GuitarInternational.com's Rob Cavuoto has issued a new interview with US rock legend TED NUGENT. An excerpt follows:

Q: Your musical career spans four decades. How do you stay current yet keep true to your musical style and integrity?

A: "I’m an adventurous guy and I change a lot on every LP. Let’s take my first classic solo album. I had 'Stormtroopin’' and 'Stranglehold', 'Just What the Doctor Ordered', 'Motor City Madhouse'. Definitive guitar lick theme songs of unprecedented energy and authority, dare I say, because of the unprecedented energy and authority of my band.

On that same record there is 'You Make Me Feel Right At Home', where I played the Gibson Birdland Jazz guitar as a Gibson Birdland Jazz guitar, even paying homage to the great Wes Montgomery tone and style. Cliff Davies played brushes on his drums for that song.

Nothing is sacred. I seek to blow the living shit out of any paradigm or any rules or any presumptions, and I continue to do so. There’s a song called 'Never Stop Dreaming' that I imagine you might be able to find somewhere on the Internet because I performed it at some NRA events, and I play it at a number of military charities. It’s a gushing, ballady, high-energy song. Nothing is off limits to me.

I was born at point A, and I’m gonna die way down the road at point B. In between, I’m climbing every mountain I run into and going across every valley I encounter. So, nothing is sacred and I’m surrounded with such incredible virtuosos. What my musicians inspire me to do is virtually unlimited. There’s nothing we can’t do, so we do that."

Read the full interview at this location.