The “Motor City Madman” Ted Nugent has weighed in on the recent Spotify controversy between Neil Young and podcast host Joe Rogan. Last week, Young told Spotify “They can have Rogan or Young. Not both,” after taking issue with certain episodes of “The Joe Rogan Experience” for “spreading fake information.” Spotify took down Young’s music, and the 76-year-old rocker has since partnered with Amazon. Rogan responded over the weekend with an Instagram video saying, “I’m not a doctor. I’m not a scientist. I’m just a person who sits down and talks to people and has conversations with them. Do I get things wrong? Absolutely. I get things wrong, but I try to correct them whenever I get something wrong. I try to correct it because I’m interested in telling the truth.”
“Have Ozzy (Osbourne) form a sentence for ya. And I love the man. But comfortably numb is uncomfortably dumb. And Neil Young is the poster child for that. I mean, (he sings) ‘Rockin’ In The Free World’ but he wants to censor people? Hey, Neil, choose one. You can’t do both, you dirtbag.”
Ted Nugent
In a new interview with Kristi Leigh, Nugent was asked about Young’s position. “Number one, he’s a Canadian so he started at the back of the sh*tkicker line,” Nugent said. “And I love my Canadian friends. Canadians are great people. But some of them, like Americans and everybody else in the world got so stoned that their brains got burnt. Have Ozzy (Osbourne) form a sentence for ya. And I love the man. But comfortably numb is uncomfortably dumb. And Neil Young is the poster child for that. I mean, (he sings) ‘Rockin’ In The Free World’ but he wants to censor people? Hey, Neil, choose one. You can’t do both, you dirtbag. He’s just a sad … And I hope he’s healthy and happy, but I think his brain is so burnt, he doesn’t know what happy is anymore. If he is ‘rockin’ in the free world,’ then he wants to censor somebody who’s bringing information from world-renowned virologists and epidemiologists and calling that misinformation, but he’s gonna quote Joe Biden as the decree of … Are you kidding me?”
“When you do that much mind-destroying chemicals upon yourself, your brain is burnt and you struggle to find logic, truth and common sense,” Ted continued. “Neil Young has no common sense. He’s out of his mind. And all you can do is pray for him and ignore his stupidity. That’s what I do.”
Nugent recently released the lyric video for a new song, “Come And Take It,” from his upcoming album, “Detroit Muscle,” set for an April 29, 2022 release. “The Joe Rogan Experience” became a Spotify exclusive in 2020 after Rogan signed a lucrative, multi-year deal with the streaming giant.
