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Ted Nugent (3/12/1981)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page


Artist(s): Ted Nugent w/ Humble Pie
Date: 20 February 1981
Tickets: $8.75 (general admission and reserved seating) + 25¢ surcharge per ticket for parking
Attendance: 7,200+ (sellout) “…still hundreds more wandering the parking lot without tickets to get in”
Notes: Contrary to press announcement, this was Nugent’s sixth appearance at Wings Stadium, his fifth as a headline act. Nugent’s truck was vandalized in the parking lot.
Setlist (Ted Nugent*): Land of 1000 Dances, Scream Dream, Wang Dang Sweet Poontang, We’re Gonna Rock Tonight, Paralyzed, My Love Is Like a Tire Iron, Heads Will Roll, Jailbait, Stranglehold, The Great White Buffalo, Wango Tango, Motor City Madhouse, The Flying Lip Lock, The TNT Overture, Cat Scratch Fever, Flesh and Blood, Free For All.
Setlist (Humble Pie*): I Don’t Need No Doctor, 30 Days in the Hole, Fool for a Pretty Face, Infatuation (“a quick opening set”).

*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on reviewer’s comments and other performances around the same time (Bethlehem, PA, Columbus, OH).

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 21 February 1981, (center) 22 February 1981, (right) 8 March 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 1 March 1981, (right) 8 March 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 March 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (left) 11 March 1981, (right) 12 March 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top left) 13 March 1981, (bottom left) 13 March 1981, (right) 26 March 1981. Kalamazoo Public Library

 


Sources

Articles

“Fourth visit”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 21 February 1981, page 7

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 22 February 1981, page 26

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 1 March 1981, page 22

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 March 1981, page 27

“Pop, rock, folk and jazz”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 March 1981, page 22

“Nugent is always best when he’s live”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 8 March 1981, page 25

“Back to active duty”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 11 March 1981, page 30

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 12 March 1981, page 45

“‘Terrible’ Ted plays to overflow audience”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 March 1981, page 19

“Fans do ‘Motor City Madman’ dirt”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 March 1981, page 1

“Apology to Nugent”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 26 March 1981, page 7