Zach Myers and Ted Nugent join me for two completely different conversations this week on Talkin’ Rock.
Zach is up first, as he was in studio with me earlier this week promoting Shinedown’s upcoming Dance, Kid, Dance tour this summer. With a couple of new songs out to wet the whistle of SD fans, he says the album is not close to being done. “We’re working on it. We’ve done this differently than we’ve ever done a record, so there’s really no… It will be out this year, I think. [Brent] says July/August. I don’t know when it’s gonna be out. I think it’s gonna be out this year. We’ve never done it this way. We’ve never released songs before a record was done. Usually a record’s done, artwork’s done, everything’s done, here’s the singles. And we wanted to do it different this time. We are in a different world.”
We talked about picking songs for the set list and some questions from friends of his. That was fun!
Ted Nugent rounds out the episode only the way Ted can! His new “Vault” is out now. Drummer Jason Hartless unearthed all sorts of Nugent gems, some of which Ted had forgotten about.
We talk about the song “Stranglehold”, the first song he released as a single of his solo career 50 years ago. He explained, in his own Ted way, why he dropped an 8-minute song as his first single. He said he’d been playing it for years, and the fans “got it”. Of course, he expanded on it much more than that.
I also asked him about being a “bandmate” in Damn Yankees, as opposed to being THE guy. He said, first and foremost he’s a bandmate in any project he’s played in. including the Yankees.
Ted is always entertaining, and this is no different.
Enjoy!