Positive Action With The Nuge

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Moon Cat Aug 20, 2010 17:45:01
Replying to IanB

IanB wrote:
Moon Cat wrote:
Silly old cunt.
That's pretty much word for word what I thought. Though maybe that is me letting him off too lightly because I like a couple of his records so much. I guess I wont know until someone whose music I actually hate makes the same kind of statement in public.
Well, the thing is, he, like some other artists we could mention, are known more their 'character' than their music to the vast majority of people these days. Let's face it, Morrissey, some one you might see as TN's antithesis, spent a looooooong time being known for his 'outrageous' viewpoints rather than his records until "You Are The Quarry" rescued him from the doldrums...for a bit anyway. Rock n Roll is littered with old silly buggers, particularly those with something of a 'rep', saying stupid, obnoxious things cos it's all people wanna hear from them anymore.

It doesn't make Ted Nugent's comments any less abhorrent but then knowing it diminshes their power and makes him look more like a ...well, silly old cunt, than anything dangerous.

He should call his next album "Silly Old Cunt". Half the promo is done!

I IanB
IanB Aug 20, 2010 19:17:22
Replying to Moon Cat

Moon Cat wrote:
IanB wrote:
Moon Cat wrote:
Silly old cunt.
That's pretty much word for word what I thought. Though maybe that is me letting him off too lightly because I like a couple of his records so much. I guess I wont know until someone whose music I actually hate makes the same kind of statement in public.
Let's face it, Morrissey, some one you might see as TN's antithesis, spent a looooooong time being known for his 'outrageous' viewpoints rather than his records until "You Are The Quarry" rescued him from the doldrums...for a bit anyway. Rock n Roll is littered with old silly buggers, particularly those with something of a 'rep', saying stupid, obnoxious things cos it's all people wanna hear from them anymore.

It doesn't make Ted Nugent's comments any less abhorrent but then knowing it diminshes their power and makes him look more like a ...well, silly old cunt, than anything dangerous.

He should call his next album "Silly Old Cunt". Half the promo is done!

You're right of course.

I actually think that Mozza and Ted are more or less the same "Look At Meeeeeeee" rock n roll animal and yes, if you were to plot a graph I would guess the worse their records sell the more stupid their outpourings are.

We probably all remember back in the late 70s / early 80s the bands in the Punk, Mod and Two-Tone scenes who wouldn't condemn the NF element in their audience. There is also some of that in The Clash's "Rude Boy" movie - the idea that racism is bad but anti-racism is a middle class affectation at best. Bollocks of course but it's as if class solidarity (and probably personal safety) was in that moment more important to some of those artists than marking out clear poitical ground. So can you maybe argue that Ted is just thoughtlessly allying himself with those he sees as his own people or is he just hoping that by getting the lunkheads cheering there will be a longer queue at the merch stand?