Baby Please Don’t Go/I Feel Free/Young Love/Psalms Of Aftermath/Colours/Let’s Go Get Stoned/Down On The Philips Escalator/The Lovely Lady/Night Time/Its Not True/Gimme Love
Eponymous debut album from the Detroit hard rock group The Amboy Dukes that just dented the US album chart. The band launched the career of seventies heavy metal axe man Ted Nugent. (US:183)
“This is a decent and consistently fun hard psych album, very similar to MC5 but never quite as wild or intense. It is formative Nugent, with a healthy dose of his legitimately exciting guitar playing, and in light of his later history the album's supreme drugginess adds an extra layer of entertainment.”
“The album kicks off well with a young Ted Nugent showing show flair on the blues staple Baby Please Don't Go. He also fires off some lightning fast jazzy runs on The Lovely Lady. There are some hippy trippy moments with sitar appearing on Psalms Of The Aftermath and the sing-a-long Let's Go Get Stoned, which is totally at odds with Nugent’s straight-edged drug stance.”
“The first Amboy Dukes album comes with the heaviest psychedelia that could be done in 1967, featuring an adolescent Ted Nugent on guitar, who already starts showing something of his axe riffs here.”
“It's an excellent psych album; blues based rock tinged with garage feeling, and Nugent's ever present guitar, sometimes fuzz based. There are a few covers, but done competently and with enough of their own input to really keep your interest. The originals are definite products of those times, with excellent period flavour with even some sitar on Psalms Of Aftermath.”
“The debut album by The Amboy Dukes should be high on collectors' lists. Fusing the psychedelia with Hendrix style riffs and British pop, the band which launched the legend of Ted Nugent, has surprises galore in these lost grooves. This is a far cry from Cat Scratch Fever, and that's why fans of psychedelia and '60s music should cherish this early diamond.”
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