TED NUGENT - The REAL STRANGLEHOLD

...'this is the shit, kids. TED, 1978. Before Scream Dream, too-much-80s-hair, Damn Yankees and all that 'Spirit of the Wild, aging rock-star, NRA, salvage-the-flagging-career nonsense. Here he is: skinny, crazy-as-fuck and playing his ass off... 'with Charlie Huhn doing a fine job standing in for Derek St. Holmes, the voice behind Nuge's legendary original lineup. TED FUCKING NUGENT, STRANGLEHOLD, PERIOD.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 1979
• Nugent
• Stranglehold

[backbeat56]

Does a pro like Ted mean to play this song to fast live?....is it for the extra energy?...or a mistake....as a drummer I used a "BeatBug" live to get the correct tempo because I had a habit of playing to fast when in a live environment. Anyone with pro stage experience have a comment?

P.S.....What a GREAT song!!

[suiteblue]

@backbeat56 - with all due respect, backbeat56... what you see captured here in terms of tempo change? nothing short of intentional by Ted and his ultraprofessional band. they were playing mind-bending blues, but nonetheless blues... on a TV show. and TV audiences by-and-large, to this day, still want to be ENTERTAINED, not made to FEEL - most people live life superficially. slow blues has depth, but if you play it up-tempo, it's less provocative, more palatable for TV. my two cents - peace...

[walekno]

now thats how u fuck your guitar

[Nightwing690]

TEd got more pussy than any other rock star at that time, I'd bet on it

[funkloaf84]

@backbeat56 YES BACKBEAT ,I HAVE STAGE AND STUDIO EXPERIENCE . I CAN ASURE YOU TED PLAYS IT THE WAY THAY REHURSE IT . HE IS A PERFECTION ON THE STAGE FREAK .

[narutoisashit]

this was in 1979 not in 1978

[sk1972]

@backbeat56 this is a little off topic but have youever listened to live after death

the double live album from maiden? dude it's twice as fast as the originals which I think sucks its as if they were trying to hurry up and get out of there or they were pressured to fit it all in or something anyways very dissapointing. this was not a live energy/adrenalin thing you can totally tell!! wtf?

[thestoaandi]

The elec' guitar tone was so bad back then, I would not have listened to this track had it not been such an energetic version of the song. That's a compliment to Nugent.

[lilESQUE]

WOwzers!!!!!!!!

[narutoisashit]

this was in the 79 not the 78

[nolen1975]

That was awesome showmanship!  I agree with blueluna64 this is the sexiest song I've ever heard...and watched for that matter. Nugent ROCKS! Saw him in the 70's at Busch Stadium in St. Louis...Great show!