Ted Nugent recently talked about a deeply emotional experience he had during a live performance. He shared the story in a video published on YouTube.
The rock legend described what happened while performing his classic song “Great White Buffalo.” He explained how the weight of current events and the energy of the crowd overwhelmed him unexpectedly and powerfully.
“Last night when I was singing Great White Buffalo, I’m looking in the eyes of the music lovers and I felt an energy pulse and I always feel an energy pulse but because of the horrible conditions of the politics, the corruption, the infringements on our second amendment, the censorship on our first amendment, the open borders by our own government bringing in millions of people chanting death to America in Seattle, bare naked men with their penises out parading on the street and parents bringing their little boys and girls to watch fat naked men on the streets of Seattle,” Nugent said.
He then described how the music became a place of refuge and clarity. This led to a moment when he felt that he had left his own body.
“Even though my music is a sanctuary and none of those images existed, but when I’m singing Great White Buffalo, I’m realizing that we got to listen everybody to what I got to say. There’s hope for tomorrow if we wake up today. And I left my body. I sang I am the Buffalo, a superstar. Who in the hell do they think they are? Above the canyon walls, strong eyes did glow. It was the leader of the land. It was the great white buffalo. And he found the battered herd. And he led him across the land with the great white buffalo. The spirit God, we will make a final stand,” he continued.
Nugent further described the emotional reaction he shared with the audience. He then drew a deeper symbolic meaning from the moment.
“And I’m telling you, I was covered in goosebumps and tears were flowing down my face. And I’m looking at people who are crying with me because they are the great buffalo. We are the great buffalo. It’s a mystical beast of lore, of legend, where when things get horrible, there’s a buffalo in us that looks for a storm, that is not afraid of the storm, that doesn’t run from the storm. We charge into the storm. And America is in a storm. Be the great white buffalo,” he said.
