Amboy Dukes Journey To Center Of The Mind Original Mainstream LP Ted Nugent

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The Amboy Dukes : Journey To The Center Of The Mind

Album Description: Classic sixties-era album cover features a drug paraphernalia collection of 36 vintage marijuana, hashish and opium pipes  The vinyl record is in clean very good condition, does have some light scratches, plays through fine, no skips. The record labels are Mainstream Records blue, white and black labels. The cover has some edge wear with clear tape restitution and corner wear/discoloration at the lower right corner. The pictures in this listing are of the actual record album you will receive. Check out our other listings for more records from this artist along with a wide variety of vinyl, CD's and more. All reasonable "Best Offers" considered. Combined shipping available worldwide. Only $.50 additional shipping for each record within the USA; only $3.00 additional shipping for each record outside the USA. We ship worldwide in secure, padded packaging. Please let us know if you have any questions for a prompt reply. Tracklist and additional album information below.

Tracklist:
1. Mississippi Murderer
2. Surrender to Your Kings
3. Flight of the Byrd
4. Scottish Tea
5. Dr. Slingshot
6. Journey to the Center of the Mind
7. Ivory Castles
8. Why Is a Carrot More Orange Than an Orange
9. Missionary Mary
10. Death Is Life
11. Saint Philip's Friend
12. I'll Prove I'm Right
13. Conclusion

Even if the Amboy Dukes had not been the band that first brought wildman guitarist Ted Nugent to national attention, the title track, Journey To The Center Of The Mind, would still be remembered as one of the all-time classic psychedelic singles. Featuring hallucinogenic lyrics matched to aggressive acid rock, the recording is not only the perfect distillation of a bad LSD trip but features the prescient line "Please understand, you might not come back." Luckily, the rest of the LP is far from filler and, despite hippie-dippie titles like "Why is a Carrot More Orange Than an Orange," is filled with sharp songwriting and heavy rock & roll that at its best sounds like Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd jamming with the MC5. (web review)

The Amboy Dukes was an American rock band formed in 1964 in Detroit, Michigan, best known for their hit single "Journey to the Center of the Mind". The band's name comes from the title of a novel by Irving Shulman. In the UK the group's records were released under the name of The American Amboy Dukes because of the existence of a British group with the same name. The band went through a number of personnel changes during its active years, the only constant being the Motor City Madman,lead guitarist and composer Ted Nugent. The band transitioned to being Nugent's backing band before he discontinued the name in 1975. The group contributed to the foundations of heavy metal and progressive rock. The group's primary genres were psychedelic rock and hard rock. Ted Nugent, the nucleus of The Amboy Dukes, was born and raised in Detroit and started performing in 1958 at age 10. He played in a group called The Royal High Boys from 1960 to 1962 and later in group named The Lourds, where he first met future Amboy Dukes lead vocalist John Drake. Nugent played with The Lourds until his family moved to Illinois, where he founded The Amboy Dukes in the Chicago area in 1964, playing at The Cellar, in the Chicago suburb of Arlington Heights, among other venues. They later relocated to Nugent's hometown of Detroit. Nugent's early guitar playing style with his signature Gibson Byrdland positioned high on his chest became an iconic playing style that visually differentiated him from other players. He combined this with his natural virtuosity and frenzied playing style on lead, adding a sonic differentiation to his unusual visual approach. This gave him an edge as a performance artist. Nugent's appreciation for his guitar inspired him to compose the song "Flight of the Byrd," which was released as a single and as part of their most popular album, Journey to the Center of the Mind. When the Amboy Dukes' self-titled debut LP appeared on the Mainstream label in 1967, it was the group's originals that became the focus, while Nugent handled the music, Farmer penned the drug-fixated lyrics, adding a psychedelic sensibility to an otherwise proto-metal sound. After a series of lineup shifts that saw White and Lober exit in favor of bassist Greg Arama and keyboardist Andy Solomon, in 1968 the Dukes issued Journey to the Center of the Mind, riding the title track into the U.S. Top 20. Vocalist Rusty Day replaced Drake in time for 1969's Migration. Marriage on the Rocks was issued later that same year. And after 1971's Survival of the Fittest Nugent dismissed Day and Solomon after Palmer left the group to accept an engineering gig. After recording a handful of albums as Ted Nugent & the Amboy Dukes, he finally dropped the group's name altogether and mounted a solo career. Nugent went on to have a successful solo career in the 1970s and joined the Damn Yankees supergroup in the late 1980s. Since the 2000s, Nugent while continuing his rock career, has been a prominent activist, both for hunting and for conservative politics. Vocalist Rusty Day joined The Detroit Wheels, replacing Mitch Ryder as lead vocalist. Under Day, that band was renamed "Detroit;" it disbanded in 1974. He then returned to his previous band, Cactus, in 1976, playing with them until 1979. After turning down offers to front AC/DC and Lynyrd Skynyrd after the deaths of those bands' respective lead singers, Rusty Day was shot dead in 1982 in a home invasion or possibly a drug deal gone bad. Bassist Rob Grange gelled with Nugent on the last two Dukes albums and went forward with him to help create the first four platinum albums of Nugent's solo career. Steve Farmer currently teaches in Redford Township, Michigan. He also performs with backing bands at various venues in and around the Detroit area. Rick Lober is a classically trained composer best known in the greater Detroit metro area for his frenetic style of keyboard playing. Since the early 1990s, he has been in and out of the studio, appearing as performer/songwriter on the Steve Farmer CD Journey to the Darkside of the Mind. He is currently working in the studio and performing live with local Detroit rock legend Jeffrey Faust and his band "The Woodsman", which performs throughout Michigan and Canada. The original Amboy Dukes (featuring Nugent, Drake, Farmer, Lober, Soloman and White) performed April 17, 2009 at the Detroit Music Awards at The Fillmore Detroit. Their performance began with the song "Baby Please Don't Go", from their 1967 debut single. Followed by "Journey to the Center of the Mind", and ending with Mitch Ryder's "Jenny Take A Ride" featuring original Ryder drummer Johnny "Bee" Badanjek. (web bio)
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