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Ted Nugent is unlike most of the other aging rock stars crisscrossing the country, living off of the residue of glory days long past. Between his various TV programs on VH-1, his frequent appearances on cable news programs discussing issues ranging from guns to hunting to illegal immigration, Ted Nugent is not some washed-up has been seeking one last hurrah on the gravy train. His libertarian leanings and quick-witted thoughts very often bring comments by the water cooler the day after his latest media appearance. And of course, the music…
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While Uncle Ted’s new album, Love Grenade, wasn’t supposed to make its debut until Tuesday, I managed to score a copy today. I’m happy to report, like his last studio effort, Craveman, it doesn’t disappoint. It’s classic Ted– Indians, buffalo, guns, sex, and with a song titled Funk U, the usual in your face wordplay he’s become well known for through the years. Peppered throughout is a fair dose of red-blooded pro-Americanism, as one would expect from the Nuge. Oh, and there’s a blistering remake of the Amboy Dukes tune from back in ’68 that helped launch his career: "Journey to the Center of Your Mind" (a song most people recognize, but fail to associate it with Ted). All of it is encased within a screeming dose of Ted Nugent guitar playing as hot and fresh as ever.
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I’m sitting here listening with the intention of declaring my favorite track from the disc. A sign of a good album is when it becomes difficult to do so, followed by picking one, and then deciding that not really, it’s another, and so on. That being said, my favorite tune, AT THE MOMENT, is "Eagle Brother".
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Now, the video. As you probably know, Ted Nugent was in the news in the past few weeks thanks to a video recorded at an over-21 concert in California that made the rounds of the Internet and all of the cable news shows. Featuring a rant (well-known to long-time Ted fans) against the list of those he views as the current crop of "gun grabber" politicos, including Arnold, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton, the clips of Ted doing what Ted does enraged some folks while delighting others. Click here to read my post on the matter and to view the video.
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GraniteGrok has tracked down the person who shot the now famous video, and he agreed to answer a few questions for us…
