He continued: “I know that Jimi Hendrix was a god, and Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley and Joe Perry and Joe Bonamassa and Rickey Medlocke and Billy Gibbons and Eddie Van Halen and Stevie Ray Vaughan. Of course they’re the best. Steve Vai. Joe Satriani. Hell, Vic [Johnson] in Sammy Hagar‘s band is an unbelievable guitar player. Derek St. Holmes is an unbelievable guitar player. Brad Whitford… I could go on and on and on — unlimited. But to think that I don’t qualify in the top one hundred of guitar players in America is just a stupid lie. Case closed.”

Nugent also reiterated his lifelong anti-drugs and -drink stance, telling host Mitch Lafon: “I’m against comfortably numb. I’m against being stoned, because you can’t be an asset to your family if you’re stoned. And people listening right now to us, they just attack me for saying that, but those people that don’t know that you’re in the liability column when you’re stoned, it’s because they’re stoned. I’ve had to step over all these wonderful people’s bodies and these great virtuosos in all my life, since the 1960s, because they tried to convince me that getting stoned was a victimless crime. And I would like to bring them on to make the point, but they’re all dead — they’re all dead, because they were the victim of losing touch with their surroundings. And it’s not good for you. Now, I’m one hundred percent for medical drugs, medical marijuana, whatever you need to feel better when you’re sick. Everybody knows that.”

Last November, Nugent said that “Canada is absolutely crazy” for its decision to legalize marijuana, explaining that he has “never seen one moment of positive outcome from someone getting high.” He said: “I’m all for medical marijuana, I’m all for medical anything, as long as it’s really beneficial to people suffering from health issues, but to legalize recreational comfortably numb is a guaranteed script for ruined lives.”

Nugent is continuing to promote his latest album, “The Music Made Me Do It”, which was released last November via Round Hill Records. Ted‘s first studio album in four years features Greg Smith (BILLY JOEL, ALICE COOPER, RITCHIE BLACKMORE’S RAINBOW) on bass, Jason Hartless (JOE LYNN TURNER, MITCH RYDER) on drums, and the Motor City Madman himself on lead guitar and vocals.