![]() ![]() Rising star Meat Loaf supplied vocals for half of 1976's Free For All, but it was Nugent's third LP that would guarantee his superstar status. Ted Nugent, his Epic debut, was a typically over-amped affair, with a nod toward his Stones-fed blues roots - the single "Hey Baby" was basically a rewrite of Jimmy McCracklin's 1950s dance tune "The Walk" - amid a variety of other attitude-smeared rockers. In 1975, Nugent dropped the moniker and set out on a solo career that would quickly make him one of the decade's foremost hard-rock stadium attractions. An extended version of the blues standard "Baby Please Don't Go," from the previous year's self-titled debut LP, landed on the influential 1972 Nugget collection, but by then personnel changes and frustration with their stalled career had the Dukes in a terminal state. Resolutely drug-free, Nugent nonetheless supplied wailing lines to the acid manifesto. Detroit's Ted Nugent came to prominence as lead guitarist of the Amboy Dukes, the psychedelic outfit whose churning "Journey to the Center of the Mind" became a Top 20 hit in the summer of 1968.
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