**Ted Nugent on Being Rejected by the Music Industry**
In a new interview with Forbes, Ted Nugent revealed that the music industry turned him down simply because he wasn’t a pop artist. During the chat, Nugent discussed his hits like “Stranglehold” and the time he faced rejection. He explained why:
“The industry turned me down. They didn’t want a feedback guitar player from The Amboy Dukes. They wanted pop music with keyboards and harmonies, cookie-cutter choruses for radio play. But people every night were loving that groove when we played it. The lyrics, when I finally wrote them down one night, were a defiant statement against the industry. In effect, I was saying, ‘I don’t need you; I’m selling out 3,000-seat places without radio play or album sales.’”
### Nugent’s Hit Almost Didn’t Get Recorded
Nugent’s hit song “Stranglehold” has been named one of his best songs with the best solos. Despite its popularity over the years, it almost didn’t get recorded due to the label’s demands.
In another interview with Dr. Music Podcast, Nugent recalled how label executives were initially uninterested in “Stranglehold” during early recording sessions. The executives said:
“‘Everybody voted to not record ‘Stranglehold’ because it doesn’t have a chorus, and nobody’s gonna play an eight-minute song with all that ‘guitar part’ in it.’”
Nugent’s reaction was fierce:
“I said, ‘I love you guys, but that’s insane! Since when is there a rule that a song has to have a chorus? It’s a movement; it’s a song. And by the way, you all signed me and gave me a lot of money because you came to ten of my concerts and saw how the people love ‘Stranglehold.’ And now you want to take it off the record? I was wondering if you guys got the alert, and it sounds like this: ‘F*ck you! Double f*ck you!’ By the way, we have a recording session that starts in one hour. Let’s go to the studio because I have a song to record. The first one’s gonna be ‘Stranglehold.’”
You can listen to the song below.
**Tags**: Ted Nugent, Stranglehold, The Amboy Dukes
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