Rock & Roll 500: #200 Ted Nugent – Stranglehold
CHARLESTON, WV - OCTOBER 30: Musician Ted Nugent plays the national anthem during a rally for Republican John Raese's U.S. Senate campaign October 30, 2010 in Charleston, West Virginia. Raese and West Virginia Gov. Joe Manchin, a Democrat, are embroiled in a hotly-contested race for the seat vacated following the death of Robert C. Byrd. (Photo by Randy Snyder/Getty Images)
In an interview, Ted said of Stranglehold, “I’m playing 300 concerts a year and people are foaming at the mouth. The energy at my concerts was unprecedented and remains unprecedented, so some dirtbag at a desk in New York City is going to say that my music isn’t relative? Come on the road with me a couple hundred nights and see the relative. Watch the girls dance – that’s relative, you dirtbag. So it was a song of defiance.”
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