{"id":41587,"date":"2026-07-01T20:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T01:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?page_id=41587"},"modified":"2026-07-01T21:16:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T02:16:19","slug":"win-tickets-to-ted-nugent","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/win-tickets-to-ted-nugent\/","title":{"rendered":"Win Tickets to Ted Nugent!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ted-nugent-07012026v1.jpg\" alt=\"Register for a chance to win tickets to Teg Nugent at the Effingham Performance Center on Friday, July 17th\" width=\"1024\" height=\"538\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41590 additional-class\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ted-nugent-07012026v1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ted-nugent-07012026v1-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/ted-nugent-07012026v1-768x404.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ted Nugent<\/strong> is coming to the <strong>EPC<\/strong> on Friday, July 17, bringing his prodigious talent, ear-shattering volume, and stage antics that earned him the moniker of <em>Motor City Madman!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ted knew early on that he wanted to pursue the same type of sound and attitude as his influencers, Chuck Berry and Bo Diddly. Early bands paved the way for the Amboy Dukes, and it was a feisty cover of the Dukes&#8217; psychedelic <em>Journey to the Center of the Mind<\/em> that kicked Young Ted&#8217;s career into hyper drive.<\/p>\n<p>Cranking out hits like <em>Cat Scratch Fever<\/em>, <em>Just What the Doctor Ordered<\/em>, <em>Free for All<\/em>, and the iconic <em>Stranglehold<\/em>, Nugent earned a permanent place in rock &amp; roll history as the ultimate guitar-shredding showman, selling more than 40 million albums and performing over 6,900 high-octane live shows.<\/p>\n<p>Register below for your chance to win a pair of tickets to see Ted Nugent at the Effingham Performance Center on Friday, July 17. 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