Now long before Trump supporter Ted Nugent was in a Twitter war with the ultra liberal David Crosby, the Motor City Madman played his brand of guitar driven rock and roll in arenas. Ted Nugent had co-headlined with Lynyrd Skynyrd at the Nassau Coliseum when I had last saw him and, if memory serves me right, the somewhat mismatched but enjoyable double bill was scheduled to happen again at Madison Square Garden when the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash tragedy changed the southern rock landscape forever and made Mr. Nugent the headliner for this particular tour.

AC/DC with lead singer Bon Scott opened the show and Angus Young carried Bon on his shoulders through the MSG orchestra section much to the delight of the aspiring metal heads at the Garden.

I have always loved Ted Nugent’s gunslinger mentality and his blistering guitar leads which made the eponymous first album that contained “Stranglehold” and the “Free for All” collection rock and roll classics.

Ted Nugent is still periodically on the road and he will play The Paramount in Huntington on Wednesday, August 16, 2017.

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Rock on

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