Legendary guitarist Ted Nugent has gotten a lot more involved with social media and YouTube in recent years via his “Nightly Nuge” interview show. He’s spoken out about everything from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to Kanye West to Dee Snider to Joan Jett to late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
He also regularly gives his opinion on topics like bands that have covered his songs and other trending pop culture stories like Will Smith’s Oscar’s slap of comedian Chris Rock, Kid Rock shooting up Bud Light cans and Neil Young challenging Spotify.
Needles to say, Nugent will never be accused of being too quiet. The outspoken and sometimes controversial rocker is as full of p*ss and vinegar at 74 years old as he was in his 20s. Nugent released a new album, “Detroit Muscle,” last year, and has been playing shows intermittently ever since in support of it.
So it comes as a bit of a surprise that Nugent has announced his final tour.
“This is ‘Adios Mofo’. This is my last tour,” Nugent said. “Now I’ll always play music. I’ve got new records I’m gonna make. I can’t wait to unleash some of these new songs. I’ve got an instrumental called ‘Butter Fingers’ that is just greasy. You can’t eat barbecue ever again adequately without the song ‘Butter Fingers’ playing loud next to your brisket.”
“The point being is thank you, everybody, for an incredible musical dream,” he continued. “The musical dream will continue but I’m not going on tour anymore because hotels are jail. [Laughs] A hotel room is jail for me. My dogs won’t allow me to not spend a day with them, so [my dogs] will go on the road with me this year. But the logistics are just too complicated when you have dogs and grandkids and kids and so many other things.”
“The point is the American Dream has a soundtrack, and with my unbelievable musicians for 65 years, I have created the most fun, titillating, centrally stimulating soundtrack in the history of the world. Like last year, in 2022, ‘Detroit Muscle’, this will be the greatest, most intense, tightest, most dynamic, outrageously fun tour of my life. But ‘Adios Mofo’.”
Nugent has sold more than 40 million albums in his lengthy career, and tunes like “Cat Scratch Fever,” “Stranglehold” and “Free-for-All” are classic rock staples.
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