Yahoo! Music, Dec 28, 2000 3:00 pm PST
(12/28/00, 3 p.m. ET) - When the clock strikes 12 on Sunday night (December 31), ushering in 2001, Ted Nugent will be onstage at the Palace Of Auburn Hills in suburban Detroit, doing the "Wango Tango"' at his annual Whiplash Bash New Year's Eve show. But this year will be a bit different than last, when Nugent ushered in the new century not as the headliner, but as the hometown host of a bill that also included Metallica and Kid Rock.
Nugent tells LAUNCH he's happy to be back headlining this year's Whiplash Bash, but he's still pleased with last year's event. "I'm a pragmatist from hell," he says. "To do my hometown with literally the hottest rock entities at the time in the world, which currently, I think, still hold their own. . .Certainly Metallica--they're just stone cold bad motherf--kers, just from sheer numbers, and I love their music. And the fact that Kid Rock was at such a peak at that point, and to actually get top billing over somebody like Kid Rock I thought was absolutely hysterical--God Damned deserved, but still hysterical."
Nugent's special guest at this year's Whiplash Bash is fellow rock veteran Sammy Hagar.
-- Gary Graff, Detroit
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