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Local History

Ted Nugent (4/19/1980)

A Wings Stadium Concert Scrapbook Page

Artist(s): Ted Nugent w/ Roadmaster
Date: 19 April 1980
Tickets: $8.75 (general admission and reserved)
Attendance: 7,200 “capacity crowd”
Notes: Nugent’s fifth appearance at Wings Stadium, his fourth as a headline act.
Setlist (Ted Nugent*): Motor City Madhouse, Stormtroopin’, Wango Tango, I Gotta Move, Free-For-All, Paralyzed, Hard as Nails, Cat Scratch Fever, Dog Eat Dog, Wang Dang Sweet Poontang / Hibernation / The TNT Overture, The Great White Buffalo, Stranglehold, Carol.

*unconfirmed, but likely similar based on reviewer’s comments and other performances around the same time (Ann Arbor, MI).

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Kalamazoo Gazette, (top left) 9 February 1980, (center) 6 April 1980, (top right) 19 April 1980, (bottom left) 18 March 1980, (bottom right) 13 April 1980. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 April 1980. Kalamazoo Public Library

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Kalamazoo Gazette, 21 April 1980. Kalamazoo Public Library

 

Sources

Articles

“Nugent returning”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 9 February 1980, page 18

“Date unchanged”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 18 March 1980, page 21

“Roadmaster opens for Nugent”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 6 April 1980, page 23

“Schedule of events”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 12 April 1980, page 41

“Pop, rock, folk and jazz”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 April 1980, page 19

“Nobody tops Nugent’s act”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 13 April 1980, page 22 (B-4)

“Schedule of events”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 19 April 1980, page 42

“Wild Night at Wings”
Kalamazoo Gazette, 21 April 1980, page 15 (B-7)