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  • Why didn't they splice the audio in from the album version to fix this dreadful audio quality? WHY UPLOADER WHY!?

  • Dreadful just dreadful.

  • @knowledgeiswatsup......U SUCK!......THAT ISWATSUP and youre a looser!!!!!

  • i boned 4 of those chicks back in the day. No joke.

  • @BeyondNeptune ted nugent had to stand in line behind me...

  • dang prince vallium is burnin those drums up! lol

  • These guys suck. No wonder I never heard of them! Corny name too! Some acts are only good for the time when they came - if that.

  • This drummer was soooo great!!

  • the go-go dancing kinda kills the tune

  • Who are the Go Go dancers? Anyone know?

  • i wish their guitars were plugged in, but the girls are hot

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  • Ted Nugent = FLAMER

  • very dark riffs

  • @luap1236

    i can see strings but no cord. its proly because thats on of few color cameras from 1968

  • I'm just in love with the brunette Go-Go girl up front. Was there music playing, as well? There must have been. She was dancing. ...oh,........yeeeeeeeh.......­. ;-)

  • @luap1236 i also don't see any cords from his guitar... they didn't have wireless back then. lol

  • He has strings on the guitar. They can be seen at 1:34. I know because this library computer stops the video every 20 seconds. I remember seeing a poster for an Amboy Dukes show, on a telephone pole, in Georgia in 1971. I've wished I had gone to the concert ever since, even though this song is not too fantastic.

  • The drummer keeps up with Ted about as well as Mitch Mitchell keeps up with Jimi Hendrix, but otherwise Ted was in a league of his own in this group-- "a big fish in a small pond"

  • @notfragile33 The bassist is a monster!  Listen to that bass line.

  • @jchapman1975 Well, every Michigan band had a halfway-decent bass player, didn't they? All disciples of the great Motown bass players...

  • @notfragile33 Yes, no argument here. Greg Arama was in Ursa Major with Dick Wagner (The Frost?) after the Amboy Dukes, and they had one great album that was loaded with great bass lines.

  • @jchapman1975 Don't forget Don Honaker (Bob Seger System), Mel Schacher (The Mysterians, Grand Funk Railroad), Gordy Garris (The Frost)--Michigan was the bass player capital of the world

  • Ted's about the longest haired guy I've ever seen wear a Beatles' suit!

  • Can some one put the recorded album version of this on youtube?!?!?!?!?

  • The world needs more funky dancing babes and groovy rock bands!!!

  • how did nuge avoid vietnam?

  • @Mookytc According to an interview he gave in High Times magazine back in the late 70s, Ted crapped in his pants for a week to convince the draft board he was nuts. NOW he says the interview was a joke but the question remains, if one is of enlistment age and supports a particular war, does one not have an obligation to go fight?

    Ted is a chicken hawk just like Gene Simmons, another right wing loudmouth who could have fought in 'Nam (or in Israel, where he was born) but chose not to go.

  • @librarianeric interesting...like to read that article. Will search around for it.

  • @librarianeric Yeah, but he played a great guitar, while Simmons is an asshole.

  • TODAYS MUSIC SUCKS...WHERES MY FUCKIN TIME MACHINE

  • fantastic groove and love teds guitar playing on this.

  • gotta be Ted Nugent playin that Gibson Byrdland man....

  • LOL - this is utter rubbish.

  • @MissEgasMoniz ....youre an utter douchebag. if u dont like a video, then why the hell would u watch it?

  • i thought this was november 1967

  • the amboy dukes fffnn rocked

  • the go go girls are like wtf how are you supposed to dance to this

  • This is AWESOME, Imagine Amboy Dukes vs Blue cheer, the winner will face Deep purple mack 1

  • Little known fact...but that was Dick Cavette on drums.Ted Nugent also went on to become the president of Mary Kay cosmetics.Great tune!

  • Ted Nugent wasn't into drugs, he was into killing for food and pussy.

  • wow, Ted Nugent looks like a pretty scary goon here...lol

  • Fantastic post!!! The legend 'Rusty Day' voc's. r.i.p. Thx 4 sharing.

  • I only know the amboy dukes from the nuggests Lp with "Baby Please don't go"..really surprised by this song its great..Buffalo Springfield had that great song "for what its worth" yet when i listened to their other stuff i wasn't as impressed (maybe need to apply the "play it more principal!")..the amboys are really cool here and you can see why Ted Nugent went on to bigger things..

  • I love this song but I think they based Austin Powers off the lead singer

  • Ted Nugent: An innovative guitar player and proof that drugs make you stupid.

  • look at dave palmer. what a trooper

  • haha, Ted Nugat...:-)

  • I was a Ted fan with the typical Cat Scratch Fever stuff.. When I heard this song on the Dr. Slingshot collection, that was it. I was hooked. Ted belongs in the same room with Page, Beck, Clapton, Hendrix.. He brought just as much to the party.

  • @thisismike2 he wouldn't make a pimple on jimmy pages ass.he's a pompous over confidant hiprocite.the first dukes stuff says TN but whose doing the great vocals?i bet 99% don't know.

  • @nomiclas i can tell u. john drake has the deep voice which steve farmer sings along to in a high octave. meanwhile the piano man andy solomon is singing in the backround to create a very soft (but still high pitched) vocal which harmonizes beautifully when the 3 of them get it down. btw in the video where they 'mime' to journey to the center of the mind, youlll notice ted lip syncing in the second verse. this doesnt make sense seeing as how he doesnt sing on any of the first 3 albums

  • @nomiclas oh and by the way im only 16

  • @queencityavenue i'm impressed!are you into the music heavy?i was hooked at 13 yrs.that was 1961.thanks for the bio also.ROCK ON!

  • @nomiclas oh hell yeah! i heard journey to the center of the mind on the radio once and became an instant fan. when they did those all request hours, i would call in and ask them to play amboy dukes songs, but they only had journey. so i ordered a copy of the album, and then i found their first album in a little music store. i took it one step further by writing steve farmer a letter and he wrote back!

  • @queencityavenue if it makes any difference TN has property in Irons about 30 miles from where i live and the locals consider him a real ass.do you have Marriage On the Rocks?it's got a couple scathing guitar riffs complete with feedback.

  • @thisismike2 - TED DOESN'T EVEN BELONG IN THE BATHROOM WITH PAGE, BECK, CLAPTON, OR HENDRIX. YOU OBVIOUSLY AREN'T MUSICALLY INCLINED. PITY!

  • @HEARTHEANGELSVOICES , Since, at various times, Page, Beck, Clapton, and Hendrix spent time in the bathroom getting stoned out of their minds, I'd have to agree with you.

  • @thisismike2 Don't forget about Dave Edmunds of the British band Love Sculpture also.

  • @thisismike2 I agree in that Ted's not mentioned as much as he should be. A local station here says that "Stranglehold" gets the most requests a day. More than a Led Zeppelin song?! I also saw Ted last year play in a dripping hot club here and everyone thought he sounded as good as the old days. As here and with "Journey To The Center of the Mind", the bass and guitar is wicked even though the lead vocals have that mid-60s sound. It's not like the Monkees, lol.

  • @thisismike2 Not only do these songs stand up but Ted has a brain. Ted should be president for Chrissakes.....

  • Damn!!! This is Amazing!!!!

  • This is absolutely superb, Ted Nugent is a fantastic guitar player, a true legend!!! I thought the drummer was great too!

  • A boring and late pseudo acid rock pastiche

  • He absolutely was inthe hendrix,clpton land, but like alot of american guitarist, hadnt cranked it in those days yet, also, ted always seemed to use hi wattage fender stuff in those days, ever tried breakin up a twin?they are very loud, thats what we were looking for when we built em!

  • Thats a sideways sounding little song, kinda creeps along like a snake, woulda made a good b side to something,.

  • sew ted at the toledo sports arena for the first time in 77, with a band called bee bop deluxe, and a local group called the raisin band. and i got to tell you he kicked ass then and he still rocks now. politics aside, the nuge is a rock & roll legend, and a credit to the lower great lakes region.

  • This song was written after Drake (singer) was drafted into the Army. I got to see them open for Hendrix!

  • @PopeFlores2 did he actually go into the army?

  • @posthumanhero I believe so but he was stateside. The draft messed up a lot of lives back then.

  • This song was written after Drake (singer) was drafted into the Army. I got to see them open for Hendrix!

  • The Duke's gee... my record collection seems to be missing this one. Oh heck the video on my computer beats that old sound of those 45rpm anyway. Am going to get the name of who posted this and subscribe there for sure then.

  • Ted's way ahead of most 1960s guitarists here

    -he's really more in the Hendrix, Clapton, Page category.

  • Happy Birthday EJO - Now get out your tambourine big guy.

  • Loves the dresses the dancers are wearing! They were easy to make. Back then, you could make a miniskirt or even a mini dress with a remnant of a bolt of fabric for under $2.

  • i dont 100% agree with his politics...but LORD HAVE MERCY...the nuge fucking rips that geee tar apart

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  • Anybody know the name of the chick dancing next to the drummer?

  • @ASFLLM

  • Im sure glad The Nuge didnt stay with this kind of music.

  • haha, that doesn't look anything like nugent. Groovy song tho

  • Nice Suit, Nuge.

  • Teds a neo-fascist Kunt. In the words of Val Kilmer's

    Doc Hiliday "I'm shua I hate 'em"!

  • @Jimfowler44 fuck you

  • @Jimfowler44 But you like his music..

  • Brilliant.

  • ted amped himself up for this performance by drinking a tall glass of cunt juice tapped from each of the go go girls twats

  • ted milked also all of them, lactate-a-go-go was popular in De Twat

  • @bellydweller lmao

  • Excuse me but Hendrix was doing things like that on guitar before Ted. I'm not taking anything away from Ted. He's a great guitarist.

  • Different style, boys. Ted and Jimmy were contemporaries. Both were great, Ted still is. Had Hendrix had anywhere near the resistance to drug use that Nugent has displayed, maybe we could still bee enjoying his live p[erformances, too.

  • @BigAlum -- Hendrix was murdered by the CIA. Ever notice how anyone who becomes a public figure that has the power to move people closer to a groovy oneness suddenly gets whacked?

  • great tight playing with unsually time signatures

  • I love the psychedelic era music, and Ted sure held his won as an acid rock guitarist. Too bad he is such an a-hole.

  • I object to chickenhawk nugent wrapping himself in the flag and taking the hypocritical position of the right wingers.. After i got out of army I retuned to Ann Arbr in Jul69. I turned against the Vietnam War,, listened to John Sinclair's free concerts on Sundays, the MC5, and the UP. Ted wraps himself in the American flag and advocates the right wing crap you just railed against:."...think false pride and Government manulipulation ...."

  • @fjcivdawg Loved the comment to BobLIskey.... about Nam. Did he even go to that war??? He only said that when he was discharged from the Army. If all the Boys that fought in WWII thought like that Bob asshole... America would be speaking Japanese or German. Bravo my friend!!!

  • Thanks for letting me know Bob. I didn't know Ted supported the wars for oil like Bush & Obama does. Our brave vets were killed & maimed in Vietnam & Korea for the same worthless pieces of excrement who shipped our factories to the chinese commies. Now Al Gore & the globalist bankers want to carbon tax us to death to finish us off economically.

  • Ted kicks ass..always has, which is clearly evident by this 1968 performance. Could be my favorite solo by him. This song is too good.

  • What type of guitars are they playing? Looks like 12 strings.

  • Gibson Byrdland I believe

  • amazing Song!

  • it's a bitch to have values .eh! godiva????

  • I gotta think Nuge probably had his way with a majority of those "go-go dancers!"

  • @Analogger hahahah my thought exactly

  • @Analogger  I would have liked to.

  • Awesome!!!

    Grandma Mary

  • Dave Palmer was the best drummer Nugent ever had.

  • Ted peaked with the Dukes! Any moron can write Cat Scratch Fever! Beware of people who love guns more than animals!!!

  • Be aware of those that want to take your guns away!

  • He is a cure for stupid frustrated unhappy people!!!

    He is the Only cure for stupidity on our planet!!

    I am living proof!!

  • I wonder if Nugent still has that suit.....

  • With frontman RUSTY DAY ( deceased ) later with boogie hard rock band CACTUS. Gotta check 'em out people! Nice raw vocals....great stuff!

  • You've got me thinking - not to take anything at all away from Jim McCarty, who (STILL) is an ace guitarist - what would have Cactus been like with TED in the band?!?

  • great bass lines by Greg Arama as well! This shit wouldn"t be easy to play even now, some nice changes in this one

  • Incredible song! Ted has never been better than he was with the Amboy Dukes. And the go go girls rules!

  • man whats with the negativity every one settle down and enjoy the music if you dont like the music leave and dont post ridiculous comments on the page you make yourself look like an immature child

    comments on the music this is great never heard anything quite like it for the times lots of psychedelic sounds back then to bad the music today dosnt sound like this awell stuck in the past peace brothers and sisters and no more negativity its no good for you

  • they sound exactly the same live and modified

  • I can bet the people who are making bad comments on this video and music were born in the 70's. They did not experience the changes happening in music in the 60's. I bet they also liked "what was his name, you know the guy who killed himself and everyone thought he was so much like John Lennon. You know the original grunge god....! Wake up kids! The sixties and seventies shaped the music. You cannot say the music of today, because most of it is crap.

  • Amen! Too bad Nugent turned out to be a right wing jerk.

  • @GodivaAddict Ted rules.

  • @durbinjoseph I know i cant think of that dudes name either from nirvana...Must not be important enough to remember..

  • @durbinjoseph Yeah, I'm only 15, and I hate all new music. I listen to The Who, Led Zeppelin, The Ramones, AC/DC, The Rolling Stones, and of course... Ted Nugent. If I could go back in time, I'd beat the the shit out of Kurt Cobain before he had a chance to start his shitty band and ruin music.

  • @defleppardfan69 Don't forget Black Sabbath my friend!!!! And fuck Kurt Cobain

  • @111loriann How silly of me. As long as you stick to just Sabbath, not the solo Ozzy who got weird on us in the 80s.

  • @durbinjoseph this is phenomenal.!!!! and i agree with your comments about the born on date timeline. that era created all of the sounds that they use today. (except for the gangsta rap shit) bravo my friend!!!

  • @durbinjoseph I wish Smokey would disable the comments.

  • @durbinjoseph dude, i cannot agree more with what you said. i should also mention that im only 15, and i figured out for myself that modern music is garbage. now i stick to music from the 60s 70s and 80s (with the Amboy Dukes and the Ramones being my 2 favorite bands).

  • @durbinjoseph got that right! I was born in 57 and 'rocked" early in life. The 60's and 70's were truly an amazing time in music history. Little or no technology available and no other style of music like it to use as a reference. 100% original and every song seemed to break new ground in some way by all the bands of that time. Imagine what we would be listening to if bands like this "underground" (LOL!) had never come along.

  • @durbinjoseph I agree 100% with you. With all the manufactured beats, these kids wouldn't know HOW to come up with something on their own. Just press a button, move a cursor, adjust a couple of fake knobs on a computer and let it do it for you.

    That's fucking music ? WTF.

  • @durbinjoseph I feel the same way and I was born in 1978!

  • @durbinjoseph I'm technically a baby boomer (1964) but i think there has been great music in every decade. Sometimes you have to hunt for it or takes time to develop. I certainly know what you mean as far as mass music culture goes and there I agree. There's still great music and it all builds on itself and on and from it's own crazy history i think. This video is practically a different world though and certainly one many don't personally remember. I didn't hear Amboy Dukes till mid to 70's

  • Ted had incredible skills for this era ... not many players had that kind of control over their feedback in '68.

    Ted was, and is, an underated & under appreciated player.

  • You say you're a pervert pedophile, and a sociopath asshole?

    Sorry to hear it.

  • Go-go girls. Didn't Charlie Manson have go-go girls?

  • this is groovy

  • Dig This

  • Nugent was definitely one of the coolest looking, and best guitarists of this time. Too bad his uber Alpha Male tendencies got the best of his initial rad-ness.

  • But he looks so hot in that suit,.. yes, a suit!! Too much ego nowadays.

  • That drummer is awesome!

  • i didn't know right wing whackos could play music. probably a genetic evolutionary abberation.

  • .. Actually, Lee Atwater was supposedly another great guitarist .. or at least good enough to jam on more than one occasion with B.B. King..

  • I also like Ted's solo work from the mid 80's. In my opinion it was a whole lot better than that Cat Scratch Fever stuff he did.

  • Uncle Ted should've stuck with this sound. Really he should stick with the music and leave the political bullshit alone but that's another story. lol; Who knows what music would've sounded like today if the Amboy Dukes stayed together?

  • I have a hunch that early Ted Nugent had a bit of an influence on Tony Iommi.

    Check out - 0:47 - 1:10 ...

    A very Black Sabbath like vibe.

  • indeed, probably explains why I've been listening to the solo about 1000 times in row.

  • That lead singer is cute. I like this band. Its cool to see Ted so young and ripping on a psychedelic song!

  • Great video! The Amboy Dukes were one of the best 60's U.S. psych bands of all time.

  • yeah ted was only in a psychedelic rock group because he needed the cash. his ego is as big as the mountain

  • Yes ladies and gentlemen, pop music has de-evolved.

    Blame bass players for not keeping up.

  • GX999->"Yes ladies and gentlemen, pop music has de-evolved.

    Blame bass players for not keeping up. "

    My sentiments... exactly. What happened to bass players like Paul McCartney, Geezer Butler & Tom Kriss (Grand Funk)?

    So few modern bassists use the instrument to add depth to the song.

    Get with it bassists ... Nikki Sixx made all of you lazy!

  • HAHA!!!! My teacher was in the Amboy Dukes.. Steve Farmer. :) He plays Rhythm guitar and sings.. He got kicked out of the band for being a bad influence on their music style

  • Incredible video, with girls and everything. You should have been there to understand what it all was about. And this is no mellow 60's.

  • This great and I agree it's too bad Ted is such a dickhead now, The Amboy Dukes had a good run there for awhile. Classic

  • Early Nuge at his best. Rock On!! Nice to see Byrd #1 in action also.

  • i agree, too bad he's such an asshole.

  • Wow, some real early metal guitar here from the Nuge.

  • Is that Alice Cooper strumming that Gibson?

  • Heavy business!

  • great video, thank's

  • it's a shame ted didn't do drugs. he'd probably be right up there with hendrix and page had he listened to his bandmates.

  • please explain

  • ....yeah,and maybe he wouldn't be an annoying asshole like he is today.

  • One fuggin EXCELLENT song.....

  • Scuseme for being ignorant and you can all say why the fuck did you watch this you little piece of stinking crap, but I checked it out cause I wanted to know about the sound of these band.All I have to say is that it is disturbing, Nugent band was awsome and the darkest sound ever gotten but this I don't like, mainly cause of the dancers in the middle of the band why aren't they in the background or in another side of the room the music doesn't seems apealing to me with those girls in there.

  • Fuck all these people bitching about politics and Nugent himself. Just sit back and enjoy the music, that's what I say.

  • i love the stooges and MC5 as much as the next guy, but i think the SRC and Amboy Dukes get very little respect and i think they are just as good in their own way.

  • Love the drumming!!

  • All I can say Is I would be happy with one tenth of the hot babes that Uncle Ted has had in his life starting with some of those Go Go dancers and ps Ted is still great ,I played a festival in Germany last month and he was the headliner and he kicked BUTT,He is an ICON

  • That drummer is kickin ass!

  • So true....

    Convincing playback performance ♫

    especially the drummer makes it work.♣