green]

22. Ted Nugent, REO Speedwagon, and Styx?

Nice line-up! LOL!

Tell your daughter to check out Arcade Fire. Currently the best band on the planet. The strings are amazing. Sometimes they bring horns too.

[Jack Rabbit]

28. Well, there's always Christy's Minstrels

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They sang Stephen Foster's hits when I was a youngster.

[kywildcat]

39. Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without the New Christie Minstrals Christmas with the Christies

and I think I was...like...maybe 20 when I quit calling them the menstrals.

ah...memories.

[Jack Rabbit]

47. I didn't say anything about the New Christie's Minstrels

. . . I meant the original Christy's Minstels.

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That's the New Chritie's Minstrels. The original made no recordings.

[AlbertCat]

54. check out Arcade Fire.

I checked them out. Not bad. A little pessimistic, but, y'know...youthful angst. Some very interesting soundscapes.

While we're recommending music....

I find I like a couple of bands that are clearly retro 60's 70's in sound:

Tame Impala
The Black Angels

And Bear in Heaven. They're hard to classify. Solid walls of electric sound, but subtle in developing the music. Yes... development of the music! In Rock!
And I'm obviously moving toward blues and jazz these days.

And of course I need a daily dose of Bach, Handel, Mozart and Stravinsky. Everyone should listen to some classical music at least weekly. There's got to be something you like. You've got 4 centuries to choose from. And it enhances the rock/ blues/ dance/ rap/ whatever else you listen to. No really!
And don't be scared of high brow singing! You'll miss so much!

There. AlbertCat's musical advice....

ENJOY! Music is so awesome....

[VWolf]

37. My 12yo daughter's the same.

Absolutely hates autotune, and is developing a taste for The Beatles.

Kids these days ....

[orpupilofnature57]

42. Greatest band in history ,smart kid

[mahatmakanejeeves]

61. "Absolutely hates autotune,..."

There's hope for the future. Sheesh, I can't stand that stuff.

"The kids are alright."

[southernyankeebelle]

10. Am so happy to hear this news. The troops get enough of the right wing crazy as it is.

[obamanut2012]

11. Why did they even book someone who bragged about gaming the draft?

Someone so anti-military and unpatriotic as him? Hmmmm?

[zbdent]

13. His own words about the troops ...

http://www.examiner.com/article/romney-supporter-ted-nugent-pedophile-and-draft-dodger-his-own-words

"Ted was a young boy, appearing to be a hippie but quite opposite in fact ..."

...

"See, I approached the whole thing like, Ted Nugent, cool hard-workin’ dude, is gonna wreak havoc on these imbeciles in the armed forces."

If there were a line like that from a Dem/Lib, they would be calling him a traitor.

[obamanut2012]

16. You got it

I am as far from a jingoist as there is, but I had family members who were drafted during Vietnam, and several relatives who are currently service members, and people like Nugent make me sick. A Teabagger who has done nothing to make society better, but who loves being all rah rah and faux patriotic when it serves his twisted mind.

[zbdent]

18. I find it hilarious that he invokes "Braveheart" when talking about being a patriot and fighting for

his country ...

there's a line in "Braveheart" ... X "peed his kilt the first time in battle." ... followed by Y "always pees his kilt in battle."

Ted the ped Nugent not only "peed his kilt", he crapped it, too ... just to get away from doing just that ... fighting for his country.

[obamanut2012]

19. The only thing he likes to fight is tame animals at a canned hunt

And teenage girls he's raping. He makes me sick.

Kellie Pickler and Chely Wright are always ready to sing for the troops, and Miranda Lambert does, too, if she is able to. I'm sure there are also lots of other, and better, 70's singers who would go play Ft. Knox.

[zbdent]

20. plenty of Dem/Libs ready to entertain the troops ... and plenty of Dems/Libs who served

in fact, I remember hearing about how several athletes and actors (WWII, and even Iraq/Afghanistan) gave up great careers to "fight for their country" ... unlike Ted The Ped ...

[bayareaboy]

29. Ted the Ped ... ...

That gives a bad name to Paelentoligists.

[Bette Noir]

35. Country Joe McDonald is a Vietnam Vet.

"Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag" is from experience.

[freshwest]

43. Saw him in concert in a small club. We enjoyed singing along, but I won't name the song.

[zbdent]

12. Dixie Chicks got dropped for one saying she's ashamed Bush43 was from her state ...

and they get blacklisted, death threats, boycotts, etc.

Dem says what's going on in Gitmo is similar to what you might have heard in Europe in the 1930s ... he's accused of calling our troops Nazis, despite the fact that he did no such thing. Had to apologize for something he DIDN'T say, or face a real nasty "liberally-biased media".

Ted the Ped Nugent not only calls Obama, Hillary, others criminals and other things, he actually states that they, the pro-death penalty, pro-gun, pro-nuke-em-all-and-let-God-sort-them-out-while-we-take-"OUR"-oil NRA sycophant crowd, should go to DC and chop off "their" heads ... he gets off by saying "Well, intelligent people would understand what a metaphor is". (Maybe, instead of bibles, RWers should hand out dictionaries, along with directions to the nearest adult literacy center)

This should be the first in a long line of actions for speaking your mind.

Maybe the reason why Ted The Ped would be "dead or in jail by this time next year" is because he is going back on drugs ...

[Dawson Leery]

50. Chickenhawk Ted would only incite violence against POTUS if he were allowed this performance.

[Crowman1979]

15. Jeeezz! Can't these military bases get some new acts to play these bases?

[Mopar151]

21. Plenty of better artists available......

Grand Funk reunites from time to time - still great live, going by YouToob

Joe Walsh is better than ever -

[Uncle Joe]

24. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Adenoid_Hynkel.

[frylock]

26. i couldn't imagine a worse lineup..

styx and reo. blech.

[SemperEadem]

45. considering they're not the original line up for either band

Styx replaced Dennis DeYoung and Gary Richrath isn't on REO's website bio page as being on lead guitar... Bruce Hall, Kevin Cronin and Neal Doughty are still with the group.

what's the point? I would want to see the group that made my memories, not a franchise band performing the music.

[crim son]

49. Styx can only be better without DDY, IMHO.

But I was never a fan.

[SemperEadem]

57. yeah, the Mr. Roboto thing was the last straw

I remember seeing a bio doc on them and it was evident that DDY was on the outs with the other members of the group.

I can't believe that Tommy Shaw was in Damn Yankees with nugligent.

[Dustlawyer]

27. He comes to a venue tonight 25 minutes from me! PROTEST!!!!!

Anyone in the Houston, Beaumont/Port Arthur area needs to go to "Nutty Jerry's" in Winnie, Texas, and join me in protesting. Winnie is an hour from Houston. Yeeeee Haaaaa!
While typing this our local Rock station is playing "Free for all." Screw them too!

[FogerRox]

30. Pwned by himself, :~ )

[MADem]

34. The Crusty-Trousered, Cowardly Draft Dodger has no business entertaining those who chose to serve.

Good move by MWR. They ought to see if the Dixie Chicks would be willing to round out the bill! Of course, their payscale might be a bit high for the MWR budget.

[savalez]

36. Good.

Ted Nugent hates America. He's a draft dodger too. Fuck him.

But why make fun of REO! Ridin' The Storm Out rocks.

&feature=related

[SemperEadem]

46. it did when Gary Richrath was on leads

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he's not with this current line up.

LOL--just got back from a trip in my wayback machine and I must say, Golden Country's lyrics were/are prescient.

[savalez]

64. That's some good stuff.

yeah, I think he wrote ridin' too. Thanks for the video, watched it like 5 times already.

[underpants]

48. I did my basic at Ft. Knox (Cavalry) ...glad t o hear this

F hiim.

[Swede]

52. That's gold,Jerry. Gold!

[jmowreader]

53. I think they should have left him on the bill...

I wouldn't have let him PLAY, though...I would have had the base commander take the stage in front of Mr. Nugent, inform the troops that anyone who would not bathe and walk around in diarrhea-filled underwear for a month so he could get out of doing what everyone in the audience volunteered to do doesn't deserve the honor of performing for America's brave fighting men and women, and ask the troops to drive carefully on the way home.

[Blue Owl]

58. Bring in Spinal Tarp

I'm kidding, of course...

[suffragette]

59. If they're going to reach back to the 70s, at least book P-Funk

and get "One Nation under a Groove" revved up.

Still, glad they took Nugent off the lineup.

[pinboy3niner]

60. Army missed its chance. They have that big ol' vault there... :evilgrin:

[47of74]

62. Replacements?

I have some ideas about who they could get;

These three right here;



(And apologies for the iPhone quality of the pic too)

[dtom67]

63. This isn't a laughing matter...

This should scare the crap outta all of us; All too often we believe that most others feel as we do. The truth is that there are a lot of people like Ted out there. They have been duped into thinking that the republican party is on their side. I think not.
Once the republicans have turned America into a third world country with their economic policies ( designed to accommodate corporate america ), the Wealthy ( the owners of the GOP) are not gonna want a bunch of poor people running around with guns. The GOP WILL sell out gun owners sooner or later. And when they do, they will blame the Dems.