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Subject: Frank Marino vs Ted Nugent
I was playing Detroit one night
and Ted was the opening act and then
halfway through my set his
roadies pushed his amps onto our stage
and he began trying to out-volume
me. I was pretty stunned because I
thought "what a jerk", but
I didn't want my guys to throw him off
the stage 'cause I felt that
he'd make something out of it, so I
played along with his gag
and answered all of his riffs, quite
easily I might add. I guess
he got a little un-nerved 'cause the
crowd could see that it wasn't
really working for him, so he tried
to finish it off by playing
with his teeth, of all things, which he
did real slow and jerky. I
guess that he really didn't believe that
I could do that 'cause i wasn't
givin' to doing those things in
those days, but any guitarist
can tell you that it's quite easy to
do, although I guess to Ted
it was the "big hard", so after he
finished his lick and the
crowd grew silent waiting to see if I'd
respond and I waited and waited
until it got real quiet. You could
hear a pin drop in that hall
and I could hear a friend of mine
offstage whisper, "do it".
So after an enormously long pause, and
just as Ted started to strut
towards me, I picked up my axe to my
teeth and let loose with a
blitz of notes, loud, long and fast.
Well, the crowd goes nuts
and I guess Ted, to his credit, realized
what happened so he falls
down like he's been shot and I guessed
that meant that I'd won or
something. To this day, I think it was
the single most stupid thing
that I'd ever seen in music. I remember
that Ted began to go around
the country doing these battle shows.
They asked if I'd do it with
them but I declined. I think that this
was the day that the "WWF"
came to rock and roll and I really think
that Ted was dumb to do that
kind of crap. As to whether I blew Ted
Nugent's doors off, I think
we should ask the fans that were there
and remember it. After that,
Ted and I ended up at the same
management for a while along
with Aerosmith, and he always acted
like he didn't like me very
much, although I couldn't imagine why....
Frank Marino