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01 December 2005

Hi. It's snowing. Nothing is happening here save a raging debate whether "Cat Scratch Fever" is a right-wing Nugentian salute to mastubation. Toodles.

post by: DeepFriedTwinkies at: 16:29 | 19 comments

Shit. MastuRbation. I knew that one.

posted by DeepFriedTwinkies 01 December | 16:30

The words "shit" and "masturbation" should always be kept separate. You knew that one.

posted by Hugh Janus 01 December | 16:39

While The Nuge as a guitarist is most definitely a wanker of the highest order, I don't think that's what the song is about.

I make the pussy purr with
The stroke of my hand
They know they gettin' it from me
They know just where to go
When they need their lovin man
They know I do it for free

posted by bmarkey 01 December | 16:46

Well. I guess that settles that.

posted by Specklet 01 December | 17:27

Hmmm. It's snowing here, too. Which is about a month early. 27 degrees. And nobody knows how to drive in the snow.

posted by warbaby 01 December | 17:42

Sure we do. It's the stopping we suck at.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 01 December | 17:48

I'm the only person in Portland who knows how to stop in the snow. And I don't have a car, so I just backseat drive...

posted by Specklet 01 December | 17:52

I hope it's nice and dry and clear by Saturday for the Cascadia meetup!

posted by matildaben 01 December | 18:07

i want a birthday shoutout--and do one for specklet, jon, and dame too!

posted by amberglow 01 December | 18:30

In praise of the solitary act

posted by seanyboy 01 December | 18:37

HaPpY BiRtHdAy amberglow!!!!

And specklet, and jon and dame too.

posted by seanyboy 01 December | 18:38

I wish we could have some snow. We're barely out of summer it seems like.

posted by chewatadistance 01 December | 20:40

While The Nuge as a guitarist is most definitely a wanker of the highest order,

as a human, he's a wanker. as a guitarist he's pretty damned good. "Cat Scratch fever," "Tied Up In Love," and especially "Journey To The Center Of The mind," (recorded when he was 16) have some badass guitar playing, politics be damned.

posted by jonmc 01 December | 22:17

Oh yeah, he's definitely done some good stuff. Earlier on in his career he was relatively restrained; by the time of Double Live Gonzo, though, you have to admit that he was getting pretty wanky during his solos.

posted by bmarkey 01 December | 22:38

oh sure. but there were moments when his whole "kiss my ass if you don't like it," persona was backed up by music good enough to make him absoultely embraceable, which is why I still can't disavow the crazy fuck.

*cranks up "Free For All"*

posted by jonmc 01 December | 22:42

Nothin' tastier than a little free-range Nougat.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 01 December | 22:56

*cranks up "Free For All"*

I always wondered about that one line: "the stakes are high / and so am I", Nugent being such an adamant straight-edge kinda guy and all. Still, some fine riffage there. I think my personal fave is either "Stranglehold" or "Death By Misadventure", although I haven't heard the latter in a long, long time.

posted by bmarkey 01 December | 22:57

I figure he was high on pussy, the one vice he admits to overindulging in. And he claimed to not have realized that "Journey To The Center oF The Mind," was about drugs (I have the vinyl LP, it has pics of about 100 peices of pot paraphenalia) so he may be being disingenuous.

That album also contains "Why Is a Carrot More Orange Than An Orange," one of the best peices of addled 60's music ever.

(supposedly, almost every member of the Amboy Dukes exceot Ted was so dope-addled they could'nt function, and died dope related deaths, so Ted was left to TCB, so maybe that's where his attitude acquired it's edge. just a theory)

posted by jonmc 01 December | 23:04

I have a 45 of "JTTCOYM" that my dad got in a box of promo records from a radio station owner that dad did some work for. It confused me at the time - hell, I was only about 7 or 8 when I first played it - but I think it helped form my taste for psychedelia.

posted by bmarkey 01 December | 23:15

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