Ted Nugent - Center Coliseum, Seattle, Wa. May 15th, 1980 (Remastered, Live On Broadcasting) '2025

Tracks list

	Tracklist:

1. Motor City Madhouse (Live) (08:32)
2. Stormtroopin (Live) (04:54)
3. Wango Tango (Live) (08:27)
4. I Got to Move (Live) (02:43)
5. Free for All (Live) (07:47)
6. Lights on and Nobody's Home (Live) (05:50)
7. Hard as Nails (Live) (06:35)
8. Violent Love (Live) (04:48)
9. Dog Eat Dog (Live) (05:46)
10. Great White Buffalo (Live) (11:43)
11. Cat Scratch Fever (Live) (05:12)
12. Just What the Doctor Ordered (Live) (10:30)
13. Wang Dang Sweet Poontang (Live) (06:57)
14. Guitar Solo (Live) (06:26)
15. Stranglehold (Live) (11:28)
16. Scream Dream (Live) (06:04)


 moreBorn on December 13, 1948, in Detroit, Michigan, Nugent became
interested in rock & roll early in the game, picking up the guitar as a
youngster, while his disciplinarian father passed his beliefs down to Nugent. In
the '60s, Nugent formed his first bands (including Royal High Boys and Lourdes),
drawing inspiration from such British blues-rockers as the Rolling Stones and
the Yardbirds. But it wasn't until the formation of the Amboy Dukes that the
Nuge got his first taste of stardom (it was also around this time that Nugent
began playing a Gibson Byrdland guitar, a model that would be instantly
associated with him throughout his career). The other members of the group
didn't exactly share Nugent's clean-living lifestyle, as proven by their
psychedelic hit single "Journey to the Center of the Mind," which Nugent claimed
he didn't know at the time was about being "under the influence." The band
managed to issue several albums throughout the late '60s -- 1967's self-titled
debut, 1968's Journey to the Center of the Mind, and 1969's Migration -- as the
group fit in well with other high-energy rock bands that emerged from the Motor
City, the MC5 and the Stooges in particular.

With bandmembers coming and going at an alarming rate, Nugent remained the only
constant member -- eventually officially changing the band's name to Ted Nugent
& the Amboy Dukes by the '70s, and issuing 1971's Survival of the Fittest,
1973's Call of the Wild, and 1974's Tooth, Fang & Claw. While none of these
releases exactly stormed the charts, Nugent and his cohorts remained an
in-demand concert draw, as he also set up "guitar duels" on-stage around this
time (battling with MC5's Wayne Kramer and Mahogany Rush's Frank Marino, among
others).

By the mid-'70s, Nugent decided to finally ditch the Amboy Dukes name and set
out on his own, assembling a first-rate backing band that included second
guitarist/vocalist Derek St. Holmes, bassist Rob Grange, and drummer Cliff
Davies. By 1975, the new band was signed to Aerosmith's management company
(Leber & Krebs), as well as the same record company, Columbia, resulting in the
release of Nugent's self-titled debut in November of the same year. The band
immediately struck a chord with the heavy metal/hard rock crowd from coast to
coast, due to the band's over-the-top stage show. But the bandmembers'
relationship with Nugent was rocky at best -- Nugent wanted complete control of
the band, while the others wanted it to be more of a democracy. The end result
was St. Holmes leaving the band prior to the sessions of their sophomore effort,
1976's Free-for-All (which saw a then-unknown singer by the name of Meat Loaf
filling in for the departed singer).

St. Holmes returned, however, in time for the album's ensuing tour, and by the
release of 1977's Cat Scratch Fever (which spawned the hit single title track),
Nugent and company were one of the top rock bands in the U.S. -- storming the
charts and selling out arenas coast to coast. By now, Nugent had assumed the
stage persona of a caveman -- hitting the stage dressed in nothing but a skimpy
loincloth and knee-high boots, and would often begin his show by swinging out on
a rope à la Tarzan (!). Like other rock acts of the '70s (Kiss, Cheap Trick,
Peter Frampton, etc.), Nugent used a live album -- 1978's classic Double Live
Gonzo! -- to catapult his career to the next level of stardom. But despite all
the success, the members of his band began deserting him one by one over the
course of such albums as 1978's Weekend Warriors, 1979's State of Shock, and
1980's Scream Dream. To add insult to injury, Nugent found himself bankrupt
around this time, due to several failed business ventures and poor management.

The '80s saw Nugent continuing to tour and crank out albums like Intensities in
10 Cities, Nugent, Penetrator, Little Miss Dangerous, and If You Can't Lick
'Em...Lick 'Em), but it appeared as through the Nuge was trying to keep pace
with the burgeoning pop-metal crowd instead of sticking to the raw and raging
rock that brought him success in the first place. Nugent also tried his hand at
acting around this time, appearing as a drug dealer in an episode of the hit TV
series Miami Vice in 1986. By the end of the decade, Nugent joined the rock
supergroup Damn Yankees (also featuring former Night Ranger bassist/singer Jack
Blades, former Styx guitarist/singer Tommy Shaw, and drummer Michael Cartellone)
-- resulting in the quartet's self-titled debut in 1990, which became a surprise
hit due to their Top Ten power ballad "High Enough." But ultimately, the union
proved to be short-lived; after only one more album (1992's lackluster Don't
Tread), the band called it quits.

Nugent returned to his solo career, issuing his best album in over a decade,
1995's back-to-basics Spirit of the Wild, while several archival releases turned
up throughout the '90s: 1993's three-disc box set Out of Control, 1997's Live at
Hammersmith '79, as well as his first three albums reissued with added tracks
and newly remastered sound in 1999 by the Epic/Legacy label (also issued at the
same time was the first truly comprehensive compilation of the Amboy Dukes, the
18-track Loaded for Bear). The Nuge was also the subject of an interesting VH1
Behind the Music episode. He continued to tour well into the 21st century
(landing the opening slot on Kiss' Farewell U.S. Tour in 2000), and issued the
third live collection of his career, Full Bluntal Nugity, in 2001. That same
year, the Nuge penned his own autobiography, the perfectly titled God, Guns, &
Rock n' Roll. His Spitfire-issued 12th long-player, Craveman, dropped in 2002,
followed by Love Grenade in 2007. He next embraced the digital realm by
releasing the two-disc, 30-track MP3 online song bundle Happy Defiance Day
Everyday over the 4th of July weekend in 2010. In 2014 Nugent released his 14th
studio album, Shutup & Jam!, which featured a guest appearance from Sammy Hagar,
followed by the R&B-tinged Music Made Me Do It in 2018, which reached number 24
on Billboard's Top Independent Albums chart. Three years later, Nugent released
Detroit Muscle, which was co-produced by fellow Motor City rock legend Mike Lutz
(Brownsville Station).

In addition to music, Nugent has gotten involved in politics, hosting a number
one morning radio show in Detroit; has run his own hunting camp and issues
instructional videotapes (as well as the Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild PBS video
series); owns his own hunting supply store; has been appointed to the board of
directors of the National Rifle Association; writes columns regularly for a
number of different magazines; and even sells his very own beef jerky (called
Gonzo Meat Biltong)! © Greg Prato



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