Ted Nugent is an American rock ‘n’ roll legend.
But not all legends are past tense.
As Nugent recently proved to an audience in Detroit.
The WND columnist, who also is a sporting icon and political activist, reported on his website what happened.
Kid Rock, he noted, had just kicked off a record-breaking string of 10 sold-out shows at Detroit’s DTE Energy Music Theater.
While the crowd of 15,000 was expecting Rock’s hits, including “Cowboy” and “Born Free,” they weren’t expecting the “Motor City Madman” himself.
“Just as Rock was launching into the intro of ‘Cat Scratch Fever,’ Nugent stormed the stage and demonstrated why he was named Detroit’s Greatest Guitar Player of All Time by readers of MLive,” his website reported.
The resulting jam was “an indelible moment for Detroit fans.”
Toby Benoit, a fan, said, “Kid Rock and The Nuge rocking the stage together? Total meltdown! Too awesome to tolerate.”
Nugent had played the hall, which used to be known as Pine Knob Music Theater, earlier. In fact, he’s been selling it out since it opened in the 1970s.
And it was at that hall he celebrated his 6,500th live performance on July 19, 2014.
Nugent said, “Killer Rock-N-Roll is wonderful wherever you celebrate it, but when the Kid Rock and Uncle Ted MotorCity planets align, the outrage factor is off the charts!”
He said of his time with Kid Rock and his band, “Good Lord almighty did we have a great time!”
He also announced he recently reached “an astonishing 31.7 million people” on social media over the course of a week.
His comments, his positions and his statements keep fans following.
WND reported only last year that he created waves when he thought that, after the U.S. had spent an estimated $15 trillion through a big government, handout approach unsuccessfully trying to eliminate poverty, it was enough.
Nugent also has written that liberalism wasn’t working, and, in fact, was damaging to the country.
“Burn this into your cerebral cortex: The two greatest sins a government can impose on its citizens are to 1) provide for them, because it destroys their souls by creating dependency instead of self-reliance, and 2) take the sweat, hard work and equity of one man and give it to another (e.g., spread the wealth around),” he wrote at the time.
