1. Theodore Anthony Nugent is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, and political activist.
74 Facts About Ted Nugent
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Ted Nugent goes by several nicknames, including Uncle Ted, the Nuge, and Motor City Madman.
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Ted Nugent initially gained fame as the lead guitarist and occasional vocalist of the Amboy Dukes, a band formed in 1963 that played psychedelic rock and hard rock.
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Ted Nugent is known for his use of the Gibson Byrdland, his bluesy and frenzied guitar playing, and his energetic live shows.
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Ted Nugent's biggest hit was 1977's "Cat Scratch Fever", on which he sang the lead vocals.
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Since the 2000s, Ted Nugent has drawn attention for his outspoken conservative political views and his vociferous advocacy of hunting and gun ownership rights.
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Ted Nugent was a board member of the National Rifle Association and is a strong supporter of the Republican Party.
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Ted Nugent has made a number of statements against advocates of gun control; in one case, the Secret Service investigated him based on his comments about Barack Obama.
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Since 2015, Ted Nugent has been one of Donald Trump's most outspoken supporters, and has performed at several of Trump's rallies and campaign events.
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Ted Nugent was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan, the second of four children born to Marion Dorothy and Warren Henry Ted Nugent.
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In 1965, Warren was transferred to the Chicago, Illinois area, where Ted Nugent attended St Viator High School in Arlington Heights.
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Ted Nugent grew up in a military family; his father was a career army sergeant.
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In 1977 and 1990 interviews with High Times magazine and the Detroit Free Press, Ted Nugent claimed he deliberately failed his draft physical by eating nothing but junk food for days beforehand, and urinating and defecating in the same pair of pants for one week.
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Ted Nugent further asserted to Rogan that in 1969 he passed his draft physical "with flying colors", and denied that he was given a 4-F draft classification.
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Ted Nugent was reclassified 4-F, indicating ineligibility for military service due to not meeting physical, mental, or moral standards.
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Ted Nugent's influences include Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, and Little Richard.
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The first lineup of the Amboy Dukes played at The Cellar, a teen dance club outside of Chicago in Arlington Heights, Illinois, starting in late 1965, while Ted Nugent was a student at St Viator High School.
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Ted Nugent dropped the Amboy Dukes band name for good in 1975 and signed to Epic Records.
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St Holmes was replaced by Charlie Huhn and Grange by multiple bassists, with Ted Nugent eventually settling on Dave Kiswiney for a three-album stretch in the 1980s.
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On July 8,1979, Ted Nugent was on the rock radio program King Biscuit Flower Hour.
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Ted Nugent began hosting a radio show in Detroit on WWBR-FM and took ownership in several hunting-related businesses.
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Ted Nugent created TV shows for several networks: Wanted: Ted or Alive on Versus, Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild on PBS and The Outdoor Channel, and Surviving Nugent and Supergroup-Damnocracy on VH1.
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In 2006, Nugent was voted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame.
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Ted Nugent appears on David Crowder Band's 2007 release, Remedy, playing guitar on the song "We Won't Be Quiet".
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Ted Nugent announced his "Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead" tour on April 21,2010.
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Ted Nugent toured with local Detroit musician Alex Winston during the summers of 2007 and 2008.
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On July 4,2008, at the DTE Energy Music Theater in Clarkston, Michigan, Ted Nugent played his 6,000th concert.
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Ted Nugent appeared as video game character in the 2008 game Guitar Hero World Tour.
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On March 14,2011, Ted Nugent released a new song, "I Still Believe", as a free download via his website to subscribers to his newsletter.
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Ted Nugent has been cited as an influence to Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, Stone Temple Pilots bassist Robert DeLeo, and Brother Cane guitarists Damon Johnson and Dave Anderson.
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Several notable artists have covered Ted Nugent's songs, including the Ramones version of "Journey to the Center of the Mind" on their album Acid Eaters, and Pantera and Motorhead versions of "Cat Scratch Fever".
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Ted Nugent expressed a love for all three artists, but criticized their covers for a lack of soulfulness, calling them "just too caucasian".
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Ted Nugent has starred in several reality shows, including his own outdoors television show on the Outdoor Channel, named after his popular song "Spirit of the Wild", since 2001.
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The song was the theme music to the TV series, in which Ted Nugent took viewers on a variety of wild game hunts using his bow.
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Ted Nugent starred in another reality show for CMT in August 2009.
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From Ted Nugent, featured Nugent instructing competitors in the art of survival; the competitors had to use those skills in challenges in which Nugent himself hunted them down.
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In 2008, Ted Nugent was a guest on the episode Southwest Road Trip Special of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, where he spoke against obesity and public health care.
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In 2001, Ted Nugent appeared as himself in a third-season episode of That '70s Show entitled "Backstage Pass".
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Also in 2001, Ted Nugent appeared as himself in the second episode of the short-lived university campus FOX comedy series Undeclared.
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Ted Nugent made a guest appearance on the television series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, in the episode "Gee Whiz", on Adult Swim.
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In 2007, Ted Nugent appeared in the music video for Nickelback's song "Rockstar".
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Ted Nugent made his feature film debut in 2008 in the Toby Keith film Beer for My Horses, playing the role of Skunk, a "long-haired, over-the-top rock 'n' roll deputy sheriff in Jackson County, Oklahoma, who loves bowhunting and guns".
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In 2012, Nugent again appeared as himself on The Simpsons, on the episode "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson", in which he is nominated as a presidential candidate for the Republican Party.
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Ted Nugent is a fan of the Detroit Red Wings in ice hockey, Detroit Pistons in basketball, Detroit Lions in football and Detroit Tigers in baseball.
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Ted Nugent has been married twice and has six children with four women.
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Ted Nugent was married to his first wife, Sandra Jezowski, from 1970 to 1979.
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Ted Nugent's second wife is Shemane Deziel, whom he met while a guest on Detroit's WLLZ-FM, where she was a member of the news staff.
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In 2005, Ted Nugent agreed to pay $3,500 in monthly child support for a son fathered with a woman named Karen Gutowski while he was married to Deziel.
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Ted Nugent admitted to several affairs with underage girls in a Behind the Music episode.
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In 1978, Ted Nugent began a relationship with 17-year-old Hawaii native Pele Massa.
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Since the 1970s, Nugent has promoted anti-drug and anti-alcohol stances.
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Ted Nugent is a national spokesman for the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program.
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Ted Nugent is a supporter of President Donald Trump and has made a number of statements critical of former President Barack Obama, one of which was perceived as potentially threatening and led to Nugent being investigated by the Secret Service.
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Ted Nugent worked as the treasurer and co-chairman for Sid Miller's 2014 campaign for Texas Agriculture Commissioner.
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However, protesters claim that Nugent started the altercation by spitting in the face of one of the protesters when offered an anti-fur flyer.
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In July 2015, Ted Nugent referred to people outraged over the killing of Cecil the lion as "stupid".
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Ted Nugent owns a 340-acre hunting ranch near Jackson, Michigan, called Sunrize Acres.
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Ted Nugent has said, "I understand the criticism from those who say canned hunting violates the ethic of fair chase", though he still operates the facility and refers to it as "high fence hunting".
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In November 2008, coinciding with the election of Barack Obama as America's first black president, Ted Nugent appeared on The Political Cesspool, a white nationalist radio show.
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At a 2009 West Virginia rally, sponsored in part by the coal extracting company Massey Energy, Ted Nugent "defended mountaintop removal mining", according to reporters on the scene.
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Ted Nugent was a vocal opponent of a proposition to reintroduce gray wolves into Colorado passed in 2020.
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Ted Nugent urged Colorado citizens to vote against the proposition, which had widespread support from environmental groups.
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In 2004, while entertaining US troops during the Iraq War, Nugent visited Saddam Hussein's former war room.
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Ted Nugent is an advocate of the right to bear arms, and served on the board of directors of the National Rifle Association.
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On July 9,2010, Ted Nugent was interviewed by Alex Jones and criticized the latest policies issued by the Obama administration and the US Supreme Court concerning gun policy.
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Ted Nugent claimed that rejecting the idea of the right to self-defense being expressed in the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, which Nugent called "gun control" policies, is most likely to destroy American society.
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Ted Nugent claimed similar policies were the cause of the downfall of every society in human history.
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In 2016, Nugent posted an image on his Facebook page implying that Jews are behind the push for gun control.
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Ted Nugent's rant sparked outrage and some called for his NRA resignation.
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In 2008, Ted Nugent was a guest on the episode Southwest Road Trip Special of Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, where he spoke against obesity and public health care.
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At a concert on August 22,2007, while wielding what appeared to be assault-like rifles, Ted Nugent said in reference of Obama, "suck on my machine gun".
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In January 2014, Nugent called Obama a "communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel".
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On February 12,2013, Ted Nugent attended the State of the Union address given by President Obama.
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Ted Nugent was the guest of US Representative Steve Stockman of Texas's 36th congressional district.