Happy 59th birthday to Van Halen stand-in and tequila impresario Sammy Hagar, whose jingoistic, machine-gun-tastic clip for the 1985 throwdown “VOA” (sample lyric: “You in the middle east, you be on your toes / We’re bound to strike, everybody knows”) shocked and awed us even more than that Toby Keith Amerigasm we saw last week. Seriously … wow. We’re guessing that Green Day isn’t one of his favorite bands, either.
Sammy Hagar - VOA [YouTube, via This Day In Mythstory]
Wow, that’s pretty awesome. Never seen this. However, it would be very hard to top Ted Nugent’s ode to military intervention in the Middle East, “Bound and Gagged” written in a fit of anger shortly after U.S. Hostages were taken in Tehran. The angry rant in themiddle is particularly informative. “They burn our flag! Now just Who the hell do they think they are.”
In a somewhat related In one of my various capacities as a journalist, I once had the pleasure helping to edit a column written by none other than the Motor City Madman. Suffice to say, by the time I got to the part in Ted’s column where he wrote “My balls are Xtremely sensitive,” [SIC - or was that even necessary?] I realized that my attempts to edit The Nuge brought the phrase “polishing a turd” to new heights. Nonetheless, the editor was quite insistent the piece run and I’m pretty sure that it remains the worst thing to ever grace the pages of that unnamed 40 year old publication. The whole piece was mind-blowingly non-sensical.
“In a somewhat related matter”… is what I meant to type. That’s what I get for harping on Nugent’s writing not making any sense.
If anyone cares at this point, here’s the Youtube for “Bound and Gagged”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBBcwEva8Fo
oh hells, that Nuge video is great. i’ve got it on this weird dvd compilation of late 70’s/early 80’s videos called “I Want My DVD”. it’s got everything from Haircut 100 to Juice Newton to Earth Wind and Fire. not that i really need to watch it anymore, with YouTube around.
i got all jacked up off Cabo Wabo tequila one time…while listening to 5150. it was actually pretty fun. don’t tell anybody, okay?