Ted Nugent and Radiohead work on pro-hunting musical

Following Atoms for Peace – his collaboration with Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers – Thom Yorke is believed to have lined up an even more unlikely collaboration: Radiohead are suspected to be working with Ted Nugent on a musical adapatation of the children’s book We’re Going on a Bear Hunt.

The US magazine Pool Flair reported that Nugent and Yorke had hit it off at a charity event recently, where the reputedly glum star told the US rocker that Radiohead often soundchecked with versions of his 70s hits Cat Scratch Fever and Wang Dang Sweet Poontang.

“Thom told Ted he was working on a musical based on a kids’ book and the Nuge offered to help,” a source told Pool Flair. “He went to Nuge’s hunting ranch in Texas, and goddam if it didn’t turn out he was a natural with a rifle and sights. That boy bagged him some game when he was there.”

The pair worked on the music for We’re Going on a Bear Hunt for three weeks late last year, and Yorke was apparently receptive to Nugent’s suggested changes to the plot. “In the story, right, these kids go looking for this huge momma grizzly, and when they find it, they just run,” the source said. “Nuge and Thom reckoned it would be more fun if the kids just pulled out some serious firepower and blew the damn bear away – then skinned it and brought the hide home to their folks. Nuge thought Thom would be pinko about it, but Thom thought it was hilarious.”

Source: The Guardian