MINT IN SHRINK 1971 Orig THE AMBOY DUKES SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST TED NUGENT
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1971 ORIGINAL
SMOKING TED NUGENT & THE AMBOY DUKES ALIVE IN DETROIT
THE AMBOY DUKES
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
USA - POLYDOR 24 4035
MINTY CLEAN !!!
Original first 1971 pressing STILL IN FACTORY SHRINK WRAP features the legendary AMBOY DUKES recorded live at The Eastown Theater in Detroit, Michigan, on July 31 and August 1, 1970.
The songs on this album were like a six-string monster devouring any semblance of what passed for rock music. "Papa's Will" was like something I never even imagined. It was as spooky as it was brilliant. Ted Nugent is a survivor. Armed 'n' fuckin' ready, and high on piston-pounding, Motor City aggression, dead-eye Ted takes aim and rules with take-on-the-world confidence. Never one to hold anything back, full-throttle Nooge hit 1970 as the man-in-command of the Amboy Dukes, when the Detroit-based group kicked-out the six pack Survival of the Fittest LP. Uncle Ted wasn't about to let the lefty sixties cloud his primal take-charge onslaught as the super seventies took hold. It's all about the spirit of the wild and right to leave ears ringing for days on end, when it comes to the rustbelt's fierce six-string banshee. With a take-no-prisoners lean, Ted pushes the amps to the max and kicks serious ass. This Polydor release of Survival of the Fittest captures Nugent and company live and dangerous. Opening with the defiant title track, the concert performance is all about Ted's whackmaster axe attack, despite the bass and drum solo that bogs-down the twenty-one-minute closing "Prodigal Son". Steer clear if you can't handle Ted's gasket-blown guitar onslaught.The sound of this record brings powerfully Deep Purple to mind, especially because of the instrumental dialogue between the Nuge's guitar and the Andy Solomon's organ, Detroit's counterpart of Blackmore/Lord, at least in this LP.
"Survival of the fittest: live" is a proto heavyrock platter, with the known exacerbations of the genre: drums solo, organ solo, bass solo, wait: no guitar solo, wtf? In fact the whole album is a Ted Nugent's guitar solo, then it would be redundant I assume, whatever.
The MC Madman hunts down some fine riffs here <<<sarcasm, having good rhythm in the 6-minute title track or the subtle "Rattle my snake", and certain Sabbath-esque idiosyncrasy in the 9-minute pseudo-doom rock "Papa's will". The short heavy rock "Slidin' on" is threshold for the 21-minute behemoth that closes the LP: "Prodigal man", one of the best cuts from "Migration" (1969), which here acquires cetaceous magnitudes. This track occupies almost the whole side 2, including all the aforementioned solos, jam session, collection of riffolas, parts, self name-dropping, staccatos, walking bass, claps of the audience, fireworks, abstruse prog patterns, Farfisa's torture, Irish jokes, feedback of fuzzy guitar, timbales, sirens.
The record ends in heavy metal apotheosis ala AC/DC, featuring sustained riffage and eternizing outro. It's an entertaining album, mostly like document of this band's crudeness live and all that; highlights: "Survival of the fittest", "Papa's will", "Migration". Side One
- "Survival of the Fittest" – 6:17
- "Rattle My Snake" – 3:00
- "Mr. Jones' Hanging Party" – 4:55
- "Papa's Will" – 9:00
CONDITION: The cover: TOP MINT ...still in original factory shrink wrap (loose at bottom left seam, a bit) ...no split seams, no bends, no writing = really hard to find this black cover MINT after 41 years...
The vinyl: all glossy clean over the entire LP, M- and plays smoking clear...both Polydor labels are clean
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