Ted Nugent - Shutup&Jam

Multi-platinum guitar icon Ted Nugent returns with a new full-length album 'Shutup&Jam!, due out July 8th on Frontiers Records.

This release marks the first all-new studio album from the Motor City Madman in seven years. Nugent leads the pack of renowned musicians, handling guitar and vocal duties, alongside bassist Greg Smith, Dokken drummer Mick Brown and longtime musical cohort guitarist/vocalist Derek St. Holmes, while special guest Sammy Hagar brings his vocal power to "She's Gone".

"Shutup&Jam! 2014... the unstoppable firestorm of Ted Nugent, all American MotorCity, high energy R&B&R&R soul music erupts once again with what many gungho music lovers are raving to be the best songs and best music and highest energy rock out of my insanely wonderful musical American Dream," Nugent exclaims. "Sammy Hagar sings his balls off on 'She's Gone' and Derek St. Holmes proves once again that the MotorCity produces not just the greatest guitar grind masterlicks ever but one of the most powerful soul voices of all time on 'Everything Matters!' Unleashing early July 2014. Read em & weep! Shutup&Jam! you know who I am, you know where I stand, so Shutup&Jam! I am!"

"When I first heard Ted's demo of this song, I immediately responded with 'I'm in,'" Hagar shares of his involvement on the track "She's Gone". "Ted's ripping the guitar like the days of old... very inspiring to sing to a track like that-old-school blues riff, hard edged rock 'n roll on fire!!!"

To coincide with the release of 'Shutup&Jam!', Nugent has announced that he's packing up and hitting the road. On Saturday, June 7th he will join Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Volbeat and other rock titans at the Sweden Rock Festival in Solvesborg, Sweden. He'll then prepare for his national headlining tour, kicking off July 3rd in Wichita Falls, Texas. Ticket info for all shows is available at tour.tednugent.com.

I can't believe Frontiers is letting that cover get released.

It's really hard to get into the music knowing what a shit-heel Ted Nugent is.

I like me some Ted but I need to hear samples of this first because his albums are kinda spotty for me; "shit-heel" status notwithstanding.

DakotaRogers wrote:

It's really hard to get into the music knowing what a shit-heel Ted Nugent is.

Shouldn't be. This has nothing to do with his politics.

Always look forward to new Nugent.

I'm interested in the tracks Derek St. Holmes sings lead on.

DakotaRogers wrote:

It's really hard to get into the music knowing what a shit-heel Ted Nugent is.

Yeah, I can enjoy the music well enough, though I think Ted should heed the words of the album title and shut his mouth and jam. When it comes to politics especially it's painfully obvious he has no effing clue what he's talking about.

I say Ted for President! Love me some Nugent!

Eyesore wrote:

DakotaRogers wrote:

It's really hard to get into the music knowing what a shit-heel Ted Nugent is.

Shouldn't be. This has nothing to do with his politics.

Bingo! Since I lean heavily libertarian (not a fan of either party, both are funded by the same people, with the same goals, the differences are minimal) and I felt that way about not listening to bands that I hate their politics, I would be screwed and not have a lot of music.

Eyesore wrote:

DakotaRogers wrote:

It's really hard to get into the music knowing what a shit-heel Ted Nugent is.

Shouldn't be. This has nothing to do with his politics.

Eh, I get it though. I'm a casual Nugent fan, own a few albums. And I don't disagree with some of his opinions. He's just sooooo extreme with stuff and his bullying persona that it's becoming harder and harder to separate the man from his music.

I have that same feeling with Gene Simmons. I mostly dislike the person, don't always disagree with him, but I'll still dig the music if it's good.

And yea, that poorly thrown together Photoshopped cover is terrible.

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

DakotaRogers wrote:

It's really hard to get into the music knowing what a shit-heel Ted Nugent is.

Shouldn't be. This has nothing to do with his politics.

Eh, I get it though. I'm a casual Nugent fan, own a few albums. And I don't disagree with some of his opinions. He's just sooooo extreme with stuff and his bullying persona that it's becoming harder and harder to separate the man from his music.

I have that same feeling with Gene Simmons. I mostly dislike the person, don't always disagree with him, but I'll still dig the music if it's good.

And yea, that poorly thrown together Photoshopped cover is terrible.

It's mostly his racist comments towards Obama(and others) like calling him a "sub-human mongrel" that turn me off, and that one time he actually made a death threat towards him was unbelievably stupid, I hope the secret service scared him good for that.

Yeah, it has nothing to do with disagreeing with someone's actual political views. Alice Cooper is a known republican (though I often wonder how conservative his social views are--though I really don't know), and I am of the good ol' lefty pinko ways. Makes no difference to me; he's still my favorite musician ever. The major distinction is the character of the person.

Vexer6 wrote:

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

DakotaRogers wrote:

It's really hard to get into the music knowing what a shit-heel Ted Nugent is.

Shouldn't be. This has nothing to do with his politics.

Eh, I get it though. I'm a casual Nugent fan, own a few albums. And I don't disagree with some of his opinions. He's just sooooo extreme with stuff and his bullying persona that it's becoming harder and harder to separate the man from his music.

I have that same feeling with Gene Simmons. I mostly dislike the person, don't always disagree with him, but I'll still dig the music if it's good.

And yea, that poorly thrown together Photoshopped cover is terrible.

It's mostly his racist comments towards Obama(and others) like calling him a "sub-human mongrel" that turn me off, and that one time he actually made a death threat towards him was unbelievably stupid, I hope the secret service scared him good for that.

I remember that, it wasn't a real death threat.... I remember reading the Secret Service stopped by, talked to Ted then took pictures with him.

Ted doesn't need to resort to name calling..... hell, he could just call the guy out on his actions and words without ever having to resort to name calling.

ZombieHavoc wrote:

Yeah, it has nothing to do with disagreeing with someone's actual political views. Alice Cooper is a known republican (though I often wonder how conservative his social views are--though I really don't know), and I am of the good ol' lefty pinko ways. Makes no difference to me; he's still my favorite musician ever. The major distinction is the character of the person.

Alice does what all celebs should do - STFU about politics and just play music (or act)

thejokeriv wrote:

ZombieHavoc wrote:

Yeah, it has nothing to do with disagreeing with someone's actual political views. Alice Cooper is a known republican (though I often wonder how conservative his social views are--though I really don't know), and I am of the good ol' lefty pinko ways. Makes no difference to me; he's still my favorite musician ever. The major distinction is the character of the person.

Alice does what all celebs should do - STFU about politics and just play music (or act)

I don't even care when musicians are vocal about their politics, wherever they are on the spectrum. It's when bigotry, hate and vitriol are all that seems to spew from their mouths or pens or keyboards...that's where the problem is for me.

For me, music is a projection and expression of the people making it. If those people are hateful, well I have trouble viewing their music as anything but. I know most of you can disconnect the people from their music, but I can't.

Vexer6 wrote:

DakotaRogers wrote:

It's really hard to get into the music knowing what a shit-heel Ted Nugent is.

Yeah, I can enjoy the music well enough, though I think Ted should heed the words of the album title and shut his mouth and jam. When it comes to politics especially it's painfully obvious he has no effing clue what he's talking about.

I think he knows exactly what he's talking about. Whether you or I agree with him on those opinions is a different story.

I've met Ted several times. Spent a whole day with him once. He was a total gentleman the entire day. He talked music, old times, politics, and everything else under the sun with us. We ate shrimp gumbo together. He handed me all sorts of "stuff", including a drum head he had the band sign, a set list from the show that he signed himself and a bunch of guitar picks. He sat for an hour signing all the crap my buddy and I brought along to have signed and reminisced about different albums as he signed them. He was particularly taken back by the Japanese pressing of the first Amboy Dukes album. Had a big old smile on his face. I snapped a picture of that. When he got on stage though, woaaahhh Nelly, that's when the loudmouth came out. Haha!

MetalGuy71 wrote:

Eyesore wrote:

DakotaRogers wrote:

It's really hard to get into the music knowing what a shit-heel Ted Nugent is.

Shouldn't be. This has nothing to do with his politics.

Eh, I get it though. I'm a casual Nugent fan, own a few albums. And I don't disagree with some of his opinions. He's just sooooo extreme with stuff and his bullying persona that it's becoming harder and harder to separate the man from his music.

I have that same feeling with Gene Simmons. I mostly dislike the person, don't always disagree with him, but I'll still dig the music if it's good.

And yea, that poorly thrown together Photoshopped cover is terrible.

Pretty much where I stand. The problem with Ted's persona is he spews all this hate rhetoric, which stirs the hornet's nest, and the red state bumper sticker logic starts flowing like the Red Sea. Anyone who doesn't believe me should check out his Facebook. My God, the white supremacy...

Ted Nugent is a stage character, just as Alice Cooper is a stage character. These are roles that people play for various reasons. It doesn't mean Ted or Alice are like this as real people.

However, I personally wish artists would keep their controversial opinions to themselves - it makes business sense for them to do so. Why eliminate half or your audience?

I must admit that it amuses me to no end to hear liberals complain about conservative musicians - I mean how many openly conservative popular entertainers are there? You can count them on one hand.

Witchfinder wrote:

Ted Nugent is a stage character, just as Alice Cooper is a stage character.  These are roles that people play for various reasons.  It doesn't mean Ted or Alice are like this as real people.

However, I personally wish artists would keep their controversial opinions to themselves - it makes business sense for them to do so.  Why eliminate half or your audience?

I must admit that it amuses me to no end to hear liberals complain about conservative musicians - I mean how many openly conservative popular entertainers are there?  You can count them on one hand.  

I suppose Dave Mustaine kind of counts, but he's not quite as polarizing as Ted. And I take it you're leaving out the country genre.

corplhicks wrote:

Witchfinder wrote:

Ted Nugent is a stage character, just as Alice Cooper is a stage character.  These are roles that people play for various reasons.  It doesn't mean Ted or Alice are like this as real people.

However, I personally wish artists would keep their controversial opinions to themselves - it makes business sense for them to do so.  Why eliminate half or your audience?

I must admit that it amuses me to no end to hear liberals complain about conservative musicians - I mean how many openly conservative popular entertainers are there?  You can count them on one hand.  

I suppose Dave Mustaine kind of counts, but he's not quite as polarizing as Ted. And I take it you're leaving out the country genre.

Dave Mustaine is nuts and I wouldn't call him a conservative.  

I would leave country out, but there are well known country stars that aren't conservative - eg Brad Paisley, Tim McGraw and Faith Hill, Dixie Chicks, etc...

ultmetal wrote:

Vexer6 wrote:

DakotaRogers wrote:

It's really hard to get into the music knowing what a shit-heel Ted Nugent is.

Yeah, I can enjoy the music well enough, though I think Ted should heed the words of the album title and shut his mouth and jam. When it comes to politics especially it's painfully obvious he has no effing clue what he's talking about.

I think he knows exactly what he's talking about. Whether you or I agree with him on those opinions is a different story.

I've met Ted several times. Spent a whole day with him once. He was a total gentleman the entire day. He talked music, old times, politics, and everything else under the sun with us. We ate shrimp gumbo together. He handed me all sorts of "stuff", including a drum head he had the band sign, a set list from the show that he signed himself and a bunch of guitar picks. He sat for an hour signing all the crap my buddy and I brought along to have signed and reminisced about different albums as he signed them. He was particularly taken back by the Japanese pressing of the first Amboy Dukes album. Had a big old smile on his face. I snapped a picture of that. When he got on stage though, woaaahhh Nelly, that's when the loudmouth came out. Haha!

My brother and I met him backstage in 1991 at a Damn Yankees show. My brother ended up missing the whole Bad Co set while talking to Ted backstage the entire set talking about bow hunting, Michigan (where we were originally from) and all kinds of stuff -- but didn't talk politics once. I hung around for maybe 15-20 minutes and had a good time but left the backstage area when it was time for Bad Co to start.

Witchfinder wrote:

Ted Nugent is a stage character, just as Alice Cooper is a stage character.  These are roles that people play for various reasons.  It doesn't mean Ted or Alice are like this as real people.

However, I personally wish artists would keep their controversial opinions to themselves - it makes business sense for them to do so.  Why eliminate half or your audience?

I must admit that it amuses me to no end to hear liberals complain about conservative musicians - I mean how many openly conservative popular entertainers are there?  You can count them on one hand.  

Amen!  That's where I'm at on all counts!  Same with conservative actors vis-a-vis liberal actors.

ultmetal wrote:

Vexer6 wrote:

DakotaRogers wrote:

It's really hard to get into the music knowing what a shit-heel Ted Nugent is.

Yeah, I can enjoy the music well enough, though I think Ted should heed the words of the album title and shut his mouth and jam. When it comes to politics especially it's painfully obvious he has no effing clue what he's talking about.

I think he knows exactly what he's talking about. Whether you or I agree with him on those opinions is a different story.

I've met Ted several times. Spent a whole day with him once. He was a total gentleman the entire day. He talked music, old times, politics, and everything else under the sun with us. We ate shrimp gumbo together. He handed me all sorts of "stuff", including a drum head he had the band sign, a set list from the show that he signed himself and a bunch of guitar picks. He sat for an hour signing all the crap my buddy and I brought along to have signed and reminisced about different albums as he signed them. He was particularly taken back by the Japanese pressing of the first Amboy Dukes album. Had a big old smile on his face. I snapped a picture of that. When he got on stage though, woaaahhh Nelly, that's when the loudmouth came out. Haha!

Well I have to disagree there, I think he's very much clueless in that area, he's also very unprofessional by making disgusting comments like telling Hilary Clinton to "suck on his machine gun"

He's also comes across as a hypocrite by attacking people for being against the war when he himself was a draft dodger for the Vietnam War.

His insensitive comments about mass-shootings and gun control also piss me off.

Don't get me wrong I like his music(at least when it's not a creepy lyrical subject like "Jailbait"), but I think he'd be more well liked if he stopped talking about politics, besides I don't think his fans are really interested in that sort of thing anyways.

corplhicks wrote:

Witchfinder wrote:

Ted Nugent is a stage character, just as Alice Cooper is a stage character.  These are roles that people play for various reasons.  It doesn't mean Ted or Alice are like this as real people.

However, I personally wish artists would keep their controversial opinions to themselves - it makes business sense for them to do so.  Why eliminate half or your audience?

I must admit that it amuses me to no end to hear liberals complain about conservative musicians - I mean how many openly conservative popular entertainers are there?  You can count them on one hand.  

I suppose Dave Mustaine kind of counts, but he's not quite as polarizing as Ted. And I take it you're leaving out the country genre.

Dave's had his share of incredibly stupid comments as well, the worst one being when he claimed the Aurora shooting was "staged" by the president or some nonsensical asinine crap like that, one of the victims rightfully called him out on it saying "the president didn't shoot me", of course Dave backpedalled REAL fast after that