I watched the drugs and alcohol destroy the energy that I admired, destroy the groove that I admired. Maybe I'll try the hashish.' And luckily, I didn't. But then it caught up with them, and I said, 'Oh.' Thank God I didn't go, 'Hey, they're smoking a lot of hashish, and they're just kicking out the jams. 'The MC5, they were all stumbling, puking, stupid drunk and stoned, and I admired them beyond description. And I admired the living shit out of 'em,' he said. Ted went on to say that most of his influences 'got high - right in front of me. 'Cause my brothers and sisters smoked and drank, and they didn't even surround themselves with goofball rock and roll dirtbags. 'Some people look for an easy way out, and some people don't. 'Because I think God gave all of us everything we need. 'So what's the difference between a person that falls for that versus a person who defies that? I haven't the faintest idea,' he admitted. And I was surrounded, in the rock and roll world, by smoking, drinking, drugged idiots. 'So my mom and dad were smoking, drinking alcoholics. I thought they just had a Tom Collins every night - whatever the hell that is - or a martini with olives,' he said. This past February, Nugent revealed during a Facebook Live stream that his 'mom and dad were alcoholics. I am the loose guy you're the drooling guy.

He can't imagine how loose a human being can be because the whisky has fogged his sensibilities. It'll loosen you up.' Like I need to be looser. We used to do gigs together all the time. I was recording 'Weekend Warriors' - it must have been '79 - and they were recording 'Highway To Hell'. We were at the recording studio in Miami, at Criteria Sound. No way.' Let me also mention Bon Scott - what a gifted monster, huh? Bon Scott of AC/DC offered me all his Jack Daniel's. ' Jimi Hendrix offered me dope,' he continued. And the more you get high, the dumber you get, and the dumber the decisions you make, and then they gag on their own vomit and they're dead. Speaking about why so many legendary rock musicians abuse drugs, Ted said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): 'A lot of my musical heroes, some of the greatest, most talented, gifted people on the planet, they would get higher and higher because initially they couldn't manage the intensity of artistry. Legendary rocker Ted Nugent once again discussed his lifelong anti-drugs and -drink stance during a YouTube livestream earlier today (Thursday, June 17).

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