You can’t cancel me,” rocker Ted Nugent said, referencing a canceled concert in Birmingham.
that week on his social media accounts, calling his detractors “liars & haters drunk on stupid incapable to debate me.” Nugent’s supporters then launched a social media wave of their own, posting hundreds of comments on the rocker’s Facebook page and Twitter feed, praising him and bashing Avondale Brewing.
Nugent had mentioned the Mississippi date on Facebook, shortly after the Birmingham show was canceled. However, it took about two weeks for the venue toand for tickets to go on sale via Ticketmaster. As of Monday afternoon, seats remained available for about half of the house at City Hall Live, mostly at the back and sides of the venue.
In his May 12 video about the controversy, Nugent called the folks who opposed the Birmingham show “just the lunatic fringe, some serpents, you know, they slithered out from underneath the rock, I think six or seven of them.” He also refuted the comments detractors had made, saying they were “100 percent false.”
The July 18 concert in Birmingham was the only Alabama date announced for Nugent’s farewell tour. In a video announcing the tour, Nugent proclaimed himself a “political firestorm” and added that “my music is radical; my attitude is radical, my middle finger is radical; my guitar tone is radical.”Nugent, a longtime outdoorsman, is an outspoken advocate for hunting and gun ownership rights.
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