Watch: TED NUGENT Performs With NIGHT RANGER In Jackson, Michigan

Ted Nugent joined NIGHT RANGER on stage this previous Saturday (Might 25) at at Optimist Ice Area in Jackson, Michigan to carry out the DAMN YANKEES tune “Coming Of Age” and the Nugent traditional “Cat Scratch Fever”. Video of Ted‘s look will be seen under (courtesy of the Shor’Line YouTube channel).

DAMN YANKEES was the Nineties supergroup that each Nugent and Blades have been a part of, alongside STYX‘s Tommy Shaw and Michael Cartellone.

Throughout a March 2023 look on SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Shaw was as soon as once more requested about the potential of a reunion of the DAMN YANKEES. He responded: “I believe we form of ran that factor till the wheels fell off of it. And I might like to simply hold it like that. It was a implausible run. It was simply wild and wooly. We made these two data. The primary file, that was the shit. The second file, it simply began to lose the factor that it had on the primary album. And I believe all people else knew that it was in all probability time to return to your common job.”

Pressed about whether or not he could be open to revisiting DAMN YANKEES for a one-off tour or live performance, Shaw stated: “Michael is a everlasting fixture in LYNYRD SKYNYRD, and DAMN YANKEES with out Michael Cartellone simply would not be proper. And we [in STYX] do 90 to 120 exhibits a yr, and you need to go house a while. It is like having two wives, your two households.

“So far as I am involved, we had our day. We had massive data, we offered loads of data, we obtained loads of airplay, and I simply do not know the way we’d have the ability to match all that in,” Tommy defined. “I would not wanna inform the blokes in my band [STYX], ‘Sorry, guys. We will not play any exhibits for a couple of months.’ ‘Trigger that is what all people needs to do.”

DAMN YANKEES shaped in 1989 and launched two albums, an eponymous debut and the 1992 follow-up “Do not Tread”. Hit singles included “Come Once more”, “Excessive Sufficient” and “Coming Of Age”.

DAMN YANKEES has reunited twice since its early-’90s heyday — in 1998 and 2010.

In 1999, A&R guru John Kalodner tried to reunite the DAMN YANKEES for a brand new album for the Portrait Information imprint, however Shaw‘s commitments to STYX prevented him from taking a significant half within the writing and the recording. Kalodner later informed Melodic Rock in regards to the aborted effort: “I did not suppose it was fairly ok, and on the time with 80’s fashion rock, you’d should provide you with one thing fairly spectacular. I used to be disenchanted within the file largely due to Tommy Shaw‘s non-participation. I say that was in all probability the best downside. Tommy was completely an integral a part of it. He was busy with STYX and it was form of my mistake as a result of I simply could not management him. It is a kind of initiatives that I failed on. I imply the buck stops right here. It lacked the enter of Tommy Shaw.”

Shaw beforehand mentioned a hypothetical DAMN YANKEES reunion throughout a June 2020 look on “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”. On the time, he stated: “Effectively, we by no means broke up… We’re all nonetheless better of associates. [So] who is aware of? It is onerous, as a result of with STYX, we work a lot, and to try this [a DAMN YANKEES reunion], it could imply placing [the members of STYX] out of labor for some time. So it is a robust one. However each infrequently, we wind up on the identical stage.”

Requested if he feels there may be some “unfinished enterprise” with DAMN YANKEES creatively and whether or not he wish to do a file or a tune with the band to “put a button on it,” Shaw stated: “Effectively, we will all the time do extra. I do not suppose you may ever put a ‘we’re achieved’ button on any of the members of the DAMN YANKEES. Who is aware of? By no means say by no means. And we’ve not stated by no means.”