So did Wayne Newton.
Let's face it, and TD you know the biz as well as anyone-- the unwashed masses will go flocking to see anyone the Pavlov machine tells them to. That's why the Rolling Stones kept a career thirty years past their own relevance (to name just one comparison).
As far as actual performance (to previous post) -- there's a chasm of difference between talent and gimmicry. Making wailing noises is just electronics that anybody can buy from Musician's Friend. Putting those notes into an art form that comes from and conveys to the soul, that's an entirely different endeavor. If Nuge had an ounce of the latter he wouldn't need the sideshow of political circus.
I have little doubt that he's self-serving enough that that circus, such as the gadfly quote of the OP, is born not out of any particular political philosophy, but simply designed to keep selling those venue seats to gawkers who come to see the circus. But what he actually does with the guitar? That's a dime a dozen. The rhetorical circus is what he's known for, because that's what he's good at. P.T. Barnum's famous quote was never lost on hucksters like Ted Nugent.
as a guest? Why does the right wing have trouble with people calling them kooks and crazies?
