Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes - Good Natured Emma & Migration - The Show 1970 - Ted was 22 years old. THE SHOW was a production of WITF-TV, Hershey, Pennsylvania Thank you Clark Santee Video Productions
@@dennymcfastlane8530He’s retired and chillin in Texas😊 He got into computer programming years ago but got my sister and me playing music with him at a young age for fun. Definitely credit him with our passion for music!
I first saw the Amboy Dukes in 1968 at the Boca Raton Community Center in FLA when I was only 12 years old and Ted was 19!!!! It was a mind blowing experience and I was an instant fan and bought all his albums I could get my hands on !!!! And I bought some drums and started bands asap and tried to play "Migration" from the Dukes first album!!!!
I saw them in 68 myself opening for the Vanilla Fudge and back then there were only two sustain artists Ted Nugent and ofcoarse the late GREAT Jimi Hendrix
Not under rated or overlooked. Just not really that good compared to Clapton, Jeff Beck, Larry Carlton, Jimi, Rory Gallagher, John McLaughlin, Jimmy Paige, and on and on. They were just one step above a garage band. T.N. claim to fame was "LOUD".
The Amboy Dukes used to play at my high school dances back in '66 - '67! My band opened for him at a local club, at the time it was an indoor shooting range that had music on the weekends, called The Pitt! Many moons ago!
Yeah, I remember..! Back then, many of the 'Dances' had tight, well rehearsed bands that played some original numbers, but lots of covers of songs by the Kinks, Buffalo Springfield, the Stones, Beatles, Animals, Yardbirds, Manfred Man, Beach Boys, et cetera... from the midst of a real Renaissance period of Rock n Roll that developed out of the 50'sRock scene through its Blues influences; a long stretch from the 50's thru to the later Seventys..! 😉
I would have to respectfully disagree! He matured, and is much better for it. His love for rock n roll is only eclipsed by his love for hunting, wildlife, and most of all, his family and country. Ted’s heart and head are right where they should be… my opinion👍🇺🇸❤️
@@paulyabe couldn’t you spell it? Yeah, he’s right wing. And that’s a problem why? We’re experiencing what the left wing is doing to this great country. It ain’t good. 🙏🇺🇸❤️
That is what put them in the pubic eye right? I never was a bid Ted fan, but I remember that tune but no other from his Amboy Dukes years. I like some of his tunes but he is the typical 1970`s player. Pentatonic scales 100 percent of the time. Actually Ted DID play some other shit too, he experimented a little and you can hear it on the Double live album here and there.
Saw these cats in 1973 at our HS gym, I was in 9th grade and took my first ever girl friend to it. It was packed, a couple thousand at least. They were F’ing loud and awesome! Journey to the Center of the mind was the performance ending song. ❤
Draft dodging was fine during vietnam, since the war was a scam and intelligent people knew it was a deep state, military industrial complex scam to send young, unknowing boys to certain death over nothing but big military industrial complex profits....
This may be the greatest music footage I have ever seen! My "holy grail" for decades has been to find live footage of this lineup of The Dukes and to say that I am not disappointed would be a major understatement. I can barely believe that after fifty-plus years this has come to light. Is there any more?!?!?!?
This is incredible but my holy grail would be live video footage from the Call of the wild tour and Tooth fang and call tour drummer Vic Masistrani was incredible
Great group. Dave Palmer the drummer became an engineer at Electric Lady Studio and produced a group I played drums in Called The Third World. On RCA. He was a great guy Evangelist Roger Mansour former Leslie West Vagrants Drummer
This is a godsend. I’ve waited 54 years to hear these guys play live tracks from “Migration.” That album still ranks as one my greatest influences as a guitarist. No one was playing like Ted back then, yet he was totally overlooked. His rig was simple-Byrdland-cord-amp. On “Migration” he puts on a clinic for “taste, tone, and tenacity.” The only missing ingredient here is the absence of singer Rusty Day, who eventually went on to join Cactus. Too bad. He was the perfect match.
And just one tweed twin....but what a beautiful guitar and amp...where I grew up no one used effects a guitar n a twin...I bought my favorite twin a 63 in 74...still have it!!! Now I have a few vintage Marshalls and do use a delay and a couple overdrives but still love straight in...saw Ted 6 times in the 70s love his debut album...what a band and songs
@@babydaddy1930 Those 70s twins were so ungodly loud, And clean even though I could never afford one. I was a kid and got all my rock out through a 78 peavey.
I Always remember Hibernation in infamy. After this song yes , I expected Baby please don't go .... Thanks for the post of ,,, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes .
I always like hearing more Nugent licks especially ones I hadn't heard before. Nugent was a big influence in shaping my musical tastes for guitarists. His lead on 'Journey To The Center Of The Mind' is a classic among the very top rock guitar licks, in my opinion. I lived in Kalamazoo at the time so I heard lots pf it. It stayed in my head all along and I verbally mimic it for my enjoyment. *added...this music here on this video is basically progressive rock.
Proof that the Michigan / Detroit bands all listened to each other. You can hear Grand Funk, SRC, Stooges, AND the Funk Brothers in these songs. Great stuff!
ACOUSTIC Industries made the finest bass amp ever made. I love this. I know these songs from a long, long time ago. And from the Album. Thank You. GREAT! This is Pure Joy.
The Amboy Dukes.. This is when I first heard of the Nuge back in the day.. I was thrilled when he went solo.. I have lost count of the decades I have been a fan of his.. Lmbo!!! 😅🤣🤣
I LISTENED TO VANILLA FUDGE BEFORE CLICKING THIS. BOTH BANDS SOUND SIMILARLY AWESOME. I REALLY APPRECIATE THE ORGAN BEING FEATURED IN THE MIX ALONG WITH THE GUITARS/BASS/DRUMS/VOCALS.
Haven't heard the dukes in a while - in 2007 some German kids in a record shop in German Town in Chicago told me to check it out. I really dug it. They're way more psychidelic than I remember.....peace love dove
2 songs from my favorite AD album, so awesome to see rare video of Greg and Dave. As many time as I saw Ted, the first time ( St Thomas Aquinas High) both Greg and Dave had just left the band.
“Migration” is the best song they ever did. I never thought I would see live footage of it. Who knew Ted had the capacity for such a soulfull composition?
What a great performance from The Amboy Dukes, thanks for posting this vid. With the likes of who gets inducted these days to the RRHOF, Uncle Ted's exclusion doesn't hold a hill of beans to his talent and importance to rock and roll. Who needs the Hall anyway. I saw The Dukes in 1970 at The Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, it was my second concert after Alice Cooper. Saw Ted Nugent play one day, so satisfied I saw him play.
There's not much for me to say -- everybody's already said it. I've been waiting for a decent live performance of Migration since I first discovered RU-vid many years ago. This is musical nirvana. I've been a huge fan of Ted's work with the 'Dukes since seeing him as a teen at Detroit's Grande Ballroom. And Greg Arama's bass playing was far ahead of its time, too. Shame that he lost his life at such a tender age. This has been a very happy discovery for me - made my day, month & year! Thank you for posting this!
Strangely i never heard this before. Theodocius in this gem reminds me of a completely expressive individual voice between and reminiscent of Robert Fripp and Pat Metheny. Our high school senior class elected Ted Nugent class president 4 times in a row. On the 4th time the administration just gave it to the actual student who was second place. I graduated in 1980 and the disco sucks crowd sonically devoured every Ted album. From the Dukes I had only heard Journey to the center of your mind. But every solo record was essential. This video is way cool to see and hear the young Ted. Thanks for availing this band.
Wow! What an incredible lost gem. Migration has been an all-time fave of mine (and a forgotten gem by many). Rusty was obviously already in Cactus by this point, but wow…what a set. Wonderful quality too; those mono mix tv engineers knew what they were doing. Thanks for sharing this!
With 'Migration', here in 1970, I hear musical structure and tone similar to where Jeff Beck was heading to... very innovative and 'jazzy' for its time... I really like this piece of music..! 😏
Ted was NEVER a hippie. His long hair was all about MARKETING 101. For Ted, his music came 1st, and finding a way to expose his art to as many humans as possible was the goal. I love Ted Nugent. Best damn 6 string sniper alive
My dad used to call me a hippie back in the 70s and my hair was only going over my ears and barely touching my shoulders. I can't be hippy today cuz most of it fell out, who cares it would be grey anyway like so many other things you get it and then it's gone,⚡take care of yourself people and each other.✌️
Ahhh, that audience must be a generation ahead of me. They act like they are still part of the Great Society. By the time we saw Ted in1978, none of us sat still. Well, maybe it was the Cat Scratch Fever, or that Cheap Trick opened for Ted.
The Duke’s were cool, my 1st guitar teacher had me buy the live album with the collage cover… “rattle my snake”. A jam band before there was. Ted playing that jazz box. I love this type of 4 pc combo. Classic rhythm section. the bands cover stranglehold ….. I like snakeskin cowboys
I just enjoyed Nuge playing the national anthem at a Trump appearance in Michigan and it was ethereal and beyond anything the youth of today can do. I’m sure it sent them to their safe spaces!
I would love to hear Ted tell some stuff about the Amboy Dukes...Really I am a bit younger than those days, don't remember learning about Ted until Cat Scratch Fever was a hit and everybody in school was singing it. I'd love to get the story from Ted
I remember seeing Ted Nugent at the Los Angeles coliseum off road show in the 80s i rode a Honda 3 wheeler at halftime and had all the Nugent albums at that time.and still a big fan
