That’s my dad on keys and singing 😃❤

Guys. Guys with skills and talent. Back in the day when you had to earn it and it was good for you.

The Amboy Dukes used to play at my high school dances back in '66 - '67! My band opened for him at a local club, at the time it was an indoor shooting range that had music on the weekends, called The Pitt! Many moons ago!

I first saw the Amboy Dukes in 1968 at the Boca Raton Community Center in FLA when I was only 12 years old and Ted was 19!!!! It was a mind blowing experience and I was an instant fan and bought all his albums I could get my hands on !!!! And I bought some drums and started bands asap and tried to play "Migration" from the Dukes first album!!!!

What an amazing band.... My all time favorite though is "Journey To The Center Of The Mind".

For those that care, this was recorded on November 12, 1969, in Hershey, PA.

Saw these cats in 1973 at our HS gym, I was in 9th grade and took my first ever girl friend to it. It was packed, a couple thousand at least. They were F’ing loud and awesome! Journey to the Center of the mind was the performance ending song. ❤

ACOUSTIC Industries made the finest bass amp ever made. I love this. I know these songs from a long, long time ago. And from the Album. Thank You. GREAT! This is Pure Joy.

Andy Solomon has an incredible Voice, I'm speechless.

You can’t make a list of best American electric guitarists of all time without Ted. Supremely underrated and overlooked.

This may be the greatest music footage I have ever seen! My "holy grail" for decades has been to find live footage of this lineup of The Dukes and to say that I am not disappointed would be a major understatement. I can barely believe that after fifty-plus years this has come to light. Is there any more?!?!?!?

Love these early music clips. Amboy Dukes, great band. Young Ted. Thanks for sharing.

That's what lots of practice can get ya. I think at that point, Ted had been playing guitar for about 10 years. Very cool! 👍

Well now that sure is a trip back some years.Awesome.

Ted was and is a guitar monster. He could do it all. So much talent. 👍🇺🇸❤️

Always loved the Amboy Dukes. Never saw that before. Super cool.

Andy was an excellent keyboard player and singer. He should have been more famous.

I always like hearing more Nugent licks especially ones I hadn't heard before. Nugent was a big influence in shaping my musical tastes for guitarists. His lead on 'Journey To The Center Of The Mind' is a classic among the very top rock guitar licks, in my opinion. I lived in Kalamazoo at the time so I heard lots pf it. It stayed in my head all along and I verbally mimic it for my enjoyment. *added...this music here on this video is basically progressive rock.

I Always remember Hibernation in infamy. After this song yes , I expected Baby please don't go .... Thanks for the post of ,,, Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes .

That was some of the greatest guitar playing of all time! God Bless Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes ❤

I LISTENED TO VANILLA FUDGE BEFORE CLICKING THIS. BOTH BANDS SOUND SIMILARLY AWESOME. I REALLY APPRECIATE THE ORGAN BEING FEATURED IN THE MIX ALONG WITH THE GUITARS/BASS/DRUMS/VOCALS.

Ted, vinyls coming back 😊 time to put words and music on the vinyl Ted something new for our new world we are about to create for Humanity.

Incredible . Bravo Ted. Migration is one of the best instrumentals ever.

Proof that the Michigan / Detroit bands all listened to each other. You can hear Grand Funk, SRC, Stooges, AND the Funk Brothers in these songs. Great stuff!

Haven't heard the dukes in a while - in 2007 some German kids in a record shop in German Town in Chicago told me to check it out. I really dug it. They're way more psychidelic than I remember.....peace love dove

You can tell this great American rhythm and blues is full of truth, logic and common sense.

Wow! That's the Amboy Dukes! Awesome vid, I knew there was some stuff out there! Thanks!

2 songs from my favorite AD album, so awesome to see rare video of Greg and Dave. As many time as I saw Ted, the first time ( St Thomas Aquinas High) both Greg and Dave had just left the band.

It reaches out internationally. Stationed in northern Japan late 70's...our Whole community got together With this kind of HOT STUFF

I had no idea this footage existed! 🤯 This is awesome! God Bless uncle Ted! 😇🙏❤️🇺🇲💪🇺🇲💪🇺🇲💪🇺🇲

Ted’s HAIR!!! That’s the Spirit of the Wild, right there for sure!

This is so cool!! I love the Migration album. Ted has always been such a brilliant guitarist.

Ted was the best, and still is!

That was an AWESOME display of musical talent from those four especially the kraa zee good guitarist named Ted Nugent ❤

one of my favorite songs from them

Ted Nugent... Legend!

This is a godsend. I’ve waited 54 years to hear these guys play live tracks from “Migration.” That album still ranks as one my greatest influences as a guitarist. No one was playing like Ted back then, yet he was totally overlooked. His rig was simple-Byrdland-cord-amp. On “Migration” he puts on a clinic for “taste, tone, and tenacity.” The only missing ingredient here is the absence of singer Rusty Day, who eventually went on to join Cactus. Too bad. He was the perfect match.

I just enjoyed Nuge playing the national anthem at a Trump appearance in Michigan and it was ethereal and beyond anything the youth of today can do. I’m sure it sent them to their safe spaces!

A treat indeed! Excellent songs and Ted rockin that Byrdland!

I saw these guys when I was 13 ! At the Trenton ice rink in mich in the summer of 68.

Got see Uncle Ted 4x in the 70’s…last time I saw him he was so loud my head hurt went the show ended.

Please upload more videos like this. Absolutely amazing stuff right here

Thanks for bring back great memories Uncle Ted! You haven't aged one bit!

These guys were good 😊 Rockin blues psychic rock🎙🎸

What a great performance from The Amboy Dukes, thanks for posting this vid. With the likes of who gets inducted these days to the RRHOF, Uncle Ted's exclusion doesn't hold a hill of beans to his talent and importance to rock and roll. Who needs the Hall anyway. I saw The Dukes in 1970 at The Atlanta Municipal Auditorium, it was my second concert after Alice Cooper. Saw Ted Nugent play one day, so satisfied I saw him play.

Pretty damn cool!! another great band

Mannnnn what a great find. I love CALL OF THE WILD. To see this era live….Woooooooooooooooooow.

young Ted 😎

The Amboy Dukes.. This is when I first heard of the Nuge back in the day.. I was thrilled when he went solo.. I have lost count of the decades I have been a fan of his.. Lmbo!!! 😅🤣🤣

Wow! What an incredible lost gem. Migration has been an all-time fave of mine (and a forgotten gem by many). Rusty was obviously already in Cactus by this point, but wow…what a set. Wonderful quality too; those mono mix tv engineers knew what they were doing. Thanks for sharing this!

That drummer was kicking some butt!

I was in the studio for this.

So far ahead of it’s time this is a sick clip, was probably incredible live!

Strangely i never heard this before. Theodocius in this gem reminds me of a completely expressive individual voice between and reminiscent of Robert Fripp and Pat Metheny. Our high school senior class elected Ted Nugent class president 4 times in a row. On the 4th time the administration just gave it to the actual student who was second place. I graduated in 1980 and the disco sucks crowd sonically devoured every Ted album. From the Dukes I had only heard Journey to the center of your mind. But every solo record was essential. This video is way cool to see and hear the young Ted. Thanks for availing this band.

My son said he needs a haircut, I said "Son you never cut a lion's mane"

“Migration” is the best song they ever did. I never thought I would see live footage of it. Who knew Ted had the capacity for such a soulfull composition?

Nice performance. Reminding "The Show", I saw one of these transmissions showing Tim Buckley performing songs from his album "Starsailor".

The Duke’s were cool, my 1st guitar teacher had me buy the live album with the collage cover… “rattle my snake”. A jam band before there was. Ted playing that jazz box. I love this type of 4 pc combo. Classic rhythm section. the bands cover stranglehold ….. I like snakeskin cowboys

Back in the day when I was young I’m not a kid anymore.

There's not much for me to say -- everybody's already said it. I've been waiting for a decent live performance of Migration since I first discovered KZfaq many years ago. This is musical nirvana. I've been a huge fan of Ted's work with the 'Dukes since seeing him as a teen at Detroit's Grande Ballroom. And Greg Arama's bass playing was far ahead of its time, too. Shame that he lost his life at such a tender age. This has been a very happy discovery for me - made my day, month & year! Thank you for posting this!

Great group. Dave Palmer the drummer became an engineer at Electric Lady Studio and produced a group I played drums in Called The Third World. On RCA. He was a great guy Evangelist Roger Mansour former Leslie West Vagrants Drummer

What a treasure! Ted is one of the greatest guitarist ever and is about to start his final "tour". Adios MoFo

I've never seen this footage, I was instantly 15 again........Thanks for sharing this with those of us who were a little young yet at the time.

I would love to hear Ted tell some stuff about the Amboy Dukes...Really I am a bit younger than those days, don't remember learning about Ted until Cat Scratch Fever was a hit and everybody in school was singing it. I'd love to get the story from Ted

Thanks for the throwback, Uncle Ted!! I enjoyed!! ❤️😁

What an amazing group of musicians, playing non-radio-friendly music

Loved the shows Uncle Ted did back in the day...loin cloth and shooting flaming arrows

Cool video ! Thanks for posting this. I haven't seen this footage before. Outstanding !!!

I saw them in 1971 or 1972. It was on the tour that they recorded the Survival of the Fittest live album, I think. I always loved the song Papa's Will. I think by this time it was basically the Ted Nugent show before he actually went solo. He still used the Amboy Dukes name, but in very lower case letters. They were fantastic, though.

OMG I've always loved migration

You're older uncle Ted, but you still rock!

Ted was just waiting to just cut loose and spread his wings one day. Just a journey to the center of the mind

Classic example of what the good music was

Legend has it, after this show, Ted bagged a daily limit of squirrels.

I remember seeing Ted Nugent at the Los Angeles coliseum off road show in the 80s i rode a Honda 3 wheeler at halftime and had all the Nugent albums at that time.and still a big fan

Great stuff. Now he's headed to his hunting blind. Gotta love it all!!!

Mr. Ted was the US answer to the the Limey electric guitarists of the time

Thank you Ted Nugent.

Hell yeah! The only time I seen the Amboy Dukes was them doing a 3 song power set at the Detroit Music Awards back in 2009. Even that was Earth moving.

A Gibson Byrdland straight into a Super Reverb amp- what a sound! And that snakeskin suit....

Seen a side of Ted not seen before.Blown away

This is the band I recall. I think Ist saw them @ the Bandshell (L.P.) and/or Aquinas (A.P.) also.

Thanks!

Ahhh, that audience must be a generation ahead of me. They act like they are still part of the Great Society. By the time we saw Ted in1978, none of us sat still. Well, maybe it was the Cat Scratch Fever, or that Cheap Trick opened for Ted.

wow....my dream is to see something of the era with Rob Ruzga and K.J.Knight ....thanks so much for this video ....also, Andy Solomon was a killer Hammond player , for sure as good as Jon Lord or even better ....

Thank you for sharing this. Very valuable footage, especially if that is Greg Arama, as it appears. GREAT unheralded bassist.

Nice to hear a guitarist play without a ton of pedals in front of him.

Amazing to see this now. Thanks Ted.

Has a jazzy feel.

I wish there was a video of Papa's Will from Survival of the fittest. Best scream in rock history. No one comes close.

Love the Tooth Fang o Claw album👍❤ From Sweden🙏

Awesome Ted!

Gonna go back many moons on this... Jackson MI National Guard Armory. Uncle Teddy ,Wayne Kramer guitar battles of the century... Fantastic times...... Trying to break glass.... Notes so freaking high it hurt your ears... Those were great days

Excellent 👍

My dad used to call me a hippie back in the 70s and my hair was only going over my ears and barely touching my shoulders. I can't be hippy today cuz most of it fell out, who cares it would be grey anyway like so many other things you get it and then it's gone,⚡take care of yourself people and each other.✌️

Totally awesome as hell. Love it man! 😎👍

Amazing!!

Amazing! Young Ted!

Not only a great guitar player but a great patriotic America

Ted's hair back then woulda made an excellent dust mop.