Have this album as a kid and I loved it. Bought it again on CD because this Nugent work is fantastic. Great White Buffalo and StrangleHold are worth the album alone. Nugent shows that he has alot of talent and can really rip the guitar. This album is raw, heavy and quality! A MUST GET!!
April 5, 2008 |  | One of the greatest live albums |  |
Double live gonzo is one of the greatest live albums of all time.This double cd contains fantastic renditions of uncle ted"s classics like GREAT WHITE BUFFALO,STRANGLEHOLD and CAT SCRATCH FEVER and features some of the finest guitaring.VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
January 5, 2008In my opinion, this is Ted Nugent's last great album. "State of Shock" (1979) is the one since "Double Live Gonzo" I listen to most, but I won't take the time to argue its merits. "If You Can't Lick 'Em" (1988) is his only good album of the '80s. There's no excuse for the penny-dreadful songwriting of "Intensities in Ten Cities" (1981) or the disastrous "Little Miss Dangerous" (1986). He made a great comeback in 1995 with "Spirit of the Wild," but the hooks lack that ear-friendly quality of his heyday. Nugent's two albums since then have been uniformly strong--with the emphasis on "uniform," which doesn't really suit his persona, if you know what I mean.
But I'm a fan. Nugent has a spirit, a straightforward sense of craftsmanship, and an energy level that I've always responded to, even if his ego sometimes blocks his vision and his politics tend more toward ignorance than insight.
Tearing up the landscape, pumping bullets into earth and stream from a careening jeep (as he did on one of his TV shows), doesn't quite jibe with the message of either 'Great White Buffalo' or 'Fred Bear.' Pointing a gun at the consumer's face (the tray of "Caveman") isn't my idea of public relations. As an r&b-and-blues-based guitarist, he could do with a bit more appreciation for black folk. Last, and least, I'd like to know what he meant when he said he was "99% celibate" during a tour while married.
Yet he's more responsible with his guitar than with his mouth, and it's rare for a rock star to mention loving the voices of his children (the liner notes to "Out of Control"). I certainly don't expect him to go gentle into that good, or any other, night. Given the wilderness of human behavior, though, he might surprise us all.
September 5, 2007This is a classic. Must have if you like Ted Nugent.
What more can you ask for ....LIVE ! This is a must have!
August 23, 2007Pure rock'n'roll energy at high voltage, this is what Uncle Ted's delivers here. This album is rightly super famous, it is really a shot (a shot!!) of pure energy. Ted is unstoppable here, he is like one of those wild animal he loves to hunt. His riffs played through his precious Byrdland are of the highest caliber (and never a word has been so well chosen!) even to today's standards. This album is essential to understand where all that hair metal from the eighties came from (by the way each time I see Ted's with a guitar in the seventies I understand where John Sykes for example took a lot of his cool attitude and look from ... I love him too be sure). I guess this album has been incredibly popular in the seventies and the building riffs of these song from Ted's songbook are the roots of thousands of tunes and riffs from the hair guys (but even their wild looks and their sexist macho attitude). I can't choose a tune here even if "Stranglehold" really attacks you with such a strong riff that it's almost incredible and it blows me away each time I listen to it (and Ted didn't had the full shred distortion we had today, you can hear its EXTREMELY beautiful and absolutly original archtop guitar tone). "Cat Scratch Fever" is splendid and the full run from "Just what the doctor ordered" 'till the instrumental "Hybernation" may be considered some of the best hard rock ever played (hard rock not nu-metal kids). After the long and strechted out instrumental "Hybernation" comes the second full gas run of the album, from "Stormtroopin" to "Motor city Madhouse". You can't lose this thing for real, it's too much, too much. Exceptional "Wang Dang Sweet Pootang". I mean this Gonzo live it's even more fantastic than what I remembered. I had this vynil of Gonzo Live in my school days, but rediscovering this album nowadays something like 25 years later, makes it perfectly clear to me that Ted's music was not a small thing and that he was not a clown dressed like a caveman. He was and still is a natural born performer, an extremely talented guitarist and his music was (and still is) extremely good, despite his lyrics that some may call stupid but are simply funny r'n'r lyrics to me. I don't take them too seriously ... they're only funny R'n'R lyrics. What do you expect from a man in a caveman dress? Some Shakespeare? I can't do nothing but love Ted and this album and to envy the people that attended these concerts in the seventies. Hunt those who don't like this album (just joking guys!)! Long live Uncle's Ted!!! PS (the rock candy remastered edition makes justice of this hard rock masterpiece)
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