John Jett has struck again at Ted Nugent, suggesting the “Cat Scratch Fever” rocker will not be as robust as he seems.
Again in late December, Nugent decried Rolling Stone for together with Jett of their list of the 100 biggest guitarists of all time — a listing, it ought to be famous, was first revealed in 2003. “It’s important to have shit for brains and you must be a soulless, soulless prick to place Joan Jett [on the list],” Nugent — who was not included within the record — declared.
“Is that his implication… that he ought to be on the record as an alternative of me?” Jett requested in a current interview with NME. “Properly, that’s simply typical – it’s what I’ve handled my entire life, being written off. Ted Nugent has to dwell with being Ted Nugent. He must be in that physique, in order that’s punishment sufficient.”
Jett then proceeded to skewer Nugent’s macho persona.
“He’s not a troublesome man,” the previous Runaway declared. “He performs robust man, however that is the man who shit his pants – actually – so he didn’t must go within the Military.”
Jett was alluding to a 1977 interview with Excessive Occasions journal by which Nugent mentioned he prevented being drafted into the Vietnam Warfare by abandoning all private hygiene. “I ceased cleaning my physique. No extra brushing my tooth, no extra washing my hair, no baths, no cleaning soap, no water,” Nugent mentioned on the time, including that he “stopped going to the lavatory. I did it in my pants. Poop, piss the entire shot.”
“So this,” Jett famous, “is the robust man who’s working round America, stirring issues up in opposition to one another.”
A long time after his Excessive Occasions interview, Nugent claimed he’d made the story up. Extra lately, the guitarist insisted there was “no hate” in his remarks about Jett’s inclusion on the best guitarists record.
Jett launched Changeup, the primary acoustic album of her spectacular profession, on March 25. She’s set to hit the highway with Motley Crue, Def Leppard and Poison on the Stadium Tour beginning in June.
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