Despite those differences, Morello recently told Howard Stern that he and Nugent are good friends. For his 60th birthday, someone reached out to me and said we re making a video and we re asking guitar players [to say something nice]., Morello recalled. At the time, the Ted Nugent which was sort of known in the world in general was this kind of right wing caricature people were not thinking of him first and foremost as the guy who shredded on Stranglehold. . But then I had to think, what is the video that I m going to make for Ted s birthday? I put some thought into it, and I said, it s going to be about two things. One, Things That Tom Morello and Ted Nugent Have in Common, and I went down this long list of [things like] free speech advocates, our love of rock n roll, our respect for black artists who created rock n roll.