The disagreement between Ted Nugent and Joan Jett has gone one other spherical, because the Motor Metropolis Madman responded to Jett’s latest criticism.
“Joan, I like you. It’s actual rock and roll, superior, plus I like lesbians. I feel it’s cool,” Nugent declared Might 4 by way of his YouTube channel, insisting that Jett is “the actual McCoy.”
Nonetheless, the identical factor that Nugent complained about months in the past — that Jett was included in Rolling Stone’s 2003 record of the 100 biggest guitarists of all time — continues to be a difficulty.
“Joan Jett can’t be on the highest 100 guitar gamers within the historical past of rock and roll earlier than Rik Emmett of Triumph. She will’t be,” Nugent defined in his video. “And Joni Mitchell’s on the record however not Derek St. Holmes? Not [Lynyrd Skynyrd’s] Ricky Medlocke? Not [Whitesnake’s] John Sykes? Not Chris Duarte? Not Jimmy McCarty?”
Nugent continued itemizing off guitarists he felt have been unjustly omitted, together with Styx’s Tommy Shaw. “I like you Joan, however you are not a greater guitar participant than any of those guys,” he declared, “and she or he simply attacked me.”
The assault Nugent referenced occurred simply days in the past. In a dialog with NME, Jett was requested about Nugent’s opinion that she doesn’t belong amongst rock’s biggest guitarists.
“Is that his implication… that he ought to be on the record as a substitute of me?” Jett requested within the interview. “Properly, that’s simply typical – it’s what I’ve handled my complete life, being written off. Ted Nugent has to reside with being Ted Nugent. He must be in that physique, in order that’s punishment sufficient.”
Jett additional added that Nugent is “not a troublesome man” and referenced an notorious interview the place the guitarist claimed to have defecated in his personal pants to keep away from being drafted into the military.
Nugent was clearly perturbed by Jett’s feedback and insisted he by no means meant to offend her. “I simply mentioned there are a whole lot of killer guitar gamers, and Joan is an effective guitar participant,” he defined. “She makes nice music, it’s not adventurous as I like, however she’s superior. So then she acquired wind of it and simply viciously attacked me personally, [claiming] that I used to be jealous as a result of I used to be not on it. I by no means talked about I ought to be on it.”
Although Nugent regularly insisted he had “nothing however good issues” to say about Jett, he was extra heated in a follow-up video.
“Joan, would you simply loosen up?” Nugent mentioned (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “Possibly the plastic [surgery] has gone to her mind… I do not know. I simply did not suppose she was that silly. I by no means mentioned something about how silly she was. I did not suppose she was silly; now we all know how silly she is.”
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