Old Enough to Forget

This is a new to me release, as the only album I really knew was his 1978 Double Live Gonzo , which was face meltingly awesome. I had always wanted to pick up his earlier albums, but never did. Time would march on, and invariably I'd move on as well leaving Ted as a pleasant footnote in my musical development. Of course, nowadays Mister Nugent is a tad divisive. His personality, which was always huge and as bombastic as his music, seems to overshadow his music for a lot of people. Which is a shame, but then again the musical landscape is littered with artistic pariahs who have buried their art under their own personal baggage. While I don't agree with Mister Nugent on a lot of things, I also appreciate his love of nature, hunting, and his stance on drug and alcohol abuse. He's a strange fellow. However in today's climate we don't celebrate different opinions or engage in any sort of discourse, everything has devolved into name calling and attempts to cancel each oth...

I got this back in 1984 when it came out. "Naughty Naughty" grabbed me the first time I heard it, and to this day is still one of my guilty pleasures. The solo composed of tire skids still cracks me up. I honestly couldn't remember any of the other songs when I pulled this down for a spin. It had been a long time since I'd given this a listen so I figured it was due. Now, you're probably wondering why my album cover has CBC written in pen on it ... well, that's because it came from the CBC archives. I lost my cover years ago (I could tell you the story, again, about the great crawl space flood, but it's a painful memory, so I won't bore you) and I found this copy in the dollar bin and I bought it just to have the cover. I cleaned up the record inside and gave it to my friend who told me it was, and I quote, "Terrible." I pressed him as to why and he mentioned a bunch of artists he liked that were quite different than Mister Parr. So I ended o...