Ted Nugent brands Yungblud as “the real McCoy” among a flurry of strange praise for rock artists
Ted Nugent kicked off the new year with a video on his YouTube channel, in which he dished out a bunch of praise – and quite a few insults too – for the rock musicians of today.
Among those he both praised and criticised all at the same time were Jack White, Green Day, and Yungblud, who came out the most unscathed. Nugent celebrated Yungblud, who’s garnered a whole new swathe of fans since his performance at the Black Sabbath Back To The Beginning event, as “the real McCoy”.
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In the video, titled Let’s Talk Music, Nugent begins discussing Yungblud by mentioning his recent EP collaboration with Aerosmith: “Now, I got to tell you this, what’s this Yungblud guy? Limey freak madness. This guy’s the real McCoy. Watch this Yungblud that’s working with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry. It gives you hope that the really piss and vinegar, the James Brown, the original Chuck Berry, Little Richard is alive and well and this kid called Yungblud, he’s a screamer,” he says.
Nugent then moves on to Jack White, discussing his half time show with rapper Eminem at the Detroit Lions’ Thanksgiving football game in November: “Jack White, is that his name? Anyhow, he was great. It wasn’t like a 10 like Sammy Hagar or James Brown. I think Sammy Hagar and James Brown and Steven Tyler, those are tens. Angus Young of AC/DC, that’s a 10. The guy’s a maniac. Billy Gibbons in the blues, rhythm, and soul music category, he’s a 10.
“Jack White, he’s not a 10. He’s like a four and a five, but he really delivered real rock ‘n’ roll. Real Detroit piss and vinegar. And Eminem… Both of those guys, Eminem and Jack White: total idiots,” he says. Nugent then goes on to berate their political views, with “they don’t want their country to have secure borders. They think men should destroy women’s sports” being just two of his claims.
He then goes on to add, “Green Day – there’s not a brain amongst them, I don’t think. But man, can they play. Really, really killer stuff, like Tom Morello. Come on, Tom – you’re not raging against the machine, you are the machine.”
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