Name: Ted Nugent on the Origins of Stranglehold
Uploaded: 2021-11-30T18:08:46.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ted Nugent on the Origins of Stranglehold' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-30. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Ted Nugent on the Origins of Stranglehold' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2021-11-30. Transcript available.

I can accomplish all things getting drunk without getting drunk. If you want
crazy and stupid and out of control, all I have to do is go crazy, stupid and
out
of control. I'm sure. I don't need any impetus. I don't need any outside
influences. The great Apache chief said, "God has already given you everything
you
need, and I believe that wildness, uninhibitedness, absolute gonzo
misbehavior. Whatever you need to do is already in here. You just need to know
how to unleash it." For example, recently I do all these interviews. I have a
new
record coming out called "Detroit Muscle," which is... I sent you a bunch.
How many records have you had?
40 million I've sold, but I think 20-some, 30 albums maybe?
That's pretty incredible.
Yeah. I started in '67. Not when I was 67.
God damn.
Do you know how many fighters come out to Stranglehold, by the way?
Of course I do.
Well, what a lick. Shall I?
Yeah, please do.
I mean...
There's so many fighters come out to that song, because like for a jujitsu guy,
that is the
song.
And military guys, military guys going into battle.
Hitman!
Look at this shit. Look at this shit. Look at your goosebumps. Those are real.
Look at that hair standing up on end.
Shit. It really is happening. After a thousand years of that shit! A thousand
years and you still get fired up.
Still get fired up. What a great lick though!
It's a great fucking song.
That all comes from Bo Diddley. When you first get a guitar, when I was like
seven years old, of course, who doesn't feel...
That is such a natural rhythm. I was just on the phone with Billy Gibbons and
he said that a fetus, at conception, if that Bo Diddley lick is happening...
Start moving his little toes.
It will dance. So my point is, is that this right hand, if I jacked off, I'd
pull my dick clean off, because this right hand...
You jack off with your left hand?
No. Never mind. I signed so many autographs and all these hats every day and
all these flags, and I play my guitar every day.
And I started with his god, Bo Diddley. You hear all the conch, chock, chock,
chock, chock, chock. Well, what is...
That whole... And I learned that, not just Bo Diddley, but a guy named Jimmy
McCarty. Know the name.
Jimmy McCarty.
Jimmy McCarty.
Jimmy McCarty. 1960. My band, The Lourdes, opened up for Billy Lee and the Rivieras,
Martha and the Vandellas, and Gene Pitney, who had a hit song called Town
Without Pity. This history. So I opened up. I was 12. Going on 12. My band, The
Lourdes, opened up Billy Lee and the Rivieras.
You were 12? You were opening up for them?
Yeah. When I was 14, I opened up for the Supremes and the Bo Brumbles at Cobo
Hall, because my band, The Lourdes, won the Michigan Battle of the Bands,
because we were bad motherfuckers for white boys, I'm telling you.
14?
Yes, it was awesome. So anyhow, going back to Walled Lake Casino. Novi,
Michigan. Walled Lake, Michigan.
Billy Lee and the Rivieras. It was Billy LeVice, destroyed 10 tambourines per
song. Every song had three forehead vein popping crescendos. Johnny Bananjic,
15 years old, on Ludwig drums, playing it.
Nobody played bass drums like that. And there's this kid, throttling like some
kind of industrial beast. And then Earl Elliott on a Rickenbacker bass through
an Ampeg B-15.
Joe Kubrick on a Gibson 335 Cherry through a Fender Twin Amp and this long-legged
motherfucker on a Gibson Birdland and a Fender Twin Reverb, Jimmy McCarty. And
they started a song called Jenny Take a Ride.
I was already into the bow diddly chukka-chukka-chukka stuff. But when he
started Jenny Take a Ride, only I can do this. Only I can replicate what Jimmy
did that night. And it went like this.
Get it.
Oh, see.
Watch this right hand.
Get the fuck out of here. Do you feel that?
Yes, yes.
What the fuck kind of music is that?
It's amazing music.
So I saw this Birdland. Nobody played a Birdland. It's a jazz guitar. It's made
for playing things like...
...which is cool. Great tone, huh?
Right.
Great rich bell kind of tone. But when Jimmy played it, that...
Fuck!
Wow.
That imprinted Gibson Birdland, Fender Twin. Gibson Birdland, Fender Twin.
Right hand, bow diddly on stair. Holy fuck!
So eventually, I had to get a Gibson Birdland. And the way I play comes from
the bow diddly Chuck Berry.
And if you can Chuck Berry, I mean the whole...
*music*
Now Chuck didn't play it like that because my right hand was playing all the
counter rhythms.
Hmm.
And so that's where the whole...
*music*
Got scratch fever.
*music*
The whole ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca. The new record's got a song called Detroit Muscle.
*music*
I don't write songs, I ejaculate them. I just pick up my guitar and go...
*music*
The whole ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca-ca. It's just made me play. So Chuck Berry, Bo
Diddley, Little Richard, Jimmy McCarty, Billy Lee and the Rivieras, by the way,
changed their name years later to Mitch Ryder in the Detroit Wheels.
I talked to Mitch on Thanksgiving. I still keep in touch with these fucking
guys 60 years later.
Wow.
Now the new record is the continuation of, you use the word primal. Primal is
my life. Whether it's with a sharp stick or a guitar or a chainsaw, primal is
pure.
*music*
And I think that field to table is a return to primal. I think you discovering
that you can either go vegan or a hunter, you made the primal decision.
I think primal is the answer to every problem mankind has subjected themselves
to. Getting back to tooth, fang, and claw, the earth, accountability, your step.
Did the step that you take benefit the world or did it harm the world? Both
literally and figuratively. So that's how I've conducted my life.