Amoeba Music

The Amboy Dukes only had one hit record — the 1968 psych rock and Nuggets perennial Journey to the Center of the Mind — but their lead guitar player was the Motor City Madman Ted Nugent, who went on to a solo career as a gonzo, loincloth-wearing, guitar-slinging rocker best known now as an advocate of bow and arrow hunting, an anti-drug spokesperson, conservative political fanatic, and reality television star. The Dukes showed off Nugent’s already considerable fretwork with an instrumental frenzy and volume, matched by few acts of the era.

Nugent was bitten by the rock and roll bug early and was playing professionally around Detroit, Michigan at the age of 11. By the time he was 13, his band the Lourds was... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Hard Rock, Psychedelic

City Of Origin:

Detroit, ,Michigan United States

Formed Date:

1965