I
was playing Detroit one night and Ted was the opening act and then
halfway through my set his roadies pushed his amps onto
our stage and he began trying to out-volume me. I was pretty stunned
because
I thought "what a jerk", but I didn't want my guys to throw him
off the stage 'cause I felt that he'd make something out of it,
so I played
along with his gag and answered all of his riffs, quite easily
I might add. I guess he got a little un-nerved 'cause the crowd
could see that
it wasn't really working for him, so he tried to finish it off
by playing with his teeth, of all things, which he did real slow
and jerky. I
guess that he really didn't believe that I could do that 'cause
i wasn't givin' to doing those things in those days, but any guitarist
can tell
you that it's quite easy to do, although I guess to Ted it was
the "big
hard", so after he finished his lick and the crowd grew silent
waiting to see if I'd respond and I waited and waited until it
got real quiet.
You could hear a pin drop in that hall and I could hear a friend
of mine offstage whisper, "do it". So after an enormously long
pause, and just as Ted started to strut towards me, I picked up
my axe to
my teeth and let loose with a blitz of notes, loud, long and fast.
Well, the crowd goes nuts and I guess Ted, to his credit, realized
what happened so he falls down like he's been shot and I guessed
that meant that I'd won or something. To this day, I think it was
the single
most stupid thing that I'd ever seen in music. I remember that
Ted began to go around the country doing these battle shows. They
asked
if I'd do it with them but I declined. I think that this was the
day that the "WWF" came to rock and roll and I really think that
Ted was dumb to do that kind of crap. As to whether I blew Ted
Nugent's
doors
off, I think we should ask the fans that were there and remember
it. After that, Ted and I ended up at the same management for a
while along
with Aerosmith, and he always acted like he didn't like me very
much, although I couldn't imagine why....
I
was playing Detroit one night and Ted was the opening act and then
halfway through my set his roadies pushed his amps onto
our stage and he began trying to out-volume me. I was pretty stunned
because
I thought "what a jerk", but I didn't want my guys to throw him
off the stage 'cause I felt that he'd make something out of it,
so I played
along with his gag and answered all of his riffs, quite easily
I might add. I guess he got a little un-nerved 'cause the crowd
could see that
it wasn't really working for him, so he tried to finish it off
by playing with his teeth, of all things, which he did real slow
and jerky. I
guess that he really didn't believe that I could do that 'cause
i wasn't givin' to doing those things in those days, but any guitarist
can tell
you that it's quite easy to do, although I guess to Ted it was
the "big
hard", so after he finished his lick and the crowd grew silent
waiting to see if I'd respond and I waited and waited until it
got real quiet.
You could hear a pin drop in that hall and I could hear a friend
of mine offstage whisper, "do it". So after an enormously long
pause, and just as Ted started to strut towards me, I picked up
my axe to
my teeth and let loose with a blitz of notes, loud, long and fast.
Well, the crowd goes nuts and I guess Ted, to his credit, realized
what happened so he falls down like he's been shot and I guessed
that meant that I'd won or something. To this day, I think it was
the single
most stupid thing that I'd ever seen in music. I remember that
Ted began to go around the country doing these battle shows. They
asked
if I'd do it with them but I declined. I think that this was the
day that the "WWF" came to rock and roll and I really think that
Ted was dumb to do that kind of crap. As to whether I blew Ted
Nugent's
doors
off, I think we should ask the fans that were there and remember
it. After that, Ted and I ended up at the same management for a
while along
with Aerosmith, and he always acted like he didn't like me very
much, although I couldn't imagine why....