Ted Nugents new studio album , ShutUp&Jam! includes a track titled Shes Gone that features the veteran rocker duetting with his good friend Sammy Hagar. Nugent says hed wanted to record a song with the Red Rocker for years, and finally got the chance earlier this year while he was recuperating from double knee-replacement surgery: Thank God the planets aligned and…Sammy was available, says Ted, adding that the Red Rocker signed on after hearing a demo with Nugent singing the whole tune. He said, Im in! recalls the Nuge. Thats exactly what I wanted to do. I dont want to sing hit records and pop songs…I wanna jam with musicians that I love, so Ill be happy to sing this, Ted. The 65-year-old rocker says he also was excited that Johnny Bee Badanjek, the legendary drummer for Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, lent his talents to Shes Gone, as well as the song I Still Believe. Nugent calls Badanjek the god of thunder drums, and reports that they first played together way back in 1960 at a gig in the Detroit suburb of Walled Lake, Michigan. Nugent tells ABC News Radio that the new set of songs came together as a reaction to his feelings of frustration about the policies of the current U.S. administration. I balance…my fisticuffs fighting for We, the People and fighting the criminality in our government to just showering myself, bathing myself, immersing myself in what Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters and James Brown and Wilson Pickett and the mighty Motown Funk Brothers taught me, he says. And I think that is why these songs all have killer grooves, because its stream-of-consciousness creativity and its a direct counterpunch to the heartbreak of fighting such a corrupt and power-abusing government. Nugent, of course, also is passionate about hunting, and he maintains that spending a few hours pursuing wild game helped him get in the mood to grind out some of the new guitar riffs. I hunt three hundred days a year, so I come in quite motivated and quite inspired and cleansed and relaxed from sitting in a tree with a sharp stick for three or four hours every morning, he points out. And, I get my coffee and train my dogs and hug my wife and I pick up a guitar and these licks, these grooves, these rhythms, these patterns, these guitar statements, they happen every time. (AUDIO IS ABC 1-ON-1) Nugent recently launched a major U.S. summer tour in support of ShutUp&Jam! thats plotted out through an August 17 concert in Midland, Texas. You can check out Teds full itinerary at Tour.TedNugent.
Posted on: Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:03:02 +0000
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