Over at the Wall Street Journal today, erstwhile Motor City Madman Ted Nugent is talkin' bout his generation:^jThis summer marks the 40th anniversary of the so-called Summer of Love. Honest and intelligent people will remember it for what it really was: the Summer of Drugs.®
Forty years ago hordes of stoned, dirty, stinky hippies converged on San Francisco to "turn on, tune in, and drop out," which was the calling card of LSD proponent Timothy Leary. Turned off by the work ethic and productive American Dream values of their parents, hippies instead opted for a cowardly, irresponsible lifestyle of random sex, life-destroying drugs and mostly soulless rock music that flourished in San Francisco... I'd give you a link for the rest of it, but you have to be a subscriber. In any case, you're not missing anything. þ
Nevertheless -- is it just me, or does anybody think an anti-drug screed is a mite unseemly from the man who kicked off his career by writing and performing the self-evidently psychedelicê"Journey to the Center of Your Mind"?>
Just asking....
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Ted Nugent is a boil on Cheney's ass.
--Jess Sayon
Let's not forget his "family values" friendly tunes "Wang Dang Sweet Poon Tang" and "Cat Scratch Fever."
Let's hope he fucking dies in a freak hunting accident.
"mostly soulless rock music"
...this coming from someone who was a willing participant in the Damn Yankees is a quite hilarious.
Jim
In the Nuge's defense, he was not behind Journey to the Center of Your Mind's psychedelic lyrics, those fall on guitarist Steve Farmer. Ted claims he thought it was about personal exploration and the psyche or something blissfully ignorant. His scorching guitar work definitely makes the song but he was never into drugs. The rest of the band on the other hand...
I stand corrected about the authorship of "Journey."
That said, if Nugent says he didn't realize the song was about drugs, he's being a disingenuous dickhead.
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