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During his February 3 YouTube livestream, outspoken conservative rocker Ted Nugent discussed his plans to hit the road in support of his new album, “Detroit Muscle”, which is due on April 29 via Pavement Music. The follow-up to 2018’s “The Music Made Me Do It” was recorded with Ted’s current band, which includes bassist Greg Smith and drummer Jason Hartless.

“Tickets go on sale tomorrow, I think, for this gonzo beach party rock and roll concert headlined by Ted Nugent in Panama City [Florida] on April 29th,” Ted said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “Write that down. That’s confirmed. There’ll be no mask mandates; there’ll be no bullshit. And the next night, the headliner is my buddy Kid Rock. I’m not promising anything except we’re gonna rock your brains out, but on the 30th when Kid Rock is headlining Panama City, the big beach party concert, he always plays [Nugent’s classic song] ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ every night, so maybe I’ll stick around and go up there and show him how to play it. It’s a possibility.”

Ted, who battled COVID-19 in April 2021, went on to say that he and his representatives are “working” on a full tour to promote “Detroit Muscle”. “We’ve got a lot of dates,” he said.

“2020, the communist Chinese in the White House wouldn’t let the tour happen,” he continued. “Well, some people went on tour. And they played a place where you had to show paperwork or wear a mask. I’m not playing a place that plays Nazi jackboot. If there’s some kind of unconstitutional mandate… By the way, mandates… You can’t mandate shit. You can’t mandate anything to me. You have no mandate authority. This isn’t communist China, even though Joe Biden thinks it is, and he’s helping it become that. But if there’s a mandate for a mask that’s been proven scientifically not to work… There’s guys out on motorcycles doing 60 miles an hour with a mask… That’s a country music fan, if ever there was one.

“So, hopefully the Uncle Ted shitkicker American campfire ‘Detroit Muscle’ tour 20-clusterfuck-22 will finally happen after the communist Chinese Biden gang canceled it in 2020 and 20-clusterfuck-21,” Nugent added. “Let’s hope. ‘Cause we’ve got a lot of dates in June, July and August.”

Last May, Nugent said that he beat COVID-19 by following “intelligent, professionally guided care from the Frontline Doctors,” referring to a group of doctors who made a video in July 2020 calling for the use of hydroxychloroquine to battle the novel coronavirus, despite warnings from public health experts.

In December, Nugent told the Des Moines, Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3 that he got over COVID-19 by “listen[ing] to what the government told me to do and [doing] just the opposite. And whatever the government told me not to do, that’s exactly what I did do, and I was cured in about two days.”

Nugent, an outspoken conspiracy theorist who has refused to take the vaccine, also once again falsely claimed that public health measures taken during the COVID-19 pandemic violate the Nuremberg code, a set of medical experimentation guidelines set after World War Two, as the vaccine is experimental.

In April 2021, Nugent talked about the darkest days of his battle with COVID-19, saying that he had “never been so scared” in his entire life. The 73-year-old pro-gun activist, who had previously claimed the virus was “not a real pandemic,” said: “It was really scary. I didn’t think I was gonna make it. I literally couldn’t function for about 20 hours, and then they came and they rescued me… The six-foot-two, 225-pound headache [this time] was like nothing I have ever experienced. I mean, from my tip of my toes to the top of my hair, I literally was dizzy and weak and struggled to get up to go to the bathroom. And I would lay in the bathtub a couple of times a day with the water as hot as I could take it just to divert.”

In the past, Nugent had referred to the virus as a “leftist scam to destroy” Trump. He had also repeated a narrative pushed by conservative media and disputed by health experts that suggests the official death count from the coronavirus is inflated.

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In a new interview with Premier Guitar, QUEENSRŸCHE’s Michael Wilton was asked to name his guitar pet peeve. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I think it would have to be the YouTuber guitar players that think so highly of themselves and they cut down other players. For me, it’s, like, you’ve gotta pay your dues. You’ve gotta be out in the trenches. I mean, I’ve been doing this for 40 years, and for some YouTuber to cut me down, that’s… It’s… [laughs and shakes head]”

QUEENSRŸCHE recently entered the studio to begin recording its new album for a tentative late 2022 release. Helming the effort once again is Chris “Zeuss” Harris, who previously worked with the band on 2015’s “Condition Hüman” and 2019’s “The Verdict” LPs.

This past November, QUEENSRŸCHE singer Todd La Torre told Canada’s The Metal Voice about the musical direction of the band’s new material: “It doesn’t sound like ‘The Verdict’. It’s its own new kind of thing. We really kind of just focused more on melodic hooks. I don’t think we went in thinking, like, ‘Oh, we need to sound old school or new or this.'”

In early 2021, Wilton told The Metal Voice about the new QUEENSRŸCHE songs: “Our producer, Zeuss, if this is any indication, he says it sounds like QUEENSRŸCHE … I think we’re just going with our gut right now. You don’t wanna take too many drastic chances in this day and age. So I think it’s more of a continuation of ‘The Verdict’, maybe, in some sense. We’re riding that wave. It’s been good to us. [Laughs]”

In October, Wilton confirmed that returning guitarist Mike Stone will likely contribute guitar solos to the band’s next studio album.

Since late May 2021, Stone has been handling second-guitar duties in QUEENSRŸCHE, which announced in July that longtime guitarist Parker Lundgren was exiting the group to focus on “other business ventures.”

Stone originally joined QUEENSRŸCHE for the 2003 album “Tribe” and stayed with the band for six years before leaving the group.

QUEENSRŸCHE recently pulled out of SCORPIONS’ rescheduled “Sin City Nights” Las Vegas residency in order to support JUDAS PRIEST on the “50 Heavy Metal Years” North American tour dates in March-April 2022. The tour will kick off on March 4 in Peoria, Illinois and conclude on April 13 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

Guitar legend Steve Vai says that the train has “left the station” when it comes to a proposed reunion of VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth’s solo band following the cancelation of their November 2015 performance in Hollywood.

Roth’s “Eat ‘Em And Smile” reunion at the Lucky Strike Live nearly seven years ago was called off at the last minute by the fire marshal. The show would have marked the first time in three decades that Roth joined Vai, bassist Billy Sheehan, drummer Greg Bissonette (RINGO STARR & HIS ALL-STARR BAND) and keyboardist Brett Tuggle to perform some of the hits from the classic LP.

Asked in a new interview with Barbara Caserta of Italy’s Linea Rock about the possibility of a “Eat ‘Em And Smile”-era band reunion, Vai said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “You never know about these things. And we touched on it in the past. It’s a logistical thing too, because Dave had VAN HALEN, I had my solo career, Billy has… everybody is kind of busy. And I would only have done it with the ‘Eat ‘Em And Smile’ [lineup], I think. And the idea was very intriguing, and I never rule out anything. But as time went on, the train kind of left the station. I understand now that Dave is retiring so I don’t know when something like that could happen. It’s a long shot.”

Vai, Sheehan and Bissonette reunited on in January 2019 for a two-song performance at “Ultimate NAMM Night” in Anaheim, California. They were joined by singer Jeff Scott Soto (SONS OF APOLLO, TALISMAN, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) to play a cover of the QUEEN classic “Tie Your Mother Down” and the Sheehan-penned TALAS headbanger “Shy Boy” which appeared on the “Eat ‘Em And Smile” album.

“Eat ‘Em And Smile” was the first of two Roth albums to feature the duo of Vai and Sheehan on guitar and bass.

Billy said in a 2017 interview with Songfacts that he was “ready to go” if Roth ever decided to do some shows with the “Eat ‘Em And Smile” band. “We have a great respect and love for Dave and what he did for us,” he continued. “There’s no secret undercurrent thing going on that I’m not talking about. The fact of the matter is it’s Dave’s call. If he chooses to do so, I couldn’t be happier.”

Last month, Roth issued a brief statement after the cancelation of the remaining farewell shows he was set to play at the House Of Blues at Mandalay Bay. The 67-year-old VAN HALEN frontman had previously scrapped concerts scheduled for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day and was to play a total of nine shows as he vowed to retire from performing live.

When asked if Roth’s farewell performances will take place at a later date, he told Fox News Digital in a statement: “It’s not about me anymore. When the benefits for Kentucky, Colorado, and Farm Aid kick in; Call me.”

In a similarly worded statement to EW, Roth said about the cancelation of his Vegas residency: “Sometimes you win, Sometimes you lose, We got rained out.. “Covid cancelled.

“Future shows? When the benefit concerts for Colorado, Farm Aid, and hospital workers ‘everywhere’ come up; Call me..,” he added.

In October, the legendary VAN HALEN singer announced that he was ending his career with his Vegas shows during the first weeks of January. “I am throwing in the shoes. I’m retiring,” Roth told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “These are my last shows.” He added: “I’m not going to explain the statement. The explanation is in a safe.”

Plus, why the platinum-selling progger has stuck with the same guitar brand for 30+ years.