The Stagehands Smoked In Ted Nugent's Dressing Room

June 3, 1994. Lynyrd Skynyrd, Ted Nugent, and Ian Moore at the Zoo Amphitheatre.

Big summer show. Big production. Tight camps.

And then the mistake.

Before the show, stagehands went into Nugent’s dressing room and smoked weed. The tour manager walked in, caught the smell, and lost it. Ted is famously anti-weed. It wasn’t just a bad look. It was disrespectful.

They almost got fired.

Different dressing rooms, different rules. The Skynyrd camp had their own traditions. The urn placed on Billy Powell’s white piano. That piano was treated like royalty. First off the truck. Last back on. Tuned carefully, protected from the summer heat, never touched once it was set.

Outdoor shows with a grand piano in Oklahoma heat? That’s its own battle.

One dressing room mistake. One furious tour manager. One heavy summer show that could’ve gone sideways fast.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

So June third, ninety-four, Skinner, uh Ted Nugent, and Ian Moore at the Zoo Amphi Theater. Awesome summer show.

SPEAKER_01 0:09

Ian Moore, he's another one. Isn't this the one that you know that the cat took a liking to? And I mean, in our time of listening to radio, he was and you know, he's still rel he's he still plays today. He got away from his whole set that made him what he was. Well, but now he's uh So Max, I have a question about this show.

SPEAKER_00 0:29

Isn't this the show that we got in trouble from the tour manager because the stage hands had gone in the dressing room before the show and smoked some weed in Ted's dressing room? And the and the tour manager came in there and was so mad because it smelled like weed in Ted's dressing room, and Ted's very anti-weed.

SPEAKER_01 0:46

Oh, yeah. Remember that? Yeah. I mean, we almost got fired, but they needed us. Way to go, stage hands.

SPEAKER_00 0:52

So yeah, and you know, and they'd gone over the other dressing room, it'd probably have been just fine. Skinner wasn't like that. But Ted Ted's always been that way. Always it's very disrespectful.

SPEAKER_01 1:05

I mean, you know, that's the one that shows he is too, though. It's okay. I mean, the Skinner camp was very tight-knit about uh that was when they had that urn that they pulled out.

SPEAKER_00 1:18

Yeah, they put on the Billy Powell on the piano on the white piano, yeah. And uh remember the piano was the first thing to come off the truck and the last thing to go on. Heavy because they went everywhere with that grand piano. Thank God it wasn't a stretch. Yeah, I mean and you know, and and that's another thing is is they doing outdoor shows with the piano in the summer, keeping the piano in tune is is an issue. And and having a a piano tutor.

SPEAKER_01 1:46

Finding a piano tutor is an issue. Well, and having them come to, you know, last minute like that, that's a pretty penny.

SPEAKER_00 1:53

Yeah, because if if you tune it at at ten o'clock, that's that doesn't mean it's in in tune, even if no one touches it or moves it. Yeah, you know, and once and once the piano is set, it's set. You don't go anywhere near it, you don't touch it, you don't bump it.

unknown 2:08

Yeah.