“Who doesn’t want to hear the recording of Ted Nugent and Eddie Van Halen backstage in California jamming?”: Ted Nugent’s latest archive features never-before-seen sessions with EVH, Billy Gibbons and more
Ted Nugent has spent an entire lifetime on stage, in studios and apparently, hoarding an ungodly amount of tapes, videos, and recordings. Now, thanks to his drummer’s curiosity (and a whole lot of digging), fans will finally get to hear some of these long-lost jams.
The rock legend is dusting off decades of rare and unreleased recordings and making them available through his newly launched “Nuge Vault”. The project promises exclusive access to “never-before-seen or heard concert footage, archival audio, and much more.”
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The journey to unlocking this massive archive hasn’t exactly been easy. Speaking to Sirius XM’s Eddie Trunk, Nugent describes the process of sifting through his collection as a “pain in the ass”.
“When Jason [Hartless, Nugent’s drummer] and I were rehearsing for the Adios Mofo tour with Johnny [Schoen, bassist], we were in my big barn in Michigan and there’s just walls and acres, literally acres of boxes and crates and big giant piles of tapes and videos and CDs and cassettes and stacks of photos and, and rehearsals and jam sessions,” he recalls [via Ultimate Classic Rock].
“And I had kind of walked past it every day as I do in my daily life, but Jason stopped and looked at it and started digging into these boxes.”
“And so when Jason started digging into these boxes, his eyes bugged out,” Nugent continues. “Because who doesn’t want to hear the recording of Ted Nugent and Eddie Van Halen backstage in California jamming? Or with Billy Gibbons and so many amazing things that have taken place?”
Among the newly uncovered recordings is a “jam session with the Mothers of Invention at the Fifth Dimension in Ann Arbor in 1967,” says Nugent.
The musician also credits Hartless for his persistence in bringing these recordings back to life, admitting that seeing some of these long-lost moments again has been deeply emotional.
“When he shows me this stuff, I get teary eyed,” Nugent confesses. “I go, God, I remember that. Hanging out with these guys backstage. What a lucky, lucky life. And it’s all chronicled.”
More information is available at Nuge Vault.
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