Loaded For Bear

Product Description:

Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes: Ted Nugent (vocals, guitar, bass, percussion); Steve Farmer (vocals, guitar, strings); Andy Solomon (vocals, strings, piano, organ, keyboard, percussion); Rusty Day (vocals, percussion); Michael John Drake (vocals); Rick Lober (keyboards); Bill White, Greg Arama (bass); David Palmer (drums, percussion).

Includes liner notes by Gary Graff.

Digitally remastered by Vic Anesini (Sony Music Studios, New York, New York).

LOADED is a compilation CD that brings together the first three Mainstream albums by this seminal Detroit band, which combined psychedelia with loud guitar to create a unique sound.

Though in the liner notes to the group's first record, the Nuge explained that he "didn't know what those opium pipes were on the album cover," tracks like "Journey to the Center of the Mind" and "Colors" hint at a newfound awareness. The former cut, as well as the group's raucous cover of Them's "Baby Please Don't Go" were hits for the band. Nugent has always gotten high through his hunting, a habit that is the inspiration for three songs on this record, "Dr. Slingshot," "Good Natured Emma," and the rip roarin' title track. Nugent's guitar licks are inventive and exciting, especially on "You Talk Sunshine, I Breathe Fire" and "Migration," the latter of which is an instrumental featuring the heavy-metal soloing for which Nugent would later become famous. This CD is an excellent companion piece to Nugent's '70s material--it's a mind blower to discover the orchestral-era Moody Bluesish quality that earmarked Terrible Ted's early work.