Musician Ted Nugent is a man with opinions, and there aren’t enough grains of salt on Earth to take them all with. His latest nugget of “wisdom” involves rock icon Joan Jett and a twelve-year-old Rolling Stone article.
But first, here is just a tiny sampling of Nugent’s other insights:
- Donald Trump was “sent here by God. Just like our founding fathers were touched by divine intervention.”
- Vegans are “responsible for the most death possible.”
- He once called Barak Obama a “communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel.”
Nugent chose an odd target for his latest bit of ire: This list of music critic David Fricke’s picks of the 100 greatest guitar players, published by Rolling Stone in 2010.
Coming in at number 87 on Fricke’s countdown is Joan Jett, of whom he wrote: “Lead guitarists gave rock its icons; rhythm players gave it soul. The line runs from Eddie Cochran to Pete Townshend to Johnny Ramone, a lineage in which Joan Jett should not be taken lightly. In the early Runaways and the later Black-hearts, she played it straight ahead: No frills, all heart, no f**king around.”
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Here’s Nugent’s hot take via YouTube, twelve years after the fact: “When you see the Rolling Stone magazine list of greatest guitar players, they list Joan Jett but not Tommy Shaw.
“How do you list the top 100 guitar players and not list Derek St. Holmes? How do you do that? You do that by lying. The same way you get Grandmaster Flash in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. You do that by lying. You have to be a liar. You have to have sh*t for brains and you have to be a soulless, soulless prick to put Joan Jett… [I] love Joan. Some of my greatest memories include lesbians. I love the lesbians; it’s a cocktail of wonderment.
“By the way, if Grandmaster Flash is in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and Joan Jett is on the list of top 100 guitar players, then I’m Caitlyn Jenner’s boy toy.”
Whether or not you agree with Jett’s inclusion on Frinke’s list (and we can’t help but note that Rolling Stone put out another top-100 list five years later by a panel of experts that does not include her), Nugent’s messaging sure is in line with him finding the worst possible way of communicating.
Jett, who has three gold records and has been described as the “Queen of Rock ‘n Roll,” has never explicitly come out as queer. However, when the New York Times asked in 2018 for her response to an LGBTQ film festival dropping a documentary about her because she wasn’t “out” she said:
“They don’t want the movie there because I don’t declare? [Holding up her necklace of a labrys] What the [expletive] is that? Two labryses, or axes, crossing each other, inside of two women’s symbols crossing each other. It’s not been off since I got it. And I wear this one every day. [She turns around, lifts her shirt and reveals a tattoo with similar female symbols on her lower back.] I don’t know how much more you can declare.”
We’ll leave you with Jett and Miley Cyrus performing together at the Super Bowl TikTok Tailgate last year:
London_resistance
Is Ted Nugent still a thing?
I thought he was dead
cliche guevara
What happened to your outrage over women being erased? He is literally saying Joan Jett should be removed from the list of greatest guitar players and what do we get from you *crickets*…. I thought you were the grand defender of woman…. oh wait, Nuggent isn’t a trans woman so now sexism isn’t an issue. Might want to hop back into that clown car you drove up in .
RobtFL32583
Well, he has been brain dead for years!
SFMike
HIs body lives but his brain died a long time ago.
johncp56
What a horrible creep, and huge gun freak NRA wizard, Homaphobic racist, shameless no body
Ronbo
Please explain cliche guevara’s over-the-top melt-down. Were you two a thing back in the day? Has cliche’s prescription run out? Cliche seems absolutely toxic today.
Cam
@Ronbo
Sweetie, this screename was exposed a while ago as just another one of your right wing troll sock puppet accounts. And you STILL can’t help re exposing yourself by coming in and trying to defend your other screenames. LOL
JTinToronto
Does anyone really care about anything Ted Nugent has to say about anything? Really? Be serious.
Phillip
Why does anyone still listen to old poopy pants?
This spineless moron has nothing of any relevance to say.
Mr. Stadnick
Ted Nugent is a moron and has always been considered a moron. His music is made for stupid racist, sexist twats. A talentless hack with a big blabbing mouth pouring out shite.
johncp56
Ditto
scotty
oof jealous much?
Jim
I loved Ted Nugent. Not his music, but his homoerotic performances !!!
mailliw110
Saw him live in the early 80’s. Wore nothing but a small loin cloth. From what I remember, there were a lot of boys in the audience, not much girls.
johncp56
????????????????
Ambonec
He hasn’t said/done anything of relevance since the Amboy Dukes.
TomG
Apparently all that loud “music” destroyed a lot of his brain cells
barryaksarben
SO we LOSE a “rolling stone’ and half the beatles but we still have this hack around? I mean we lost Bob Saget and we still have this JOKE
Thad
I’m still listening to Joan Jett’s songs regularly. Gun nuts, not so much.
bsg1967
Nugent is how I fear Madonna’s on her way to being
Halfnhalf
Ted Nugent is the proof that even idiots can be good at something. I quit listening to Nugent over 30 years ago, when he dissed his fans. He said that cannabis users were idiots and losers. Who did he think listened to his music? University professors?
scotty
lol he thinks it’s still a “free for all.”
Cam
Of COURSE Republicans love him, he assaulted underaged girls, that’s pretty much rule one for being a popular Republican these days.
Man About Town
Seeing his name always reminds me of a quip from Robin Williams’ stand-up act in the mid ’80s: “Yes, Jesus is coming back, but this time he’s not gonna look like Ted Nugent!”
Chrisk
Like this shithead ever created anything that anyone wants to listen to except maybe some people completely drugged out. Cat Scratch Fever? Lol
trojanboy
He’s actually not dead. He was never really alive.