Biography

Gibson Guitars

Performing shirtless

Outspoken and unabashed about his beliefs

Soul Patch

Cowboy Hat

Actor Kurt Russell was best man at Nugent's wedding to his second wife, Shemane Deziel. Nugent's first wife died in a 1982 car crash, while reportedly drunk driving. Nugent has five children, Starr, Toby, Ted, Sasha Nugent and Rocco Nugent. Rocco is his son with second wife Shemane.

Formed Damn Yankees with Tommy Shaw (STYX), Jack Blades (Night Ranger) and Michael Cartellone in 1989; the band sold some 5,000,000 albums.

Attempted to buy the background-music company Muzak so he could shut it down; his offer was rejected.

Outspoken against substance abuse, he acknowledged in a 1977 interview with High Times that "I took two tokes off a joint with the MC5 one night and almost gagged and thought it was stupid. And that's it. I took two tokes off a joint once. I snorted one line of cocaine. And one line of crystal methedrine before my draft physical - but God, that was worth it because I wanted to see the look on the Sergeant's face. That's it for drugs.".

Creator of the Nugent Blade Broadhead by Magnus Archery, Ted Nugent BloodBrother Bow, and signature line of hunting gear.

You've got to kill it, before you grill it

Basically, I'm just an erector set looking for some volts.

[on Muzak] It's an evil force in today's society, causing people to lapse into uncontrollable fits of blandness. It's been responsible for ruining some of the best minds of our generation.

[on Iraq] Our failure has been not to Nagasaki them.

I visited Saddam Hussein's master war room. It was a glorious moment. It looked like something out of Star Wars: Épisode IV - Un nouvel espoir (1977). I saw his gold toilet. I shit in his bidet.