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As the self-proclaimed Motor City Madman, guitarist Ted Nugent fashioned a sharply defined, not-so-noble savage persona.Growing up in Detroit, Nugent began bow-hunting at age of five and playing the guitar at eight. His first band was called the Roya
l High, followed by the Lourdes. By the time he was 14, he and the band opened for The Supremes and The Beau Brummels. The band broke up in 1965 when Nugent’s family moved to Chicago. There, he immediately formed the Amboy Dukes and released their debut that year. Though they had a local hit with Baby please don’t go in 1967, the group’s only sizeable success was Journey to the centre of the mind, the pro-drug message. The Dukes continued in various forms until 1975. Nugent tried to boost album sales staging of guitar contests against Mike Pinera (Iron Butterfly), Wayne Kramer (MC5) and Mahogany Rush’s Frank Marino.

Things moved in the right direction for Nugent once he went solo. He retained bassist Rob Grange from the Amboy Dukes. He continued to tour widely, and his music started to get airplay. The national press, amused by his cartoonish caveman image begin to write Nugent up. Even if many found his music standard heavy-metal fare, Nugent never failed to make an interesting copy. Opinionated, unapologetic and always quotable, Nugent is the anti-rock star, rock star. “I have militantly defended my quality of life and I would never compromise in the name of hipness or acceptability of my so called peers”.

Since 1980, he has served as a deputy sheriff near his home (on thousand acres of wilderness) in southern Michigan. Nugent isMore