Moocher Ted Nugent Accepts Money To Do Nothing

[lame54]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/21/ted-nugent-appearance-canceled_n_5009248.html

Rocker Ted Nugent just made big bucks to not show up somewhere.

The town of Longview, Texas paid Nugent $16,000 to not appear at the town's Fourth of July Festival. According to KLTV, a city spokesman said Nugent was "not the right feel for this kind of community event."

The city had reached a verbal agreement with Nugent, scheduling the rocker as the headliner who would play inside the Maude Cobb Convention and Activity Center during the town's Independence Day celebration. To break that agreement, the town paid Nugent half of his guaranteed performance fee of $32,000 from Maude Cobb's annual budget...

[louis-t]

1. Sorry, 'verbal agreement' is not enforceable.

They didn't owe him a thing.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

2. um... no

http://blogs.findlaw.com/law_and_life/2011/10/are-oral-contracts-enforceable.html

sP

[Katashi_itto]

9. ???

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Dammit, I'd have agreed

not to show up for half what they paid Nugent not to come.

[brucefan]

4. Surely this Patriotic

American will refuse payment on principle.

[shenmue]

5. How do I apply?

Sixteen grand to do nothing? Are they in need of a replacement?

[rocktivity]

7. Gee, if I'd devoted years and years to learning music

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trying to get a record deal, making albums and touring when I could have been booking gigs, being politically incorrect, and threatening to show up if they didn't pay up, I'd be feeling REALLY foolish right about now!!!


rocktivity

[rppper]

6. Hey, I grew up in Longview !

Glad to see someone in control has some good sense left.....

[rocktivity]

8. ... And his checks are free

rocktivity