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Ted Nugent

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Hard Rock
Hard 'n' Heavy

http://www.tednugent.com
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27 июл 2026 :	TED NUGENT: 'I've Had Every Greatest Band In The World Open Up For Me'
10 июл 2026 :	TED NUGENT Laments Reduced 'Compensation In The Music-Selling Industry'
12 мар 2026 :	TED NUGENT Still Doesn't Care About Being Excluded From ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME: 'It Doesn't Affect Me At All'
20 окт 2025 :	TED NUGENT, At 76, Says He Can Still Hit The High Notes In Some Of His Classic Songs: 'The Music Is So Inspiring'
8 сен 2025 :	See TED NUGENT Perform In Paw Paw, Michigan
11 авг 2025 :	TED NUGENT On BLACK SABBATH's Music: 'They Called It Heavy Metal, But Basically It Was Blues'
26 мар 2025 :	TED NUGENT On Still Playing Shows Two Years After 'Farewell' Tour: 'I Never Used The Word 'Retire''
16 мар 2025 :	TED NUGENT On His Classic Song 'Stranglehold': 'It's More Powerful Today Than It Was When It Was Released In 1975'
16 фев 2025 :	TED NUGENT Launches The 'UltimateGonzo Fan Experience' Featuring 'Never-Before-Seen And Never-Before-Heard Treasures'
7 дек 2024 :	TED NUGENT Shares Video From 1987-88 New Year's Eve Whiplash Bash - "My Life Is Pretty Damn Intense"
12 ноя 2024 :	TED NUGENT Shares "Lovejacker" Performance Video From 1995
19 окт 2024 :	TED NUGENT Says METALLICA Plays 'Soulful Heavy Metal': 'It's Like If JAMES BROWN Had More Amplifiers And A White Bass Player'
14 окт 2024 :	TED NUGENT Shares Classic "Hey Baby" Performance Video
18 сен 2024 :	TED NUGENT Responds To PEARL JAM Reimagining His Song 'Stranglehold' As Anti-Gun Anthem
5 сен 2024 :	TED NUGENT Rocks Out With SAMMY HAGAR At Ted's Texas Ranch; Video
1 авг 2024 :	TED NUGENT Teams Up With Son For New Song "Who Shot Trump"; Audio
30 июл 2024 :	Watch: TED NUGENT Performs At 2024 York State Fair
26 июл 2024 :	CARMINE APPICE On TED NUGENT: 'The Guy's Got Balls'
20 июн 2024 :	TED NUGENT: 'To Be Against Hunting Is To Literally Have No Soul'
15 июн 2024 :	TED NUGENT Explains His Exclusion From 'Best Guitarists' Lists
12 июн 2024 :	TED NUGENT On 'Pride Month': 'Why Would Sexuality Be Some Source Of Pride?'
16 апр 2024 :	Watch: TED NUGENT Returns To Live Stage In Buda, Texas
11 фев 2024 :	TED NUGENT: 'I Play My Guitar Every Day'
25 янв 2024 :	TED NUGENT: 'You Have To Have S* For Brains To Believe This Global Warming Bulls*'
30 дек 2023 :	TED NUGENT Shares Rare 1970 Video Of THE AMBOY DUKES Performing "Migration" On PBS

2 авг 2022

TED NUGENT Once Again Denies Dodging The Draft, Says Vietnam War Was 'Immoral' And 'Illegal'

Ted Nugent has once again shot down the claim that he dodged the Vietnam draft by vomiting and defecating on himself and failing the physical exam.

The outspoken conservative rocker said in a 1977 High Times magazine article that he faked symptoms (being unhygienic to appear mentally unfit) and used meth before his military physical to get out of serving. But in a 2006 interview with the U.K. Independent newspaper, he said he made up that story to the High Times reporter.

The 73-year-old musician brought up the accusation of draft dodging during a YouTube livestream earlier today (Sunday, July 31). Addressing one of the points most frequently raised by his critics, Ted said: "They claim I dodged the draft. I didn't dodge the draft. I was Bruce Lee. [They say] 'Well, he got a 4-F' [one of the classifications used by the Selective Service to designate someone who is unfit for military service]. I got a 1-Y [referring to registrants qualified for service only in time of war or national emergency]. I was eligible for the draft. I was in the Oakland Community College as a student for those two years, and I got a 1-Y, which means, I guess, they wouldn't take me as quick as they would take a 1[-A], but in '69 they stopped taking guys.'

He repeated: "I didn't dodge the draft. Get over it. That was a High Times magazine interview where I conveyed the story of my buddy, this great drummer KJ Knight [who played with Nugent in THE AMBOY DUKES]. It was hysterical. He completely ruined his entire life just to get out of the draft, which was cool because the Vietnam war was illegal. If I would have known what I know now then, I would have dodged the draft. Like Muhammad Ali. The Vietnam war was immoral; it was illegal. It was the military industrial congressional complex robbing taxpayers and getting Americans killed for no fucking reason at all. But I didn't dodge the draft. I wasn't smart enough. If I would have gone over there, I might have won the fucking war, okay?"

When High Times writer Glenn O'Brien interviewed Nugent in 1977, Ted said about how he supposedly got out of the draft: "I got my physical notice 30 days prior to [being drafted]. Well, on that day I ceased cleansing my body. No more brushing my teeth, no more washing my hair, no baths, no soap, no water. Thirty days of debris build. I stopped shavin', and I was 18, had a little scraggly beard, really looked like a hippie. I had long hair, and it started getting' kinky, matted up. Then two weeks before, I stopped eating any food with nutritional value. I just had chips, Pepsi, beer — stuff I never touched — buttered poop, little jars of Polish sausages, and I'd drink the syrup, I was this side of death. Then a week before, I stopped going to the bathroom. I did it in my pants. Poop, piss the whole shot. My pants got crusted up."

Nugent also explained that he was typically "extremely anti-drug" but "I snorted some crystal methedrine" in order to avoid the draft.

Perhaps giving some credence to Ted's version is the fact that Kenny Mills, the drummer who goes by the stage name of KJ Knight, claimed in his autobiography that he "used wild antics" at the Selective Service physical and was quickly dismissed from serving.

Fact Checker and the Reno Gazette Journal both obtained military records showing that Nugent got a student deferment, which is not "draft dodging" given that he showed up for the medical exam, according to a recent update from High Times. It was therefore determined that there's not enough evidence to definitively conclude that Nugent actually dodged the draft.

This past May, fellow rocker Joan Jett brought up Nugent's alleged draft dodging while responding to Ted's claim that she did not deserve to be on Rolling Stone magazine's list of 100 Greatest Guitarists. At the time, she said: "Ted Nugent has to live with being Ted Nugent. He has to be in that body, so that's punishment enough.

"He's not a tough guy. He plays tough guy, but this is the guy who shit his pants — literally — so he didn’t have to go in the Army. So this is the tough guy who's running around America, stirring things up against each other."

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