I’ve been to several Ted Nugent concerts over the years, going back to my first experience in about 1979. Nugent headlined an outdoor stadium concert in Charlotte, North Carolina with opening acts Foreigner, Mother’s Finest and Black Oak Arkansas. It was an awesome concert and Ted stole the show with lots of onstage antics and his high-energy brand of guitar-driven rock. More than three decades later, the Motor City Madman doesn’t seem to have lost any of his steam. Bringing his Trample the Weak, Hurdle the Dead tour to Clearwater’s Ruth Eckerd Hall on Wednesday night, Uncle Ted (as Nugent is known to his fans) blasted the dust and cobwebs from the corners of the hall and exorcised any remaining remnants of Backstreet Boys funk still lurking in the rafters.
(Photos by Tracy May)
This article appears in Jul 1-7, 2010.